10 Best WrestleMania Main Event Wrestlers

3. John Cena (3-2)

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We’ve been hitting some of the biggest names in WWE history on this list, but now we’re into the home stretch, the three who probably define their eras.

John Cena has been the face of WWE for the past 12 years, dominating PPV main events and racking up a record-tying 16 world championships. However, he has main-evented only five WrestleManias during that time. Still, Cena’s record is pretty solid.

He successfully defended his WWE Championship against Triple H and Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania 22 and 23 (respectively), lost a title bout to The Miz at WM 27, lost to The Rock at WM 28, and won the WWE Championship from Rocky at Mania 29.

Keeping in mind that WM 23 and 28 were huge PPVs and his matches (Miz notwithstanding) were great to excellent, it’s easy to see how he’s earned his spot on this list.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.