10 Most Powerful Wrestlers In WWE Today

6. John Cena

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'The Champ' may still be able to shift three hundred billion kilos in the gym (or whatever superhero-sized total Hollywood's newest golden boy is actual capable of), but the era of the all-singing all-dancing strongman John Cena used to be is long over.

A WrestleMania squash loss against The Undertaker seemed to exist in a separate galaxy to everything either man has ever done in their respective careers, but even without the defeat to 'The Deadman', 'Big Match John' has been looking lacklustre for the last few years now.

Major WrestleMania matches have disappeared from view, replaced instead with that aforementioned outlier, a cursed wedding proposal and dull feuds with doomed midcarders. When he's winning, he's still losing. A record-equalling (not really) WWE Title win in iconic fashion (not really) against AJ Styles only rendered him a transitional champion (really), and his victorious series over Baron Corbin buried 'The Lone Wolf' deeper than Corbin's own hairline.

Cena's still got subhuman power of course, but his descent to 'special attraction' has in reality normalised him in the extreme.

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