Jim Cornette Reviews A&E's WWE Rivals: The Rock vs. John Cena 

It worked actually because I definitely remember buying those when I was younger😂😂

Darren young should have gotten the cocoa pebbles

No. NOT FUNNY

Breakfast of Super Heros I suppose. 🫢🤔

@@OmegaRedFan Okay loser

Probably started to enjoy the movie star life where he only has to work so long and make way more money and didn't have to destroy his body 300 nights a year for a fraction of the cost. I probably would of done the same thing.

And that’s why we are all so utterly sick of the current roster. No one needs 15-20 years of Orton, Kofi, ziggler, Tamina, Shelton, Nattie. Bring back drugs I say, shortening careers at least kept the TV fresh 😂

Rock did more in 6 that cena could dream of doing in 20

There need to be other places for wrestlers to go other than WWE. I guess if you don't mind working the fans a little less and your body a little more, there's UFC, provided Dana White likes you. I like CM Punk too, but why Punk and not Bobby Lashley? Punk might be straight edge but White's on drugs! There's also Mexico, and Japan, if you don't mind getting a passport, but New Japan, CMLL, AAA, each is only a marginally larger club than UFC. More accepting of pro wrestlers, but they already have a ton of their own who don't need passports. Or you know Hollywood/Universal studios, if you're like King Kong Bundy, Big Van Vader, The Rock, Batista, John Cena or...Nathan Jones? God knows there's hundreds of wrestlers over the years who would have been great in movies but never got a second look by casting, directors, writers, actors, executives. Randy Savage was fine as Buzzsaw, why did that not keep going? The Mexican wrestlers used to be big in the Mexican movies. Yeah, Santo Jr killed that off, but maybe somebody should open that back up? Maybe somebody should break into the Nigerian or Indian film scene. Those movies make a lot of money, and I'm sure they'd make even more with big pasty foreigners who looks good with their shirts off. Shango versus Sheamus, Mahamada versus Mustafa Ali! If you're good with Carlos Colon or Savio Vega you might be able to get your hands on some of the money left in Puerto Rico, but the hurricanes are getting worse, and the Richard Negrins tend to be more fickle with that money than the Dixie Carters and Tony Khans. Country music and pro wrestling go well together, supplement you indie income like Mickie James, though country doesn't print money like it used to. Music as a whole has been hit hard by digital piracy...but if you pose nude for a cellphone company maybe you can snag a nerdy chef to pay your bills like Gail Kim. Is Rachael Ray single? Look into that, Damien Priest, Austin Theory! Edit: Better yet, look into starting and Onlyfans! This is why AEW was such a disappointment. Why TNA was such a disappointment. Benevolent billionaires have bought/started something! Finally an alternative...oh look, they've got Big Dick Johnson lookalike wrestling Christy Hemme, they've got a wrestler without legs. Maybe this "Elite" thing can work as a proof of concept for the next...nothing because WWE and AEW both signed 300 wrestlers, ensuring it'll be another five years before anyone can even brainstorm a third national promotion. I still can't wrap my head around two companies having six hundred wrestlers between them while cutting back on dates! Yeah, they're dismissing bodies now, but how did that even happen in the first place? One had been pretending had shareholders to answer to, while Tony Khan doesn't seem like the type to smack down a secretary.

@@insupportofjunhado that’s hullva long reply.. especially considering it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the OP 😂

Nah you trippin' biggest negative was having a rematch. Lol

@@louio as soon as they announced the first match, i knew there was gonna be a rematch since they cant have either one definitively lose. that said, there was NO reason to make the rematch a title match. it cut the legs out from under CM Punk's title run, and within 6 months neither Cena nor Rock were around for the title storylines anyway.

​@@notarealperson87 they needed a 'legit' reasom for it as it was 'once in a lifetime'

The "open challenge" was by far the most relevant that title has ever been!

Smart and Wrestling fans are unlikely duo

@@priyanshukatuwala pundi hindi and a pretty girl is an unlikely duo😂😂😂

Both being pre modanna bitches..two sides of the same coin. And John came out looking like a hypocrite. Now he's amovie star doing what the rock did.

Mark

​@@OmegaRedFan Why?

​@@OmegaRedFan how's he a mark? They did have some heat with each other. Cena ended up apologizing years later for it in an interview.

Exactly, that duo should’ve lasted longer. Miz and Truth

Could have done more with R-Truth tbh other than the guys they always had at the top over n over again

was that the one where they beat each other?

I hope John sent a fruit basket by way of apology.

Cena was fulltime for over a decade, and went hollywood as a middle aged man. Rock left in his prime years, when the company could’ve used his star power for a couple more years.

Yeah the Punk Era was the last time I really enjoyed the WWE.

​@@charlesthoreson4162 Not as bad as WWE 2010, but still bad. WWE was really good from 2000 to 2005 in my view. I said 2000 cause thats when I started watching it regularly. I'm sure 98, 99 were awesome too.

You skipped 04-10 just to come back for this horseshit? Yikes

@@KennyOmegasCavity96-98 was the height on the Monday night war, and it was fantastic. But from 99-05 ish wwe still produced some really good stuff and I hung around till hbk and edge retired

My journey was summerslam 1989-WM 1996, stopped watching for a couple years until king of the ring 1998. Was glued until May 2001. Checked in here and there in 2005, 2010, & 2014. Got the network in 2016 and rewatched all WCW, WWE shows and PPV in chronological order from 1985 on. Im currently on summerslam 2015. Its taken me several years to almost catch up. In my opinion the best years were 1997,1998,2000,2002,2003,2005,2006

Lol they need to do it in tiktok or youtube short format instead of regular episode. Only Punk vs MJF can be 30 minute spacial

They couldn't fill a single tout, combined

aew is like 3 years old

@@KennyOmegasCavity Kenny/Hangman…

Loads of people have retained at Mania since Wrestlemania 22. It used to be rare. Not in the last 15 years though.

@Matthew saying Miz is one of few to retain... It was rare to retain before Wrestlemania 22. Since then loads of people have retained. In fact since the introduction of 2 world titles retaining is common. Triple H 19 & 25. Guerrero 20. Cena 22 & 23. Orton 24. Jericho 26. Edge & Miz 27. Del Rio 29. AJ Styles and Brock Lesnar 34. Lashley 37. Reigns 37 & 38

​@@NeilAlanBarker Miz and HHH To that point, and even further, were the only two HEELS to retain the title in the main event.

@@NeilAlanBarker when I said Main Event, I’m talking about the last match on the card. There’s only been two. Miz and HHH.

Cena schooled Rock in a lot of the promos In their feud. Cena is one of the very few that can hang with Rock on the mic.

@@mrdrumz48 At the risk of sounding like 'Generic Cena Hater #1539', the guy's cheesy and cringe in promos.

Didn’t think the feud was flat at all. Was quality programming in that lead up.

Cena put over that promo, then immediately said that the only time Rock had anything decent to say, it was prerecorded. Forever my goat for that

​@@mrdrumz48 he schooled him early without doubt and did so for 2 reasons for me, cena when he isn't cutting cringe wwe propaganda promos is very good and the rock had an insane work schedule and wasn't locked in....the humiliation of cena calling him out from thst point the rock cut some great ones

Exactly Cena gets praised for that feud now but back then everyone was on The Rock's side.

I shouted out “Johnny Sameface” when he appeared.

Well to be fair, pretty sure the finish was slightly altered bc Miz was blacked the fuck out with a concussion towards the end.

​@@matthewrock4725 When he fell on the concrete right?

​@@blakemaxfield4267 yep. Kinda feel bad for the Miz. He has said that hie doesn't remember his Mania main event win because he blacked out after that hit to the concrete. I kean we all know the main event sucked but still, I feel bad Miz was not able to remeber his "crowning achievement"

And got Cena into a Fruity Pebbles Commercial, which Cena actually thanked Rock for.

😂😂😂

​@@Sparkledash1 77ú Ii my no

Source?

Because of the rock

Rock has nothing to lose

Oh no! You mean like an actual fucking locker room?! That's what wrestling was, you clown. Most guys had the professionalism to keep it together, but if it did result in legitimate friction, it worked out for the better.

Early on he did a cross body off the top

Just when he first came in and had that weird haircut, he did a cross body. That's all I remember him doing off the top rope.

And you notice he never did it again after that!

​@JTG he actually came off the top rope in the 2nd match of this fued. Just watched it. Lol. Other then that tho, never again! 😆

😂

I love the Great Cornzoo😂

I've been screen shotting and printing these in grey scale for my 6yo daughter to colour. She absolutely loves them.

Remember when he asked someone in the audience for a cigarette? And smoked mid match? Was cool as hell

That cereal thats basically made by wwe

Pg sucks I'm gonna kick your butt I haven't never said that in my life lol

I loved corporate and Hollywood rock

Lmao yeah because you worked at WWE at the time to know that. What a bozo

Not really no, considering Cena didn't even notice that, he was told by Miz not the management. What exactly did Rock say that was destroying Cena? The best line he had was the "Fruity pebbles" one which paled in comparison to what Cena was dishing out.

All the rock did was crack the same old jokes

No when rock said Cena was barny dinosaurs love child that was funny Cena had his bright purple shirt on

No when rock said Cena was barny dinosaurs love child that was funny Cena had his bright purple shirt on

You should listen to Bryan & Vinny's review of it, here on RU-vid.

I miss serious R-Truth

@@mrsl262 Same

99% of the roster walked out of RAW because of Miz and Truth _causing_ an unsafe working environment. It's nuts!

Yet the Audience at home wasn't taking them serious and why they lost even more viewers.

Weren't doing comedy my ass

Cena vs Rock did MUCH bigger business though. It makes sense why this would get a highlight special

@@juansanchez209 Obviously, I'm being a dick because I never liked Cena.

Especially Truth

Same

Damn you make me feel old lol

That's Cena going all the way with it like they tried to do again with reigns

Exactly Bro 😂

Just had some. Some things are meant to be

And if you’re a fan of Jeff hardy then you’ll be even more excited because Freddie was the main (and pretty much only one) that was pulling for Jeff to win the wwe title in 2008.

@@d.52555 love hearing that. I honestly wish Freddie was bigger in the wrestling scene or Hollywood today. Seems like a such a genuine dude