John Cena Reveals How Much Notice He Had to Prepare for Bray Wyatt Firefly Funhouse Segment

WWE has delivered numerous interesting cinematic matches in the past few years. Not only matches, storylines have also been portrayed as cinema which the WWE Universe has enjoyed a lot. However, the cinematic Firefly Fun House match between John Cena and Bray Wyatt at WrestleMania 36 can never be matched. 

While COVID-19 had forced everyone to stay at homes, WWE used it as a blessing in disguise to feature a massive cinematic match between John Cena and Bray Wyatt. While the late great Eater of the World won the battle, the Firefly Fun House match earned flowers for both Cena and the Wyatt. 

Addressing his iconic match against Bray Wyatt at WrestleMania 36, John Cena, during an interview with Chris Van Vliet, revealed that he got confirmation for the match just three days before it was set to be taped. 

Cena also revealed that there were massive pitches for what all could be done during the match. However, nothing seemed to be interesting for the Firefly Fun House. In end, the franchise player jotted everything down which culminated into a mix up of all the ideas and creating the iconic match. 

“I remember three days before we filmed the Firefly Fun House match. It was the last TV taping where they came in and they’re like, ‘You’re gonna have a Firefly Fun House match’, and I remember there were three people in one of the conference rooms in NXT with me. I said, ‘What’s a Firefly Fun House match?’ They said, ‘I don’t know.’ I said, ‘Great! What can we do’, and that was like, oh, man, again, control the controllable. I wish we had an audience. Performers are like. I wish there could be blood. I wish we could do chair shots to the head. I wish we could swear. I wish I could flip people off. Control the controllable.”

“Use the tools in your tool belt. How do we make something entertaining over a two day period with no audience, and they gave us a stipulation. Everybody else has a regular match and it’s your stip. It’s not a doctor of Thuganomics match or a Hustle, Loyalty, Respect match that’s completely different. You have these definitive characters. You have all this ammunition. You have all this personality and that’s what people really radiate towards. Holy sh*t. We can make this a meta look at my life and we can get away with it. What do we have up in the warehouse? We have the fist. We have the blue cage. I can get some NWO stuff. We can make this work.

“I remember this the only match I’ve ever written from start to finish. My poor wife, I made her print it out and I’m writing and giving her paper. She said, ‘What is this? What does it even mean?’ ‘Just print it. I need it’, and somewhere I still have the original draft in my handwriting of the Firefly Fun House. Bray couldn’t have been better. He knew what was up and he knew the whole thing. I wrote it the night before so I’m trying to text these guys like, I got something weird. I think I might have a picture of the draft still in my phone. I don’t have it with me, but I have it saved as a text that I sent him the night of the match, especially after we saw The Undertaker’s match the night before. Oh, my man, they crushed it, and there was a whole lot more physicality. We got one punch and I texted him how nervous I was, but I wanted to thank him for being so brave and trusting me and I think I couldn’t have done any more. I think we gave it our best shot and hopefully, it works, and it was an effort that I am very proud of.”

Bray Wyatt’s demise has made it impossible for the WWE Universe to relive a feud between both stars with the crowd involved. However, the match between both men at WrestleMania 36 will always be considered as one of the best matches in the industry with millions around the world revisiting it again and again. 

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