Exclusive interview with John Cena
The Rich Eisen Show
ESPN
4.3 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 154 minutes
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| 0:31.9 | What's going on, everybody? |
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| 0:37.2 | O'Shea Jackson, Jr., a.k.a. |
| 0:39.5 | Petty Guerrero. |
| 0:40.9 | Hey, yo, it's me. It's me. It's the T-O. The J-I-G-G-2-G-G-T.J. T.J. Jefferson. What up, Bill? TJ, we got a special guest today. We, absolutely. This man has seen more world championships than the clippers, then the Cowboys, |
| 0:57.1 | then the Mets, and the Sixers combined. That is so unnecessary, but it's true. It is true. |
| 1:02.8 | We have a guess. Yeah, that's true. From spinning titles to Spinacotta, we're going to go all over the globe with this man. He's been around the world |
| 1:11.5 | in Ai, I, I, I, I, the Never Seen 17. The Invisible One is with us. John Cena. |
| 1:17.3 | What an introduction. Thanks. |
| 1:22.7 | Yeah, man. I try to, we pride ourselves on the intro. That was great. Nailed it. Very important me by the way thank you for having us johnsian sure it's your show yeah i know man but i've told this story a few times now on how we even got here so it could you put it in your words how did did you pick NCW? Oh, my goodness. So pretty big moment |
| 1:50.1 | in my life happened in December when I chose to close an in ring chapter in WWE and retired. |
| 1:56.0 | And shortly thereafter, you on behalf of no contest, supposed to a five minute monologue that really struck |
| 2:03.6 | to one of my core values, respect. |
| 2:06.5 | And what I admired about it most is you spoke honestly |
| 2:11.3 | in saying that, hey, this guy might not have been the guy |
| 2:15.6 | I was rooting for, but we all still kind of needed |
| 2:19.6 | them for these reasons yeah and man I I sent it to everyone that I love well and |
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