5 reasons why Jinder Mahal is the best WrestleMania opponent for John Cena

#4 The crowd will be fully behind Cena

Cena doesn't usually get full crowd support

Even though WWE loves to talk about how Cena gets mixed reactions and how he’s an amazing polarizing figure, deep down Vince McMahon wishes that every single audience member would scream and yell and follow him to the end of the world as if he was Hulk Hogan in 1985. It rarely happens, but generally speaking, when he gets put into a feud with a generic foreign bad guy (in this case, Mahal), the crowd puts all of their support behind the 16-time World Champion.

In this specific matchup, the crowd will be less apt to go insane with “U-S-A!” chants because of the sheer mass of humanity that attend WrestleMania from all over the world, but they will unite to cheer Cena on against the guy who, by that time, could be a two-time WWE Champion. The crowd doesn’t hate Jinder Mahal as a bad guy, they hate that he’s holding the WWE Championship. Cena will be the biggest hero in the Superdome. And even if Jinder isn't the champion, the crowd will still resent the fact that he's getting a big spotlight that they believe a better wrestler deserves, so it's a win-win for Cena's reaction.

This would also be the first time in thirteen years that Cena will have gotten universally cheered at a WrestleMania. The last time? When he first won the WWE title from JBL at WrestleMania 21.