WWE legend John Cena recently expressed his gratitude and love for professional wrestling legend The Big Show Paul Wight who had been an on screen rival of “The Champ” previously. John Cena is a sixteen times former WWE World Champion and a lot of stars contributed in his career.
The initial rivalry between Cena and The Big Show started back in early 2004 and Big Show was the first WrestleMania opponent for Cena. The duo battled each other at WrestleMania XX and Big Show defended his WWE United States title in this match. Cena won this match to win his first title in WWE.
John Cena’s Gratitude: How Big Show Helped Shape His Stardom
This match did an excellent job to build Cena as a future megastar. It took only one year for WWE to put the World title on Cena’s waist. Cena won the WWE Championship at WrestleMania 21 by defeating JBL. There is no denying of the fact that Big Show did a great job to build Cena as the next big star.
Cena and Big Show faced Big Show so many times and they shared victories. But their first big clash at WrestleMania XX was really special and it is still believed to be their biggest match. Big Show had been an architect for building many top WWE stars for the future, Cena is definitely among one of them.
John Cena Defeated The Big Show At WrestleMania XX To Win The United States Championship
John Cena was recently asked a bunch of questions by some fans at a “92NY” event where he was asked about Big Show’s contributions to his career. The 46 year old shared gratitude for the future WWE Hall of Famer. Here is what the former sixteen times WWE World Champion had to say;
“Just the moments that he would open up as a human being,” Cena said of Big Show “He is a kind and gentle giant, a giving giant. He was very much responsible, he was one of the few supporters of me when no one else would bet on me. We’ve had great conversations over the years, and those are some of my favorite moments — when you get to talk to Paul.”
There are also other wrestlers like Randy Orton and Edge who did some amazing jobs to build John Cena as the biggest star of the Ruthless Aggression Era of WWE. Any wrestler that becomes a megastar needs to use so many steps to climb the ladder of success. Much like the others, Cena had a lot of wrestlers involved with his name.
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