10 Awesome Ways Wrestlers Got Back At Critics
8. John Cena's 2011
WWE may have been falling apart during the badly-botched 'Summer Of Punk' in 2011, but John Cena's steady hand remained stuck to the wheel amidst atrocious mismanagement of the 'Voice Of The Voiceless' and man primed to take his place.
Far from just a warm body in Money In The Bank's white hot atmosphere, Cena proved himself as CM Punk's career opponent during their summer series, working diligently against laboured criticisms of his work that still remained after a transcendent 2007 turnaround. While Punk flailed and flapped in and putrid and politically-motivated programme with Triple H and Kevin Nash, 'Big Match John' carried the load in all sorts of mad sh*t without remotely trying to remove Punk from his new catbird seat.
Working three straight pay-per-views with the relentless boring Alberto Del Rio (including one in a ring destroyed by the prior battle between Mark Henry and The Big Show, Cena shored up the clunky WWE Title situation until the 'Straight Edge Superstar' pulled himself out of the mere in time to finally kick off a proper title run at the Survivor Series.
He had another one of these years still in him, too...