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Post by Sumbody Gon' Get Dey Kneelift on Jan 27, 2007 4:06:11 GMT -5
Does anyone have a list, or can we at least compile a list in this thread, of all the times Cena has "overcome the odds?"
I'm curious, because my boyfriend pointed out to me that at this point Cena actually WOULD BE THE FAVORITE, and almost no matter who went up against him, if he/she/they won, THEY'D be the ones overcoming the odds.
So let's start; I'm talking handicap matches, unfair stipulations, being forced to fight injured, etcetera...And then I'll stick them in this here list:
[glow=blue,2,300]BAH GAWD KEENG:[/glow]
Stabbed by someone in his kidney in October '04 after losing the US Title to Carlito. Then he came back with a bad kidney to wrestle at Survivor Series '04 and win the US Title back 3 days after Survivor Series.
Defeated Orlando Jordan and The Bashams in a 3 vs. 1 handicap match.
Overcame "Wrestling Machine" Kurt Angle even when Angle had his own pet ref Daivari for his matches and the support of RAW GM Eric Bischoff.
Defeated HBK AND Kurt Angle in a triple threat despite going through an announce table AND having his ankle severely injured prior.
Chris Benoit & John Cena managed to defeat Rhyno & Matt Morgan & Big Show & Brock Lesnar!
John Cena defeated Nunzio & Johnny Stamboli in a "Great American Award Nomination" match
John Cena defeated Rene Dupree in a "Lumberjack" match (Booker T went out of his way to hurt John Cena)
John Cena defeated Booker T & Rene Dupree & Rob Van Dam in a 4-WAY to retain the US title!
John Cena defeated The Basham Brothers in a 2 on 1 handicap match
John Cena defeated Gene Snitsky with Lumberjacks hand-picked by Chris Jericho
John Cena defeated Carlito Cool with Chris Jericho as guest referee to retain the WWE title
John Cena defeated Chris Jericho & Carlito Cool w/Eric Bischoff in a Handicap match
John Cena defeated Kurt Angle & Tyson Tomko in a Handicap match after pinning Tomko
John Cena defeated Daivari w/Kurt Angle in a "You Can't See Me" match (Cena was blindfolded)
RAW (Triple H & John Cena) beat SD! (Kurt Angle & Rey Mysterio & Randy Orton) in a 3 on 2 handicap match.
John Cena (one hand tied behind his back) beat Lita in a "No Holds Barred" match with help from Edge.
Defeated Kurt Angle and Chris Masters in a Submissions Only Match, despite them both being submissions-specialty wrestlers.
Withstood the effects of the devastating Masterlock until Masters, out of frustration, let go, freeing Cena to abruptly lock Masters in a full-nelson of his own, which Masters promptly tapped out of.
Defeated the Undefeated Umaga.
Defeated the Undefeated Muhammed Hassan.
Come on, there must be more!
I seem to be convinced there are more recent examples...
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Post by Error on Jan 27, 2007 4:10:27 GMT -5
He was stabbed by someone in his kidney in October '04 after losing the US Title to Carlito. Then he came back with a bad kidney to wrestle at Survivor Series '04 and win the US Title back 3 days after Survivor Series.
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Post by Tyfo on Jan 27, 2007 4:13:22 GMT -5
Beat Orlando Jordan and the Bashams in a handicap match during his feud with JBL.
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Post by Sumbody Gon' Get Dey Kneelift on Jan 27, 2007 4:15:52 GMT -5
We're off to a good start!
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Post by Scarlet Moon on Jan 27, 2007 4:18:42 GMT -5
Overcame "Wrestling Machine" Kurt Angle even when Angle had his own pet ref Daivari for his matches and the support of RAW GM Eric Bischoff.
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Post by rrm15 on Jan 27, 2007 4:25:10 GMT -5
Beat Edge in Edges specialty TLC match in Edges hometown.
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Post by MGH on Jan 27, 2007 4:26:10 GMT -5
Defeated HBK AND Kurt Angle in a triple threat despite going through an announce table AND having his ankle severely injured prior.
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Post by skiller on Jan 27, 2007 4:27:46 GMT -5
Let me refer to Obsessed With Wrestling...
January 22, 2004 - Smackdown!: Chris Benoit & John Cena managed to defeat Rhyno & Matt Morgan & Big Show & Brock Lesnar!
April 1, 2004 - Smackdown!: John Cena defeated Nunzio & Johnny Stamboli in a "Great American Award Nomination" match..
May 27, 2004 - SD!: John Cena defeated Rene Dupree in a "Lumberjack" match (Booker T went out of his way to hurt John Cena)..
June 10, 2004 - Smackdown: John Cena was forced into a Triple Play Challenge by GM Kurt Angle to determine a US #1 Contender..
~~~John Cena went the full 5:00 with Booker T, and again with Rob Van Dam, and again with Rene Dupree..
June 27, 2004 - Great American Bash: John Cena defeated Booker T & Rene Dupree & Rob Van Dam in a 4-WAY to retain the US title!
October 11, 2004: WWE announced that John Cena was injured in a bar fight in Boston (Work, excuse to go film his movie)..
December 12, 2004 - Armageddon: John Cena defeated Jesus in a STREET FIGHT to retain the United States title..
May 19, 2005 - SD!: John Cena defeated The Basham Brothers with JBL standing at ringside screaming "Quit Cena! Say I Quit!"..
May 22, 2005 - Judgment Day: John Cena defeated John Layfield in a vicious, brutal, bloody "I Quit" match to retain the WWE title..
June 20, 2005 - RAW: John Cena defeated Muhammad Hassan in less than two minutes to retain the WWE championship! (Not overcoming the odds, but rediculous none the less)
June 26, 2005 - Vengeance: John Cena defeated Christian and Chris Jericho in a 3-WAY to retain the WWE title..
July 18, 2005 - RAW: John Cena defeated Gene Snitsky with Lumberjacks hand-picked by Chris Jericho..
August 1, 2005 - RAW: John Cena defeated Carlito Cool with Chris Jericho as guest referee to retain the WWE title..
~~~Chris Jericho refused to count the pinfall, so Cena knocked him out of the ring, and a second referee did the 1-2-3!
August 15, 2005 - RAW: John Cena defeated Chris Jericho & Carlito Cool w/Eric Bischoff in a Handicap match..
August 22, 2005 - RAW: John Cena defeated Chris Jericho in a "You're Fired" match resulting in Y2J being FIRED by Eric Bischoff!
September 12, 2005 - RAW: John Cena defeated Kurt Angle & Tyson Tomko in a Handicap match after pinning Tomko..
October 3, 2005 - WWE Homecoming: John Cena defeated Eric Bischoff to retain the WWE title despite interference from Kurt Angle!
November 1, 2005 - Taboo Tuesday: John Cena defeated Kurt Angle and Shawn Michaels to retain the WWE Championship!
November 27, 2005 - Survivor Series: John Cena defeated Kurt Angle to retain the WWE title after referee Daivari was knocked out!
~~~Two back-up RAW referees were knocked out too, and then a Smackdown! referee ran down to count the 1-2-3 for Cena!
November 28, 2005 - RAW: John Cena beat Kurt Angle and Chris Masters in a Submissions 3-WAY to retain the WWE title..
December 12, 2005 - RAW: John Cena defeated Daivari w/Kurt Angle in a "You Can't See Me" match (Cena was blindfolded)..
January 8, 2006 - New Year's Revolution: John Cena (Entry 2) outlasted five other men to win the Elimination Chamber to retain the WWE title!
January 30, 2006 - RAW: John Cena defeated Edge w/Lita by Disqualification to retain the WWE title with a confusing finish..
~~~Lita interfered in full view of the referee getting Edge DQ'd, but the replay revealed that Lita actually hit Edge with the belt..
February 6, 2006 - RAW: John Cena & Maria Kanellis beat Edge & Lita (Thus Cena chose Mick Foley to ref their match next week)..
March 6, 2006 - RAW: John Cena defeated The Big Show after an F-U despite distraction from Triple H and a sledgehammer
March 18, 2006 - Saturday Night's Main Event: RAW (Triple H & John Cena) beat SD! (Kurt Angle & Rey Mysterio & Randy Orton)..
April 2, 2006 - WrestleMania 22: John Cena defeated Triple H to retain the WWE Championship!
April 30, 2006 - Backlash: John Cena defeated Triple H and Edge w/Lita in a 3-WAY to retain the WWE championship..
May 1, 2006 - RAW: John Cena defeated Kenny Doane w/The Spirit Squad to retain the WWE Championship..
June 19, 2006 - RAW: John Cena defeated Balls Mahoney w/Paul Heyman by Submission in an Interpromotional match..
June 25, 2006 - Vengeance: John Cena defeated Sabu by Submission with STF-U in an Extreme Lumberjack match..
September 17, 2006 - Unforgiven: John Cena defeated Edge w/Lita in a TLC match to capture the WWE Championship!
September 25, 2006 - RAW: John Cena (one hand tied behind his back) beat Lita in a "No Holds Barred" match with help from Edge..
October 2, 2006 - RAW: John Cena defeated Edge w/Lita in a Steel Cage to retain the WWE title with help from Degeneration-X!
November 26, 2006 - Survivor Series: John Cena's Team defeated The Big Show's Team in a Survivor Series Elimination match..
December 4, 2006 - RAW: John Cena defeated Chris Masters (sort of) in a Masterlock Challenge to retain the WWE Championship!
January 7, 2007--New Year's Revolution: John Cena defeated Umaga w/Armando Alejandro Estrada to retain the WWE title..
...Phew, that's about the worst of it.
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Post by Sumbody Gon' Get Dey Kneelift on Feb 3, 2007 12:24:33 GMT -5
There are more recent examples. Didn't he take on four guys and win clean on a raw recently? The federline one, who'd he fight?
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Post by "American Cream" Dusty Loads on Feb 3, 2007 12:33:06 GMT -5
You forgot to mention that he won that SNME match after getting pedigreed by Triple H.
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Post by 'Sweet n' Sour' A. A. Estrada on Feb 3, 2007 12:38:43 GMT -5
Beat both Chris Masters and Kurt Angle in a Triple Threat SUBMISSION MATCH.
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Post by DrBackflipsHoffman on Feb 3, 2007 12:40:34 GMT -5
There was the time Cena was late taking a video back to Blockbuster and he defeated paying the fine by FU'ing the entire building.
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Post by 'Sweet n' Sour' A. A. Estrada on Feb 3, 2007 12:46:49 GMT -5
Cena was also in the Masterlock for three minutes without tapping, and then made Masters tap to his own Full Nelson in about two seconds.
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Post by DrBackflipsHoffman on Feb 3, 2007 12:52:32 GMT -5
These foreign pirates once tried to steal Cena's new Volkswagen Beetle, so Cena popped the worlds biggest boner and knocked the crap out of the Ninjas with it and then had sex with all their wives.
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Post by Sumbody Gon' Get Dey Kneelift on Feb 3, 2007 12:58:25 GMT -5
These foreign pirates once tried to steal Cena's new Volkswagen Beetle, so Cena popped the worlds biggest boner and knocked the crap out of the Ninjas with it and then had sex with all their wives. I don't get it. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2007 13:01:32 GMT -5
There are more recent examples. Didn't he take on four guys and win clean on a raw recently? The federline one, who'd he fight? He lost by DQ to Umaga, Johnny Nitro, Armando Estrada, and somebody else....after essentially squashing Nitro and Umaga in the match. |
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Post by heffer111 on Feb 3, 2007 13:03:12 GMT -5
These foreign pirates once tried to steal Cena's new Volkswagen Beetle, so Cena popped the worlds biggest boner and knocked the crap out of the Ninjas with it and then had sex with all their wives. I don't get it. It's because pirates are nazis |
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Post by Sumbody Gon' Get Dey Kneelift on Feb 3, 2007 13:25:56 GMT -5
It's because pirates are nazis NOW I get it! It's historical satire! Hey, if Cena FU'd his own giant boner, would it be called an FM? |
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Post by SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts on Feb 3, 2007 13:28:07 GMT -5
Rodimer should debut named Odds and challenge Cena.
"Can you over come me?"
Turns out he can.
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Post by CrazySting on Feb 3, 2007 14:04:20 GMT -5
What if he takes on Rocky Balboa? a guy who is famous for overcoming the odds and winning?
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