9 Match Star Ratings For WWE WrestleMania 36 (Night Two)
2. The Fiend Vs. John Cena - Firefly Fun House Match
Forgive me for slipping into the first person again, but I got this completely wrong.
I got worked by the build to this match something fierce, and I could not care less. This was a phenomenal vehicle with which to tell a brave, authentic, and potentially transformative story.
This might be recency bias, but this might have been a masterpiece.
This echoed, brilliantly, the WrestleMania XXX original. There, Wyatt suggested that John Cena might be a monster and sought to summon it from him. Here, he proved that Cena was the monster all along, in their programme and beyond.
The image of Cena pummelling Huskus The Pig Boy was stark.
A devastatingly effective cut. That was the demeaning, quite awful John Cena character, distilled, in a visual image that captured its essence as much as the soaked blood of Chicago captured Steve Austin all those years ago. Funny, inspired, meta, nostalgic: this exceptional storytelling classic delivered the elusive John Cena turn with a mind-blowing and mind-bending sense of pathos and atonement. It probably won't hold, but that won't matter: this was magnificent.
Star Rating: This wasn't a pro wrestling match, but it was better than the pro wrestling match it was going to be, and better than countless pro wrestling matches in the history of what was, at this point, past tense, this sport.
If that's a rash prediction, and we return to normal, I hope this strangeness follows us.