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.