John Cena is seen in Ric Flair’s office with Randy Orton as the 3 are discussing Hard Labor
 
Flair- Well gentlemen, Johnny Gargano proved himself by defeating Finn Balor on Overdrive and now Evolution can finally turn their attention to Hard Labor.  So Randy, I negotiated for you to have the night off and John, my man, you are in the #1 Contender’s Match for the HWL World Heavyweight Championship.  Are you ready to make your HWL return?
 
Cena- Ric, Randy…I have a favor to ask of you both.  I know what the plan has been.  Take the night off and help me win.  And look, nobody wants to win more than myself, all I ask is because JBL is in this match…stay out of it.  This feud between JBL and myself is far from over and we cannot show weakness by ganging up on him.  If it backfires, I’ll take full responsibility and learn from it, but I need to go into this match alone.
 
Orton- John, one of the things I’ve always respected about you is your determination to be the better man.  Even in our wars back in the day, you refused to give into temptation and did not seek help.  Out of that respect I have for you, I will happily oblige.
 
Cena- Thank you Randy.  Now guys, I got to ask this question…what kind of Owner schedules a PPV on a Friday?  He knows almost nobody does that right?  I find this move very shady…and Cody Rhodes words, “my luck is never running out” it starts to make you think of things.  It all makes sense now, Cody Rhodes is a hired gun for Big Sugar.  He’s the perfect fit to do it, look at him in AEW, he’s nothing more than Tony Khan’s errand boy, in HWL it’s even worse, he’s Big Sugar’s bitch.  Cody may come from a, “Wrestling Royalty” family, but the way he’s clearly selling out and acting like the good guy, fans won’t buy it.  He’s no American Nightmare, he’s the typical AMERICAN SELLOUT.  There’s a reason Cody will never, ever be as good as his father, let alone his brother, I’ll show him that on Friday.  We haven’t even heard from Brodie Lee, which he’s probably too busy in some dark room thinking of how he won’t ever truly get over in a 3rd company now.  Chris Jericho is too busy probably at some concert performing and exposing himself to Corona because he doesn’t believe in Science.  Heath Slater…what a minute who is the dumbass who thought HEATH SLATER was a good idea in this match?  He can’t even lace up my boots.
 
Flair- What about Bradshaw?  John, my job is to make sure you are protected.  You are a leader of Evolution, we cannot put ourselves at risk of having you injured so I must ask, why can’t Evolution assist you?
 
Cena- Ric…this goes back years, when I first started here JBL was a blip on the radar and suddenly, out of nowhere he emerges as this guy who nobody was able to stop.  HWL was at the mercy of this one man who nobody could beat.  Then I had a World Heavyweight Championship shot from a Feast or Fired Briefcase, I cashed it in and was screwed.  One week later, in a Fatal-4-Way, I did what nobody said was possible…I defeated JBL and won the HWL World Heavyweight Championship.  His words he says now…they’re those of FEAR.  He knows there’s only 1 man in HWL who knows how to take him down.  He knows I’m the greatest threat to the MAGA Powers.  He won’t rest until I’m out of his way, but JBL has to understand when he ruled this place once before, HWL was in shambles at his mercy.  When I took the HWL World Heavyweight Title, I set HWL free and so many others came out of the woodwork, I was the one who made HWL GREAT AGAIN.  I plan to exterminate the MAGA Powers, all of them…one by one.  Whether after I’m through with stopping JBL this Friday, if you want to help it’s totally up to you guys.  This rivalry has always been personal.  He says he had “respect” for me, you never did.  The only reason you worked with me was because we had common enemies and didn’t want to be on the opposing side of me, cause you knew I’d win.  I feel JBL deserves an explanation of why I joined Evolution because he cannot understand why I’ve drifted away in his eyes.  Here’s the thing…my whole career people have never seen John Cena as a man who helped develop young talent but squashed them.  Evolution today is about building the future.  Look at Johnny Gargano, we have Alexa Bliss and MJF on the card Friday.  These 3 are only a few of what Evolution is building for the future.  And yes Bradshaw…I joined Evolution to make certain if you had your own army…I had an army to back me.  I won’t let HWL be destroyed by you once again.  You know I’m the only man stopping you from complete control, and I’m going to stop you again.  Maybe this time you’ll go away once and for all, your time has passed Bradshaw, and once Evolution fulfills its destiny, you will accept…
 
EVOLUTION PASSED YOU BY

(Cody Rhodes)

Tony Khan's errand boy and Big Sugar's bitch. Those comments are awfully rich to be coming out of a mouth where Vince McMahon's spunk has barely had time to dry, John. Feels like you're maybe projecting a little bit.

Other John, yeah you have a lot more experience in the ring than me, but that's because you've been around long enough to tell us about your Triple Threat Match with Moses and Methuselah.

If you're going to roast somebody, learn to do it right, Johns 1 and 2. You might have been big names 10, 20 years ago, but now every time you guys come out to the ring, it's very appropriate that your names are a synonym for the toilet, because that's where everybody goes during your matches.

Or at least they would, depending on which company we're in at the time and whether they're even allowing fans in the building.

Honestly though, you guys are legends in this business and just because you asked for a little smack and I gave it to you doesn't mean that the respect isn't there. You've got what, 17 World Championships between you. Sorry, John 2, but John 1 did the bulk of the heavy lifting there.

Me, I've only got two of those to my name, but that puts me ahead of John 2 and nobody can give it to Vince under the table quite as good as John 1 to be able to catch up to that magical No. 16. However, I have a lot of time left in this business, something neither of you has.

Me and guys like me are what's here, what's new and what's happening baby. The time for guys stooped over with aching backs to come back out for one last ride is done and over with. My generation has overtaken you.

Just look around the wrestling world today. You can't find a reigning World Heavyweight Champion over the age of 40.

John 2, you're 53 years old. John 1, you say "Evolution passed you by," but Evolution died more than a decade ago. The world passed Evolution by. Let it go. Come up with something new and original.

You both shaped the wrestling world over the past two decades, but both of you are living in the past. I'm going to shape the wrestling world over the next two decades. I'm looking to the future.

That future has already begun over in AEW. As for the HWL, it starts tomorrow night.

The future is a train that will not be derailed. The two of you are both standing on the tracks as that train is bearing down on you real fast and there's a whole lot of guys like me riding on board ready to blow right past you, if they haven't already. That light you're seeing isn't a spotlight continuing to shine down on you. It's the beam off a headlight.

So, are you going to move out of the way or are we, or in this instance me, going to have to run you over?

John Cena is seen watching Cody Rhodes response on his iPhone.
 
Cena- So Cody…you didn’t respond to what I said, in fact you’re not denying it at all.  Instead when I call you out as a hired gun by Big Sugar in taking all the belts for himself, you relate it to my past with WWE.  You see here’s the difference between what you say and what really happened.  Nobody stepped up in WWE 10 years ago, the only reason I was on top was because nobody else could take the mantle.  I wanted to step aside, I hated the fact the fans thought I pushed everyone down.  Then finally you had guys emerge and I finally stepped aside.  If I was the attention craving guy you think I am, the man who is truly Vince’s golden boy, why am I not in WWE now?  I mean sure he has a couple of new golden boys, but in these times, why am I not there to save the ratings?  Because we all know if I showed up on Smackdown or Raw, people will watch.  But instead I focus now on what I want to do.  As for you Cody, I get wrestling is your passion and you’re desperate to prove to Vince that he messed up with you.  I’ll agree with you on that.  But the bottom line is that you’re so obsessed with proving people wrong, you’ve lost who you are.  The fact that you can’t answer my question and seemingly justify being an errand boy and bitch in two different companies shows you disgrace your father.  Your father shouldn’t have made it in this business, but that man worked his ass off to make it to the top, he didn’t sell out to anyone, he just went and got it.  It’s what I did.  You on the other hand, you go to a Billionaire and convince him to fund a company and then use your name to convince a failing company owner to make you the guy for him.  You know Big Sugar was once the guy who relied on me, then my eyes saw the light, he uses you until you got nothing left.  That’s why I joined back in the day The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse, to destroy HWL and the corrupt once and for all.  But looking back I was wrong in doing so, I could’ve done the right thing by developing the young guys, leading an uprising that would spread far and wide that would grow HWL.  Instead I chose to kill it.  This is why I’m in Evolution, this is why I’m leading Evolution.  I won’t allow a man who’s sold his soul to the owner of this company to be allowed a shot at the title.  That would be the death of HWL.  I once said I’d do anything for this company and you know what for one night, I’m going to do that.  Evolution won’t be involved in any way, you have my assurances.  That way I can show you Cody that the man you say is living in the past…no I just need to rediscover my roots here…
 
Cena pulls out a box and opens it and puts the old HWL American Heavyweight Championship over his shoulder.
 
Cena- This…is a title that I’ve treasured.  It may not be the World Heavyweight Championship, but this belt reminds me of what I was in HWL.  I was on par with anyone that stepped in the ring with me, it didn’t matter who it was, when this belt was on the line…I won.  The only time I ever lost was me defending it against Doctor’s orders and I won it back a week later and never again did I ever lose this title unless I had to forfeit it because I was World Heavyweight Champion…dumb rules Big Sugar had back then.  You say I’m living in the past…no Cody, I just lost my passion to do this night in and night out, I’ve kept myself in condition for years to return to the ring.  I just felt there was nothing left for me to do in the ring.  If anything, I’m well rested.  This belt here reminds me of what I can be here in HWL…the man who couldn’t be beaten, the man who when he wanted it more than anyone, he took it, unlike you.  When I’m the #1 Contender for the World Heavyweight Championship, you can go explain to Big Sugar that John Cena is back and better than ever.  I’m sure that will send a shiver down his spine.  Then Cody maybe you’ll wake up from your own nightmare and realize that in order to be as great as your father, you just gotta take it for yourself, cause if you don’t…I guess evolution itself has failed the Royal Family.

JBL

It pains me that you still go on like do about being the future Cody. You are barely the present and you were only a footnote in the past. After you finished following your Daddy around, the first chance you got, it was Bob Holly. Next, you follow Randy Orton around (which is fun, considering he is now following Ric...doesn't surprise me, that is how the second and third generation wrestlers decide to get ahead.

When its not running your own company, and giving yourself title opportunities (you can mask the fact that you brought independent talent in to give them opportunity all you want but be honest with yourself, you are far from the booker...even the man...that your father was. Gas Bag Anderson can gather up another gaggle of horsemen all he wants, it just proves the point. You are merely a pretty...nay dashing face Stardust. You got the gift of the gab from Daddy, hence calling you Khan's little errand boy...you are the face he puts out. Your HALF brother got the talent....unfortunately you only know the definition of talent.

If you would only step out of the shadows...wait..there is the Elite..the Nightmare Family..a new version of the Horsemen...wow this is nice. Rich even.

Moreover, Mister Cena, I explore the fact that you look beneath the surface. Its nice to see you look at all sides, rather than John's side.

I could continue to compliment, but I must point something else out. Cena, while I believe you do see the future in the names you have mentioned, they would be better off on their own. They have already shown they can cut it, why hold them down? Why show them love? Oh...it must be because of Nicole...that's right...Ms. Garcia-Colace, the one you proposed to, live on pay per view. The one who then left, into the arms of her dance partner..that she met while still with you..that must be it. He is experiencing a mid life crisis, lost the love of his life, shifted back into the wrestling business to surround himself with a facade thinking people won't catch on.

The MAGA Powers are a conglomerate, on behalf of the Corporation For a Better Tomorrow, having banded together in a necessary effort to make this company great again. The shambles of other groups are all poor imitations, teammates.

It shall come to pass tomorrow evening, as I certify my status as number one contender for the HWL Heavyweight Championship of the World.

In JBL We Trust.

nWo

*Scene opens up the New World Order locker room door. The door slowly opens, as the camera man walks in. Balor, Styles, Shelley and Lesnar are sitting on the chairs, as Nash is standing front of them, arms crossed and nodding his head*

KN:  Tomorrow night is not only a huge match for us, it’s also a time slot for everyone to see what nWo  brings to the table.  We have a score to settle with the Undisputed Era, getting involved in business they should of stayed out of. Costing Balor the match yesterday to that midget, Johnny G.  We have the most legendary superstars in the wrestling business. From the Bullet Club

*Nash nods at Balor*

KN: To Fourtune,

*Nash nods at Styles*

KN: To the Machine Guns

*Nash nods at Shelley*

KN: And finish with Suplex City

*Nash nods at Lesnar. Lesnar smiles*

KN: Undisputed Era is just the first setting stone to the top.

*Balor stands up from his chair*

FB: Undisputed Era is just a warning match for the HWL World Champion. That belt belongs around my waist, and belong in this group.  It doesn’t matter who wins tomorrow main event, at the end of the night, The world title will be back in the new world order!

*Balor shoves the camera away as it fades*