Hey guys, it's Sam Roberts. Welcome to a special edition of the Not Sam Wrestling podcast.

You know, a lot of times on the podcast here and there where it makes sense, I love doing

deep dive breakdowns. I love breaking down a character or a character arc, a story, a period of

time. And with John Cena retiring from WWE, there might be nobody more appropriate to do kind

of a tribute, breakdown, story style podcast of John Cena.

But the fact is, one of the things that makes John Cena so unique.

And one of the reasons that we, I think, connect to him the way that we do and that we're so

emotionally tied to him is he's one of the very few superstars, especially top top guys

who the whole journey of their entire career is all the story of the one character.

It all follows one arc across WWTV.

And if you're watching WWTV, you got to see the beginning, middle, and end of it.

There is no way for me that I can tell that story inside of one podcast. So this is a multi-part

series called The Story of John Sina, and I welcome you to part two, part two of a special

series by Not Sam Wrestling, the story of John Sina. In episode one, we covered the debut, the rise, and the crowning of John Sina as

WWE champion.

Today we talk about what happened next.

Sina was established as Monday Night Raw and thus WWE's top superstar.

He had gone from goofy rapper character to serious, just keep fighting, working man's hero.

He had battled with most of the authority figures put in front of him, as well as some of the

best WWE superstars of all time, and he had come out on top. But after successfully defending the

WWE championship in an elimination chamber match at W.W.E's New Year's Revolution 2006,

Edge became the first superstar to cash in the money in the bank briefcase and the first superstar

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