John Cena
John Cena: The Last Franchise Player "Your time is up. My time is now." Professional wrestling has produced icons that transcended the squared circle. Some became cultural phenomena. Others became industry-defining legends. Yet very few carried an entire company on their shoulders through its most difficult transition. John Cena did. For nearly two decades, Cena was WWE. He was the face on every poster, the final boss of every pay-per-view, the hero of every child and, paradoxically, the villain in the eyes of many adult fans. He was loved. He was hated. He was booed louder than almost anyone in wrestling history while simultaneously selling more merchandise than anyone else. The arena echoed with the deafening split of "Let's Go Cena!" and "Cena Sucks!"—a soundtrack that became inseparable from modern WWE. No superstar has ever embodied the phrase "polarizing" quite like John Cena. Yet when the smoke cleared, the statistics were ...