Was he honestly a megastar? Or just a fraud like his stolen valor...

Was he honestly a megastar? Or just a fraud like his stolen valor? Can this slop really be considered the last megastar with Rock and Austin?

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Of course he was a megastar, you fucking tard. I don't care how much you hated him. He drew higher ratings, better gates, and larger buyrates than anybody in North American pro-wrestling since the AE by a considerable margin. Even the guys who were larger than him for a spell -- Sin Cara and Bob Sapp, of all fucking people -- didn't have nearly his longevity as a top draw. Nor was it just his superpush, as Roman had that, and he's not the draw Cena was neither.

Forced down our throats by gay vince.Not a superstar.

he is BY FAR the most well known wrestler of the past 15-20 years. He is a global star and you're a retard.

Not a superstar. WWE is the superstar. Not Cena

Edrones seethe hard but Cena did more damage to the WWE brand than any wrestler not named Benoit. All of his kid fans grew up and realized wrestling was so cringe they never watched it again.

No, he was shoved down our throats.

Because he was the only one allowed to be at the top at the time so of course everything is attributed to him. Fucking zoomers.

He literally was WWE between 07-2012 and when he left it was the worst ever, even his haters have to admit that.

>Because he was the only one allowed to be at the top at the time so of course everything is attributed to him
who the fuck cares? is he a star or not you absolute fucking retard.

His way more famous than Austin.

He is a megastar but he's like Triple H where his legacy is tainted.

>Was he honestly a megastar?
Yes. Ask a random person to name 3 wrestlers and they'll say Hogan, Cena, and (insert wrestler from their preferred era)
>Or just a fraud like his stolen valor?
Lmao better draw up charges on Sgt Slaughter, Sgt Craig Pittman, MIA, and Barry Windham then
>Can this slop really be considered the last megastar with Rock and Austin?
If we're talking about guys that transcended WWE take Austin off.
If we're talking about guys that carried an era in WWE take Dwaynetty off.

>they'll say Hogan, Cena, and (insert wrestler from their preferred era)
Serious headcanon lol
Hogan, Rock and they'll usually say someone like Austin or Savage. Every once in a while you get an Undertaker thrown in. Cena, and Batista for that matter, are on the low end of randos knowing a wrestler.

Hi grandpa who let you out by yourself?

AEW outta nowhere

He was kind of in a Bret Hart role, where he wasn't a mega-star like Cena or Rock, but a steady hand to be world champion. Although, he was bigger than Bret Hart thanks to his appeal with kids.

Ironically, he's a bigger star post-wrestling than he was in his athletic prime. His acting career seems to be finally going somehwere, although he'll likely never be The Rock or anything.

> Cena or Rock

Austin or Rock. Oops.

People who don’t watch wwe know who he is so yes

He was a star in 2005/2006 when he won the title. Anyone saying he wasn't massively hot around that time is lying. The problem is after that they turned him into a complete happy go lucky faggot who never lost despite getting his ass kicked every match.

Cena was a mainstream meme with that prank call and even recently with his Chinese apology. he does a bunch of movies too. Even though peacemaker is probably the only thing worth watching people still know who john cena is
>batista
Yeah but no one mentioned batista

That alone isn't a guarantee. People who don't watch Raw know who Jesse Ventura is. What takes Cena over is that he legitimately carried ths company as a top star: he brought up ratings, livegates, and buyrates to a level no other pro wrestler has consistently managed before or since. Sure, WWE kneecapped many guys the fans would've prefered over him: Musterio, Punk, Edge, Danielson, just to name a few. But they did that with Roman, and though it eventually got him over, he never became a star on the level of Cena.

Plus, the guy managed to have a lot of classic matches. Even though his fundamentals were often terrible, especially his punches, it always felt as though he was giving the crowd everything he had. His best matches with Angle, Edge, Lesnar, Michaels, Punk, Bryan, Owens, Styles, and Rollins are up there with the best matches in company history. Even his comeback matches against Roman have been great.

Batista's the better actor, and probably more widely recognized thanks to those Marvel movies; but aside from a brief period, he was never as famous for his wrestling as John Cena was.

>Sin Cara

>Because he was the only one allowed to be at the top at the time so of course everything is attributed to him

Roman was effectively that for years, and yet he is nowhere near as popular as Cena was, and still is. Everyone knows who John Cena is, nobody outside of the wrestling bubble really knows who Roman is.

>Roman was effectively that for years, and yet he is nowhere near as popular as Cena was
because cena was before him and killed the business, genius