10 Wrestlers John Cena Couldn't Get Over

5. Kevin Federline

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The irony here is that the one guy nobody wanted to get get over, John Cena actually put over.

Kevin Federline was not a wrestler. He wasn't strictly anything, really, except a minor celebrity by virtue of his marriage to Britney Spears. Because of his very poor rap career, WWE wagered that involving him in John Cena's programme with Umaga would project Fed's limited mainstream renown onto the feud. This culminated in an actual match involving the two, on the 1 January 2007 episode of Raw. Thanks to an assist by the Samoan Bulldozer, the crap-rapper sensationally earned the pin - something few up-and-comers would ever have the privilege of experiencing.

This was a failure on so many levels. It made Cena look like a chump for getting beaten by a nobody (though he did hit Kev with an FU later that night), and the intrusion simply detracted from any interest in the Umaga feud fans otherwise had. Who was tuning into Raw to watch Kevin flippin' Federline?

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