25 Most Iconic WWE Ring Entrances Ever
18. John Cena (WrestleMania 25)
Few entrances in WrestleMania history had a better subtext and less subtlety than John Cena's army of clones that flanked him at the 2009 half-century celebration.
Cleverly and cynically flinging criticisms of Cena's cookie-cutter PG persona back in the faces of audience members they'd been stubbornly neglecting for years, WWE deployed around 100 extras to dress as 'The Champ' to perform his by-then-infuriating 'U Can't C Me' pose as Cena himself charged through the path to the ring they'd made ahead of his arrival. Like everything about the entire John Cena story in WWE, it's absolutely absurd, and brilliant with it. Bombastic, outlandish and without a hint of subtlety, it's the old ethos of 'more is always more' vision in glorious technicolour, saved only from sheer insanity by the fact 'Big Match John' tended to stick to black t-shirts at the time instead of the neon palettes he'd become known for in later years.
True to form, it completely out-stripped the World Heavyweight Championship match that followed it too. Short of a genuinely cool double-Attitude Adjustment visual where Cena held Big Show and Edge across his shoulders, the contest couldn't follow the Shawn Michaels/Undertaker show-stealer, nor could it live up to even relative expectations.