A look inside John Cena’s gym 🏋️‍♂️

17-time WWE World Champion John Cena shows Stephanie McMahon around his gym.

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You picked this location. Yeah. So, tell me about where we are and why it means so much to you. So, we are in the halls of Hard Knock South. We opened the doors here in 2008. What made you want to start this gym? Um, I believe it or not, I was just sick of working out at places. This building came up and uh bought it. The name Hard Knock South is taken from the original location in Amesberry, Massachusetts, where John trained during his formative years. This is a very safe space for conversation to be kicked around, for you to have a bad day, but not stay in a bad day. Like in here, we write the I’ve never trained, even when I didn’t want to, and ever said, “Man, I wish I didn’t do that.” No kidding. Right. Hearing John talk about his gym, it’s obvious how much he cares about it. And it’s not just important to him, it’s important to a particular part of WWE history. Before the creation of the WWE Performance Center in 2013, many upand cominging WWE superstars trained right here as they looked to follow in John’s footsteps. We had our golden years, so to speak, from like 2009 to 2015. Right next to the huge American flag is the top 10 of all time list. These are alltime bests of the gym. It is Eour’s world, and we’re all just living in it. This is a 575 raw bench that puts him in a very elite class with the world, actually. [Applause] [Applause] It’s been really cool to see it evolve from the weightlifting competitions that we used to have in like the Camelot era of ’09 to 15 to like it’s kind of a place where the families all get together now. Here we are sitting in the gym, one of us dressed for the occasion. [Laughter] You know, it’s like a big thing to figure out what to wear, right? Especially as a woman. And so, we both should have communicated. And, you know, I thought about that. I’m like, I should have texted him last night and just we should have we should have planned this out. Well, I didn’t know. I didn’t know if you were going to try to make me do something. So, I I came ready. [Music]