Ups & Downs From John Cena's ENTIRE WWE Career
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🗓️ 10 December 2025
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The Last Time is (almost) Now! Relive John Cena's entire WWE career with Simon Miller...
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| 0:00.0 | So John Sina has retired, he is retiring, he's gone, he's out, he is no more. I mean, that sounds way too extreme, but it is sad. And it does actually make you feel sad in your tutsy toes. Very unfortunately, a lot of videos now, we do talk about John Sina. We will have to say this, but given that he is one of the best of all time, he's absolutely in the goat conversation, which is damn full, as far as I'm concerned. And I do have the finger of power. |
| 0:22.0 | It's right here. in the goat conversation, which is damn full, as far as I'm concerned. I do have the finger |
| 0:21.5 | of power. It's right here. Are you sure about that? And given that we do do ups and downs |
| 0:29.9 | for wrestling every single week, it seemed only right to go through the career of one John Cena, |
| 0:35.0 | give the good bits and up and give the bad bits of down. Let me make it |
| 0:37.7 | very clear. I mean, we're going to get into the nitty gritty. When you take the 20 plus years that he did do, of course he would get a super duper mega golden up. If you have just started wrestling training and you could even do a tenth of what that man did, well, you're going to have a pretty good time. So let's up those downs for John |
| 0:55.2 | Cesar's career. So let's start with the coolest thing that he actually did way back when in 2002. |
| 1:01.2 | He got over and became the biggest star of WWE, even though he was on the verge of being fired. |
| 1:07.4 | Now, we all remember his first match. We walked to the ring and he slapped a angle round the face and went real close aggression. But from there, and you can see it, |
| 1:15.0 | the archives of footage are all on the internet. I wouldn't say that he struggles to become a good |
| 1:19.8 | wrestler per se, but he does struggle to find himself in a WW world that was also trying to |
| 1:25.0 | rebrand because the attitude era died and it was like well who |
| 1:28.2 | was going to be the top star now? I mean it really isn't until 2003 a whole year later when he does |
| 1:32.7 | turn baby face and starts hanging out with a lot of people you would consider at the tippity |
| 1:36.6 | top that all of some of the fans like wait a minute I see something here then in March he becomes |
| 1:41.4 | the doctor of thuganomics and he just flies so damn high because of course |
| 1:46.3 | he had the gimmick, he had the character, he had the promo skills and you need to tick those boxes |
| 1:50.4 | when it comes to WWE. But that back end of 2002, you can just tell nobody knows what to do with |
| 1:57.0 | him. A lot of John Cena's character is just, well we're going to be in this town, we're going to be in this county, we're going to be in this state. So I'm going to wear specific colours, but it's another reason why he is an absolute genius, because he did keep that on and he made sure that became his whole merchandise game, which you do need as a top good guy, honestly. Even the bad bits, he turned into the good bits, and this is something that any wrestler on the planet is going to want to do, because you can't be on top of your game all of the time, eventually you are going to have some bad bits, but to turn it around or take what could be a down, and all of a sudden go, oh my gosh, it's the bigger up of all time, you have to give it and up. And everybody has spoken about this, even other people, |
| 2:35.0 | like, I don't think John Cena is going to make it. Well, he did make it and he totally smashed |
| 2:39.9 | the shit out of wrestling. For our first down as well, we'll go totally random, which you kind of need |
| 2:46.7 | to do with John Cena. He doesn't really have any sort of overpowering down. It's all something he did here or something he did there. But yeah, the WrestleMania 27 stuff with the Mizz, well, you can go watch it down. It's just a little bit weird. Now more power to the Miz for having this accolade. If anybody deserved it, it was that guy, because he's somebody else that's had a Hall of Fame career. But just go watch the build and go watch the match itself. Nobody actually buys in the way that you would want them to. And also, the Miz is number three in this relationship. We essentially use the Miz in order to set up the feud between John Cena and the Rock. So Sina is constantly mad at the Rock. The Rock is mad at John Sina? And how is the Miz able to retain his title at WrestleMania 27? I'll give you one guess, because you haven't seen it. That's right, it's because of Dwayne the Rock Johnson. The Miz also gets wrecked all of the time, even though he is able to walk away with the gold from the show of shows. And I would say it's probably around here when we did cement this term. Ha ha, lo, big match John. Because even when he lost, eventually he would go out there and win. I guess people got a little bit bored of just doing the same thing over and over again. Like you still needed John C. I want to make that very clear. He helped business when business was down. But it's just so strange. I mean, you can go watch it for yourself. |
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