Ranking John Cena's BEST Moments & Matches 

There is way too much sentimentality and nostalgia in wrestling fan community, especially in the US. It's why many wrestlers have 20 years of "retirement" matches before they actually retire. The fans feed that unhealthy pattern. It damages the industry and individuals. I mean, Will Ospreay can barely draw a crowd, but marks will pay to watch a geriatric and drunk Rik Flair flopping with his son in law.

Cups.

i won't miss him at all.

"You don't know what you truly have until it's gone."

Nope

Did he visit any of Vince McMahon's victims or did he just re-state how much he loves Vince McMahon?

​@@TheMaxxAwesome *Helps 650 cancer kids* This guy: BUT WHAT ABOUT ALL THE AWFUL SHIT HIS BOSS DID?!?!?!?!?!!!?!

I almost forgot about that. Cena certainly played his part, but I think prime AJ elevated that fued to the level it reached.

"Questionable booking" as if he didn't exert his own control frequently

Hey now…Roddy Piper deserves a mention in that category also.

Don't forget Abraxas guardian of the universe.

@@dropout818 I sure would like to

​@@zlinedavidHulk Hogan too

Shows how hypocritical the Smarks can be 😂

@@lancethefilmguy9392 Yup

Also they ended up putting on a good match after a year of bad triple h matches

It was basically a passing of the golden shovel from Triple H as the dominant champion to John Cena

No disrespect, but Let me correct you, Dwayne Johnson is NOT the reason John Cena was able to make it in hollywood. There have been wrestlers way before Dwayne such as Roddy Piper and Hulk Hogan, etc. You're obviously in love with dwayne. I hope you know he is a pedo. The number one spot should have went to John Cena's Charity run. Hands down. Your videos are good but would be a lot better if you are less biased. It's very obvious. No offense.

Uhhhh… OH OH SHAWN!

@@gatchywatchyentertainmentb2090 I think I'm cute! I know I'm sexy!

I also thought Big Show sang his own song

Honky Tonk Man

Also my time is now...also had his album chart on billboard 200 and they wanna compare Roman to him whose done nothing outside wwe😂

As an Attitude Era kid and a Ruthless Aggression Era teen, it was annoying seeing the Smarks trying to get themselves over back then.

​@@lancethefilmguy9392 reason I started to dislike black and gold mxt

​@@christophernear6990 me too, black and gold era smarks are the most annoying

Cena vs Styles III is my all-time favorite match

Cena/AJ trilogy is among my favorites. some of the best in ring work from CENA, and AJ is well....Phenomenal.

Cena completely put over AJ more than anyone put anybody over, after the second match he immediately became main eventer and then champ. Styles' first reign as champ was brilliant, and everybody forgets the triple threat including Dean Ambrose at No Mercy too.

John Cena epitomizes the Golden Rule of wrestling. The worst thing in the world is NOT for the crowd to hate you, because at least they are being entertained and maybe even in some cases, they're buying tickets just so they can express their hate for you The worst thing in the world for any pro wrestler is to come out all piss and vinegar...only for the crowd to barely react at all and not give a shit. Whether you like Cena or not, you cannot deny that aside from his weird ass early months...he ALWAYS got a crowd reaction

Same here. Finally the Smarks are coming around

In hindsight, Cena had tons of bangers in his run His booking could be frustrating but the man has had his classics

One of the reasons I STARTED booing Cena was Basic Thuganomics going away

and KO became a trusted guy for handling big marquee matches as well. so much so that Steve Austin vs Kevin Owen in a decently competitive match was something we were able to witness

I'd love to see Brian do a video on who Cena did and did not rightfully or wrongfully put over. He screwed a lot of people and probably killed some careers. But also from time to time, seemed to do the "right thing".

@@Kamau1865 Same but as for who's careers his screwed, we need an actual follow up as well. many he put down like the Nexus, did not succeed anywhere else either.

Big Match John doing ten minute matches with wrestlers everyone already knows is a good wrestler (where Cena wins lol) wasn't as good a program as you all like to remember

@@moodycxnt It takes 2 to tango. Cena has proved plenty of times that he could have great in-ring matches as well.

"I've changed the rules of the month, it's now Funkoween. Weeeeee"

It's just Basic Funk-o-nomics 😅

Not at all

Not at all is right... Maybe if your a young kid that grew up in that era of John Cena..

I've been imagining this for years.

Agreed

Cant even see him

Too bad he was a shit human being

He was to Cena what McMahon was to Austin

Such a good heel he abused young men in the showers

Shocking JBL isn't fully cancelled, we already know enough, can only imagine what we don't know

As someone who has been watching since 96, I can say that he wasn't always hated back then. There is a lot of revisionism in wrestling. He was cheered at some PPV events, and I remember certain RAW & SmackDown episodes where he got cheered by the audience. It really just depends on what city or state he was in. For example, if he went to New York, he would get booed. But if he went to Mississippi, he would get cheered.

@@lancethefilmguy9392 yea John got cheered where there were a lot of kids, now those kids have grown up and demonstrably don't know why Cena was disliked (see op) To understand you just have to have lived through the stagnation, same as Triple H reign of terror and Roman's stranglehold over three years. The worst part about Cena was he was inescapable for ten years while WWE had virtually no real competition and they took no risks.

Cena was super popular until Wrestlemania 23 and beating Shawn Michaels. But you have to understand that Shawn was THE GUY to fans during the Monday Night Wars. DX, even as bad guys, were massively popular in ‘97 and ‘98. And then Shawn was gone for 4 years. When he came back in 2002, it felt miraculous and he was better than he ever was before. And he had stellar feuds and Wrestlemania matches the next 4 years. The fans from before HBK’s haitus wanted to see him win another WWE Championship at Wrestlemania 23. We wanted it desperately. And then Cena beat him and every fan from the New Generation and Attitude Era turned against Cena. And then it happened over and over with the wrestlers we loved from before the Ruthless Aggression Era like Edge, Jericho, RVD (through no fault of Cena’s). And then Eddie died and Benoit happened and Jericho left and Christian left and Kurt Angle left and Booker T left. All these guys we older fans adored were leaving WWE and there was Cena still at the top and it caused a lot of resentment in older fans because Cena was incredibly corny at the time. And we had come up on top guys like Stone Cold, The Rock, Mick Foley, DX, the NWO, Sting, and John Cena was just so lame during the late 2000s compared to how cool the top guys were during the Monday Night War. So older fans hated Cena, but younger fans that didn’t experience how cool wrestling was in the late 90s/early 2000s didn’t know any better and adored Cena.

@@moodycxnt exactly

Double JJ is jealous 😅

💯

I mean, that’s not what Rock wanted. He wanted to stay and continue doing short programs when he wasn’t acting, but WWE “forgot” to renew his contract. And then being told by his management at the time to distance himself from his wrestling past didn’t help things either.

​@@adannanewby3674Once he dropped The Rock moniker and became Dwayne Johnson, he made it look like he abandoned wrestling

@@lancethefilmguy9392 Yeah, that was the advice of his management team. He talks about it in an interview (I think it may have been GQ?)

Without that promo, there is no Tribal Chief. “YOU…with all your gifts and all your abilities….YOU…have the GALL….to blame ME….thats alright big dog, took you 5 years to cut a halfway decent promo but now I’m about to shrink you back down to size”

I remember. Although I was in High School during the Cena days

Don't forget Jeff Gordon in NASCAR. He was the John Cena of the 90s. Wasn't til the twilight end of his career where he got respect from the audience. Heck, he even had his own ONS moment in the Pepsi car.

Yeah the one with Rene Dupree was good too

An Underrated Rivalry

And that crowd went nuts for him 😂😅

CHRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS *Benoit tightens the crossface on Heyman*

Here's the soap 🧼

I always point to that match whenever someone says he couldn't wrestle.

The only good match in Great Khalis career

Nice profile pic

@@colinwooten3767 Thanks

That is a great one

I have always said that Cena haters are the Conspiracy Theorists of Wrestling Fans. They will make up wild stories to justify their own opinions

Soon Charlotte and roman reigns will be an example

Lol Cena Wins didn't become a thing until the early 2010s

@@lancethefilmguy9392 Yeah, that's definitely wrong. I specifically remember seeing it at the end of 2005 when he beat Kurt Angle 3 PPVs in a row.

@@Vice4Life The meme itself didn't exist until the 2010s

Arguably, the best I Quit match in WWE history