Wednesday, August 17, 2011

When is the Last Time John Cena Lost Cleanly?


By Brian Phelps
http://wrestlersway.blogspot.com


Before I get started, I have to list a couple of matches that do NOT count because apparently some people that read this post don't pay attention and keep listing these matches that clearly don't meet the criteria.

First off, Batista vs John Cena at Summerslam 2008 does NOT count. John Cena suffered a real life neck injury during the match from a Batista bomb that caused him to have to be pinned. The match did not end the way it was supposed to.

Triple H vs John Cena at Night of Champions 2008 does NOT count. Triple H is the owner's son-in-law so it's funny that the boss's son would be one to defeat Cena clean. In other words, the win does NOT count because it is tainted by backstage politics. In other words, it doesn't count because it's a conflict of interest.

Triple H vs John Cena vs Randy Orton at Wrestlemania 24 does NOT count. Any match where Cena is cleanly pinned that involves Triple H is tainted and does not count because Triple H is the owner's son-in-law and thus it is tainted by backstage politics. It's a conflict of interest. Also, in this post I clearly stated when is the last time John Cena lost a SINGLES match cleanly, and I also stated a match with NO special stipulations. Last time I checked, a triple threat match is not a singles match and it is a special stipulation. Another reason Triple Threat matches aren't counted is because they often provide fluke wins where a wrestler hits his finisher on a guy and then the third wrestler jumps in and steals a pin fall, or a wrestler will lose the match even though he specifically was never pinned.

Many people are wondering when is the last time that John Cena legitimately lost a match cleanly to another wrestler? By Cleanly, I mean he was legitimately pinned or submitted with NO distractions, NO outside interference, NO weapons, NO pinning Cena with Cena's foot on the bottom rope but the referee didn't see it, NO special stipulations, and NO real life injuries that occurred during a match that required the other wrestler to pin Cena to end the match in a way that it was not supposed to end (such as when Batista pinned John Cena at Summerslam 2008 after Cena suffered a neck injury caused by a Batista Bomb during the match). This also means NO fluke Money in the Bank cash in victories such as Edge taking advantage of a tired and exhausted John Cena moments after Cena won the Elimination Chamber Match back in 2006.

In other words, when is the last time John Cena legitimately lost a one-on-one singles match CLEANLY to another wrestler where it was legitimately planned for John Cena to lose cleanly with no interference, weapons, cheating, special stipulations etc. The answer is April 23, 2007 on Monday Night RAW, John Cena and Shawn Michaels faced off in a rematch from Wrestlemania 23. The match went an entire hour and ended after John Cena attempted an Attitude Adjustment Finisher on Shawn Michaels. Shawn Michaels actually landed on his feet, and jumped back towards John Cena for all he was worth and hit 'Sweet Chin Music' and collapsed onto Cena for the CLEAN pin fall victory. Shawn Michaels defeated John Cena with no outside interference, no weapons, no special stipulations, no freak pectoral or neck injuries that caused Cena to have to be pinned so he could go to a real life hospital, and no controversial "my foot was on the bottom rope but the referee didn't see it" endings. Shawn Michaels also is not Vince's son-in-law so Shawn Michaels victory is not tainted by a conflict of interest like Triple H's matches are. Michaels simply out wrestled Cena and beat him in a basic singles match-up. This was the last time as of 8/17/2011 that John Cena legitimately and cleanly with absolute certainty lost a BASIC SINGLES MATCH.

Upon becoming "Super Cena", this is the ONLY time that John Cena has really put over another wrestler CLEANLY.


16 comments:

  1. This is just plain sad.

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    1. I know...the retard is really delusional. It sounds like he thinks that it isn't staged to begin with. If so,we would have to not count every victory Cena ever had. I mean,this guy excluded Triple H beating him straight up just because he might influence Vince McMahons decision for whatever reason when Mr. McMahon already decided that it's more profitable to have Cena not lose cleanly very often. It makes the little pre-teens think he's god or something. This guy that posted this must be one of those children. Point is,thge boss decides it all,so why not count the HHH match if all he can say is that HHH might have affected McMahon's decision when Cena affects McMahon's decision by catering to 8 year olds,which is simply more profitable. Yes...that is indeed sad.

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  2. why would Cena need to put over Michaels?

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  3. Should probably ask the same about Orton too. I can think of when that was off the top of my head.

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  4. Wait a minute. Didn't Triple H beat him at Night of Champions 2008? That was a clean singles match, was it not? There's probably been more since then. I'm beginning to think that this whole thing isn't very accurate.

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  5. You know what Nate, you are right. Triple H did pin Cena at Night of Champions 2008, but it's hard to take that victory seriously because Triple H is the owner's son-in-law so it's funny that he would be booked to beat Cena clean.

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  6. Last match he lost clean was on Summerslam 2008,(August 17, 2008) he lost to Batista clean after two Batista Bombs.

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  7. @Anonymous, did you even read this article? CLEARLY in the first paragraph I stated "NO real life injuries that occurred during a match that required the other wrestler to pin Cena to end the match in a way that it was not supposed to end (such as when Batista pinned John Cena at Summerslam 2008 after Cena suffered a neck injury caused by a Batista Bomb during the match)".

    Next time, pay attention.

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  8. He loss clean at Wrestlemania 24 although it was a triple threat match.

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    1. Pay closer attention, because Wrestlemania 24 does NOT COUNT. I SPECIFICALLY stated "No Special Stipulations". A triple threat match is a special stipulation. I also stated,

      "when is the last time John Cena legitimately lost a ONE-ON-ONE singles match CLEANLY to another wrestler..."

      Last I checked, a triple threat match is not a one-on-one singles match.

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  9. I'm reading this now, and am in complete shock. Cena's only CLEAN loss was to Shawn Michaels!? That is ridiculous. Cena could've helped build top-tier heels by putting them over cleanly. His loss to Punk at MITB '11 wasn't clean b/c he was distracted by Johnny and Vince.

    I don't know if I even want to count his loss to the Rock at 'Mania 28 as a clean loss. It SEEMED like he had Rock beat, but he decided to clown around and do a people's elbow/5-knucle shuffle hybrid on Rock before getting rock-bottomed and pinned.

    Cena (the character) is a plague and a disgrace to wrestling. Truly, he will never allow anyone to reach his level until he's already out of his prime.

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  10. the reason i believe cena is awesome is that they now have to bring in legends to beat him fairly cm punk did'nt beat him cleanly laurinitus interfered, triple h made a wrong decision
    and at summerslam cm punk got lucky and waited for cena to attitude adjustment big show then threw cena out the ropes the last time he lost cleanly.
    The rock wm 28

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  11. im not anonymus 23 may

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  12. Now it's two clean losses. HBK and The Rock.

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  13. Well I feel like your article is biased for Cena. I know Triple H is the son in law of Vince but Cena is the greatest creation from Vince. McMahon wants him to win cause he's the poster boy. So from that rationality, Cena never won a clean match since 2005. Also I think that the Batista vs Cena 2008 was a clean match, Batista was supposed to win the match (however not so early), he broke Cena's neck on accident, but the match was meant for Batista to win, therefore he did beat Cena cleanly. Also Triple H is a good asset to the WWE, he actually loses to spike up the career of a new superstar, unlike Cena who the WWE always wants to win.

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  14. To the person who wrote this article: Yeah, you're a dumb ass. "Tainted by backstage politics"? In a business where backstage politics runs rampant? Don't make me laugh. Then nothing that ever happened in pro wrestling should count because it's all backstage politics.

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