10 Wrestlers John Cena Would Not Put Over
5. Baron Corbin
John Cena swiped left on Baron Corbin last year, putting paid to his summertime romance with the WWE Championship picture. Corbin was tinder himself at the time, drawing heat by bickering with WWE Medical Director Joseph Maroon over the seriousness of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). This displeased the office, and is cited as the reason behind the Lone Wolf's failed Money In The Bank cash-in. That, and Cena had allegedly written Corbin off to management. The Wrestling Observer debunked this rumour - but Cena revelled in bantering off Big Banter at SummerSlam.
Now, obviously, Cena didn't book the finish himself. But there is a way of putting an opponent over in defeat - customary New Japan Pro Wrestling reference, Kazuchika Okada does it in every f*cking match - and Cena resolutely failed to do that in what was an achingly tedious and phoned-in performance, one so basic that it almost, by itself, tarnished Cena's latter-day reputation as a more selfless performer.
"This kid is shook!" cried Cena, as he pranced about as if on the last night of a draining European tour. And, in just under a month, we will be expected to take Corbin seriously as a potential WWE Champion.
Sensational.