John Cena vs. The Undertaker. It’s the WrestleMania dream match that fans have been talking about for years, but will probably never see.
During his recent appearance on Edge & Christian’s E&C Pod of Awesomeness, the 16-time World Champion gave a pretty logical explanation why a match against Undertaker on the ‘grandest stage of them all’ never game together.
“We have to do the best for WrestleMania, period,” Cena explained. “That event is completely [essential to] the fiscal future of the company and every single year, there were plans to do the right thing for WrestleMania and that match was not in the plans. And that’s the best I can say.
“So many guys complain about not being in the last match, or a main event match, or with a certain partner. Man, if it was only work with people you’re comfortable with, I would’ve had another 10,000 matches with [Edge]. Like that’s the easy part. The difficult part as a professional is to take what they need you to do and make it creative.”
Cena is intrigued by the chance to face The Undertaker at WrestleMania, but only if that’s the best possible match-up for him at the time.
“In a perfect world, would I want to face The Undertaker at WrestleMania? That’s every pro wrestler’s dream! That’s any WWE Superstar’s dream, to work pretty much the maestro of WrestleMania at WrestleMania. That’s it! But if our company’s success depends on me doing something else, then my job is to do that something else. And I think the way all that went, I don’t have any regrets on the way any of that went. I think it was completely put together the right way. Would I have loved to do it? Yes! But I show up to work to do work.”
A similar argument line of reasoning could be applied to several other dream matches that never took place in WWE, such as Ric Flair vs. Hulk Hogan or Steve Austin vs. Hogan or Goldberg.
Considering The Undertaker’s sendoff after losing to Roman Reigns back in April at WrestleMania 33, another match for Taker next year in New Orleans seems like a fleeing possibility. If the Dead Man does decide to take one last ride, we can’t think of a better final opponent for him than John Cena.
You can listen to the full John Cena interview on the E&C Pod of Awesomeness here:
