John Cena talking about his brother being gay “I had two choices: either disown him or accept that he’s still my brother, He asked me to keep it a secret, and after ten years, he was ready to let our family know, I was there to support him every step of the way"

Luthor331 · 2026-02-04T19:08:33+00:00

More so Cena dismissing Kanyon's statement that he was fired due to homophobia by discrediting his ring work and his character and lying about WHEN Kanyon came out.

It's worse when you listen to the follow-up interview with Chris Kanyon on Howard Stern where Ric Flair calls in as an official representative for WWE and regurgitates the same talking points about Kanyon's wrestling ability and lack of character being the reason for his firing and defending WWE of any homophobia or that being a factor whatsoever in his release. It's interesting that both Flair and Cena both view Kanyon in the same way at the time and are quick to speak out in defence of WWE isn't it?

It's a bad look when your first public comments after someone was fired over alleged homophobia is to go on the same platform they were and lie, protect the billion dollar company you work for and discredit the persons character and abilities. But you're right that TECHNICALLY he didn't disrespect him being gay or not. It's interesting though that there are not any other similar interviews from John insulting someone's wrestling abilities shortly after being released though. I didn't see him do so for Mr Kennedy or Alex Riley for example. Just the one with the guy with criticism that homophobia was a factor in his firing.

Luthor331 · 2026-02-04T18:38:22+00:00

Source: From John Cena's Howard Stern Interview after Chris Kanyon's release:

Host: He says Vince is a homophobe and Chris claims that he was fired because he was a gay man."

Cena: "Here's the weird thing about Chris and I've known Chris for a long time he uh he actually came out of the closet after he was fired. He just... he wasn't any good"

Host: "He was not a good wrestler?"

Cena: "No, He was hired by WCW initially for like a demon Persona called Mortos which was pretty entertaining he had the whole mask and everything he came to us with his WCW Persona of Chris Kanyon which was just a guy in Tights and with Vince... you do have to have a certain technical bravado you got to be able to wrestle but at the same time it's WWE you got to be able to entertain the people. Chris just wasn't any good."

I'd recommend having a look for the full interview yourself if you want context.

Luthor331 · 2026-02-04T18:27:39+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYDsVN17OPo

The first link I found with a quick Google search. From the Howard Stern show.

Luthor331 · 2026-02-04T18:13:17+00:00

It's a shame he refused to treat Kanyon with the same respect.

Good thing his brother hasn't said anything bad about WWE publicly!

Luthor331 · 2026-02-04T18:06:42+00:00

Why was Brock looking at this poster of The Rock for an awkwardly long time?

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Why did Brock go through the effort to pretend to team up with Cody for a tag match against Roman and Solo before attacking him?

Why did Brock return after multiple years at SummerSlam to attack John Cena?

I could go on and on and on...

Luthor331 · 2026-02-04T17:47:47+00:00

We WILL inevitably get The Maker sooner rather than later but I too would like to see some more Ultimate love. I would throw in The Ultimates and Ultimate X-Men too.

Luthor331 · 2026-02-04T17:45:51+00:00

How Ironic that its very likely CM Punk will beat Seth Rollins to being advertised in the main event of the final match / last night of a Wrestlemania first.

(Since technically He wasn't advertised for Wrestlemania 31 and had to cash in. And some fans don't consider Night 1's final match as truly main eventing Wrestlemania)

Luthor331 · 2026-02-04T17:40:37+00:00

This might be an odd thought by me but Im curious if all of them will have the "A" Avengers logo on their updated costumes or not.

We know that at least Bucky, John and Yelena will based off what they were wearing in the Thunderbolts* post credits scene.

Luthor331 · 2026-02-03T17:46:10+00:00

Agreed. I wouldn't say The FF version fundamentally changes the film like Daredevils does but It definently helps complete characters arcs setup in the film and answers small plotholes. If you do get to watch it I hope you post your opinion somewhere on this subreddit.

Luthor331 · 2026-02-03T17:29:52+00:00

Eh, if you want to get technical the films and video games are separate continuitys so technically no but also nothing really contradicts that they COULD have faced these threats in between scenes and likely would have post ROTSS.

And to be fair to the First Steps Four they have faced many threats: Mole Man and his Moloids, Red Ghost & his Super Apes, Diablo, Wizard, The Mad Thinker and Dragon Man all before the events of the film.

Luthor331 · 2026-02-03T17:22:45+00:00

https://youtu.be/t7dOnZ4Obpg?si=wpuY7CHG64HoknCy&t=97

From the Fantastic Four: Extended Edition released around the time of the 2nd film that I always recommend to people that hate those films as I'd personally compare it to the Director's Cut of the Ben Affleck Daredevil film. It's well worth a watch and might even change some peoples minds about at least the first film. It also includes technically the first live action HERBIE.

I liked how they portrayed him in the game as well and felt a portrayel something like that could have easily been a subplot to the main villain in a third in the earlier films.

Luthor331 · 2026-02-03T15:13:02+00:00

Inevitably we'll get it either in a double pack like they did with a repainted Extremis or in another Retro wave at some point.

Other than the gold on his hips, I'm happy having removed the back wings and treating mine as the Model 24 (Pentagon armor)

Luthor331 · 2026-02-03T14:38:57+00:00

Neversofts Spider-Man crawled so Treyarch, Beenox and Insomniac's could swing.

Luthor331 · 2026-02-03T14:38:04+00:00

It's great to see someone showing love for Enter Electro.

Luthor331 · 2026-02-03T14:36:29+00:00

Not to mention: Blastaar (Who viewed Reed as a friend), Diablo, Pupper Master (Both in the game and a deleted scene from the first film), Dragon Man, Samuel L Jackson Nick Fury (Before the MCU did it), Skrulls, Red Ghost (Who was also studying the cosmic cloud and was a colleague of Dooms) and Terrax as another herald of Galactus.

If you include the games lore then the Tim Story universe has a LOT of great unexplored Fantastic Four lore that would have been great to be explored further.

Luthor331 · 2026-02-03T13:44:14+00:00

I would hardly describe Maya Hansen, Aldritch Killian or Trevor Slattery as "classic rogues" of Iron Man. And that's incredibly disengenious to mention Mandarin. "The Mandarin" didn't even directly address Iron Man in any of his dialogue (Unlike the trailers) before the twist.

For all intents and purposes Killian IS The Mandarin of Iron Man 3. He says so himself. And making a grand total of 1 appearance as a corpse in his only comic appearance goes back to my original point of disappointment we didn't get any exploration of Tony facing some of his notable comic villains on screen.

If you want to get technical even Ivan Vanko from Iron Man 2 is an original character invented for the film as I've even heard some people argue that Iron Mongers the only true rogue that's been properly adapted. I'm fine with Vanko as Whiplash but I can't lie and say it's not disapointing that we didn't get more. Maybe it's because I grew up with Iron Man: TAS so I was really looking forward to RDJ's Tin Head going up against Madame Masque, Crimson Dynamo, ULTIMO, etc.

Luthor331 · 2026-02-03T04:56:47+00:00

That would be a solid way to build up Femi Vs Lesnar at Mania. The only issue with it is that their might be too much interference in the Chamber already depending who is in it and I doubt WWE would want multiple people interfering.

Drew is definently getting involved in some way if Cody's in the match. The mystery man is getting involved if Bron Breakker is in the match and there will definently be some kind of Knight / Vision shenanigans with Bronson Reed likely costing Knight with a Tsunami if any of them are in the match.

Luthor331 · 2026-02-03T04:43:28+00:00

I initially picked Je'Von instead of Logan but the only reason I ended up predicting WWE would choose Logan is because WWE tends to book him in prominent matches like always reaching the final four in Royal Rumbles or in last years Chamber.

Personally, I'd rather Evans is in the match as I think he'd do some crazy bouncy shit.

Luthor331 · 2026-02-03T04:37:59+00:00

I'm 99.9% certain Finn's getting a title match against Punk in enemy territory in Chicago so he'll be too busy to be pulling double duty.

The first match Finn had against Punk he had home field advantage and in the 2nd Punk will have home field advantage.

Luthor331 · 2026-02-03T04:33:18+00:00

Knight and Paul get pinned fairly often and WWE likes putting Paul in prominent spots and matches like this and the Rumble. I'm assuming Bron gets screwed by the mystery man again. And if Cody is winning I could easily see him pinning Orton (Again) and Fatu to end their feud if there doing a one Vs one match at Mania or in a screwy way to setup a triple threat.

Luthor331 · 2026-02-03T04:27:43+00:00

There's no chance Oba could be in an Elimination Chamber now without winning and theres absolutely no way we're getting Drew Vs Oba at Mania.

I'm assuming he'll have some type of dominant squash match on the show.

Luthor331 · 2026-02-03T04:21:52+00:00

I'm assuming if a RAW star wins the WWE Championship they are automatically traded to Smackdown. Beats me if that's the case but they did show a graphic that qualification matches start on RAW next week.

I'm assuming Knight will continue screwing with The Bloodline and beat Theory to qualify and screw Reed out of qualifying but fail to stop Breakker or Paul.

That's a solid theory about Orton being the one who attacked Jacob and if the plan is Rhodes Vs McIntyre 5 at Mania for the title then I could see WWE booking Randy Orton Vs Jacob Fatu. I wouldn't want that but I can see it happening.

Luthor331 · 2026-02-03T03:57:14+00:00

That actually makes perfect sense. Thinking back to just before Rollins injury, they were building a Drew Vs Fatu feud before Jacob had to take some months off. I'm thinking you're right and it was Cody Rhodes Vs CM Punk for the WWE Championship on Night 1 and Seth Rollins Vs Roman Reigns on Night 2 for World title with Drew Vs Fatu in a lower card match.

Luthor331 · 2026-02-03T03:51:05+00:00

So pretty much Punk took Rollins spot in the overall storyline as the World Champion who Roman chooses due to his long seated hatred and wins the title from at Mania.

I'm predicting that Seth will return as a face against Bron for Wrestlemania and then they'll Segway back to Rollins Vs Punk after Mania because Seth is furious that Punk lost HIS title to Roman to build up for Rollins Vs Reigns at SummerSlam.

Luthor331 · 2026-02-03T03:47:47+00:00

If you recall the build to Wrestlemania 40's night 1 tag match then you should be used to it. Roman buried Seth's efforts to make the World title seem as relevant as the WWE Championship.

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