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Arn Anderson wanted John Cena to lose to Rusev

Arn Anderson

Arn Anderson has revealed on the ARN podcast that he wanted John Cena to lose his match at Extreme Rules 2015 to Rusev.

He believes that it would have been a great way to help Rusev get some heat and make Cena the ultimate babyface if the Bulgarian Brute would've beaten him black and blue.

The unique match needed one of the two competitors to touch all four corners and Cena did it to retain the United States title. Arn Anderson believes that a victory for Rusev would have protected the match stipulation as well.

“Let’s pull the plug here a little bit and let him beat Cena to a pulp and pin him, one, two, three, and he’s bleeding to death. Lana comes down and saves Cena that night. You think you’d have had a babyface face of the company the next day? That’s how easy it would have been just to tweak it.”

Cena is now a part-timer with WWE while Rusev was released last week in the mass exodus of Superstars.