10 Wrestlers John Cena Couldn't Get Over

John Cena and Big Show famously battled at WrestleMania XX in a match that saw Cena win the US Championship from the World’s Largest Athlete. The match itself was so-so, but the crowd was raucous for the bout due to Cena’s burgeoning popularity, Show’s unstoppable monster heel persona, and the fact that this was all taking place at the Showcase of the Immortals. Fast forward five years to 2009, however, and Big Show’s schtick had long become tired due to a ludicrous amount of flitting between babyface and heel.

Still, it was Cena who was tasked with getting fans to believe that Big Show was still a main player and a genuine threat to the WWE Championship in ’09. Having defeated Show and Edge at WrestleMania XXV, Cena would then go on to face Big Show at the next two PPVs in dull and dire matches that nobody reacted to in the slightest.

So many times we’ve seen WWE try to re-establish Big Show as a main event act, yet the company has damaged the Big Show character more than any other in the past decade (yes, even including Kane). Back in 2009, WWE was starting to find out the hard way that audiences had long given up on Big Show in that sort of top position – as emphasised by how even Super Cena couldn’t get audiences to invest in him. Unfortunately, this rivalry would be revisited several times over the next few years as Cena constantly looked for monsters to topple.