John Cena’s 10 Other Moves Of Doom

5. Springboard Stunner

This is the move where Cena waits for his opponent to get dizzy and dazed, then runs up the ropes and springboards off backwards, reaching his arms out and delivering a Stunner, or a Springboard Stunner as it’s known.

At WrestleMania 31, John Cena debuted the Springboard Stunner against Rusev to the surprise of many. Since then he’s used it in his matches with Stardust, Bad News Barrett and Sami Zayn.

During an interview, Cena spoke about adding the springboard stunner into his repertoire:

“I’ve been watching a young man for a long time named Steve Austin. It’s something similar (to the Stone Cold Stunner). And I knew I was going to have to bring something a little special for Rusev. Believe it or not, with all my in-ring experience, I actually took back to the canvas, and practiced a little bit, had some fun, and that’s what I came up with.”

This led fans to ask Stone Cold Steve Austin on his podcast how he felt about it. Austin had an issue with it, but not for the reasons you’d think:

"It was brought up to my attention in several e-mails that I got but I never discussed it. Here's the thing: people ask me 'Steve, hey man, what do you think about that?' First of all, it's obviously reminiscent of the Stone Cold Stunner but here's my biggest beef with it: it's such a dynamic move and it requires such precision and timing, because his foot could slip on that rope, guys are wearing baby oil, they're sweating, anything could happen, so that move is very precise. But when you hit that move, why don't you establish it and get a couple of three counts out of it? So then when Rusev kicks out of it, or whoever kicks out of it, if they do, it means something. So they could have had another ace up his sleeve had he actually beaten people with it. My point is had they looked further down the road than the short term he would have had a real valid great badass finish than just a setup which now means nothing."

It's hard to argue with that logic.