Part-time champ or not, Brock Lesnars dismantling of John Cena at SummerSlam remains one of the biggest stand-out moments of the year. When Michael Cole calls it the most lopsided WWE title match in history (at least between two major competitors), hes really not exaggerating. As a match, Lesnar versus Cena wasnt much more than Brock hitting Cena with 16 German suplexes and just toying with him for 15-plus minutes. But it was something new and different: John Cena getting an a**-kicking that he couldnt rise above and overcome. When was the last time fans saw something like that happen with Cena? Sure, hes lost matches before, but theres usually some kind of shenanigans or its a seesaw battle that could have gone either way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRXdMnjkoAE And four months later, Cena still hasnt gotten his revenge for that match. Maybe itll come at Royal Rumble, but for one moment in time, we got to see that WWE and John Cena know how to unequivocally put someone over.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
