{"id":14822,"date":"2018-02-27T23:21:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T04:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=14822"},"modified":"2018-02-27T23:21:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T04:21:39","slug":"reports-john-cenas-wrestlemania-opponent-rey-mysterio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/02\/27\/reports-john-cenas-wrestlemania-opponent-rey-mysterio\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple Reports: John Cena&#8217;s WrestleMania Opponent Rey Mysterio (AUDIO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During <strong>John Cena<\/strong>&#8216;s promo on <em><strong>Monday Night Raw<\/strong><\/em>, Cena seemingly shot down rumours of him facing <strong>The Undertaker<\/strong> at <em><strong>WrestleMania 34<\/strong><\/em> saying &#8220;it wasn&#8217;t going to happen&#8221;. Many people assumed it was a swerve and somehow we&#8217;d still end up with the on-again off-again rumoured match of Taker vs Cena. But a lot seems to have changed in the last 24 hours, especially when it came to John Cena&#8217;s path to his 15th consecutive WrestleMania. Multiple reports are now stating that none other than <strong>Rey Mysterio Jr<\/strong> is now pencilled in to be John Cena&#8217;s opponent.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14825\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14825\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14825\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/02\/rey-mysterio-e1519791562189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14825\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: WWE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was first broken this morning by <strong>World of Geekdom<\/strong>, who announced that his sources in the WWE told him that Rey Mysterio had been invited to <em><strong>Smackdown Live<\/strong><\/em> tonight to work on a potential long term deal, including a match at this year&#8217;s WrestleMania, against 16x World Champion John Cena. They also stated that The Undertaker had told WWE he was a &#8220;no go&#8221; for this year&#8217;s WrestleMania, presumably due to health.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MAJOR WRESTLEMANIA 34 CHANGES!\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0NZrVrpyNbE?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>The report went seemingly unnoticed until <strong>Sports Illustrated<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Justin Barrasso<\/strong> confirmed the report from his own sources that Mysterio was indeed at Smackdown Live tonight, working on a WrestleMania match against John Cena.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Breaking: Per WWE sources, Rey Mysterio is backstage working out details tonight at SmackDown for a match at WrestleMania. The rumored opponent is John Cena.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Justin Barrasso (@JustinBarrasso) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JustinBarrasso\/status\/968680593352425472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 28, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Not including Live Events, this would mark only the third time that John Cena and Rey Mysterio would face each other in a singles match in their entire WWE history together. They&#8217;ve worked dozens of \u00a0tag team matches together &#8211; both together and against one another &#8211; but they&#8217;ve only faced off in singles twice: first on November 4, 2003 on <em>Smackdown<\/em> (where Cena won), and second on <em>Monday Night Raw<\/em> on July 25, 2011, when John Cena defeated Mysterio for the WWE Championship. Their final match together was a tag match at a WWE Live Event in Newark, New Jersey in 2013, when the two teamed up to defeat <strong>Randy Orton<\/strong> and <strong>Alberto Del Rio<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During John Cena&#8216;s promo on Monday Night Raw, Cena seemingly shot down rumours of him facing The Undertaker at WrestleMania 34 saying &#8220;it wasn&#8217;t going to happen&#8221;. Many people assumed it was a swerve and somehow we&#8217;d still end up with the on-again off-again rumoured match of Taker vs Cena. But a lot seems to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":14826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_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":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[165,886,148,297,1435],"class_list":["post-14822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-wwe-universe","tag-john-cena","tag-rey-mysterio","tag-smackdown-live","tag-the-undertaker","tag-wrestlemania-34"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14822","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}