10 Wrestling Facts We Didn't Know Last Week (Feb 3)
3. John Cena Feels His 16th World Title Win Was Better Than Ric Flair's
World Championship Wrestling was a complete mess by the year 2000, and hindsight has made it even clearer just how close the wheels were to coming clean off the company. Nobody could have predicted at the time that Jamie Kellner would cancel all WCW programming less than a year later in 2001, effectively ending the promotion's existence, but the product was in a hellish state long before then.
The May 15, 2000 edition of Monday Nitro was nonetheless a historic one for Ric Flair, because the veteran captured his 16th recognised World Title on the program.
Proving the terrible disorganisation in WCW at the time, a disconsolate Flair was then stripped of the belt one week later by Vince Russo, and that's why John Cena believes his 16th World Title run (lasting from Royal Rumble 2017 until Elimination Chamber this past February) was more effective than Flair's.
Cena said this to Sports Illustrated's Extra Mustard; citing the fact that Ric's title run in WCW was a week shorter than his own in WWE, Cena claimed this made recent criticism hard to stomach.