10 Most Shocking Revelations From WWE In 2020
6. The Life & Death Of John Cena In The FireFly Fun House Match
More on WrestleMania shortly, but first to the crowning achievement from either night.
The Firefly Fun House match was the sort of thing WWE might struggle to replicate in a decade's time if they're still trying to figure out how to get the Bray Wyatt character over by then. The company currently doesn't seem to be positioned to make the stars that shine bright enough to carry the concept - the match needed a career as decorated as John Cena's. A push a determined - despite its divisiveness - as John Cena's. A legacy as established, accepted and admired as John Cena's.
It had to be the guy that had beaten Bray with relative ease at WrestleMania XXX. Or the one that wouldn't turn heel as everybody - Hulk Hogan - had at some point or another. Or the one that, in some exceptional foreshadowing of just how many reinvention's he'd had said before the show "Bray’s going to get his ass handed to him. I’m in no mood to play around and I’m honestly kind of fed up with situations of people who think they are entitled to get chance after chance after chance to succeed."
This wasn't just the sort of success story celebrated in hindsight. This emotion was the impulse reaction of many watching that night, providing one last revelation after 13 minutes of them back-to-back.