John Cena Showers Bayley With Praise (WWE News)

John Cena gives Bayley her flowers.

by Andrew Pollard
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With WWE star Bayley hosting her first-ever Lodestone training camp over the weekend, one of the names who stopped by to visit was none other than the legendary John Cena.

Taking place at Tyler Breeze and Shawn Spears' Flatbacks Wrestling School in Florida, POST Wrestling notes that Charlotte Flair, Bianca Belair, Rhea Ripley, Natalya, and Lyra Valkyria also served as guest trainers for this all-women's, two-day training camp that was funded and organised by Bayley.

As for Cena, he stayed for eight hours, watched ten matches, had a notepad to critique the in-ring work, and spoke to every wrestler on an individual basis. And while Bayley was quick to praise the record-setting 17-time World Champion on social media, Cena himself had plenty of praise for the Role Model, thanking her for all that she does, and how "the attitude you've created allowed me to be better than I was yesterday."

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For John Cena, he has the small matter of his final ever match coming up in just a handful of days, where he'll take on Gunther at Saturday Night's Main Event this weekend, bringing an end to an iconic career that was kick-started with a memorable slap back in June 2002.

With Cena pushing for this SNME to feature NXT talent as a way of spotlighting some of the stars of tomorrow, the show will also feature Bayley taking on Sol Ruca, and WWE Champion Cody Rhodes battling new NXT Champion Oba Femi. It's expected that another match or two will be added to that card by the time bell time rolls around on Saturday.

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