25 Things You Didn't Know About John Cena

25. His Amazing Giant Pizza Story

It won't have escaped anyone's attention that Cena has been a bloody tank throughout adulthood. Maintaining that muscle mass means consuming a lot of food. Ideally, young John would've liked to feast on broccoli, chicken breast and rice, but he couldn't afford to be picky after moving away from home to California in order to pursue his fitness industry dreams.

JC was broke and didn't have much money for food. So, imagine how wide his eyes got when he noticed that a local restaurant was running a pizza promotion nearby. Basically, if you could stomach a ridiculously huge pie in one sitting, then the eatery would give you it for free. John accepted the challenge, managed it, and he kept returning for more.

This is when things get pretty funny.

Eventually, the manager said he'd give John free pizza if the aspiring muscle head would stop hammering his challenge and costing the place money. Suddenly, Cena had what he wanted - a place to go grab some free/cheap food. Nobody at the restaurant could believe that he'd managed to eat the whole pizza anyway. It was deliberately giant so that people wouldn't finish the thing.

Armed with the dangerous knowledge that he wouldn't be able to pay for the food if he didn't finish it, Cena went to work and polished it off each night he visited. That's amazing. By virtue of being a greedy git who'd been ravenous and probably hadn't eaten all day, John bagged himself some meals on the house.

It wouldn't be long before affording dinner wasn't an issue for the WWE megastar.