10 Biggest WWE Return Pops Ever
3. John Cena - 2008
He was supposed to be out for at least six months, but returned after just three.
Maybe we should have seen this coming, though, in retrospect. John Cena had spent the better part of the last three years playing the role of an unstoppable underdog - so he was never likely to let something minor like a torn pectoral muscle stop him from making WrestleMania.
Plus, who else was going to win the 2008 Royal Rumble? Jeff Hardy - in the middle of a main event push - was in the title match itself, whilst Undertaker had won it the year before, and already had a score to settle with Edge.
When you think about it, it had to be Cena - and maybe when he came out at number 30 to one of WWE's all-time biggest pops, it was the moment we had to admit, grudgingly, he was the best around.