10 Times Wrestlers Thought They Were Fired For Sure

2. John Cena

Perhaps John Cena's reluctance to let rip at Shinsuke Nakamura at a time when he felt as though his job was slipping out of his grasps stems from his own personal experience of circling the unemployment drain.

Long before he was Running the Place, there was a time when the eventual 16-time World Champion knew he was on the verge of being fired due to getting lost in the shuffle upon first debuting in 2002 and being told as much around the time.

The star himself admitted that he screwed up the early 'Ruthless Aggression' opportunity handed to him on a "silver platter". However, once Stephanie McMahon drank in the future megastar's improvised tuna rap on a coach trip during a European tour, the star was given a platform to flex his mic muscles on TV and introduced the world to the Doctor of Thuganomics.

Had Cena not decided to muck around and pass the time with some impromptu lyrics on a bus though, there's every chance we most definitely would not have seen him again...