The official John Cena Hit List

It's an interesting dynamic.

Cena has had the best in-ring year of his career, and it even dates back to 2014. His contributions, from a wrestling perspective, have been nothing short of extraordinary over the last 18-20 months or so.

It's also been his worst time period in terms of acting as a detriment to the future of the company. I don't blame him for that, of course, I blame WWE, but it's interesting nonetheless. I do think you're being a bit unfair with a lot of those names. Many of those guys were actually elevated by facing Cena just once in the US Open Challenge (Sami Zayn, for example.) And some of them have/had nothing going for them anyway. There are four names that stand out, though, and it's not good.

Bray Wyatt
Rusev
Kevin Owens
Seth Rollins

Have all had their trajectories severely impacted negatively by working long-term programs with John Cena. In some cases, it was all out burial. In others, it's a calculated effort to define down these competitors to remind us all that they are secondary to John Cena. In the latter three's case, they all got victories over Cena in the early stages of the feud, only to lose to Cena so many times in the aftermath that we forget the original win ever happened.

I know Cena has political pull. We know that he's influenced decisions negatively before (he single handedly ended Wade Barrett's career, for all intents and purposes), but I have a hard time believing this is all on him. He's a company guy, and he's doing what he's told by the almighty Vince McMahon, and, well, we all know how things are going with him at the helm.

Cena is wicked awesome in my opinion. I like him a lot. He's good on the stick and has sick moves. Plus he's jacked and looks like an action figure. And he wins all of the time.

Don't even get me started on Rollins. Guy is booked as a face coward, yet he managed to really give it to Cena at SummerSlam. If he was the architect who always found a way out, that's fair. He's just a loser who will probably drop the title to a 48 year old who's character hasn't been interesting since he buried the Undertaker for WM 20.


But yeah, OP, Cena hasn't buried anyone. A loss doesn't = a burial. I think Rusev was severely hurt after their feud that was way too long, Owens seems to be doing fine with the Intercontinental Championship. Dolph's match on Raw was brilliant and made Ziggler look brilliant. He took Cena to his absolute limit. That is far from a burial. The open challenge is pretty good, Cena puts on some great matches with all the mid carders featured and I'm silently hoping Reigns walks away with the title before Cena takes his time off.

Career Records against John Cena:

Dolph Ziggler: 3-18
Cesaro: 1-13
Bray Wyatt: 3-14
Seth Rollins: 6-25

These are four up and coming "stars" and look at that. If those stats aren't the definition of squash then I don't know what is.

Recently john cena has been putting on some of the best matches of his career

Normally I would agree with you that taking Cena to the limit is a good thing. But I don't think it is anymore. Cena is ALWAYS taken to the limit but wins his matches anyways. Eventually somebody has to actually beat him. And the only reason he is being taken that far is because the WWE is determined to make him "Big Match John". 15x champion means nothing to me, it is one of the most tainted eras in wrestling history because Cena is the first wrestler to ever be the face of the company while getting booed the entire time. it's not like the fans wanted him to be a 15x champion. The company just told us to deal with it. Every wrestler eventually gives back to the rest of the roster. Nobody has ever "won" a feud with John Cena,.and it hold people down. Wouldn't you want several top threats who could win any given night? instead of knowing Cena is never going to lose cleanly? it takes all of the suspense out of the matches. I can't fully get into the Ziggler and Cena match be a use I already know the outcome.

Cena's out there having great matches and getting underutilized stars great exposure. Whatever happens after that final bell rings is on WWE's hands. Cena cant say he didn't do his part.

I bet you're fun at parties.

That's pretty awful. And they say just working with him at all is supposed to elevate these guys lol