5 Great Wrestlers Who Had A Bad Year

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Can't always be perfect

#3 John Cena - 2008 & 2009

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We could see him in 2008, unfortunately

Two for one in this entry.

John Cena has always gotten a lot of flack from fans over the years, but he hasn't deserved it all. I mean sure, in his early years he was a little interminable to watch, and only shined in matches with opponents on the level of Kurt Angle, Chris Jericho and The Undertaker, but by 2006 he had become quite an entering performer in the ring.

In fact, John was one of the best wrestlers in all of WWE in 2007, regularly stealing the show, often on pay-per-view even. During a match with Mr. Kennedy on the October 1, 2007 episode of Raw, Cena suffered a legitimate torn pectoral muscle while executing a hip toss and was out of action for the rest of the year, and when he returned at the 2008 Royal Rumble, it was almost as if he had returned to his former interminable self.

John entered 2008 to a sling of bad matches. He managed to have some decent efforts with Triple H and Randy Orton on pay-per-view, but his matches on RAW were very poor. He reopened his feud with JBL at one point, which gave us more boring matches and his 'dream match' with Batista at SummerSlam fell very short of expectations.

After a few months on the shelf, he returned for some average PPV matches with Chris Jericho to close the year. And 2009 wasn't much better. While he ended his on/off years feud with Edge on a high, he spent several months having some of the years worst matches with the Big Show, and spent the rest of the year having a mix of really good and really bad matches with Randy Orton.

John bounced back in 2010 with a number of solid matches with Batista, The Nexus, CM Punk and more and has been highly entertaining in the ring ever since, solidifying himself as one of the best ever.

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