Every WWE Gimmick Match And The Wrestlers That Defined Them
4. Last Man Standing Match - John Cena
The Last Man Standing Match produced the very best version of John Cena and his cartoonish Never Give Up character.
The obstacles placed before him on television were often unimaginative and half-arsed, not that he sold them, rendering too many of his programmes a bore - but the physical, combustible obstacles placed before him in his signature match made for awesome, destructive spectacles that made super-enjoyable and coherent his rote comeback formula.
Oddly, since that formula worked so well, many of Cena's best Last Man Standing wars were distinguishable in their creativity. He battled Alberto Del Rio in the different and pretty cool context of a broken ring at Vengeance 2011, but didn't rely on cute continuity elsewhere; his matches with Bray Wyatt and Umaga in particular were so thudding and well-performed that they made admirers of even his staunchest detractors.