{"id":32025,"date":"2024-03-20T16:04:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T13:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/32025\/john-cena-calls-haaland-and\/"},"modified":"2024-03-20T16:04:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T13:04:03","slug":"john-cena-calls-haaland-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=32025","title":{"rendered":"John Cena calls Haaland, and other times soccer and WWE met"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Cena calls Haaland, and other times soccer and WWE met\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\">\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Chris Wright, Toe Poke writer<span class=\"timestamp \">March 20, 2024, 10:57 a.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data- media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data- media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Erling Haaland reacts to his video call from John Cena. <cite>Manchester City<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It doesn&#39;t happen often, but the very different worlds of soccer and professional wrestling collided this <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/week\/\"   title=\"week\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">week<\/a> after Manchester City striker Erling Haaland teamed up with wrestler and actor John Cena for a lighthearted skit aimed to promote the Premier League club&#39;s upcoming pre-season tour.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh off an extremely revealing comedic appearance at the Oscars, Cena was again at his jovial best as he called Haaland from Florida, posing as the Norwegian&#39;s secret super fan while wearing a replica shirt and scarf from City, a long blonde wig and sipping a sip from a glass of milk (which happens to be one of Haaland&#39;s favorite drinks.)<\/p>\n<p>The duo opened with an obligatory gag about not being able to see each other (a reference to Cena&#39;s wrestling gimmick) before revealing details of City&#39;s 2024-25 summer tour of the <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/united\/\"   title=\"United\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">United<\/a> States, which will stop in New York and Orlando among other destinations.  .<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You can&#39;t see me?! <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ErlingHaaland?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ErlingHaaland<\/a> takes a call from her secret super fan, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnCena?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JohnCena<\/a>. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tcgRK69CQa\">pic.twitter.com\/tcgRK69CQa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>-Manchester City (@ManCity) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManCity\/status\/1770087836575998131?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While there hasn&#39;t been much overlap between the world of professional soccer and wrestling in the past, there are certainly a few notable instances where Jose Mourinho and Wayne Rooney have made special appearances on broadcasts of the WWE in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Rooney did a convincing job of holding his ground and then slapping British wrestler Wade Barrett across the face during a live show in Manchester in 2015.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"module-iframe-wrapper \">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a8s1lY4sE-4\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a8s1lY4sE-4<\/a><br \/>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Mourinho was teased while sitting in the crowd for an event in 2007 when Shane McMahon spotted the then Chelsea manager in the audience and began roasting the Portuguese manager as a hail of Boos echoed through the arena.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jos\u00e9 Mourinho in WWE is one of the most random crossovers of all time so far. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wd3GTDz9tf\">pic.twitter.com\/wd3GTDz9tf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Blue Season News (@YourBlueSeason) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YourBlueSeason\/status\/1573314738716815360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2019, Mexican striker Ra\u00fal Jim\u00e9nez was on hand to personally welcome his compatriot and wrestler Sin Cara to the Wolves training ground after celebrating a goal by donning the <em>lucha libre<\/em> the star&#39;s signature mask.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">List for apoyar a los <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wolves?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Wolves<\/a> \ud83d\udc3a my great friend Raul Jimenez \u2757\ufe0f <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TodosSomosSinCara?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TodosSomosSinCara<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mkVtCBTTBU\">pic.twitter.com\/mkVtCBTTBU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 CintaDeOro (@CintaDeOro) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CintaDeOro\/status\/1124313326367006721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 3, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How can we not mention former Werder Bremen and Germany goalkeeper Tim Weise, who retired from <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/football\/\"   title=\"football\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">football<\/a> in 2016 to become a professional wrestler, making his WWE debut shortly after.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations on your first <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WWE<\/a> victory <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tim_Wiese?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Tim_Wiese<\/a>!  You really do justice to this nickname \u201cThe Machine\u201d!  \ud83d\udcaa\ud83d\udcaa\ud83d\udcaa\ud83d\udc4f\ud83d\udc4f\ud83d\udc4f <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WWEMunich?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WWEMunich<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LvoUUSdIPd\">pic.twitter.com\/LvoUUSdIPd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 English Bundesliga (@Bundesliga_EN) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bundesliga_EN\/status\/794296500322967552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And who could forget in 2020 when WWE legend and West Ham United supporter Triple H urged Declan Rice to stay at the club in order to &#8220;build a legacy and become a hero&#8221;.  This obviously didn&#39;t work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Cena calls Haaland, and other times soccer and WWE met\u060c Chris Wright, Toe Poke writerMarch 20, 2024, 10:57 a.m. Erling Haaland reacts to his video call from John Cena. Manchester City It doesn&#39;t happen often, but the very different worlds of soccer and professional wrestling collided this week after Manchester City striker Erling Haaland [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2066,12129,1268,2372,8909,1599,3340,1298],"class_list":["post-32025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-calls","tag-cena","tag-haaland","tag-john","tag-met","tag-soccer","tag-times","tag-wwe"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32028,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32025\/revisions\/32028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}