10 Wrestlers Who Couldn't Do Their Own Moves

4. John Cena's Springboard Stunner

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John Cena was a fantastic figurehead for WWE's promotional appeal. In the ring, his character is a great role model. Outside of wrestling, he's a promising actor and an honourable humanitarian. It's a shame that his actual wrestling has always been so limited because everywhere else he succeeds.

And whilst Cena is known for, and has largely got by on, his five moves of doom, he occasionally adds a sixth.

Cena's victory over Rusev at WrestleMania 31 is a sour taste many WWE fans remember, but there was something else that night that caught everyone off guard. In a show of otherwise rarely seen creativity, Cena hit his first "springboard stunner" by running into the ropes, bouncing off of them and taking his opponent down with a cutter.

On first viewing, it's kind of cool because it is so surprising. But even occasionally when it didn't look bad, it still never looked great. The momentum of Cena running one way and then suddenly moving towards his opponent backwards made for an awkward sell. And, most of the time, Cena could never get his hands around his dance partner's head precisely.

Cena used the springboard stunner for all of about six months in 2015, in a period that is fondly remembered as some of his best ring-work, despite a new move that commentary consistently had to remark as one he never "got all of".

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