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John Cena is one of the biggest names to ever set foot inside a WWE ring after working as the face of the company for the majority of their PG era, after making his debut in October 2000.
Since then, John Cena has wrestled against countless WWE Superstars with memorable rivalries against Randy Orton, Wade Barrett and the Nexus, Sheamus, The Miz, The Rock and, of course, CM Punk.
But incredibly, there are a handful of current WWE Superstars who The Doctor Of Thuganomics has never wrestled against one-on-one inside a WWE ring, some of which are truly unbelievable when you consider the amount of time they've been in the WWE alongside John Cena.
Here are five names that John Cena has unbelievably never faced in singles action.
#5. John Cena and Kofi Kingston have never gone one-on-one in WWE
This one is truly extraordinary given the number of years that both John Cena and Kofi Kingston were active in WWE together. But when you really think about it, Kofi Kingston and John Cena had been on entirely different levels until the rise of Kingston during KofiMania in 2019.
With that being said, Cena and Kofi have crossed paths in WWE several times, just never in singles action against each other. They've tagged together in many six and twelve man tag team matches and they've both been in the same battle royales but that's mostly it.
The closest the two have gotten to having a contest against each other is during a Triple Threat match on the January 11th 2010 episode of Monday Night RAW which also involved Randy Orton.
There's still a chance that Kofi Kingston and John Cena could have a singles match against each other eventually, but I don't see it happening as the two seem destined to be on different paths going forward.
#4. Samoa Joe and John Cena never got to have a classic one-on-one match in WWE
John Cena and Samoa Joe have never wrestled one-on-one inside a WWE ring and that's a massive missed opportunity.
Now that Samoa Joe is not actively wrestling and is serving as Willian Regal's special enforcer on NXT, many people are turning their minds towards all of the WWE Superstars we never got to see Joe have potential matches with.
Perhaps the biggest name on the list of WWE Superstars that Samoa Joe could have faced one-on-one, but hasn't, is John Cena. Given that Joe did get a match against Brock Lesnar and AJ Styles, it seems silly that the two didn't have a feud together.
In fact, Samoa Joe and John Cena have only ever shared a WWE ring twice. The first time was August 21st 2017 when Cena teamed up with Roman Reigns to take on Joe and The Miz. The second time was in the 2017 Survivor Series match as both men found themselves on opposite teams.
If John Cena were to return to NXT and provoke Samoa Joe we may get the singles match between the two, but it's extremely unlikely that Cena will spend any time in the black and gold brand when he returns to WWE.
#3. Bobby Roode and John Cena have never faced off against each other in WWE, let alone in singles action
Bobby Roode has spent the best part of his time in WWE as a smug, arrogant heel and yet he has never come across the company's biggest babyface wrestler in The Champ John Cena.
Admittedly Roode hasn't quite got near the main event on WWE's main roster, despite at one point being the face of TNA/Impact Wrestling, so he is unlikely to have been offered one of John Cena's sporadic matches.
But when you consider that John Cena has wrestled the likes of Elias and Baron Corbin, it does make the fact he hasn't ever wrestled Roode one-on-one a little more striking.
To make matters even more interesting, the one time they've ever set foot inside a ring together in WWE they were on the same team, with both men representing team SmackDown at WWE Survivor Series in 2017.
Roode is currently a former tag team champion having formed a team with Dolph Ziggler. As a result, he'd probably need to branch out on his own again and reach the heights he looked like he might hit when he debuted to get a singles match against John Cena.
#2. Drew McIntyre and John Cena have been opponents in WWE, just not in singles action
It's not too difficult to wrap your head around the fact that the Drew McIntyre who's in WWE now hasn't faced John Cena in singles action, given they've both mostly been faces during that time and Cena hasn't wrestled all that much.
But when you cast your mind back to McIntyre's first run in WWE when he was being billed as the chosen one and presented as an arrogant heel, it makes absolutely no sense that he never feuded with Cena.
Admittedly they have been in the same ring plenty of times. Cena and David Otunga won the tag team titles off of McIntyre and Cody Rhodes, and both lost a Fatal Four Way match to Finn Balor.
Drew McIntyre has expressed his wish to face John Cena still. Given that he remains in and around the main event on Monday Night RAW there's every chance that WWE decide to do the match somewhere down the line!
#1. MVP and John Cena have never wrestled each other one-on-one in WWE
MVP, like Kofi Kingston, is another WWE Superstar who you'd just have assumed would have wrestled John Cena one-on-one at some point. After all, they were both in WWE together for quite some time.
However, MVP, who is enjoying a return run with WWE as the leader of the Hurt Business, has never actually wrestled against John Cena in a singles match in WWE.
They've been opponents in Survivor Series matches, multi-man tag team matches, battle royales and Royal Rumbles but they've never wrestled each other one-on-one.
If Cena were to return now, it could happen, although it's more likely that he'd challenge the dominant Bobby Lashley, who has grown to be a powerful WWE Champion under MVP's tutelage.
