6He was at a pizza-eating contest because he needed money
Cena needed money desperately, so he signed up for the pizza-eating contest. He told Centerstage with Michael Kay:
“I’m a Zeppy’s pizza-eating champion. That was a place that closed down on Hermosa Beach (Californa) and I was broke and didn’t have any food, and they had a promotion, they had really thick dish pizza, if you ate a whole pizza, you’d get the pizza free. So, I went in there on a lunch break and crushed a pizza in about 20 minutes and the (pizza parlor) guy’s face dropped. He didn’t realize that I was broke and hungry, so I went back the next day and did the same thing. Finally, he pulled me over and he’s like, ‘Man, I kind of know what you’re doing. Just stop by for a free slice any time you want.’ So, he saved me from eating pizza.”
