WWE: Logan Paul on His Praise of Cena Being “Absolute Mastermind of the Craft”, John Cena on His Abrupt Babyface Turn Being “Sometimes You Just Gotta Listen and Pivot”, More News

Logan Paul Comments on His Match with John Cena at WWE Clash in Paris & His Praise of Cena Being “Absolute Mastermind of the Craft”

Sunday’s WWE Clash in Paris event at the Paris La Défense Arena in Nanterre, France featured John Cena defeating Logan Paul in a singles match that was also Cena’s final match of his wrestling career in France.

Paul reflected earlier today on Twitter about his match with Cena and praise Cena calling him the “absolute mastermind of the craft” and claimed that last night was the peak of professional wrestling.

“When an unstoppable force meets an immovable object

I wanted a match with John Cena to prove that I not only belong in the business but can bring the best out of the business. Mission accomplished. For me, last night was peak professional wrestling

Fair play to John, an absolute mastermind of the craft. He wrestles better than Pablo Picasso paints… idk if it’ll ever be understood how good he is

Although my hand wasn’t raised, I came away with more victories than I can count. Grateful

Go toe to toe with another GOAT, check ✅

Ps – les fans français sont putain de fous”

When an unstoppable force meets an immovable object

I wanted a match with John Cena to prove that I not only belong in the business but can bring the best out of the business. Mission accomplished. For me, last night was peak professional wrestling

Fair play to John, an… pic.twitter.com/uJx5K0ekyP

— Logan Paul (@LoganPaul) September 1, 2025

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John Cena Comments on His Abrupt Babyface Turn Being “Sometimes You Just Gotta Listen and Pivot”

Sunday’s WWE Clash in Paris post-show featured John Cena as one of the guests. One of the topics discussed included Cena’s thoughts about his abrupt babyface turn prior to his match against Cody Rhodes for the Undisputed WWE Championship at this past August’s SummerSlam 2025 event.

“Keep in mind, what we do is try to entertain the audience as best we can. And sometimes, that involves taking risks and sometimes, that takes being bold. You also have to listen to the audience. It got to a point where, Cena vs. Randy, you start hearing this (pointing to the cheering fans in the audience). Cena vs. Punk in Saudi, you start hearing the noise. Cena-Cody WrestleMania, Cena-Cody SummerSlam, it changes. Sometimes, you can make bold and brave new moves, but going against this body of energy is a losing battle. So sometimes, you just gotta listen and pivot, change course.”

Cena also gave his thoughts about him apologizing to the young kid fan from Brussels during his promo segment at this past Friday’s WWE SmackDown show and at the Clash in Paris event.

“To be able to apologize to my man. It’s great. To be able to say sorry, and to be able to say I ‘m sorry because I said hurtful things. I was having a bad day, so to speak. I think we’ll reflect on this a whole lot more in January.”

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com

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WWE News & Notes

Monday’s WWE RAW show in Nanterre, France featured CM Punk teasing him making an appearance at this week’s WWE SmackDown show on September 5th in his hometown of Chicago, Illinois.

Monday’s WWE RAW show in Nanterre also featured the official announcement of WWE RAW shows will be airing live on Netflix in France starting in January of 2026. WWE’s RAW, SmackDown, and NXT shows currently air on a tape delay on channel AB1 in France.

Monday’s 2025 Venice Film Festival event in Venice, Italy featured Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson revealing a new slimmer look for the premiere of the new The Smashing Machine biopic film. According to multiple reports, Johnson recently lost around 60 pounds in recent months. Johnson portrays the role of former MMA fighter Mark Kerr in the film.

Variety reported that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was in tears of gratitude over the 15-minute standing ovation he received from attendees of the premiere of his new The Smashing Machine film at Monday’s Venice Film Festival event. DiscussingFilm.net released a video of Johnson’s reaction to the ovation he received.

Sunday’s WWE Clash in Paris event in Nanterre, France reportedly generated around 130,000 searches on Google for that day, according to the Wrestling Observer. Dave Meltzer reported that searches for “AJ Lee” generated around 20,000 for that day based on rumors of her returning to WWE following the show ending angle.

As noted before, a recent episode of the What’s Your Story? with Stephanie McMahon podcast featured host Stephanie McMahon reading an ad for a VPN service and encouraging WWE fans to sign up to the service to skip ads on Netflix so that they could watch “uninterrupted” WWE programming. Fightful Select reported that one source spoken to within ESPN stated that they “wasn’t thrilled” by McMahon’s ad read on her podcast. This same source spoken to reportedly stated that they don’t believe it will turn into a major issue between WWE and ESPN.

WWE recently released two new videos to their WCW Vault channel on YouTube. The first new video was a “WCW Monday Nitro full episode marathon | Goldberg, nWo and MORE!” The second new video was a singles match of Hulk Hogan vs. Sting from the November 20, 1995 episode of WCW Nitro.

WWE also recently released one new video to their WWE Vault channel on YouTube. This new video was a WWE World Heavyweight Championship Submission match of The Undertaker vs. CM Punk from WWE Breaking Point 2009.

In a recent response to a fan on Twitter, “Big” Bronson Reed gave his thoughts about why he did not bother to take Roman Reigns’ shoes after his and Bron Breakker’s attack on him at Sunday’s WWE Clash in Paris event. This fan stated “Why didn’t you take Romans sneakers last night at the PPV?” and Reed responded stating “Because I took his soul instead.“

In a recent interview with Metro, Raquel Rodriguez gave her thoughts about how WWE Hall of Famer The Undertaker has “really stepped up” in regards to him giving more time and advice to everyone in the wrestling industry include herself. Raquel stated “Undertaker’s really stepped up, and he’s been giving a little bit more of his time and advice and his knowledge to everyone in the business, including myself.” Rodriguez also gave her thoughts about recent comments WWE Hall of Famer Kevin Nash about wanting her to work more of a big style wrestler and how Nash has been giving her more advice here and there for her career. Rodriguez stated “Kevin Nash has been so gracious since the comments, and I think he really took my response in a very nice way as well,’ she smiled. “He’s been nice enough to message me here and there and give me a little couple of tips about videos and matches that he’s seen. So I know he’s watching the product. I know he’s watching me, and that makes me feel good, because he’s out there to want to make me better. I am the bigger person. I am the more dominant one,” she explained. “If Kevin Nash thinks that that that I need to work on that more, I mean, absolutely, I definitely will. He’s a man who’s made money in this business. You know what? I mean, he’s made a name for himself. And so why wouldn’t I take that advice and run with it?“