10 Wrestlers John Cena Would Not Put Over
7. Alberto Del Rio
Alberto Del Rio was pushed as an entitled rich pr*ck with a destiny of becoming World Heavyweight Champion. For a while, he carried himself as such; a good-looking guy who also looked the part, it was easy to buy the premise of Alberto Del Rio, International Playboy - until Cena, on the August 22, 2011 RAW, dressed-down the newly-minted WWE Champion as a pretender who wore "flea market scarves" and drove "rented luxury cars". This was a shallow cut, but Del Rio essentially bled out as a result of it; instantly, he was positioned as just another character on a TV show. Stripped of his opulent aura, Del Rio was now ordinary. In short order, the dreaded "boring" accusations swelled among the fandom.
Is it nitpicking? If this were an isolated incident, then perhaps - but throughout his full-time career, Cena ritually reduced his opponents to stumps with this sort of insult. If a wrestler beats an opponent who isn't worth a sh*t, who cares? Word life. This is basic f*cking wrestling promotion.
It's just as well Cena is barely around in 2018. He'd tell that miserable goth Aleister Black to blast "Can't Stop The Feeling", or inform Andrade Alma that he is "nothing but the next failed attempt to replace Rey Mysterio".
He's even worse in this capacity offscreen...