John Cena donned the nickname, The Doctor of Thuganomics, during the early portion of his WWE career.
However, there came a point where the company put in a dress code policy that Cena wasn’t a fan of. This is something he talked about during a recent appearance on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast.
Cena said, “24/7, I was in the rap gimmick. They instituted a dress code in WWE soon after I changed my gimmick and raised my hand, I said, ‘I’m not doing it,’ in front of everyone, in front of my peers. I rebelled against authority, because you guys are gonna kill my character, they’re never gonna believe it. We’re going from city to city to city and we’re traveling with everyone else, we rent cars from everyone else, we go to the hotel with everyone else, we pull up to the arena and there are fans out there. I used to freestyle battle kids in parking lots in front of the arenas.”