John Cena is hard at work promoting WrestleMania 33, and on Wednesday night he stopped by The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. While Big Show was hard at work telling Hulk Hogan stories on Conan, Cena was wearing a portion of Mark Henry’s salmon suit and bracing for endless Fallon giggles.
First, the two sat down to play a game, because “Jimmy Fallon” and “playing games” go together like “Roman Reigns” and “conditioner.” The game in question for Cena was the “Whisper Challenge,” which involves someone putting on headphones with loud music playing and trying to guess what the other person is saying. This is the Twenty One quiz show of our age, everyone.
Not surprisingly, this game was absolutely no challenge to Cena, because he’s JOHN CENA, and also because Fallon’s second phrase for him was like a softball and a layup at the same time. A soft lay?
But at least Cena really liked the music.
And in Cena’s second, and more impressive feat of the evening, he shamelessly plugged Southpaw Regional Wrestling and gave Jimmy “the only” Southpaw shirt. Until WrestleMania weekend, I reckon.
He also got the crowd in the palm of his hand with a fan favorite wrestling chant. Wait, is “TWO!” a chant? Does that classify as a chant? Look, I don’t know; the point is that John Cena is going to charm the absolute ass out of you, no matter what he’s doing outside the ring. (But let’s hope what he’s doing is a lot more Lance Catamaran coming up. SOUTHPAW FOREVER.)
