At time of writing, the above video of yet another spectacular John Cena entrance has been viewed over 55 and half million times, and it's probably safe to assume that the only a small percentage of those clicks came from the friends and families of the extras the decked themselves out like 'The Champ' on the 'Grandest Stage'.
It was beautiful in it's sheer absurdity.
WWE had made themselves an avatar so user-friendly that they decided to show and tell their biggest audience of the year all about it. The men that lined the ramp for the real Cena to run through sported his exact look just like millions of fans worldwide and the man himself. For all the match couldn't remotely deliver anything on par with what the crowd had already seen, the entrance remains one of the most brilliantly-curated flexes in company history.
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