Matt Hardy Offers Praise To John Cena's First Heel Promo

On this past week’s episode of Monday Night RAW, John Cena cut his first heel promo after over two decades, following up on his explosive heel turn at the 2025 Elimination Chamber premium live event. This has gotten the world talking, with both positive and negative reactions to the angle and subsequent promo. Matt Hardy has had his say also. 

On his Extreme Life Of Matt Hardy podcast, one half of the TNA World Tag Team Champions offered his praise to Cena. 

“I liked it. I think what I liked about it the most is the fact that he didn’t change and the explanation he gave for it is that people are asking what are we going to get that is new, what are we going to get that is new, what’s new, new, new, what are we going to get and he’s like, ‘You don’t get anything. You get this. Keep in mind, I don’t dress like you, you dress like me.’ I dug that. Probably the only thing I would be critical of is just maybe if they would have kind of delved into why he chose to side with Rock like that, that would have been the only thing I feel like I would’ve loved to heard from. I dug it man, I thought he did a real good job at just being a whiny, bitchy guy who just felt like he’d been wronged and he came off very unlikable while doing it, which is I think what you need out of John Cena." 

It was reported that Cena’s promo overran on RAW, with it originally supposed to last for just 15 minutes. It was also discussed this past week that there was potentially more than meets the eye to the fact that The Rock wasn’t mentioned at all in the promo. 

H/T Fightful

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