John Cena’s 11 WWE SummerSlam Matches From Worst To Best
There are A LOT of Five Knuckle Shuffles in these matches.
The current United States Champion, John Cena, is headed into SummerSlam 2015 with the WWE World Heavyweight Champion in his sights. He's had a stellar year of memorable matches with a variety of talent. He even controversially made Seth Rollins tap out recently, after suffering a broken nose. The man keeps giving us something to talk about and SummerSlam should be no different.
Looking back at the previous eleven years, Cena has had a match on the biggest party of the summer's card and he more often than not delivers. The bottom two bouts on this list are the only truly weak matches; the rest are all enjoyable affairs. Only two of these bouts were not one-on-one matches but Cena played a significant enough role in those to allow them on this list.
One interesting stat in reviewing Cena's SummerSlam performances is his win-loss record. He's 4-7, with 6 of those losses occurring in the last 7 years. That sounds like he's due for a win, so Rollins might want to watch his back.
This article was prepared by simply loading up each bout on the WWE Network and binging through them all. I'm personally a little AA'd out by this point, but I do offer you this countdown of Cena's SummerSlam matches ranked from worst to best...
11. 2004 Vs. Booker T
The first (and worst) match on this list was from John Cena's first SummerSlam appearance in 2004. John Cena was stripped of his United States Championship by former Smackdown GM Kurt Angle. The new GM, Teddy Long, set up a Best of 5 Series between him and current U.S. Champion Booker T.
This was their first match in the series.
It wasn't a terrible encounter, by any means, but the two didn't really have a chance to get things going. The match clocked in at just under six and a half minutes and ended when Cena hit a surprise AA (then called an FU) after Booker T was showboating with his patented Spinaroonie.
The final match in this series would come a few months later at No Mercy 2004. John Cena won that match and the series to regain his U.S. Championship.