John Cena & Steve Austin To Have Major WWE WrestleMania XL Involvement?

Could John Cena and 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin have major roles to play at WrestleMania XL?

by Andrew Pollard
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Could John Cena and 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin have significant roles to play at WWE WrestleMania XL next weekend? Maybe...

Taking to X, the ever-reliable @WrestleVotes noted how everything WWE does is on purpose and that they could've used any WrestleMania XL trucks as the backdrop for The Rock's brutal, bloody decimation of Cody Rhodes to close out this week's Raw.

This WrestleVotes post would seem to be in response to the below Wrestle Ops one, which highlighted how the faces of John Cena and Steve Austin were extremely clear and present in the background as Rock left Cody lying in the dark, rainy car park of Chicago's Allstate Arena.

The wider point being, WWE has a bunch of production trucks, with a bunch of current stars on - including Charlotte Flair, Drew McIntyre, Logan Paul, Jey Uso, Seth Rollins, etc - but they purposely chose to have The Rock beat up Cody Rhodes in front of a truck baring the visage of Cena and Austin.

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Of course, some are now speculating that this could mean John Cena and Steve Austin may wind up involved in Bloodline business at WrestleMania XL, with certain fans even suggesting the American Nightmare is essentially assembling his own version of the Avengers by bringing together the likes of Seth Rollins, Jey Uso, John Cena, and Steve Austin to take down The Rock, Roman Reigns, and the entire Bloodline.

This also follows on from previous reports that Cena, Austin, and the Undertaker are all expected to be at this year's Showcase of the Immortals in some form or fashion.

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