10 Times WWE Treated Its Audience Like Children

4. John Cena's Temper Tantrum

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On the June 28, 2010 Monday Night RAW, John Cena uttered possibly the most embarrassing words ever spoken by a professional wrestler .

This was worse than Roman Reigns' stint as a reader of fairytales (he was meant to be WWE's next breakout babyface). Worse than the softly-spoken Bobby Lashley mispronouncing "b*stard" as "bath turd" when he was meant to be WWE's next breakout babyface. The emerging pattern is depressing. The depression doth not end there.

Top babyface John Cena interrupted a Sheamus promo. This was so peak WWE that it's a wonder it wasn't satire. Cena dressed down Sheamus' hairstyle by unfavourably comparing it to the star of a 1990 teen movie. He then danced about like a prat - and whined like a toddler when the Anonymous RAW General Manager booked Mark Henry, not Cena, as number one contender for Sheamus' WWE Championship.

"Baloney, fudge and mustard! My life is being ruined by the internet! I haven't flipped out this bad since my mom cancelled my subscription to Warcraft!" came Cena's response.

We were meant to laugh along with this. To WWE's credit, they got it half-right. Replace "with" with "at", and replace this memory with a charred chunk of brain tissue.

It would be less painful.

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