10 Great Matches Starring Dud Wrestlers
2. John Cena Vs. The Great Khali - WWE One Night Stand 2007
John Cena might have curried some favour over the last couple of years, especially with his enjoyable string of U.S. Title Open Challenge matches - but he's still no Ric Flair in there, let's face it.
His selling remains almost offensively suspect. He applies zero pressure on his STF. Every new addition to his repertoire, be it a clumsy Frankensteiner or horrendously-mistimed springboard Stunner, helps forgive him for perfecting just the Five Moves of Doom. The Great Khali, however, is even worse than that...
Facetiousness aside, this is a string to the bow of the argument that Cena is a more than respectable worker in his own right. Though there are natural counterarguments - Cena made The Miz and R-Truth look like the midcarders they were in his 2011 matches with them - Cena here did the inconceivable and made Khali look Great for the only time in his putrid WWE career.
Theirs was a simple tale of David Vs. Goliath. It's not as if Khali were capable of an athletic back and forth contest. That said, they deepen the resonance of every basic exchange with a stiff variation. Khali clubs Cena with blows to the back instead of the top of his head, and with elbows to the side of his neck, astutely-considered small details which compensate for the lack of dynamism elsewhere.
Khali's cartoonishly powerful offence even excuses Cena's overwrought selling in a match which is impervious in its execution.