{"id":135543,"date":"2025-05-20T18:57:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T22:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=135543"},"modified":"2025-05-20T18:59:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T22:59:04","slug":"why-r-truth-deserves-a-match-with-john-cena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/05\/20\/why-r-truth-deserves-a-match-with-john-cena\/","title":{"rendered":"Why R-Truth Deserves a Match with John Cena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">You might be surprised to see R-Truth set to face John Cena at <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/05\/19\/saturday-nights-main-event-card-date-time-location\/\" target=\"_self\">Saturday Night&#8217;s Main Event.\u00a0<\/a>If you\u2019ve only been watching WWE since the pandemic era, you only know one side of R-Truth. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The funny and silly guy who makes people laugh. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">However, he <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">actually<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> is more capable in the ring than many people <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">realize<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. He is a two-time WWE United States champion, a two-time WWF Hardcore champion, and a two-time WWE tag team champion. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In addition, he won championships during his runs with NWA and TNA. The older generation knows him as a very talented wrestler, which will be shown to the younger people on Saturday. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">After he got hit with the Attitude Adjustment by John Cena at the WrestleMania: Backlash press conference, there was only one path to go.\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2Jp2SsQjcak\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">He will face him<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0in a non-title match at Saturday Night\u2019s Main Event. R-Truth will surprise many people in a match that definitely deserves to happen for many reasons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"R-Truth will battle John Cena in a Saturday Night\u2019s Main Event showdown: SmackDown, May 16, 2025\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2Jp2SsQjcak?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>R-Truth Has a Long History with John Cena<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fans have heard R-Truth say that John Cena is a childhood hero to him. Obviously, that\u2019s his character talking, as he is older than Cena. However, there is some truth to that. Both men have a <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FnOf6_naO9s&amp;t=1363s\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">storied history<\/a> with each other that has made for some great moments in the ring.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They faced off for the WWE Heavyweight Championship at Capitol Punishment in 2011, and Cena was an integral part of his United States Championship run in 2019. He wasn\u2019t actually there, but he was a definite inspiration to him throughout that time. They\u2019ve also had various encounters with each other over the years, with R-Truth <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/9_25GKWQxLM\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">crediting him<\/a> as an inspiration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Given their relationship, it would make sense for this to be one of John Cena\u2019s final matches. R-Truth has had some amazing moments with John Cena, with more definitely coming on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>He Gets to Show Everyone What He Can Do in the Ring<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">R-Truth has done a lot of things during his two runs in WWE. He has won championships, faced off against countless WWE Hall of Famers, and has made people laugh. But, the younger generations have mostly only seen him do the latter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A lot of people, especially new fans or kids, will probably think of the match as a squash. He\u2019ll get one or two chances at offense in, Cena will give him the Attitude Adjustment, and then he\u2019ll get pinned and lose. Many people don\u2019t know how talented he truly is.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/03\/02\/will-akira-tozawa-listen-to-gunthers-advice\/\" target=\"_self\">Akira Tozawa<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2024\/05\/29\/free-otis-the-wwe-fan-movement-for-otis-to-let-go-of-gable\/\" target=\"_self\">Otis<\/a>, if you put him in a serious match, lots of people will be surprised. If he couldn\u2019t wrestle, he probably would\u2019ve been released years ago. But his comedy skills alone haven\u2019t kept him in the company. On Saturday, R-Truth will show people the talented wrestler that he truly is.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>R-Truth and John Cena is a Great Non-Title Match<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even though John Cena is the WWE champion, the match against R-Truth will be a non-title match. Building up a match like that was easy for them. Their history with each other is all the explanation that was needed. R-Truth\u2019s insistence on Cena being the good guy and the Attitude Adjustment was an extra treat for long term fans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For decades, people have watched them on their television screens. Knowing that this is Cena\u2019s last year as a professional wrestler, they probably expected some sort of interaction between the two men. Having an R-Truth singles match on a PLE, which hasn\u2019t happened since he <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0zO3cVPhzIc\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">faced Bobby Lashley<\/a> at Money in the Bank in 2020, is a special thank you from Cena.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">R-Truth sharing the spotlight with John Cena one last time is a great way to commemorate their decade long friendship.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"John Cena shockingly assaults R-Truth at Backlash Post-Show: Backlash 2025 Post-Show highlights\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F1a4aAD5b_w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; You might be surprised to see R-Truth set to face John Cena at Saturday Night&#8217;s Main Event.\u00a0If you\u2019ve only been watching WWE since the pandemic era, you only know one side of R-Truth. The funny and silly guy who makes people laugh. However, he actually is more capable in the ring than many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5338,"featured_media":135546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2192,4,3],"tags":[165,924,9074],"class_list":["post-135543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wrestling","category-wwe","category-wwe-universe","tag-john-cena","tag-r-truth","tag-wwe-saturday-nights-main-event"],"modified_by":"Laurence Gibbons","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135543"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135548,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135543\/revisions\/135548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}