John Cena Got Paid $50 A Night For Meagre Job Where He Would Occasionally Get His ‘A** Whipped’ That Shockingly Earned Him More Than His Bodybuilding Career

Being the biggest name in wrestling and a growing name in Hollywood, people would be unable to guess the first job of John Cena. Coming from a small town and from a family of a lot of children, Cena wasn’t fed with a silver spoon. While his parents did help him in the beginning, he is a self-made man who worked hard to get to the position he is in today.

To achieve this amount of mass appeal and charisma, Cena had to do many jobs. But no one could have guessed that Cena would have done this job to survive during his bodybuilding days.

John Cena did a shocking job when bodybuilding wasn’t paying off

When Cena appeared on Jimmy Kimmel, the host asked Cena about an interesting profession that he worked in California. That profession was the bouncer for Sharky’s Bar in Southern California. Cena goes on to tell his hilarious stories from his time working as a bouncer. First, he mentioned barring people from entering the bar if they didn’t have an ID. He tells the audience that sometimes 60-year-olds would come but he had to send them away because they didn’t have IDs.

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But he would allow people with fake IDs inside because of the rules that the manager put down in front of him. He even told Kimmel about the various times he would get into fights, trying to keep down the over-energetic people in the bar. This would result in Cena, the wrestler, and bodybuilder getting his “a** whipped a bunch of times.”

Another thing that he mentioned was the pay that he got from this gig. Getting only $50 a night, Cena would depend on this job and the pizza place next door when bodybuilding wasn’t paying off very well. But who knew that the days spent here would support Cena up until Vince McMahon picked him up and made a star out of the guy? Now he is a Hollywood actor, in his peak era, and a legend in WWE already and it all started by working as a bouncer at a random bar in California.

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