10 WWE Matches John Cena Should Have Lost
There are myriad more times where Super-Cena should've met his kryptonite.
CENA WINS. LOL.
That's the sarcastic outcry of WWE fans distraught by the constant, never ending push of Vince McMahon’s favourite rainbow-coloured t-shirt vendor, John Cena. Partially, this is because of his extremely stale character, but mainly because he always wins, whether it makes sense or not.
Now, that’s not to say that Big Match John hasn’t done the favours and sometimes laid down when the time was right. Since the turn of the decade alone he’s put over CM Punk, Daniel Bryan, Brock Lesnar, Kevin Owens, AJ Styles, and Dean Ambrose, to name a few. But even so, there are plenty of times, whether to put someone over, to move a storyline foreword, or to prevent something stupid from happening, that Super-Cena should have met his kryptonite.
Here's just 10.
10. Vs. Brock Lesnar (Extreme Rules 2012)
Imagine, you have just returned to the WWE after an extended absence as the most legitimate fighter the company’s had since Kurt Angle, who left in 2006. You’ve become a big name draw in the UFC, and held titles in Japan. You are a true once in a generation attraction, this decade’s equivalent of Andre the Giant. Then, in your first match back, you get to lose to a man in a green T-shirt and jorts who just lost to a movie star that hasn’t wrestled in eight years.
Something’s wrong there.
That’s not to say that Brock didn’t look like a monster during his clash with the Cenation leader at Extreme Rules 2012, but the fact that he lost really took the wind out of his sails. Even though it took a chain shot to the head and an AA on steel stairs to fell the Beast Incarnate, his defeat made him seem less legitimate, as if he couldn’t take what he could dish out. This effect was so much so that he wasn’t truly seen as the Conqueror again, until the events of WrestleMania XXX.