There is no doubt that John Cena is one of the biggest stars WWE has ever produced. He had been the face of WWE for more than a decade. He is also a sixteen times WWE World Champion which is a record. No one else in WWE ever won that many World titles. Triple H and Randy Orton come next with 14 title reigns each.
John Cena was introduced to the main roster back in 2002 after having a decent run in the OVW which was the development territory of WWE back in those days. It took three years for WWE to build him as the face of the promotion. He had an excellent run in his early WWE days and he had been a solid mid card.
John Cena’s Humble Beginnings: Revisiting His WWE Debut and the Start of an Incredible Journey
At WrestleMania 21, he challenged JBL for the WWE Championship and this was the beginning of the ultimate success of Cena. This was the first WWE Championship reign with many to come. He kept on main eventing back to back WrestleManias with either defending or challenging for World titles.
He remained the top star of the promotion for more than a decade but he stopped working in WWE on a full time basis after he founded a breakthrough in Hollywood. Recently he revealed how his family had various opinions when he joined WWE. Recently he appeared on appeared on season 3 of Peacock’s “Hart to Heart” interview series with Kevin Hart where he said;
John Cena Made His Main Roster Debut In 2002
“But when I told my mom, she’s like, ‘I hope you’re okay.’ My brothers, it’s very… I grew up in a small town in New England, it’s very… you have an edge, you don’t talk about anything except for sports,” Cena said. “If you’re really hurting inside it’s, ‘Eh, fucking [Boston] Red Sox, huh?’ You know, and that look says everything, and that’s it, that’s the end of it.
“But they also won’t let you grow too big for your britches… and I love my brothers and I love my family for desperately latching onto my feet and stapling them to the floor if I wanted to think that I was looking at life from a different perspective. They always kept me level and looking at people eye-to-eye, and I love them for that. But they [my brothers] didn’t give a shit [about me working for WWE].
“My dad thought I was, like… I could’ve told him any other position and he would have been like, ‘Yeah, whatever,’ but [it was], ‘Dad, I just got a job with the WWE.’ [He said], ‘Oh, my son! Like this was the one time he was like, ‘This is unreal. You’re going to do… It’s going to great, I can’t believe it.’ And he’s still, to this day, he’s extremely proud.” The former sixteen times WWE World Champion concluded.
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