10 Wrestlers You'll NEVER Believe Shared The Same Ring

9. John Cena & Kazarian

A WWE Vs. AEW mash-up of sorts, John Cena and Frankie Kazarian travelled very different paths towards the nationally televised stage.

Cena was a gym freak who entered the WWE developmental system by way of a body guy school.

Kazarian did the indie grind, working virtually everywhere in the U.S. before finding a killer use of his deadpan comedic timing and vastly underrated in-ring game as part of the riotous SCU act.

Cena and Kazarian ended up on cable TV in a sliding doors scenario, but they also started in the first place: Rick Bassman's Ultimate Pro Wrestling, which operated as a WWE pipeline and a regional promotion in its own right.

Regrettably, the match wasn't premised on John Cena saying "I have a good haircut" and Kazarian responding "Do ya?!" and refusing to copy it.

Cena gave back as a late replacement for Christopher Daniels - he worked this 2003 match as a WWE full-timer - in what was a fair, mat-based sportsmanlike encounter that acts as shocking evidence of Cena's competent fundamentals. Where did they disappear to?

When "applying" the STF, he treated a man's throat like it might give birth later in his Fed run.