--- title: John Cena, Sting Congratulate 7-Year-Old Cancer Survivor description: Get your tissues ready canonical: https://time.com/4034629/john-cena-sting-little-girl-beating-cancer/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-15T14:53:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:08.033Z og:title: Watch John Cena and Sting Greet a 7-Year-Old Cancer Survivor og:description: Get your tissues ready og:url: https://time.com/4034629/john-cena-sting-little-girl-beating-cancer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch John Cena and Sting Greet a 7-Year-Old Cancer Survivor twitter:description: Get your tissues ready twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # John Cena Congratulating a 7-Year-Old Cancer Survivor Is the Sweetest Thing You'll See Today ## Video: 5 Elements of A Viral Video [Watch (HLS stream): 5 Elements of A Viral Video](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vgQtqA8c.m3u8) (1:31)  _Published 2015-06-22. 5 Elements of A Viral Video_  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 15, 2015 2:53 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 15, 2015 2:53 PM UTC After Monday night’s episode of “WWE Raw” went off the air, John Cena pointed out a very special little girl in the crowd — Kiara Grindrod, a 7-year-old cancer survivor. Cena congratulated Grindrod for recovering from the disease and then went out into the stands, joined by fellow wrestler Sting, to greet and hug her. Both wrestlers presented the little girl with gifts, with Sting giving her one of his famed gloves. “On behalf of Sting, myself and every person behind that screen, we sincerely want to thank you for being our guest tonight, for being an inspiration to not only us in the ring, but every single person outside the ring and around the world,” Cena said. “You’re seven years old and I am proud to say, you have beat the battle against cancer.” The crowd gave it up for the little girl, loudly applauding while chanting “YES” and “This is awesome.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4034629/john-cena-sting-little-girl-beating-cancer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4034629/john-cena-sting-little-girl-beating-cancer/"},"headline":"John Cena Congratulating a 7-Year-Old Cancer Survivor Is the Sweetest Thing You'll See Today","datePublished":"2015-09-15T14:53:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:08.033Z","description":"Get your tissues ready","url":"https://time.com/4034629/john-cena-sting-little-girl-beating-cancer/","keywords":["Newsfeed","WWE","viral","Cancer","sting"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4034629/john-cena-sting-little-girl-beating-cancer/","name":"John Cena Congratulating a 7-Year-Old Cancer Survivor Is the Sweetest Thing You'll See Today"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"5 Elements of A Viral Video","description":"5 Elements of A Viral Video","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/vgQtqA8c/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-06-22T13:42:30.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vgQtqA8c.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4034629/john-cena-sting-little-girl-beating-cancer/","duration":"PT1M31S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4034629/john-cena-sting-little-girl-beating-cancer/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```