John Cena/Awesome: Difference between revisions

* His match with [[CM Punk]] at Money in the Bank. While mostly the definitive Crowning Moment of Awesome for Punk (which covers a lot of ground), credit must be given to [[John Cena|Cena]] for delivering a stellar performance for ''over half an hour''.

** To elaborate, respected wrestling critic Dave Meltzer rated this match [[Serial Escalation|5 Stars, the first match to get this rating since 2006 and the first WWE match to get this rating since 1997]]<ref> For those of you out there, the match that got that five stars was Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels in the first ever Hell in a Cell match (which was also, surprisingly, Kane's debut in the WWF)</ref>

** To further elaborate: The match was a brutal one and it showed on both Cena and JBL, but arguably, Cena prolly got the worst of it, as his head was completely covered in blood. However, by the end of the match, Cena took the win by playing into JBL's cowardice and getting him to say "I Quit" by threatening to kick his ass with an exhaust pipe. But after JBL said "I quit", Cena kicked his ass with the pipe.

* People remember that Punk during his feud with Cena gave some of the best promos possible but how can we forget some of Cena's impressive mic work on a particular night. On the 8/8/11 Raw, after Punk states that he will walk out WWE Champion and Cena will still have his legion of fans and Wrestlemania match, Cena can only grin and offer Punk some advice.

 

* His first Wrestlemania with a win over the Big Show showed an early example of Cena's ability as a WWE Superstar.

* On the July 19, 2011 edition of RAW, [[Vince McMahon]] calls Cena to the ring to fire him. Cena doesn't let Vince get a word in edge wise, telling Vince to save his tirade for when he's finished. He then proceeds to lay into Vince with a picture perfect [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]], calling Vince out for trying to recreate the [[Montreal Screwjob]] and for the black mark said screwjob had left on [[Shawn Michaels]] career as a result. He goes on to tell Vince that he'd rather be fired than have the same happen to him. Even better, despite the fact Vince banned the saying of [[CM Punk]]'s name due to his rage, Cena practically spits in Vince's face by thanking him for the great match ''directly in front of Vince!'' For the first time in a ''long'' time, the crowd was firmly behind Cena ''without one boo directed his way the entire promo!''

* On the August 8, 2011 edition of RAW, he and [[CM Punk]] have a face off. Punk airs a video of the Rock bashing Cena over his [[Broken Base]], then proceeds to do the same thing himself. Cena turns it around in a way that's completely incharacter for him by pointing out the fact he ''likes'' being a [[Base Breaker]] who can get that kind of reaction out of people because he enjoys seeing people really get into his matches. He then goes on by ''thanking'' Punk for his "you've become the New York Yankee's" insult after giving it some thought a couple of weeks back, he realized he was right, but in a way that Punk hadn't thought of, that he and the Yankees share their ability to get the crowd to be extremely vocal and involved. This got a ''huge'' pop from the crowd as well.

* After weeks of psychological attacks, physical beatdowns, and having to witness his friend [[Zack Ryder]] get destroyed by [[Kane (wrestling)|Kane]], Cena finally got a measure of retribution on the Big Red Monster during the 1/30/12 edition of [[WWE Raw]], delivering a satisfying [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]], causing Kane to go into retreat for the first time since he made his return in December 2011. The only question that remains is whether or not Cena will actually give into hatred just like Kane wants him to.

* '''2/20/12 Raw''': Eve Torres explains to The Bella Twins--in the opening segment of RAW--how she's gonna use [[John Cena]] the same way she used [[Zack Ryder]]. This [[Even Evil Has Standards|even unnerves the Bellas]], and just as she plans on putting her scheme into motion, she turns around...and Cena is right there, having heard the entire thing. Cue Cena going out to the ring, and taking Eve to task for her atrocious behavior, telling her "I lost a Broski to a Hoeski!", and driving her to an utter [[Villainous Breakdown]] while the crowd, firmly behind the [[Woman Scorned|Man Scorned]] Ryder, boo her into oblivion. And then she tries to throw herself at Cena:

* The night before, Cena fought Kane in an Ambulance Match during the ''Elimination Chamber'' pay-per-view, and decisively defeated the monster, more than likely rising above the hate, rather than embrace it, as Kane has constantly been preaching to Cena during the feud.

* What we didn't know at the time was Cena's promo with Eve was his warm-up, because later that night he delivered a promo that many consider the best of his career or at least the best promo of 2012 to date. With his Wrestlemania opponent [[Dwayne Johnson|The Rock]] in his crosshairs, Cena came out to his usual mixed reaction and chants of "ROCKY! ROCKY! ROCKY!" when he brought up that the Rock would be live on RAW next week to talk to him. Cena immediately went on the offensive, claiming that at one point, he was a Rock fan too, until the Rock transformed into "Dwayne Johnson" and made it all about his movie career. Cena reminded the fans that just like when the Rock returned to announce he was hosting Wrestlemania 27 and said he was "Never going away again" and left, that that was exactly what was going to happen after Cena/Rock at Wrestlemania 28, because originally "he had only come back to promote Fast Five and launch his twitter account." Reminding the crowd that he was here to stay, Cena delivered perhaps the most shocking moment to smarks everywhere when he said he was looking forward to this match for the dream of every person in the back who had a dream of making a career being not a "WWE Superstar" as the talent is expected to call themselves, but a '''PROFESSIONAL WRESTLER''', then concluded with a guarantee that the headline will read John Cena defeats the Rock in his hometown at Wrestlemania 28. He then said "I'll see you next week, movie star." into the camera, and walked out of the ring. And then Smark Wrestling marks everywhere looked at each other and said "Wait...I think I might like John Cena..."