10 Wrestlers John Cena Would Not Put Over

10. Jesús

This marked the embryonic phase of Juuuuuurrrrrnn Cena's love of the shovel.

Future serial killers hint at their future selves by torturing animals and dressing like their mothers. Cena foreshadowed his future here by no-selling a kendo stick shot to the kidney his opponent had previously punctured with a knife. This match was held for the United States Championship. For the sake of psychology alone - never mind the future of that poor f*cker Jesús - the challenger should have got some licks in. That didn't happen - at all. As revenge for stabbing him in the kidney, Cena absolutely battered Carlito's muscle for seven uncomfortable minutes. Jesús entered the match with two herniated discs in his back, which Cena helpfully exacerbated by refusing to pull two wicked kendo stick shots of his own.

The march to WrestleMania 21 was on, and Cena hadn't yet reached a point where he felt comfortable enough exposing his replacement as a fraud unable to cut the sort of ad-libbed promo for which he wasn't trained, but still: even Hulk Hogan knew that, to mount an effective comeback, he had to actually come back from something.

Jesús never came back from this, incidentally. Of course he bloody didn't.