

John Cena took center stage yesterday at a Shanghai press conference to show off one of his most impressive skills — his gift for languages.

The face of wresting spoke for nearly three minutes in comprehensible Mandarin Chinese. While Cena was the first to admit that his putonghua was merely mamahuhu, it was still an impressive feat by the 15-time world champion.

As wrestling fans know, Cena is a polygot (he can even speak a little Hindi) who has taken the opportunity to show off tones in the past, but never for quite so long and seemingly without notes as well. He might even be a better Chinese student than Mark Zuckerberg.

While the internet has fallen all over itself with how Cena was speaking, what he said was actually pretty important as well. He talked about the fact that WWE has signed a multi-year distribution deal with Chinese streaming service PPTV. Starting on June 28th, fans can watch SmackDown and Monday Night Raw online and in Mandarin.

As part of their effort in bringing wrestling to the Chinese people, the WWE has even signed its first-ever Chinese wrestler, 22-year-old Bin Wang from Anhui province.

Today in Shanghai we welcomed the first Chinese @WWE signee…ever. #TrulyGlobal

欢迎加入WWE Wang Bin! pic.twitter.com/MPUBkAxjVr — Triple H (@TripleH) June 16, 2016



Heck, Yao Ming even made an appearance.

Thank you for joining us in Shanghai for this momentous occasion @JohnCena @YaoMing. 非常感谢 pic.twitter.com/akGlX0pa5S — Triple H (@TripleH) June 16, 2016



And as if all that wasn’t excitement enough, the WWE even announced that for the first time in three years it will be holding a live event in China — scheduled for September 10th.

But who cares about all that now? Watch John Cena speak Mandarin:



Eat your heart out, Zuckerberg.