TOP 10 BEST AMERICAN WRESTLERS
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John Felix Anthony Cena was born on April 23, 1977 in West Newbury, Massachusetts to Carol Cena and John Joseph Cena. He is of Italian (father) and French-Canadian and English (mother) descent, and is the grandson of baseball player Tony Lupien. When he was in college, he played football. He then continued on to be a bodybuilder and a limousine driver. The 6-foot-1 tall star weighs exactly at 240 pounds and is a very successful superstar in the WWE.
The Dr. of Thuganomics started training to be a wrestler at Ultimate Pro Wrestling where he also created the character, The Prototype. Cena first appeared on WWE in a match against Kurt Angle on the 27th of June, 2002 which ended up with him losing.
In 2004, John Cena's status as a celebrity began to develop. Cena won the United States Championship from Big Show. Not too long later, Cena lost the title but he gained it back soon. Cena then lost the title again to fellow WWE superstar, Carlito. During that time, Cena apparently got stabbed in the kidney by one of Carlito's bodyguards. This resulted in staying out of action for a month.
In 2005 and 2006 respectively, Cena was involved in controversies. He had a feud with champion John Bradshaw Layfield, manager Eric Bischoff and fellow wrestler Chris Jericho. Cena also had feuds with Edge and Umaga at that time. But even so, some friendships were formed. Cena is said to be friends with Carlito after they won a match with Jeff Hardy against Edge, Randy Orton and Johnny Nitro.
The year 2007 was a big year for Cena as he was involved in a wrestling match with Britney Spears' ex and rap star, Kevin Federline. John ended up losing that match thanks to some assistance from Umaga to Kevin Federline. Later that night, Cena took revenge by body slamming Kevin Federline backstage. The year 2007 also started pretty well for John Cena as he became the first person to defeat the Samoan Bulldozer, Umaga that year. The Chain Gang Soldier also teamed up with Shaun Michaels defeating the RKO tag team, Randy Orton and Edge. The match ended up with Cena and Michaels winning.
As of October 2007, Cena lost his WWE Championship title because of an injury. While wrestling against Mr. Kennedy, Cena tore his pectoral muscle while executing a hip toss. Although he finished the match and completed the rest of the scripted event, a check-up the next day showed that John's pectoral major muscle was torn completely from the bone, requiring seven months to a year rehabilitation. Not able to perform, WWE's CEO, Vince McMahon stripped him off the title and ended his reign.
In 2008, Cena made an unannounced return to action on January 27 as the final participant of the Royal Rumble match. He won the match, and the traditional WrestleMania title shot. Cena also had a match against JBL, which he defeated at Judgment Day and then at One Night Stand in a First Blood match. However, JBL defeated him at the New York City Parking Lot Brawl. In the month of August, Cena was replaced by Rey Mysterio after it was announced Cena had suffered a herniated disk in his neck which required surgery and he would be out of action indefinitely. According to reports, Cena underwent successive surgery to repair the herniated disk in his neck with Doctor Joseph Maroon on August 25.
Aside from wrestling, John has also made a name in the movie business. In 2006, a WWE franchise movie titled The Marine was released with John playing the lead character, John Triton. The movie received mixed reviews due to the poor story-line and discrimination to the US Marines. Even so, fans queued up to watch the movie as this was John's first big screen appearance.
The WWE wrestler also added recording artist to his resume as he released his debut rap album "You Can't See Me" which debuted at #15 on the US Billboard 200 chart. The album was recorded with his cousin Tha Trademarc. The album featured his entrance theme song, 'The Time Is Now' & a host of other singles performed by Cena. One of the songs he performed with popular rap band Estoric and a number of other songs Cena performed with famous rapper Bumpy Knuckles. Cena is the only professional wrestler to ever perform on BBC Two's long running TV show Top of the Pops.
While still active with WWE, Cena made a couple of guest appearances: Jimmy Kimmel Live! twice to promote his album. He has also appeared on popular shows like Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Fuse's Celebrity Playlist, Fox Sports Net's The Best Damn Sports Show Period, MADtv, G4's Training Camp and two appearances on MTV's Punk'd. He also served as a co-presenter, with Hulk Hogan, at the 2005 Teen Choice Awards, as a guest judge during the third week of the 2006 season of Nashville Star, and appeared at the 2007 Nickelodeon UK Kids Choice Awards 2007.
In fashion, The Champ has also made a few trademarks. Cena is often seen with knee-high denim jeans and throwback jerseys when he first started on WWE. Lately, Cena has been wearing a lot of Chain Gang merchandise. When his movie, The Marine was released, John was seen to be adding more military-inspired clothing to his outfit to promote his movie.
Cena graduated from Springfield College, Massachusetts with degrees in exercise physiology and human anatomy. He applied to 60 colleges and he got accepted by 58 of them but in the end, he chose Springfield College. He is the second eldest of five brothers and is said to be a family guy when he is not wrestling. His good friends are fellow wrestlers, John Hennigan, Batista, Randy Orton, Carlito, Jeff and Matt Hardy, whom he will have to fight.
John Cena is definitely going to be a big inspiration to all, whether in wrestling, fashion, music or even movies as his participation in the industry is already more than regular celebrity. With all he has achieved, fans can definitely expect to see more of this WWE superstar in the coming future.
Also, recently he has completed his new movie 12 Rounds produced by WWE Films. This movie was said to have finished filming when John suffered from his injury in 2007.16 Time WWE Heavweight Champion John Cena is also an absolutely brilliant American Wrestler. He also is an extremely kindhearted, loving, caring and friendly man who cares about his fans and people with problems such as Cancer etc. He also is an inspirational wrestler who inspires his fans and tells them to Never Give Up on anything in their life. Parents also see John Cena as an excellent role model for their kids and kids also love him. John has won and knocked out Randy Orton, Chris Jericho, Big Show, Seth Rollins, CM Punk, Dolph Ziggler, Kurt Angle, Shawn Michaels, The Miz, The Rock, Rusev, Triple H, Brock Lesnar, Rey Mysterio, Bo Dallas, Goldust, Cody Rhodes, Cesaro, The Undertaker, Kane, Ryback, Batista, Luke Harper, Roman Reigns, Dean Ambrose, Sheamus, Bray Wyatt, The Great Khali, Jinder Mahal, Rob Van Damm, Mark Henry, Bobby Lashley, AJ Styles, Rikishi etc. He has carried both, Big Show and The Edge on his back and has thrown them down and won The Wrestlemania 25 match!!!!. He has also lifted up Mark Henry in the air put him on his back thrown him down and won, he also done this to Braun Strowman, The Great Khali, The Rock etc. The amazing strength, skills, endurance and immense power of John Cena is absolutely incredible. He has achieved far higher in the WWE than The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin or The Undertaker has. Even Stone Cold Steve Austin has said "He's much more powerful than me, he can easily beat me". It's also amazing how he's been able to lift up people more heavier than him and carry them on his back and throw them down. Lots and Lots of people such as wrestler Big Show, Roman Reigns etc have said that Cena is the best WWE Wrestler ever and also said that he's much more powerful than Brock Lesnar. He's a lot more powerful than The Rock and he can do things when wrestling that The Rock can't do!. John Cena is more skilled and talented than The Rock, he can wrestle, he can act, he can rap, he can do impressions etc. He's an absolutely brilliant actor and none of Cenas films are weak or crap. John Cena has a very big Fanbase, when he comes out ready to fight another wrestler and enters the venue and his trademark rap tune 'The Time is Now' plays nearly everybody in the audience goes ballistic and is constantly cheering and supporting him. He quickly may shake a few fans hands and the audience continues and won't stop cheering and the audience give him mad love and big respect. The audience continue shouting ''Cena, Cena, Cena'', ''We Want Cena, We Love You'' etc and loads and loads of fans are holding up banners which say things such as '' Cena's The Best'', ''We Love You Cena'', ''Team Cena'', ''Cena The Next Champ', ''Champ Cena'', ''Cena's My Hero'', ''Cena Rocks'', ''Cena's No.1'', ''Cena's Great'',''Awesome Cena'' etc. John Cena is now a WWE Sex Symbol and has been for a long time. All the girls love him, find him sexually attractive and want to kiss him. Even famous WWE Divas such as AJ Lee, Nikki Bella have been in nice long french kisses with him. This man has a facebook fanbase of 45,000 000 fans and the girls love him to death. The males also really love him but have the different love for him the way females have love for him. Its absolutely amazing and incredible how he was able to beat The Rock in a Wrestling match and he's probably the only Wrestler ever to be able to beat The Rock. When he fights against The Rock, he will give The Rock some awesome bashings and will hit him, kick him and throw him down really hard. He is also just an absolutely incredible and brilliant American Wrestler.- Randal Keith "Randy" Orton (born April 1, 1980) is an American professional wrestler and actor best known to sports entertainment audiences for his career signed with WWE. Orton was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, to Bob Orton, Jr. and his wife Elaine. He is the grandson of Bob Orton, Sr. and the nephew of wrestler-turned-musician Barry Orton. Randy has a younger brother named Nate and a younger sister named Rebecca. Early in life, his parents discouraged him from pursuing any career in professional wrestling due to the major amount of time spent away from home and family. Orton however, still became involved with wrestling, on an amateur level while attending Hazelwood Central High School.
Orton graduated from high school in 1998 and then joined the United States Marine Corps. However, Orton received a Bad Conduct Discharge (BCD)in 1999 after twice going AWOL and for disobeying a direct order from a commanding officer.
After his brief military tenure, Orton opted for a career in professional wrestling. During 2000 at age 20, Orton began his training, lasting into the following year in 2001. He wrestled in local training promotions in St. Louis where his father and uncle had working relations with. Orton also gained experience as a wrestling referee.
During 2001, Orton signed with the then-World Wrestling Federation and began training in its instructional program Ohio Valley Wrestling. Orton made his debut the following year in 2002 at WrestleMania X8 (2002) Fan Axxcess, defeating Tommy Dreamer. During 2002, Orton began gaining more televised match time and screen-time for promos. The following year in 2003 after the company renamed itself as the WWE, Orton quickly enhanced his presence on the WWE roster, when he joined the heel stable known as Evolution, fronted by Paul Levesque (known in-ring as Triple H). While in Evolution, Orton won his first singles title when he defeated Rob Van Dam for the WWE Intercontinental Championship at WWE Armageddon (2003). The following year, Orton won his second title when he defeated fan favorite Summerslam (2004). By this time, Orton had began drifting away from his Evolution teammates and went on to strike out on his own. Establishing himself as the "Legend Killer" Orton began on a crusade of taking down every wrestling legend the WWE had to offer. His crusade came to a cryptic end when he was defeated by The Phenom, The Undertaker (Mark Calaway) at WrestleMania 21 (2005), after promising WWE fans he would end Undertaker's 12-0 undefeated WrestleMania record.
As Orton's career continued in the WWE, Orton won the WWE Championship a total of 8 times and was the last World Heavyweight Champion after winning that title 4 times. During the later 2000s, Orton formed a tag team with Adam Copeland (known as Edge), becoming Team Rated RKO (a play on Edge's nickname as the Rated R Superstar and Randy's finisher move named the RKO). They won the World Tag Team Championship for the first and last time before losing the titles to John Cena and Shawn Michaels. During the early 2010s, Orton formed his own stable called Legacy, comprised of Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase Jr.. Afterwards, Orton returned to his singular ways and became known as the "Apex Predator" and "The Viper", increasing his aggression and killer-instinct in the wrestling ring.
Outside of wrestling, Orton ventured into acting. He was previously intended to star in WWE-produced film titles such as The Marine 2 (2009), but was injured at the time and the lead role was given to Ted DiBiase Jr. When he was considered for the third sequel to The Marine, he was dismissed from consideration due to his history with the USMC and the lead was given to Mike 'The Miz' Mizanin. Orton made his film debut in 2011 in the film That's What I Am (2011) as the father of a school bully. His next film role was the lead in 12 Rounds 2: Reloaded (2013), followed later with a lead in The Condemned 2 (2015) and an appearance in Countdown (2016). In 2016, Orton got a supporting role in the action thriller series Shooter (2016).Randy Orton is a 14 Time WWE American Wrestler who has beaten loads of wrestlers such as Bray Wyatt, Braun Strowman, AJ Styles, Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins, Dean Ambrose, Kevin Owens, Luke Harper, Erick Rowan, Goldust, The Miz etc. Also known as The Viper, Randy Orton is a very powerful wrestler who has some very powerful moves such as his well known deadly move The R.K.O and he is hard to beat because also is very powerful.