John Cena likes to give credit where credit is due.
During his recent appearance on the Whiskey Ginger podcast with Andrew Santino, the future WWE Hall of Fame legend gave high praise to Sami Zayn for his recent rise to the top in WWE.
“I gotta give Sami his comeuppance," Cena stated. "Here’s a guy who’s been in the business a long time and worked really hard in circuits outside the WWE and made a great name for himself, then got in WWE in the NXT program and made a great name for himself, and then got into WWE and kind of struggled to connect with the audience.”
Cena continued, “Everyone now, because he’s very popular now, thinks it’s like [snaps fingers], alright, it clicked. His character went through a major reconstruction just about three years ago, maybe even a little more than that. It’s taken him three and a half years, and now all that hard work, and I can see it, I can see how hard he works, and I see how he’s invested in connecting with the audience. It’s paid off. Everybody loves him because they know who he is.”
Check out the complete interview below.
