#4 Baron Corbin wins clean
John Cena infamously once said that the future will have to go through him. For those who want to be key players in the future, a win over John Cena is a marquee statement to have on your CV. It’s not the be all and end all but it goes a long way in creating main eventers.
Look at how Kevin Owens, AJ Styles, and Dean Ambrose are doing nowadays, they’re key players who have had their stock enlarged when they beat John Cena clean.
A clean win over Cena reassures fans that Vince McMahon has faith in the superstar in question, Shinsuke Nakamura recently got that affirmation and now he’s even more over.
A win over John Cena puts Baron Corbin into an elite class of superstars, a class that only main eventers are allowed to attend.