10 Wrestlers Who Got Smaller To Get Bigger
3. John Cena
Although John Cena has pretty much always been a veiny meat stack, Hollywood John is something else. Clearly off the WWE diet, the wrestler-turned-thesp now causes flimsy sets across Tinseltown to creak under his incredible, action-ready muscle mass. Bit weird given his current range is mostly restricted to naff comedies, but if he wants to be as big as The Rock, he has to be, well, as big as The Rock.
The silver-screen Cena's bulging bod bookends his life either side of wrestling; before entering the industry full-time, he was jakked to high heavens as a typically oily and typically orange competitive bodybuilder. Without worrying the lawyers too much, let's just say the optics of his sinuous skin weren't ideal for a company with previous run-ins with the federal court. Besides which, such a frame was hardly suited for wrestling. It's with some irony then, that John Cena was at his biggest before and after he left a business obsessed with girth behind.