10 Most WTF Promos In Wrestling

8. The Champ Is Not All Here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6DF-z01mv4 John Cena is one of the most naturally talented men on the mic in WWF/E history. When he€™s on point, he can be warm, funny, relevant and exciting. Occasionally however Cena can rely too much on either the content dreamed up for him by the hacks backstage (hence the homophobic and chauvinist tone of many of the promos in the first half of his career) or on his vaunted improvisational skills, via his history as a freestyle MC. On the last Monday Night RAW before the Royal Rumble in 2013, Cena took to the ring to deliver a promo promoting the event and his participation in it. The choice of words there is deliberate: this is verbiage that€™s supposed to get people to buy the pay-per-view. That€™s what a promo is, promotional material. However, Cena appears to have entered the ring without a promo to give, assuring the office that €˜he got this€™. He don€™t got this. He don€™t got this at all. Apologies for the commentary track on that video, but it€™s the best version available online at the moment. To this day, no one has any idea what Cena was trying to achieve, other than crashing and burning worse than a faulty space shuttle. Fans with half-decent memories will remember that this year saw the first of three Royal Rumbles that fans crapped on: it was blindingly obvious weeks in advance that Cena was booked to win the Rumble and The Rock was booked to beat Punk for the title, leading to Cena vs. Rock II at Wrestlemania 29. Cena clearly didn€™t feel the need to get fans excited about that Sunday€™s foregone conclusion.