10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE In 2016

10. John Cena Didn't See The Need To Sign AJ Styles & Others

To Arn Anderson we go for a remarkable quote on what John Cena himself once thought about some of the names that would help transform WWE's roster in 2016.

'Double A' said;

"I [was] sitting with Cena one afternoon, and I said, 'It would really beef up the company if we went out and stole Bobby Roode, AJ Styles and James Storm....If you brought those three guys in it would give you a whole plethora of new opponents, it would give a lot of guys new opponents.' John looked at me and said, 'we've got NXT, we make our own stars. I'm sure he was just transferring Vince's psychology to me when he said that, but I knew at that time what those guys could do in a match for John."

The legendary figure wasn't wrong - though James Storm only worked twice for the black and gold brand before returning to Impact Wrestling, Bobby Roode had an excellent run on NXT and AJ Styles was indeed the guy that could do great things for 'The Champ'.

The pair's 2016 series (and Royal Rumble 2017 payoff) remains celebrated to this day, serving as a neat epilogue to Cena's joyous United States Title run.