10 WWE Wrestlers Who Could Break Records Before 2020 Ends

by John Bills

1. John Cena — Most World Championship Wins

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Speaking of Cena, is he ever going to break Ric Flair’s record? There was a time when it seemed inevitable, but those years are long gone. Cena hasn’t won a world championship since defeating AJ Styles at the 2017 Royal Rumble, and the likelihood of number 17 coming moves further away with every passing month. His career retrospective at WrestleMania (which masqueraded as a Firefly Funhouse match with Bray Wyatt) surely means retirement isn’t far away.

But WWE hasn’t got a good record when it comes to resisting temptation, especially when it comes to passive-aggressive record-breaking. Flair may have won 16 world titles, but how many of them came in WWE? Two, if we’re counting. Flair’s legacy was built outside the control of Vince McMahon, and only the naive believe that Vince will allow The Nature Boy’s record to remain intact. Given the choice between Ric Flair and his greatest modern creation, Vince McMahon will only see one choice.

Will world title number 17 come in 2020? It isn’t likely, but stranger things have happened in the world of professional wrestling. Goldberg won the WWE Universal Championship, for instance. Saying that, Cena never got his win back after losing to Braun Strowman in 2017, did he? The planets seem to be aligning…

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.