Ranking Wrestling's Most Shocking Surprise Every Year 1990-2020

13. 2008 - John Cena Returns At The Royal Rumble

The shock of all Royal Rumble shocks, John Cena's Royal Rumble confirmed his enduring star power within a split second of his music shaking Madison Square Garden to its core.

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The New York audience weren't expecting him back until October, and thus weren't expecting to reveal just how much they'd missed him in January. It's a reaction for the ages, and all for a man that had been gone less than three months.

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