WWE: John Cena Visited WWE’s Performance Center, Blake Monroe on Her Feud with Jordynne Grace “Definitely Put Me Through Really Tough Matches And Pushed Me To My Limit”, More News

John Cena Visited WWE’s Performance Center

NXT talents Blake Monroe and Izzi Dame recently revealed on Twitter that John Cena had paid a visit to WWE’s Performance Center in Orlando, Florida on Monday.

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— blakey ♡ (@BlakeMonroeWWE) October 20, 2025

Always a blessing and such an inspiration getting to sit with John and pick his brain about our business. Grateful for the wisdom and perspective every time!🖤 pic.twitter.com/aFeQSaXe81

— IZZI DAME (@izzi_wwe) October 20, 2025

Cena reflected earlier today on Twitter about his recent visit to WWE’s Performance Center.

“Thank you to everyone at the @WW EPC for allowing me to learn from our incredibly gifted future. Staying curious and open minded is a gateway for new knowledge and ideas. Any time I get to spend with the present and future of the business I love challenges the way I see it and I always leave with new perspectives. I can’t express how meaningful these visits are for me. Truly grateful.”

Thank you to everyone at the @WWE PC for allowing me to learn from our incredibly gifted future. Staying curious and open minded is a gateway for new knowledge and ideas. Any time I get to spend with the present and future of the business I love challenges the way I see it and I…

— John Cena (@JohnCena) October 21, 2025

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Blake Monroe Comments on Her Feud with Jordynne Grace “Definitely Put Me Through Really Tough Matches And Pushed Me To My Limit”

TV Insider held a recent interview with Blake Monroe. One of the topics discussed included Monroe’s thoughts about her recent feud with Jordynne Grace in WWE’s NXT brand and how Grace put her through really tough matches and pushed her to her limit.

“I think the exciting thing about WWE is everybody has a different background. I train at the PC all week and you see a lot of athletes coming in, but you also see our current world champ Ricky Saints who came from the independents. Jordynne has been wrestling for, I don’t know how old that woman is, but she has been wrestling for a really long time. We have girls coming in from Japan, Mexico. I think what is really exciting for me is I love getting in with people when we’re totally different. I’m thinking, “what am I going to learn from you, how are our styles going to match? You never know who you’re going to have that chemistry with. Jordynne definitely put me through really tough matches and pushed me to my limit. That’s because of her background and what she brings to the table. I would love to get in with Sol because her background is so different, but imagine that meeting my style of wrestling. I think what is really cool is everyone has their own thing. We’re not all doing the same stuff. I think the more different you are and working together, that could tell a really great story.”

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WWE News & Notes

Monday’s WWE RAW show in Sacramento, California featured Otis making his surprise return. During the show, Otis was seen backstage cheering up Maxxine Durpi for her WWE Women’s Intercontinental Championship match against Becky Lynch. Later in the show, Otis competed in the #1 Contender Battle Royal match for the Vacant WWE World Heavyweight Championship match. This was Otis’ first appearance on WWE television since this past May.

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that NJPW talent TJP, former TJ Perkins in WWE, traveled to WWE’s Performance Center to be the guest coach for this week. Johnson reported that former WWE wrestler Jazz at the WWE PC last week working as a guest coach. Ace Steel reportedly has also been helping with guest coach work at WWE’s PC of late.

WWE Legend Hornswoggle and WWE Hall of Famer Jerry “The King” Lawler reportedly were recently seen at WWE’s headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut for the filming of new content, according to PWInsider.

Natalya recently announced the full schedule for her upcoming multi-city book tour in the United States and Canada from October 28th to November 30th. This upcoming tour is called “The Last Hart Beating Tour” and is in promotion of her upcoming new autobiography titled The Last Hart Beating that is scheduled to be released on October 28th.

GamingonPhone announced that Clash Of Clans x WWE was the winner of the Best IP Crossover Of The Year Award at this year’s GamingonPhone Awards show.

WWE recently released three new videos to their WCW Vault channel. The first new video was the full July 13, 1998 episode of WCW Nitro. The second new video was the full WCW Halloween Havoc 1994 event. The third new video was the full September 6, 1988 episode of NWA World Championship Wrestling.

WWE also recently released four new videos to their WWE Vault channel. The first new video was a “Creepy Cinematic Matches | Boneyard Match, Firefly Fun House Match and MORE.” The second new video was a singles match of Hulk Hogan vs. Mr. Perfect from the April 28, 1990 episode of WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event. The third new video was a “Tag team wrestling’s greatest rivalry? | 2 HOURS of Rock ‘n’ Roll Express vs. Midnight Express.” The fourth new video was an Inferno match of The Undertaker vs. Kane from the February 22, 1998 episode of WWE Monday Night RAW.

In a recent interview with the Wrestling History Channel, Kendal Grey gave her thoughts about her recent WWE EVOLVE Women’s Championship victory against Kali Armstrong at last week’s WWE EVOLVE Succession show. Grey stated “It feels amazing. Honestly, it’s… It’s a full circle moment. You know, I just came up on two years being at the Performance Center and it just feels amazing. It feels like all my hard work since day one is slowly paying off. And I feel like this is just a stepping stone to my career here in WWE.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

In a recent interview with MuscleManMalcolm, Kendal Grey also gave her thoughts about people comparing her to WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angel due to her amateur wrestling background. Grey stated “Well, I definitely don’t have a gold medal at the Olympics, I’ll tell you that. I think for me, I think being compared to him — obviously he’s one of the greats, so it is a cool comparison, but I try to just be different. For women’s wrestling in the women’s division, not many people come from an amateur wrestling background, so I would like to bring that into the women’s division. Obviously, women and men, even in amateur wrestling, they wrestle so different. I’m just trying to be different, I hope that I can bring my own personality into it and I don’t know, just be fun with it. I don’t want to be compared to someone or feel like I have to live up to someone’s experience, I just want to have my own experience and have fun.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)