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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2013 23:28:10 GMT -5
With all the talk of the WWE having John Cena vs. The Rock 2 with this being Cena's crowing moment and win for last year's result, it got me thinking, hasn't Cena already HAD his Wrestlemania babyface win moment?
With that said, which match was his Wrestlemania moment?
1 mid card title and 5 world titles, I don't think he really needs another "moment" WWE.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2013 23:31:39 GMT -5
His biggest win to date, in my opinion, was over HBK at WrestleMania 23 but to answer the question honestly, it was over Batista at WrestleMania 26.
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Post by Mayonnaise on Jan 3, 2013 23:39:10 GMT -5
Triple H at 22 because no one gave him a chance in hell to topple the almighty H.
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Post by BorneAgain on Jan 3, 2013 23:43:25 GMT -5
I'm tempted to go with the Batista win for having the best build and a decent payoff. The JBL match was underwhelming, the lead up to the HHH match was him saying Cena sucked with John agreeing but still saying he'd win, the triple threat program was eye rolling and hardly worth a World title build. The HBK feud was pretty good, even if it didn't kick into high gear until Shawn superkicked him a week before the PPV.
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Post by YiHammer on Jan 3, 2013 23:45:45 GMT -5
Wait until April when he beats the Rocj
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Post by Spearmint* on Jan 3, 2013 23:51:29 GMT -5
v,s HHH without a doubt. Cena was already established a star by the time he beat Batista at WM,26. And even if he wasn't that match was suffered by the fact it had happened earlier at Summerslam and the fact it was under HBK's last ever match.
The HHH victory was huge as it really proved the WWE machine had everything behind Cena. To submit HHH clean in the main event at Wrestlemania really is a huge statement of intent.
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Post by froggyfrog on Jan 3, 2013 23:58:30 GMT -5
I think of him celebrating with the crowd after he beat JBL so that
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Post by 543Y2J on Jan 4, 2013 9:35:33 GMT -5
vs HHH. I love that match, probably more than i do the Cena vs HBK match and I more of a fan of HBK than I am of HHH. Him going in as an underdog (for once), the Chicago crowd and their love for HHH and the faces of absolute shock that the fans had once Cena won made it (plus its a great technical/brawling/false finisher match as well).
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Post by Starshine on Jan 4, 2013 9:38:29 GMT -5
When he beat Edge at Mania 22.
Oh right, that didn't happen. [/sour grapes, still]
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Post by Wolf Hurricane on Jan 4, 2013 12:49:54 GMT -5
When he beat Edge at Mania 22. Oh right, that didn't happen. [/sour grapes, still] Hell, WrestleMania 25, for that matter. Why they made it some Vickie/Edge/Show love triangle thing is beyond me, when they could've built a much bigger match by having it pegged as pretty much the end of the Edge/Cena rivalry three years in the making. I was always kinda miffed that we wouldn't get that build (and the bomb promos that went with it) until the second-tier PPV after WrestleMania.
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Post by zeez on Jan 4, 2013 12:59:29 GMT -5
The win over JBL. It's what first brought him to the mountaintop.
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Post by modestgenius on Jan 4, 2013 13:02:31 GMT -5
As much as HHH wants to be the guy who 'made' the face of the company, sorry, but JBL did it a year earlier - not our fault you put your eggs in the Batista basket
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Post by Arrow on Jan 4, 2013 13:06:41 GMT -5
I'd say Triple H, just because of the whole "brawler vs. wrestler" story of the match was the best out of all of these.
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Post by fw91 on Jan 4, 2013 13:13:42 GMT -5
I'm tempted to go with the Batista win for having the best build and a decent payoff. The JBL match was underwhelming, the lead up to the HHH match was him saying Cena sucked with John agreeing but still saying he'd win, the triple threat program was eye rolling and hardly worth a World title build. The HBK feud was pretty good, even if it didn't kick into high gear until Shawn superkicked him a week before the PPV. the thing with the batista match is that it should have happened years prior. at the time it happened, we already saw that match and both were stars for so long that their star power especially batista's was begining to fade and it wasn't all that special imo. they should have never had that summserslam match and wait till a mania.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Jan 4, 2013 14:29:24 GMT -5
They all honestly blur together for me.
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Post by SEAN CARLESS on Jan 4, 2013 16:57:57 GMT -5
The Big Show one was the only one where he was universally loved. It's kind of hard to isolate a big babyface WrestleMania win, when you've been the heel at the last 8.
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Post by Gerard Gerard on Jan 4, 2013 17:14:19 GMT -5
The Big Show one was the only one where he was universally loved. It's kind of hard to isolate a big babyface WrestleMania win, when you've been the heel at the last 8. I'd argue his first title win had a ton of momentum, and fan support, with dissenters being in the vast minority. Mind you, I don't think it did anyone any favours that his 'big' win was in a match that had to be abbreviated due to Angle/HBK going long, ( they weren't shaving anything off HHH/Batista) and as a result, the match plays out like a mediocre TV main-event. If WM21 had a match similar to what JBL/Cena did a few months later at Judgement Day with their 'I Quit', I imagine the moment of Cena winning his first big one would've actually had some legacy to it, instead of the seemingly inconsequential blur it's become in hindsight, and him not actually being made 'the man' 'til Wrestlemania 22, which pretty much makes WM21 little more than a statement of intent, or, well, an 'I.O.U 1 Proper Main-Event Push.'
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Jan 4, 2013 17:18:32 GMT -5
When he beat Edge at Mania 22. Oh right, that didn't happen. [/sour grapes, still] Hell, WrestleMania 25, for that matter. Why they made it some Vickie/Edge/Show love triangle thing is beyond me, when they could've built a much bigger match by having it pegged as pretty much the end of the Edge/Cena rivalry three years in the making. I was always kinda miffed that we wouldn't get that build (and the bomb promos that went with it) until the second-tier PPV after WrestleMania. Cena was basically just the token face of a heel/heel program. I think Cena got kind of a raw deal with that feud. People call Cena the status quo, but Edge as World Heavyweight Champion was pretty much the status quo of the SD brand. Edge ended up winning the title back, and hardly anyone even remembers that Cena ever held the Big Gold Belt.
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Post by MichaelMartini on Jan 4, 2013 18:15:57 GMT -5
I'd say it was vs HBK. Big Show has a terrible mania record so that's no big deal, the JBL match was average at best, Benoit had already beat HHH, but the HBK match was the first time Cena put on a 4 star match and his wrestling ability was the main thing people had against him at the time.
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Post by Celgress on Jan 4, 2013 21:06:22 GMT -5
Wrestlemania 22 vs. HHH, imho
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