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Wrestling champion and actor John Cena had an early education in fighting as a kid, with some of his earliest battles coming while he was defending himself and his gay older brother. Cena revealed that he learned 'how to lose a few fights' growing up in Massachusetts while fending off bullies on behalf of his older brother Steve, who was not out at the time.
' Cena himself was picked on by some of the other kids growing up, he said, either for his association with Steve or because of his clothes or his taste in music. But growing up with four brothers, Cena said the boys 'didn't feel we needed anybody else' as they stuck together in their rural town. 'That sort of behavior started at like 10 years old for me,' Cena said. 'So I don't think I understood what was going on.
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