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If you can, well, I can't hold it. Yeah,
hold it right there.

This is a metaphor for my existence
professionally.

Do you want me to spray this back a
little bit?

Is it falling down? Just a little bit.
Yeah.

I call them my grandpa monsters.

That's where I'm at in life. I don't
think so. Come on.

Untold. We're just going to do one
continuous take.

Here we go.

Edge is the tough son of a gun, a great
challenge.

And look at this great blue!

And that's all of it. Edge will win his
first match.

It's all... And the captain has won it.

Kirk doesn't look impressed.

Who in the hell are you?

Ruthless aggression.

My goal was to have 0 % of the audience
liking anything that Edge does.

What I thought John needed was somebody
that was willing to do that.

The WWE Championship is on the line here
tonight.

This night is not

over. Edge is testing in.

and casting it in big time when John
Cena is at his weakest.

Edge will spear John Cena over and over
again if he has to.

Oh, and again.

He did it. I can't believe it. Edge had

sucked.

I think the reason that Edge or I think
the reason that Adam and I fit so well

is we're both from the same mold.

Adam's a wrestling man.

Oh, my God, what's going to happen?

Oh, my God!

Oh, my God!

Oh, my God!

First time I met John, John was still in
his wearing a different color to match

every local team face.

Honestly,

he got brought to SmackDown and they
kind of put him under my wing a little

along with Ray. And the three of us were
the ruthless aggression guys.

What kind of ruthless aggression do you
have, Junior?

Huh? Oh!

What the hell?

I mean, clearly you could tell there's a
look and there's something there.

When I came into WWE, I failed.

and then was given a chance to succeed
at a very low level and worked my way up

through every level. Hey, tons of fun.

I know you listen, so I'm about to drop
a heavyweight dose of drugonomics on

you.

And that's what I taught my sons all
along. Hard work pays off. Stay with it,

and you will succeed.

I guess I'm the crackpot that's going,
come on, get in my booty, man. Look, he

just pulled his hair. Come on, John.
Don't take that. What's going to affect

John Cena's wrestling ability?

That will as well.

You name it, it happened to me.

But what also happened to me was a
chance to walk down that ramp every

I've always said you can do all the
wrestling moves in the world, but if

character is not over, if your character
is not established, and your character

isn't fleshed out, it doesn't matter how
many wrestling moves you do.

John understood that.

Here is a gentleman who was introduced
with Christian as a pair, as lackeys

in the brood, and then they managed to
get themselves in a tag team, which they

were really good at.

Oh, look at that!

Oh, my God!

And it's for the 25 -meter with a spear
on Jeff Hardy!

He broke in in a certain way, defined
himself in a certain way, and then was

to redefining himself. But he was so
good as a tag team competitor or a tag

performer that when it was like, no, I
think he should be on his own, that idea

came up.

Everybody's like, of course not. He's
not going to make it. He's a tag team

For a while, I didn't know who Edge was.

It wasn't until a certain point where I
feel like everything kind of clicked in.

You know, there was...

There was treading water for a while.
There was barely keeping my head above

water for a while. But when I really
felt like I started to swim and in deep

waters, it would have been around like
06.

That's when it felt like everything
clicked.

I understand that some people are
calling me a cheap champion.

But the fact is, I won this title fair
and square.

And then you factor in that while John
and Adam have some similar mindsets on a

lot of things,

John Cena and Edge are polar opposites
on everything.

And, you know, Edge is a rock and roll
guy. He doesn't care if he's got to get

his hands dirty, get in the gutter, and
do whatever it takes to win. John Cena,

by this point, had become this kind of
bastion of never give up.

I'm sure a lot of kids, just like I did
with Hulk Hogan with the train, say your

prayers and eat your vitamins, that
that's what this was.

So when I started to look at it in terms
of the historical aspect, which is what

I always do growing up as a fan of this,
Hulk Hogan had Roddy Piper.

And I wanted to be Roddy Piper to John's
Hulk Hogan.

The fact that we're doing this, I guess,
means it worked.

I think that essentially Edge and John
Cena needed one another.

And it was an opportunity at the time to
show the work that, A, Edge

had done up until this point to get to
the position and company that Edge had

gotten to. And John Cena needed a foe to
overcome that had been along that

similar course.

So much emotion, so much athleticism, so
much hatred between John Cena and Edge.

To me, Edge is John Cena's greatest
rival of all time. And to

see these two fight, you're not only
watching two guys who are fighting to be

the top person going forward in WWE,
you're seeing two guys fighting to

represent what the next era in WWE is
going to be about.

So I loved the idea of trying to make
things more personal. People always want

an answer to the question, why are these
guys fighting?

So when someone was like, hey, we're
going to bring Edge to West Newbury and

he's going to film with your dad, I was
like, okay, now I have motive.

You mess with my family, that's the
line.

So I was like, okay, this is going to be
great.

Then they went to West Newbury.

Welcome to West Newbury, Massachusetts,
the home of the former WWE champion John

Cena. You see, me and my lovely lady
Lita, we came up here to see what makes

John Cena tick.

And we know exactly where we have to go
to do it.

Ha!

So, we went to John's house, his boyhood
home, and we met John Cena

Sr.

What are you doing here? Mr. Cena!

John Cena's father.

Right. In the flesh. I finally get to
see the loins that inspired so many

millions of posers around the world.

Nice. I get a call from WWE.

As a matter of fact, it was Bruce
Prichard. Bruce said, hello, Mr. Cena,

Bruce Prichard from WWE.

Your son's in a program with Edge. We'd
like to come down and do some filming at

your home.

I said, of course. Anything to help WWE
and my son, I'll do it. I'll do it. Did

I invite you?

Well, it's just that... I don't know.
Did you invite me?

Hey, pops.

Have a nice day, both of you.

Don't think so.

Sometimes you have ideas in your head.

And you think about them and go,
wouldn't it be cool if... And you could

this story from a different perspective.

And you could go do things.

And in your head, you have it working
out one way.

But when you're dealing with real
people, children, and animals...

Anything can happen.

Oh, look what we have here.

Larry Bird, babe. What you got?

What the hell is his bed?

I think we're in it.

Get the hell out of my house!

And we had a rough plan that, you know.

Lita and Edge would go throughout the
house and kind of make fun of John's

bedroom where there's a mattress on the
floor and there's jerseys everywhere.

And surely John didn't get any action on
this mattress, you know, things like

that. And then finally we get down to
the bottom room and John's dad was

involved in this part of the package.

John's dad has a very interesting
delivery.

I don't remember inviting you here.

Spit it out. Shut up.

The best way I can put this, and I hope
my father takes this with endearing

respect, so this is the with all due
respect, and then I say something.

With all due respect, my dad's segment
with Edge, he pretty much,

I think he channeled his inner
vaudevillian greatest showman sort of

Take your ass and get out of my house!

Both of you, now. I don't remember
biting either one of you. I'm calling

police. Leave now.

Now, I said. Hey, you can't go up there.
Stop.

John Cena Sr.

kind of looked at things in a different
light. He was always going to perform.

So when you would give him lines and you
would give him, here's how we'd like

you to act, it would turn in from
something being genuine and something

heartfelt to, let me tell you something,
chicky -do.

It was just, all right, buddy, I'm going
to take you. It was

brutal. What's up with this wall? Talk
about the proud papa putting up all the

Cena mementos. And, I mean, let's face
it, that replica title, that's the

closest that John's going to get to this
thing ever again. You don't come into

my house and talk that way about my son.

You know what? My son is going to kick
your ass at SummerSlam.

You know, it's freewheeling here. So
what do I do? How do I do this? I go to

living room. There he is making fun of
the belts on the wall.

You know what? I've had enough of both
of you. I'm calling the police. I'm

of both of you. Hold on a second. Hold
on.

Listen, just know that after SummerSlam,
you and John are going to have a lot of

time together because after I beat him,
he's going to have to come back here and

be a nobody in this one -horse town once
again.

And next thing I know, I said, slap me.

Bam! He slapped me.

Ah!

And so we filmed that portion of it,
which ended with me, you

know, flapping John's dad.

And then, of course, the finishing line
was, you really think that's it? Well,

just wait. Just wait. I'll see you at
SummerSlam. And it's going to be one,

three. You're out!

SummerSlam! One, two, three!

Is that right?

I remember Edge calling me and being
like, man, I'd like

to think we did all right, but you're
dead.

And he was trying to like, because it's
my dad.

We flew basically straight from there,
straight to Raw.

We got there, and Vince saw the footage,
and he goes, this is the worst thing

we've ever filmed.

And as he said to Bruce Prichard, this
is the worst I've ever seen.

That's worse.

The hell am I going to do with this?

Can you talk about that call?

Oh, that was in person.

Shut up.

What? Are you going to put up a picture
of me pinning your son?

You people want to see what happened?

Let's roll it. Let's see for yourselves
up on the Titan Shrine.

Ah, there it is, the humble abode of the
Cenas.

So I had to ad -lib, VO, live, this

footage. And then I find out that, wow,
they really did get a lot of mileage out

of this thing that wasn't so good.

Come on, down goes Cena! Down goes Cena!

Down goes Cena!

It's a reprehensible game.

Always there.

Always on.

So all I got to tell you is, mileage?

I don't know what kind of truck you were
driving, but you get a lot out of it.

Tick. His.

You pull into the Boston Garden and hear
all these fans.

How you doing, Mr. Cena?

What do you think John's chances are?

You know, it's like, I really don't
know. I certainly hope he wins.

Here's Massachusetts' own John Cena!

Every time you see me come out, it's
like I'm shot out of a cannon.

Because I'm ready. I'm ready to go. And
that's whether you're telling me I suck.

or whether you're telling me that I'm
great, it's why I orchestrate you to

continue to make noise, because as a
performer, this makes me feel 10 feet

Just audible reaction.

Here's the WWE champion, Ed!

Again, my goal was always to get John
cheered.

And we thought maybe Boston would be an
easy sell, and it turns out it wasn't.

I'm going to tell you a little story.
I'm in Boston Garden. Here's John.

He's up front. He's in the ring.

Well, there's these five guys behind me,
all chanting, Cena sucks.

So me, being the big mouth I am, I
guess, I turned around to them. I said,

guys, it's okay to say Cena sucks.

They said, thanks, Mr. Cena. I said, but
you've got to do me a favor. What's

that? Please take off his T -shirt.
These five guys were in a Cena T -shirt

going, Cena sucks.

Make up your mind.

I love it when a group of people have so
much energy that it's viscerally

negative towards me.

I also love it when the energy is so
overwhelmingly positive, it does lift

up.

Like it's all so wonderful.

We had this match where if I get DQ'd, I
lose the championship.

And just that little stipulation adds so
many different layers.

The brass

knuckles just felt.

Felt old school.

I believe that was an Arne Anderson
call.

It was just trying to come up with a
creative way to use something that

been used in a long time.

Was I disappointed?

I guess I was for the fans that were
there hoping that this would be it. But

was really happy to see that this feud
wasn't done. It would go one step

further, and that would be in Canada.

Let's move on to the spinner belt. How
the hell did that come around? Because

was cool.

So you're the guy who thought it was
cool.

How I was about the spinner championship
belt.

I was much more involved and meticulous
about the design, where the diamonds

should be, the size of the diamonds, the
shape of the spinner, the size of the

diamonds on the inside of the spinner,
where the colored gems should be, the

difference in metal, what the leather
should feel like. Like, I was so much

into that.

I hated the spinner belts.

Despised them. When they came to me and
said, we're going to do a rate at our

championship, I was like, right, let me
get to work.

I went home, I drew up a beautiful
championship.

I mean, this thing was badass.

And then I show up and they're like,
well, no, we're just going to put your

in. It's like, that's it?

Because Edge wouldn't want a spinner
belt.

That, to me, is the one championship
that needs to look like a championship,

like somebody's hubcaps.

Why, look, it's my WWE title.

But truth be told, it's really more like
John Cena's title.

I think we should remove the last
remnants of John Cena.

So, Lita, babe, will you please do the
honors for me?

Babe, it would be my pleasure.

Take burial at sea?

Wait a minute, what? Oh, my God.

Oh, there it goes.

Goodbye, sayonara.

Lita throwing the championship into the
Long Island Sound, what a great...

vehicle for our story.

Man, I loved it when they did that.

So what? It's the end of a chapter and
we'll start a new one.

What the hell is going on?

Oh my.

Isn't it beautiful?

Isn't it gorgeous?

But the cool thing is, it kept us going.

No random force blew up or destroyed or
sunk the championship. It was directly

involved in the narrative.

We're fighting to see who's the best.

Bad boys.

You took my property and you threw it
away.

A place where I couldn't get it.
Something that I really, really covet.

stole from me and then you threw it
away.

Ed's just trying to run away from Cena.

Get the camera back there.

Ed's just trying to run out the back of
the building.

Ed's out running out the back door.

We need more help out there.

After last night at Summer Slam and
after the history of these two men, the

things that Ed has done to John Cena.

Interesting story about Long Island
Sound.

I didn't realize that it's the most
polluted body of water in the United

I started to get an inkling of that when
the divers that were there

to help pull me into the boat were
fully, fully covered.

And that's when I went, hmm, I'm in
tights.

And then I went home and was sick for a
week.

I remember driving to Rochester, New
York, because I went to my son Stephen's

house, and Steve and I got into his
little old putt -putt car, and we drove

Toronto, Canada, to watch his brother
Russell.

I tell you, I thought it was a short
ride from Rochester to Toronto.

It was a day filled with...

Question marks.

Questions like, how are the fans going
to react when this John Cena kid comes

out? Obviously, they're going to boo
him. What are they going to do when Edge

comes out? What if Edge loses?

What's going to happen? What will be the
response?

And so all those things are going
through your mind. And the closer we got

Toronto, as I spoke to my son Steve, he
said, Dad, just relax.

Take it easy. It's going to be all
right.

16 ,000 fans have subbed out the Air
Canada Center. There have been four

Canadian WWE champions in the history of
this company.

Will you listen to this ovation?

Indeed, a huge home field advantage for
Edge, who grew up in the shadow of

Toronto, who dreamed quite frankly
unsure of this moment as a young man.

Honestly, I think when I first came out,
I knew it was going to be special.

And I prided myself on always being the
bad guy.

But that reacted with me.

To be main eventing your hometown for
the WWE Championship in such a high

-profile match against that generation's
Hulk Hogan.

That... Just very, very special.

Well, maybe the first time I've ever
heard anyone cheer this guy.

But you're right.

Almost everyone in this arena are on
their feet for their hometown favorite.

I'm telling you.

Me not being able to control my pride,
my

little kid happiness, that's the one
thing that I wish I could go, oh, what

could have turned that crowd?

Maybe I could have turned that crowd.

Because if I could have turned that
crowd, now,

Now you're talking.

And that's one thing that if I could
have a take back, I'd try for that.

So many times the daunting task as a
performer is to

decide like, okay, what do we paint
today?

When you walk into a TLC match with
Edge, it's a

day off.

Like he invented it.

The match can only end when one man. to
climb the ladder and retrieve the WWE

championship belt that is currently
around the waist of the champion, Edge.

Plus, Edge has never lost a tables,
ladders, and chairs match. Again, he's a

solid guy.

He's a guy that if you're going to go to
battle, you want to go to battle with

him, you know, shoulder to shoulder.

That's really what a TLC match is.

You're going into the trenches together.

And hopefully...

you come out relatively unscathed.

We're off and running here again. No
pitfalls, no submissions, no

disqualifications, no count -outs.

Only one way to win.

Find the ladder, retreat the title belt,
which is hanging high above the ring.

My philosophy on the contact nature of
sports entertainment is we're in control

of this.

If you don't feel you can do something,
you shouldn't do it.

Oh, boy.

It's not the first time you put on
skates and pads or pads

and a helmet for football, or it's not
the first time you put two feet in the

paint in basketball.

The joy is being able to play the game.
The game comes with its contact.

John's a very physical performer.

It was a hard match, but you know that
going in, you know what you're in for.

It was great.

It was great.

The Canadian fans are going crazy, and
right behind me is Edge's mother. She

said, I hope they're going to be all
right. I said, yes, it's a good match.

work well together.

Very good chemistry between these two.

Furniture.

Now what John Cena got in mind, JR? Cena
thinking here.

At one point, John put me in the STF
while I was trapped in a ladder.

Because the ladder added an extra
distance from his arms, he actually

out. And you can watch me pass out.

I mean, he's going to have to tap out,
but it's not going to mean anything.

He's just tapping out.

I just remember hearing an alarm and
thinking I was late for an Air Canada

flight and hearing this weird... When I
came to, it was me making the noise,

and I was looking up at the Air Canada
Center logo that had never been choked

out before.

And then it was just, you know, get to
the next thing. I never knew that Adam

was in any sort of jeopardy. And that's
also one of those things that, like...

to do a submission hold with a bulky
ladder, those are two creative guys

like, we're in this match where these
things are different than a normal

We get to use tables, ladders, and
chairs. And I think that's all we were

to do. But in looking back on it,
probably could have got the point across

without it. I know, I think he's passed
out. Remember, submissions and pinfalls

mean zero.

Oh, good grief!

Right between the eyes.

Cena wants this WWE title. Wait, wait,
wait, wait. And he'll do any damn thing

he can to get it.

So I have a fear of heights.

John's like his old man. I have a fear
of heights myself.

When I climb a ladder, my kids laugh at
me because I'm hugging the ladder like

it's my last day.

Yeah, sure, John Cena was afraid of
heights. Okay.

Have a good match.

But once again, I only did what I knew I
could do.

And I knew it was, you know, hopefully a
new take on a maneuver they'd seen

tens of thousands of times before.

He had to get through a lot of nerves to
do that.

But he did it. I think it's because it
hurts every time you fall down. You kind

of get a gauge for, oh, this one's going
to hurt.

Edge, trying to fight, climb back into
it. There's Edge.

Edge. Oh, my God.

Ladder to ladder.

Oh, this one's going to more than hurt.

Leader.

Leader.

Leader. Leader.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

Zena has passed.

He has burned.

John also was very trusting with me. I
think he knew.

that if I were going to throw something
at the wall as an idea, it wouldn't be

something I would do myself.

And

I

was probably going to do much stupider
things within the match anyway.

There was another moment where I got
pushed off the ladders through tables

overshot the tables a little bit.

It was a pretty bad landing.

You just kind of shake it off, and we're
this close now.

Well, he knows he's in the driver's seat
right now.

Edge and Cena both are the type
competitor and the type performer that

it's almost the opposite. They're going
to have more energy, and they're going

to have more ability at that time to do
the hardest stuff.

You know, looking back at the...

The finish of this match needed to be
that exclamation point, not just a

We needed an exclamation point to finish
this.

That's what you came here for, John.

You came to win the WWE title.

Cena placing that ladder, well, this is
the smartest thing that Cena can do.

I remember really asking him, Like, is
this necessary?

It's pretty adamant. I figured that's
the way it needs to go down.

Adam

is

comfortable knowing what falls he can
withstand and what falls he can't. He is

much more of an iron man than me. I
wouldn't do it.

That's what we try and do is create
those moments that will live on after

do.

But it also speaks to the trust that I
have with John.

I knew I could trust him with my body to
help me survive that.

I knew by the time we performed, I
wasn't going to do it if I couldn't hit

target. And here's John on top of the
ladder. John, don't do this, John!

John turned him.

Edge posted.

He let Edge go.

The God Almighty!

Jesus Almighty!

All I can tell you is, my heart went in
my throat.

Because this kid is going through these
tables.

And when he hits the bottom, it doesn't
move.

And I'm going, oh, man, get up, get up,
get up.

I just remember a huge sense of relief
because I felt like it was a job well

done. And I feel like Toronto got one
hell of a main event.

This was the storyline that truly

made sure that Edge was going to be
there.

John, to his credit, was already there.

He was able to help me get to a point
where it was going to be sustainable

this.

What you hope for and what you strive
for and what the goal should be out of

every storyline is that both characters
come away from it stronger.

And I'd like to think that both
characters made massive leaps and bounds

through that storyline.

I really hope everyone watching knows
just how gifted and caring and

amazing Adam is.

He's a good human being.

He's a great human being.

He loves sports entertainment.

He's given so much to you guys.

And I also think he's aware of what
you've given him.

I loved, loved that match.

And the only one I could celebrate with
after was my dad because he's the only

swing in the whole building that was
cheering for me.

He didn't know I was going to do that.

I just wanted to hug my dad.

For that moment, I can't hear anything.
I can just, I can hear my father's

breath.

That's a way for me to tell my dad I
love him and to mean him.

That's something that you can never take
away.

He's my son.

I love you, John.

I'll always love you.

Love you, kid.