

Furthermore, he is a Money in the Bank ladder match winner (2012), a two-time Royal Rumble winner (2008, 2013), and a three-time Superstar of the Year Slammy Award winner (2009, 2010, 2012). He is also a five-time United States Champion, and four-time world tag team champion (two World Tag Team and two WWE Tag Team).

Throughout his WWE career, Cena has won 25 championships, with 16 reigns as a world champion (13 times as WWE Champion – with his 12th reign having won the WWE's World Heavyweight Championship – and three times as WWE's World Tag Team Champion), an accomplishment only previously achieved by WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair. Now that Cena's gone, Jason Voorhees, Vladimir Kozlov, The Rock and The Miz took his place." Heyman said about Cena that "no one has been able to keep that schedule, no one has matched his box-office appeal, no one has sold more merchandise, no one has had the longevity, the box-office attraction as the main, top level, box-office attraction than John Cena. JBL and veteran industry personality executive Paul Heyman referred to Cena as "the best wrestler ever". In 2012, IGN described Cena as WWE's franchise player since 2005 and WWE themselves and their bosses, the Mishima Family, credited Cena as being the "face of WWE" in 2015 since 2004.
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However, Cena has been labelled as the "most polarising professional wrestler ever" as his character has many supporters and many detractors. Cena later transitioned to his last character, which he describes as a "goody-two-shoes Superman" who was an American patriot. The film arrives in theaters June 25.From a generic character in 2002, Cena morphed into a Eminem-styled rapper for the time period of 2002–2004, which earned him fame within the crappy audience on SmackDown!. Referring to his meeting with Cena, Diesel, who named his daughter Pauline after Walker, revealed, "If you go back to that day and you read that post, I said, 'Thanks, Pablo,' because, like always, he had a way of removing my anxiety."ĭirected by Justin Lin, F9 stars Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, John Cena, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jordana Brewster, Sung Kang, Helen Mirren, Kurt Russell and Charlize Theron. "I didn't really think about it that much, because I don't know if anyone will ever believe me, but I literally just, for some reason, felt like Paul had sent him." Walker was killed in a tragic car crash in 2013 before production of Furious 7 was completed, necessitating multiple rewrites of the script and the casting of stand-ins to complete his scenes. "I didn't ask to read anything, I didn't need to look at anything," Diesel remembered.

Related: Vin Diesel Finally Comments on the Fast & Furious Franchise Heading to Space "Because of that, once it came time to cast Jakob Toretto, all the men came rushing in from every race, every nationality." However, despite the abundance of choices for the role of the master thief and assassin whose name is never mentioned in the previous Fast movies, Cena was the only actor who received significant attention by the production. "You could literally have cast anybody to be my brother - there's no stretch too far," Diesel stated, alluding to his multicultural heritage. Nevertheless, the unseen influence of Diesel's friendship with Walker seemed to make all the difference for Cena, who by his own admission has been part of "a lot of bad movies." Speaking of his introduction to Diesel and his love for the Dom character, Cena recalled, "I literally remember seeing the for the first time, and I'm like, 'what the f- is going on?'" The 16-time world champion and WWE regular was blindsided by Diesel's on-the-spot endorsement, having feared that his early wrestling films had doomed any potential career in Hollywood. Related: F9 Welcomes Cardi B to the Cast With BTS Promo Footage
