John Cena Hails Randy Orton as the Shawn Michaels of His Generation

John Cena’s name is known far and wide as far as being a pro wrestler and actor are concerned. He has faced many adversaries during his time in WWE and perhaps no one is greater than Randy Orton. In fact, Cena dubbed Orton the Shawn Michaels of his generation.

John Cena and Randy Orton started their WWE journey together in Ohio Valley Wrestling before debuting on the main roster in 2002. From the very beginning, their careers were intertwined in a way no one could have expected.

John Cena and Randy Orton have squared off against each other numerous times over the years, some being more deadly than the other. While speaking on WWE’s YouTube channel, John Cena talked about his match with Randy Orton at Bragging Rights 2009.

The Leader of Cenation showed no hesitation to give a ton of praise to The Apex Predator for how good he can be as a wrestler. In fact, Cena dubbed Orton the Shawn Michaels of his generation.

“I think the great thing about an Iron Man match is you can have the luxury of a three count. The three count can elicit excitement. So if. People aren’t interested. You can give them a pinfall or. RKO. Randy Orton puts the. And we’re even at one. The match had a different dynamic to it. Anytime I can get in there with Randy is great. He and I fit together well and we work together well and I love working with him.“

‘This is the fourth premium live event, as we now call them, and we had done a lot of stipulations before, and we’d added tons of stipulations to this match of anything goes and if I lose, I leave Raw. One could speculate that the possible audience fatigue of watching performers together for half a year is a lot of interaction. That’s a lot of pyrotechnics. So I do remember the concept of. Maybe he should.“

“It hit the pyro and tried to explode me and him being okay with it and not only going to be okay with it, like he really made that work. I think that just goes to show that if we were coming up with concepts like that, we would certainly have exhausted every traditional method of competition. But the fact that both of us could be like, yeah, that’s a good idea, and let’s wholeheartedly try it. It’s like Russian roulette. It’s a cool concept, a cool idea. And we were brave enough to try. And that’s, I think, when you’ve had. Such a history with someone and being in the ring with them.“

“So many times, we both kind of knew like, well, we’re going to have to do some different stuff here. Randy is my generation’s Shawn Michaels. He has an understanding of nuance and how important it is. He has the best timing of anybody. Like he’s always there, he’s never late. He shows emotion as a performer. He’s incredible. He makes them difficult. Looks simple. Every second feels like an hour.”

John Cena is set to square off against Solo Sikoa at the WWE Crown Jewel Premium Live Event on November 4th in Saudi Arabia. No matter what, Cena will always have respect and love for Randy Orton and that’s never changing.

What do you think of what John Cena said? Is Randy Orton truly his greatest foe? Share your thoughts in the comments below!