To promote his last appearance on Raw as an active wrestler, John Cena visited with WWE partner ESPN Monday morning (Nov. 18) and sat down with the First Take team.
One great anecdote Cena offered up that
I don’t think I’d ever heard before (but that research tells me he’s told at least a few times before) involved the secret origin of his iconic “You Can’t See Me” taunt. It’s remained a popular part of his act, and a huge part of his pop culture/internet legend. Personally, I’ve been sick of jokes about how Cena’s invisible for years. But I’m a cranky old man who spends way too much time online.
Point is, all of that (well not the part about me being cranky and old) is all because Cena tried to shut his younger brother up on WWE’s c-show early in his career. Here’s what he told Dan Orlovsky earlier this week:
“It is my life due — a happy accident… when we played my little brother Sean the album [Cena’s platinum You Can’t See Me, which contains his entrance theme], he was doing this [a version of the “You Can’t See Me” gesture] and I’m like, “Man, you look stupid.”
”He’s like, ‘”Yo, bet you won’t do that on TV.‘ And I was wrestling in matches that no one cared about, I was on an obscure Saturday program called Velocity — no one ever watched it. So, I’m like, “Oh, fine. Nobody’s watching —perfect. ‘You guys can’t see me’ [does the version of the taunt we know].
“It stuck, and here I am, the invisible man 23 years later. How bout that?“
Love when the universe helps us out with “happy accidents”.
Now go make your “why was a disembodied voice on First Take?” comments down below.
