10 WWE Matches John Cena Should Have Lost

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.