Still, we can wait on that whole thing, because in the meantime, we have AJ GD Styles facing off against John F»n Cena and if
Cena wins, you could easily envision it being the best WWE title win he's ever had.
If
Cena wins, that's a record 17th WWE Championship win.
Let's find it in our hearts to forgive him and, maybe not even post any «LOL
Cena wins» memes when he wins this Sunday.
Cena didn't actually defeat an entire stable by himself — he picked up a few eliminations, as did his teammates — but he survived a DDT to the concrete and a 2 - on - 1 at the end, in the midst of LOL
Cena Wins fervor, so it sure felt like he did it by himself.
Or, more accurately, if
Cena wins this match, Rollins would be taken down ALL the pegs.
AJ Styles is WWE Champion and everyone wants to see him face Shinsuke Nakamura at WrestleMania 34, so SmackDown is teasing us with five different outcomes to increase our nervousness: maybe John
Cena wins his record 17th WWE Championship, and has the space on the WrestleMania card he so desperately wants.
Not exact matches
Celebrity chefs slated to headline events throughout the week: Rick Moonen of rm Seafood and Rx Boiler Room; Rick Bayless of Frontera Grill; Michelle Bernstein of
Cena by Michy; Marcus Samuelsson of Red Rooster Harlem, Ginny's Supper Club, and Streetbird Rotisserie; Cosmo Goss of The Publican Restaurant; Erling Wu - Bower of Nico Osteria; Suzette Gresham of Acquerello; Gale Gand, acclaimed pastry chef; television personalities, Dan Smith and Steve McDonagh, the Hearty Boys; Stephanie Prida of Manresa; Renee Erickson of The Whale
Wins, Boat Street Café, The Walrus and the Carpenter, and Barnacle; Steve Santana of Taquiza; Justin Woodward of Castagna; Dean James Max of DJM Restaurants, and Chef Jason French of Ned Ludd.
because they are just expecting Roman or
Cena to
win at this point.
The winner is still somehow not obvious despite there being just four men left: all four have a reasonable story line claim to
winning the Rumble:
Cena to face Styles again, this time at Mania, Reigns to face off against Lesnar to wrap their long - term story, Nakamura to take on his old rival Styles, and Finn, the first Universal Champion ever who lost it due to injury, getting a shot at Lesnar, the current Universal champ.
Now, though,
Cena finally has a WWE World Championship
win that is a legitimate match of the year candidate, and that's not just because it happened in January: this thing is going to hold up throughout 2017.
when you would compare that to how Corbin started 2017 (eliminated Strongman in the Rumble,
winning MitB), i can see why more people were concerned that they didn't put him over
Cena since their feud was rather pointless and lose / lose for Corbin.
Roman was hot after TLC 2015 because he had an incredible match against a hated heel, and when he snapped after getting screwed out of the
win and was beating on the Authority aligned guys it was perceived as a turning point in his character away from the
Cena 2.0 stuff.
After some soul - searching, Stewart hit
Cena with the chair and left it in the ring for Rollins, who hit a Pedigree on the chair to get the pinfall victory and become a double champion,
winning Cena's U.S. title.
While the mention of Taker was there earlier (before
Cena failing to
win either main title), why go back to it?
Bryan
won, which helped usher in this new era of WWE where indie wrestlers are treated as equals to the more establishment-esque WWE performers, and
Cena stayed out of the title scene until injuries forced him back into it.
Rollins would
win (with some help from Ric Flair fan and SummerSlam host, Jon Stewart), and while he'd eventually lose the United States Championship back to
Cena, it was still a significant moment with
Cena putting over an up - and - coming star at a major event.
Why you should care:
Cena hasn't
won a SummerSlam match since 2010, and it feels like this is going to be the one that ends that drought.
With that being said, though, Corbin could use a
win after his embarrassing defeat and loss of the Money in the Bank briefcase, so maybe we'll see his anger at his own failure show up in this match and drive him to victory over a possibly overconfident
Cena.
As much as I loved Bray pinning both Styles and
Cena in the Chamber, I wanted him to
win that Rumble as Randy certainly didn't need that or the title
win at Mania.
Also this match will end up setting up the fate of the WWE Championship for SummerSlam, since a Jinder victory could mean John
Cena is coming for the heel wit the title, and an Orton
win could send Baron Corbin down to the ring to cash in on an exhausted face as soon as Sunday.
John
Cena is the guy who
wins things!
Maybe the long game is
Cena getting his
win back at 35, maybe this was Vince's way of bringing Taker back with a bang.
Until losing it to
Cena (for his 17th title reign) just in time for Roman to
win it back in the Main Event of Wrestlemania
Cena nearly
wins the WWE Championship, too, but Ziggler stops it from happening, then avoids having stairs thrown at him.
In the meantime,
Cena returned from injury and challenged Orton, with the idea being that once
Cena rightfully
won, he would give Bryan the chance that the Authority would not.
The former world champ (and current reigning AAA Mega Champion) picked up a massive first
win back when he answered
Cena's U.S. Open Challenge and got the pinfall after a big kick to the head... the same move that
won him his first WWE world title.
Cena is taking a couple months off and if anyone was going to pick up a surprise
win over him for the title, Del Rio is pretty much a perfect choice.
Both fought with John
Cena for the United States Championship while preventing each other from
winning the title off
Cena.
-- then you also assumed
Cena was going to
win the Rumble to earn his shot against the Rock.
Alberto Del Rio recently returned to the company,
won the United States Championship from John
Cena (who is currently taking time off) and is working a fairly confusing gimmick where he and manager Zeb Colter are touting an imaginary country called «MexAmerica» and calling fans «haters.»
Ambrose is a low - probability candidate, but if his archenemy Seth Rollins ends up
winning the WWE championship on Sunday in the triple threat match against John
Cena and Brock Lesnar, it sets up a perfect rekindling of their interrupted feud.
He is going to stomp and German suplex and toss fools around the ring for 20 minutes and no matter who
wins (probably
Cena), we must hold onto these moments when a legit, terrifying Frankenstein's monster of wrestling is honoring us with a world title defense.
John
Cena hadn't
won a match at SummerSlam since 2010 when he ground The Nexus into a fine paste that had no practical use.
John
Cena is, of course, John
Cena, whom you have seen on The Today Show and in movies and hosting the ESPYs and also those 15 times he
won the WWE Championship in the past.
I'll buy a Goku and John
Cena amiibo when they are released (since they
won the ballot).
Another
win over
Cena could do him well.