At #wwe Money in the #bank #2024, #johncena delivered the news that he will retire from #wrestling in 2025. The announcement means that we have no more than 18 months left of the 16-time world champion’s career, and, as such, attention will rightly turn to what fans still want to see from him before he hangs up his boots. However, his impending retirement has allowed many to reflect on what his legendary career has brought us so far.
He may still have some fresh match-ups left in him, but, since 2002, #John Cena has mixed it up with some of the very best to ever do it, building up an incredible list of top opponents in the process. So, from his meteoric rise to becoming an industry veteran, let #GIVEMESPORT take you down memory lane as we rank John Cena’s eight best #wwe rivals.
Starting with a classic battle of good vs evil, John Cena spent the first half of 2014 locked in a psychological battle with The Eater of Worlds. For fans, Bray Wyatt was the shot in the arm that the #wwe roster needed, and many gravitated towards him as a future star following the departure of CM Punk and the injury to Daniel Bryan. Although, in typical fashion, Cena didn’t let the darkness win the day.
Many are still of the opinion that John #Cena’s constant victories over Wyatt were unneeded and ultimately damaged the mystique of his character in the long run, but the segments involving the two created truly captivating television. Plus, after initially being obsessed with the deconstruction of Cena, the Firefly #funhouse match the two shared in 2020 will go down in history as one of the most genius ideas in wrestling history, as Bray finally stood tall over a defeated Cena, making an impression on fans that they won’t soon forget.
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