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John Cena Does Word Association For Brock Lesnar, Cody Rhodes, CM Punk & More

December 10, 2025 | Posted by Jeremy Thomas
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John Cena offered some quick word association thoughts on some of his greatest rivals and allies including Brock Lesnar, Cody Rhodes, CM Punk and more. Cena has had no shortage of rivals in his lengthy WWE career, which comes to an end at Saturday Night’s Main Event. Cena will battle Gunther at the show.

As part of his promotion for the show, Cena appeared on Insight With Chris Van Vliet for a new interview. He was asked to offer quick thoughts on some of WWE’s big names, and you can see highlights sent along by the show below:

Cody Rhodes: “Resilient.”

Randy Orton: “Smooth.”

R-Truth: “Beautiful. He makes everybody smile.”

Logan Paul: “Underrated.”

CM Punk: “My wrestling soulmate.”

Drew McIntyre: “A story of resilience.”

Sami Zayn: “Underdog.”

Brock Lesnar: “Once in a genre. There will be one Brock Lesnar in wrestling, and that’s from like carnival time to the time we shut the lights out if we’re lucky enough to get another. I don’t know who it is.”

AJ Styles: “Best to ever do it. Shawn’s gonna be p*ssed, and God did Shawn ever take care of me. There’s not a lot he [Styles] can’t do, and he makes difficult look easy. But that is not God given talent. That is practice. When you see difficult become seamless, it’s because it’s been done 10,000 times, and the amount of sh*t he can do seamlessly. Man, he’s best to ever do it.”

Sheamus: “This is way inside baseball, and only he’s gonna get it. The World’s Tallest Wrestler.”

Rey Mysterio: “Mentor, and someone who allowed them to be a part of their family when he didn’t need to.”