Kurt Angle On Punishing John Cena During Match For Trying To Get Extra Babyface Reaction

John Cena made millions of fans incredibly happy to see him in the ring as a smiling babyface. Kurt Angle wasn’t a fan of every tactic that Cena picked to get a babyface pop, and he let him know about it.

During a Q&A on The Kurt Angle Show, Angle was aske to expand on that famous story about beating John Cena half to death over a foam finger. You can click here to read that orginal article.

Angle said that he didn’t take too kindly to this tactic from Cena so he worked him a little “snug” just to teach him a lesson.

“You know what? I didn’t agree with what he did. I wanted to send a little message to him. I just worked a little more snug, you know? I wanted him to know that when you go off and do stuff like that, we have a time frame, and I have the match mapped out in my head. Because John had less experience, I was calling the match. It’s not what I wanted to do at that particular time. Because John was hovering between baby and face at the time and I was too, and I didn’t want the crowd to be rocked either way. I wanted it to be a half-baby-half-face for both of us.”

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“John, you know, wanted to turn babyface and flip me off with the big finger, so I sent him a message that night. You don’t do that. If you’re going to do it, tell me first. Don’t just go and do it. But he didn’t tell me first.”

Angle also admitted that “other than that, I didn’t have a problem with John.” I’d say that Angle teaching him that one lesson was enough of a reason for Cena to know that Angle isn’t one to mess around.

John Cena is universally praised as one of the best WWE Superstars in the history of the company, but he had to learn somewhere. Angle was there to help straighten him out in those early days.