John Cena tore one of his pectoral muscles performing a hip toss in 2007 and was supposed to be out of action for up to a year. Cena, being superhuman, returned in four months and shocked the holy heck out of everyone in Madison Square Garden, as his music hit and he became the 30th and final entrant in the 2008 Royal Rumble match.
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Just over eight minutes later, John Cena was the number one contender for Randy Orton’s WWE Championship.
It wasn’t even rumoured that he would show up. This return was an amazingly well-kept secret, which was incredibly difficult to do by that point with the massive reach of the internet. It happened, free of speculation, rumour or otherwise, and it was one of the greatest, and definitely one of the most shocking, returns in the history of WWE.
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Nicholas A. Marsico
I got my first big break writing for 411Mania back in 2004. I did a small spot in a big weekly piece that was written by one of the site's top writers. I quickly added the duty of being the live recapper for episodes of SmackDown, and in 2005 was given my own weekly column, which I did for a few years. I gave up writing (mostly) to start a family but got back into it, still at 411, a little over 3 years later. For another couple of years, I wrote 2-3 columns per week for the website before finding paid work elsewhere, and eventually wound up at SportsKeeda.
I am also the co-founder of the RBR: Weekly Wrestling Talk podcast, which started in the summer of 2005 and is still going strong today, almost 15 years later. Due to school, work, and family commitments, I left the team in 2011 but still remain a part of the family.
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