5 Most Insane Things Happening In Wrestling Right Now (March 30)
4. Hollywood-Bound John Cena Cannot Act
John Cena earned praise for the promo he cut on The Undertaker a few weeks back. Though his motivation made little sense - was 'Taker really an egomaniac for daring to enjoy retirement after a ridiculously punishing career? - he did create a massive sense of anticipation around their WrestleMania 34 match. On this week's RAW, his work was proper am-dram stuff for a man supposedly set to light up the Hollywood box office. The programme, if one can label it that, deteriorated in quality on Monday's RAW.
This tends to happen when Kane gets involved, but on the night, it was Cena who generated more memes than heat with a couple of ridiculous facial expressions following his defeat of the Big Red Machine. This is the guy Hollywood is courting as the next Rock? Cena's range was like a butcher's shop fresh out of lamb and beef.
Hysterically screaming "Unnnderrrtakerrr!", Tommy Wiseau would have left that take on the cutting room floor. As the show drew to a close, Cena dissed Undertaker's throat-slit gesture on the ramp looking like an absolute f*cking pillock, or like that veiny kid in that meme. Maybe that's what Cena was going for:
When you challenge The Undertaker for a match at WrestleMania, but he doesn't respond.