During an interview with the We Watch Wrestling Podcast, former WWE creative writer Matt McCarthy talked about how close John Cena came to turning heel in WWE.
āVince kept trying to figure out how do we do like a Bret Hart thing? Where heās a heel in some places, but heās a babyface in the rest of the places. Cena was like, āIf Iām going heel, I want to go full heel,ā and it did get close enough to the point where, and Iām sure he still has this gear, like Cena had gear made for the heel turn, you know? No longer the jorts.ā
āI donāt know what the gear was, but he had specific gear made ready and waiting and then obviously we know it never happened, and there was a point in the discussions where it was like, āWell, the people who are gonna cheer him are going to continue to cheer him and the people who are gonna boo him, are just gonna keep booing him.ā So the thinking was, thatās the most heelish thing he can do is to stay that white meat, smiling, pure babyfaceā¦āĀ