8He was cleaning toilets
Cena didn’t want to return to Massachusetts, so he started to clean toilets at a gym. He even starred in a commercial at that time. He told ABC News: “I used to work at Gold’s Fitness. I would work the front desk. I was the mayor. I knew everybody… That was a time when like attitude was at zenith like 1999, 2000. So I mean everybody watched [wrestling], but so did I. And we would just talk about ‘Raw.’ And this kid was like, ‘You know I’m training to be a wrestler? Would you want to do that?'”
“I was already up to my eyeballs in debt, but I leveraged every credit card I had… paid a promoter out in southern California, and learned the trade,” he recalls. “Had we never had that conversation, I would have probably been honorably discharged or medically discharged from the Marines.”
