John Cena’s top five greatest rivals in WWE

John Cena is one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time who has been in WWE for more than two decades. The GOAT has a great history with WWE and has been involved in some of the important and monumental events of the company. Cena is the default face of the company throughout his run and has always been in a high-profile championship spotlight. 

He is a 16-time World Champion, 5-time United States Champion, 4-time Tag Team Champion, 2-time Royal Rumble winner, 1-time Money in the Bank winner and 10-time Slammy Award winner. As Cena had a great Legacy, who delivered him a tough fight? Here we take a look at five of John Cena’s biggest and greatest rivals in WWE.

5. The Rock

John Cena & The Rock had a rivalry for almost three years starting from 2011. Cena started the feud by questioning Rock’s commitment to WWE after leaving to pursue his acting career. Rock replied to an old comment stating that he paved ways for them to Hollywood, mocked them and eventually got announced as the Special Guest host of WrestleMania 27, where Cena & Miz were involved in the main event. They began a feud where Rock cost Cena’s WrestleMania match.

Both got mad at each other by triggering each other verbally and finally agreed to face each other at WrestleMania 28, where The Rock won. The match made a huge difference in WWE history by making it the highest grossing pay-per-view of the company.

The following year, Rock won the WWE Championship from CM Punk & John Cena won the Royal Rumble and both fought for the WWE title at WrestleMania 29, where Cena defeated Rock to end the feud. Although they developed a big rivalry, they only had a few matches.

4. Triple H

John Cena & Triple H had a long-term rivalry since 2006, with Triple H as heel and Cena as the face. They had multiple storylines involving Shawn Michaels, Randy Orton, McMahon family, Authority, over the World title and so on. Both were involved in a total of 24 matches in which Cena won 10. Their final match was in 2018 at the Greatest Royal Rumble.

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3. CM Punk

John Cena & CM Punk had one of the greatest rivalries for years from 2008 to 2013. Their rivalry was the talking point of the time, where pro-wrestling had witnessed pipe-bombs from The Second City Saint.

Both wrestled against each other in 29 matches, where Cena won only 12. During the feud, Punk used Cena’s popularity against him and made the people boo Cena for the very first time.

2. Edge

One of the biggest feuds was The Rated R Superstar Edge. They began their feud on the very first day of 2006, where Edge cashed in his Money in the Bank to win Cena’s WWE title. Both kick started a great rivalry since then and carried the feud until Edge’s first retirement.

Their feud is mainly based on the World title and the surrounding pursuits. They had a total of 52 matches of which Cena won 31, to prove that he is more dominant than Edge.

1. Randy Orton

Randy Orton is the biggest rival of John Cena and they carried their feud forever on the screen. They have been to WWE at the same time, however their first match was held in 2005 and they began their greatest rivalry from 2006.

Throughout their feud, Orton was a greater heel, and Cena was the bigger face. Their main feud was over the WWE Championship. Both have a total of 77 matches in WWE in which Cena won 48 matches, however Orton was dominant during the championship matches.

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