⚾The Feels) The KBO Player Who Had an Unexpected Friendship With Retired GOAT Wrestler John Cena

It’s none other than Logan Allen, who played in the KBO league as a foreign player for the NC Dinos in 2025.

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Today, a photo popped up on Logan’s Insta story—a retirement shoutout from wrestling GOAT John Cena showing the two of them shaking hands—so an NC fanboy decided to do some Googling.

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While doing that, he found an article that introduced Logan as "John Cena’s friend," so he dug deeper.

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The article says that back when Logan hadn't debuted in the big leagues yet, he met John Cena at a steakhouse in Tampa Bay, and they got pretty close chatting for a long time. Cena, wanting to motivate Logan who dreamed of an MLB debut, made a joke bet: "I bet you won't make it to the big leagues," and wagered a single dollar. The condition of the bet was that if Logan made it to the MLB, Cena would give him a personally autographed dollar bill; if he didn't debut, Logan would give Cena a dollar instead.

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About a year and five months later, on June 19, 2019, he got called up to the MLB and had a successful debut against the Milwaukee Brewers, tossing 7 innings, allowing 5 Ks, 2 walks, and 0 earned runs.

And then Cena came to congratulate him and hand over that autographed dollar, making Logan's MLB debut even more heartwarming.

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