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00:00Hustle
00:02Loyalty
00:04And respect
00:06John Cena
00:08Some call him a doctor
00:12A doctor of
00:14Thuganomics
00:16Others call him the champ
00:18The champ is here
00:20But one thing is for certain
00:22Everyone calls him
00:24The GOAT
00:26John Cena
00:28And today we celebrate the legendary career
00:32Of a true icon
00:34I did not quit
00:36The time is down
00:38For WWE's
00:40Greatest Moments
00:42You want some?
00:44Come get some
00:50A notch
00:52No call to the bear man
00:54This is surreal
00:56Look at that
00:58Welcome everyone to WWE's Greatest Moments
01:08I'm Michael Cole
01:10And today we can see
01:12The greatest moments from a superstar
01:14Who is truly generational
01:16The one and only
01:18John Cena
01:20World medalist Kurt Angle
01:22Stood inside the squared circle on SmackDown
01:24Issuing an open challenge
01:26To anyone in the back
01:28Who thought they could take him down
01:30Is there somebody back there
01:32That wants to seize the moment?
01:36There are a lot of young guys back there
01:38Future superstars
01:40That want to climb that ladder to success
01:42Well now's your chance
01:44Who's this? Someone's coming out
01:46Who in the hell are you?
01:48I'm John Cena
01:50I'm John Cena
01:52What is the one quality that you possess
01:54That makes you think
01:56That you can walk out here
01:58And come into the ring
02:00And face the very best in the business
02:02Someone had to wrestle Kurt Angle
02:04And they had nobody else
02:06Ruthless aggression
02:08Oh
02:10Holy
02:12Oh
02:13Is Cena kicking
02:14Angle down?
02:15And I said
02:16Just give me a chance
02:17And I won't let you down
02:20Angle slam
02:21Look at this
02:22Wait for the angle slam
02:23Cena counter
02:24Kick to the middle
02:25Oh
02:26I knew right away
02:27That John's gonna be something special
02:29Mr. McMahon told these young superstars
02:31To seize the opportunity
02:33And this is what Cena is trying to do
02:35Tonight against Dave
02:36It was high action
02:37It was non-stop
02:38And John
02:39Roast the occasion
02:41Double chicken
02:42And Linus
02:43Kurt
02:44Shoulders are pinned
02:45And Kurt Angle
02:46Gets pinned
02:47John Cena
02:48If you can hang with Kurt
02:49You can pretty much hang with anybody
02:50He was new to the business
02:52What's your name kid?
02:53John Cena
02:54But you show the man the respect
02:58That he has earned
03:01Nice job
03:06And while John Cena proved he was no slouch in the ring
03:09He struggled to find that one extra element
03:11To connect him with the fans
03:14That is until SmackDown held a Halloween costume party
03:18And a new side of John Cena was born
03:23Welcome to the SmackDown Halloween party
03:26I wasn't stressed to be like
03:29Gotta be perfect
03:30I was more stressed
03:32In the fact that I didn't know who I was
03:35John had a hard time finding himself
03:37He was boring
03:38He was bland
03:39He was vanilla
03:40He needed something else
03:42To take him to the next step
03:44Back here
03:45Fast
03:46I gotta go
03:47It's been a blast
03:48Came out the locker room
03:49Stole Rey Mysterio's mask
03:50Tried to get Taker's cast
03:51But it was plastered on too tight
03:52Beast
03:53I gotta go
03:54About the Hawaiian spike
03:57Now when you see
03:59This white guy
04:00Out here
04:01Dressed up like Vanilla Ice
04:02Oh, okay
04:03But he actually starts rhyming
04:04And going on
04:05Like for real
04:06It really turned heads
04:08The old man's got a plan
04:10And he's chilling in the building
04:11And I tell you I'm like light beer
04:12I taste great
04:13And I'm the last feeling
04:16And I went all in from that
04:18One second
04:19I went all in
04:21That, in my opinion
04:22Is what jumpstarted
04:23John Cena's career
04:24Many, many ways
04:26I'm gonna make my impression
04:27Show Vinnie Mac
04:28That I got ruthless aggression
04:30You know, as a fan
04:31Like, remember
04:32I'm watching at home
04:33That's where the first time
04:34I looked at it went
04:35Ooh
04:36This guy
04:37This guy has something
04:38This is more than a match
04:40It's a total of success
04:41It's a total obsession
04:42I'll be watching
04:43Everything you do
04:4424-7
04:45He had never tried to hide
04:46The fact that he was
04:47A fan of hip hop
04:48And so
04:49Just incorporating
04:50This aspect of his personality
04:51Into his persona
04:52People didn't want to stop
04:53Talking about it
04:54John Cena
04:55The doctor of thuganomics
04:58The John Cena doctor of thuganomics persona
05:01Gave me the ability to be myself
05:03The brash new attitude of Cena was something we had never seen before
05:11The city ringside for all of this
05:13You never knew what you'd get from the chain gang soldier on a weekly basis
05:17All your parents hate me cause I got a dirty mouth
05:22But we're still kicking ass up in the dirty south
05:28As John Cena climbed the ranks in WWE
05:31Smackdown was ruled over by the WWE Champion
05:34John Bradshaw Layfield
05:36The cocky Texan was on an impressive nine month reign that seemingly had no end in sight
05:41But when John Cena became the number one contender
05:44Things looked to be in serious jeopardy
05:48Lights, camera, action
05:50WrestleMania goes Hollywood
05:52Is the time now for John Cena
05:54Or will JBL's historic reign continue?
05:58You're in the Staples Center
06:00And to be in a championship match at WrestleMania
06:02It's grandiose
06:03JBL versus John Cena
06:05WWE Championship on the line
06:07I'm wrestling Bradshaw
06:09And Bradshaw has a great way of getting his point across
06:12Oh!
06:13What a close line by the brawler
06:15JBL
06:17I think he was the perfect foil at the time for JBL
06:20John Cena can make anything work
06:22He's one of the most talented and possibly the smartest guy that I've ever been in the ring with
06:30He got him!
06:31He got him!
06:32He got him!
06:33He got him!
06:34The cover!
06:35One!
06:36Two!
06:37Three!
06:38Here is your winner
06:40And the new WWE Champion
06:45John Cena!
06:50WrestleMania 21
06:51I had a blast
06:52It was awesome
06:53Jumping in the crowd was really cool
06:55And now he's gonna celebrate
06:57We got a new WWE Champion!
06:59WrestleMania 21
07:00I just thought John was gonna be the guy
07:02The flag bearer for WWE for a long time
07:04And I don't think there was any doubt about it at that point
07:07The time is indeed now
07:11For the new WWE Champion
07:14John Cena!
07:16Still to come
07:18Camp is here!
07:19He ain't the guy
07:20Dude, you're just a guy
07:23There was no stopping the momentum of John Cena after he became the WWE Champion
07:28John Cena say you can't see me, you know what's next?
07:30Five knuckles shuffle time!
07:32Cena five knuckles shuffle his way to the top of sports entertainment
07:36Now that he held the richest prize in the game
07:39Cena put his own spin on the title's design
07:45John Cena is on top of the world
07:47He's the WWE Champion with a presentation on SmackDown
07:51The champ is here!
07:54Take a look at the new WWE Championship, Eddie!
08:04Oh, it's a spinner deal!
08:06That's when everyone had spinners on their cars
08:09Everyone was rocking the spinner chain
08:11That was a status symbol to show that you had made it
08:14The most outstanding looking WWE Championship I've ever seen
08:18I like the spinning belt
08:19I thought that it was iconic and synonymous with what was going on in pop culture
08:23The champ is here!
08:26So much of being a good personality is taking risks
08:30And doing something other people aren't doing
08:32Having something other people don't have
08:34Nobody else had a spinning belt
08:36Our time is now!
08:44There's no question that John Cena is one of the greatest to ever do it
08:47Both in the ring and on the microphone
08:50You know me, and I know you
08:52And you know I got zero F's to give
08:55And in the summer of 2017
08:57The big dog Roman Reigns saw that first hand
09:03This is the reason I came to Monday Night Raw
09:07To be in this ring face to face with a man who says he runs the yard
09:12WWE's looking for the next John Cena
09:15Let's go
09:16I'm the fastest, strongest, and hungriest that I have ever been in my entire life
09:23Roman wasn't on the caliber of Cena on the mic
09:27First of all, you suck
09:28And second of all
09:31Go ahead, find it, go ahead
09:40I kind of cringed in that moment because
09:43Cena is a sniper
09:45And when he saw the opening, he took it
09:47It's called a promo, kid
09:49Shut your mouth, John
09:50If you wanna be the big dog, you're gonna have to learn how to do it
09:52So go ahead
09:54I think it was a combination of not being prepared all the way
09:58And then I'm not John Cena
10:00That's just not my ingredients
10:02When they look at you, they see what I see
10:05A cheap-ass, corporately created
10:07John Cena bootleg
10:09Cena is a god on the mic
10:12He doesn't pull punches
10:13He doesn't take it easy on him
10:15His chump right here
10:16He ain't the guy
10:17Dude, you're just a guy
10:19Roman took his licks
10:22I did not do him any favors
10:24I'm still here because you can't do your job
10:28I remember everybody in the back was like
10:31Oh, no, he didn't go there
10:33And Roman had to sit there and eat it
10:35You should be ashamed I'm a part-timer
10:38Because I can do this part-time
10:41Better than you could ever do it full-time
10:51Still the cop
10:52Oh, my God
10:53Dwayne Johnson is a self-centered
10:55Egotistical, see-through son of a bitch
11:00When we look back at the great rivals of John Cena over the years
11:03It's a who's who of sports entertainment
11:05But perhaps his greatest rival is the rated-R superstar, Ed
11:11The arrogant WWE Champion and his girlfriend, Lita
11:14Introduced their own rated-R version of the championship title
11:17Needless to say, John Cena vowed to reclaim the gold
11:21Time to swim, man
11:22The challenger is set for a dangerous tables, ladders, and chairs match
11:28At the aptly named PLE Unforgiven
11:35It felt so good
11:37Come out, your hometown main event
11:39You're the WWE Champion
11:41Don't see them coming into as hostile an environment as I can recall
11:47Man, they hated me
11:50It was great
11:51Cena has never been in a TLC match
11:53It just showed a different layer of John
11:56We know you're good
11:57But now you can get down and dirty and gritty
12:00That's Edge's specialty
12:02No!
12:03No!
12:04No!
12:05No!
12:06Cena!
12:07Oh, man!
12:08Oh!
12:09Three!
12:11Only one way to win
12:12Find the ladder, retrieve the title belt
12:15John Cena behind the scenes is afraid of heights
12:17But John Cena inside the ring is afraid of nothing
12:20These guys are about to go toe-to-toe at the top of this ladder
12:24My philosophy was I'm gonna have to do something crazy to stop this guy
12:29Oh, my God!
12:30John don't do this!
12:31Y'all don't do this!
12:36Oh, my God!
12:37There's a justice move
12:38Not one but two tables
12:40John Cena earned the championship here tonight
12:46WWE has been home to several iconic fantasy matches over the years
12:50Playing out right in front of their eyes
12:52One of the biggest imagine-ifs of all time was about to come true
12:56Two of the greatest superstars ever were on a collision course to the grandest stage of them all
13:00WrestleMania 28
13:02It was to be a once-in-a-lifetime matchup
13:04Between the incomparable John Cena
13:07And the biggest blockbuster star on the planet
13:09The People's Champion The Rock
13:11You're running around here looking like a big fat bowl of fruity pebbles
13:15For weeks leading up to WrestleMania
13:16These two megastars traded insults back and forth in a verbal game of can you top this
13:21You ain't going with my candy ass, dude
13:23I'll make sure you kiss it
13:25And on one particular night these two combustible elements were about to explode
13:30What's the most innovative thing that you've done all year, John?
13:34Oh, I'll tell you what you did
13:35You changed your jean shorts to camouflage shorts
13:39That camouflage is working, Jack
13:41We can't find your balls whatsoever
13:43Ninety seconds before my music hit
13:50Someone said, yo, do you see that?
13:53I think Rock has something written on his wrist
13:55And everyone was like, yo!
13:58Then you gotta be courageous enough and brave enough to drop that in
14:07Now I'll tell you something, Jack
14:09I don't need words like respect and loyalty to Trent Worldwide
14:13Just like I don't need my notes for my promo on my wrist
14:18It takes some real cojones to call out Barack about having crib notes on his arm
14:27It was, I'm coming to knock this dude out
14:30Cause you're gonna be looking at a dude who may not have balls
14:33But a dude who's gonna beat the hell out of you at WrestleMania, Jack
14:41The better part of the early 2000s had been dominated by the cerebral assassin, Triple H
14:46They all bow down to the King
14:50Triple H had been at the top of this industry for years
14:54But one superstar who wasn't impressed with the accolades of the King of Kings was, of course, John Cena
15:00There's one thing that I got
15:02That you don't
15:05I got this
15:07Cena had reached an elite level
15:09Headed into the showcase of the Immortals
15:11Face an opponent unlike any other
15:13I don't think John Cena can out-wrestle Triple H here tonight
15:20Up until this point, Triple H was like one of those people that when you think of WWE, you think of Triple H
15:26And then in comes this new talent and John Cena being the forefront of that
15:31It was the beginning of the divide
15:34Triple H is a cool wrestler
15:36They don't root against him
15:38Every single one of these fans are into this match
15:40Whether they're into the game or whether they're into John Cena
15:44So now, the line is strong
15:46This is an amazing atmosphere
15:48Though he had been the champion already
15:50This was the first time that the company had said
15:54You're our guy
15:56God, these two men are tough
15:58Don't believe it! Cena made the game submit!
16:00I don't think anybody in that building thought I would tap out
16:05And that's what this business is about
16:07I remember being there listening to the buzz in the crowd and being able to actually like feel the atmosphere
16:14You saw the passing of the torch in a way to John Cena to lead this new charge heading into the future
16:20Ladies and gentlemen, we'll never forget this night
16:26Up next is our final two moments on the countdown
16:29What will take the number one spot?
16:31You want some? Come get some!
16:34Here comes John Cena
16:35Here comes John Cena
16:36At Elimination Chamber 2025
16:38John Cena had overcome five other superstars to punch his ticket to the main event of WrestleMania
16:44John Cena is going to WrestleMania!
16:47Against Cody Rhodes
16:49Undisputed Universal Champion
16:53Now the most beloved superstar of the past 20 years was set to go head-to-head with the most popular superstar of today
17:00But before we get there, fans were not expecting what would come next
17:09There is your main event for WrestleMania!
17:16John Cena is shaking Cody Rhodes hand
17:19Hey man, like, it's gonna be me and you at WrestleMania, can't wait for it
17:23Goes in for the hug
17:25And then we see it
17:26John Cena's face goes from a smile
17:29To loses all emotion
17:33And then he kicks Cody Rhodes at everybody's just like
17:37What?
17:39What the?
17:41I think I left the ground
17:44And I left and said, what?
17:47Truly one of the most shocking moments of my whole time here in WWE
17:51Oh my God, John, what the hell are you doing?
17:53I think this is the best thing that's happened to wrestling in a long time
17:59Because nobody expected John Cena to go against everything that's good in pro wrestling
18:08This is one of the most disgusting displays that I've ever witnessed
18:13That's the real interesting thing, you know, he's the heel, and I'm sure he'll do that well
18:17Why does he need to sell out?
18:20I think this is the number one heel turn of all time
18:23I don't think another heel turn is ever gonna match this one
18:26You gotta be kidding me! This is absolutely ridiculous!
18:29It is now time for our number one moment
18:32The unthinkable actions of John Cena
18:34Selling his soul to The Rock and turning his back on the C Nation
18:37Gave a momentum heading into the main event of WrestleMania 41
18:40Against the undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes
18:43At WrestleMania, I make history by winning a 17th championship
18:55It is a massive main event
19:01Will Cena set the record? Will Cody keep the title?
19:05It happens right now!
19:07It's kinda like the face of the new generation, Cody Rhodes
19:11Versus the face of the company for the last 20 or so years, John Cena
19:15Cody caught him from up top! John kicks out again!
19:18John Cena, he's here to prove he is still the very best
19:21Cena with an AA! Kick out by Cody!
19:25John Cena is an incredibly special talent
19:28Because he did all the work
19:30Cena with Cody up again! Looking for another AA!
19:35And referee can't Pat and take it out!
19:39Cena said to Cody Rhodes
19:41At some point, you're gonna have to make a choice
19:43Be a good guy or be a bad guy!
19:46Oh, come on!
19:53John Cena has set the record!
19:55I can only imagine how emotional John Cena was behind the scenes
19:59Because this is big!
20:01There is no longer a debate!
20:05With a 17th world title, John Cena is the greatest of all time!
20:11There will never be another John Cena!
20:14The hustle, loyalty and respect shown by the franchise over two decades cannot be denied!
20:20And it is my honor and privilege to have a ringside seat to his final year as an in-ring competitor!
20:26To the GOAT, I simply say, thank you!
20:28That'll do it for this edition of WWE's Greatest Moments!
20:33I hope you've enjoyed this look back at the greatest moments of the one and only John Cena!
20:37John Cena!
20:38John Cena!
20:39John Cena!
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