John Cena is currently making the promotional rounds for his new film, Blockers, and he recently sat down with Entertainment.ie where he was asked how UFC star Conor McGregor would fare in the WWE.
"He would do fantastic," Cena said. "Hell, he would put me out of work. He gets the entertainment aspect of sport, and I think he gets it as good or better than anyone else. The way he promoted the fight against Mayweather—that's what we do. He did it as good or better than us. So I hope one day, if you're out there watching and you want to come to WWE, he would be a fantastic WWE Superstar."
Cena's glowing review is a little bit surprising considering how McGregor has previously ripped WWE and Cena himself.
"I just said it like it is. They're dweebs," McGregor said in 2016. "What's the main guy? John Cena. He's 40. He's 40 years of age. He's walking around in a luminous orange T-shirt and a headband talking about nobody can see him. We can see him right there. He's a big fat, 40-year-old failed Mr. Olympia motherfucker. They're dweebs, those guys."
Ronda Rousey recently transitioned from the UFC to WWE, but Cena doesn't see any reason a WWE athlete would want to switch to UFC.
"I don’t know why they'd want to," he said. "I guess I'm just a sucker for what we do. You look at an individual like Brock and I think he's really drawn to what the Octagon offers. But I more like what we do, because I'm sitting here talking to you about a story. We tell stories in the WWE, that's what I like the most. I can't put myself in the shoes of 'I'd want to go do this in the Octagon.' I want to go and do this, talk to you about another fun story."
