5 times WWE legends returned to challenge current stars

#3. John Cena - Returned to WWE to face The Fiend Bray Wyatt

It's been two years now since we've seen John Cena in a traditional WWE wrestling match. He only appears a few times a year and wrestles once if WWE fans are lucky enough.

In 2020, John Cena returned and seemingly indicated that he was done with WWE. However, The Fiend Bray Wyatt - who just lost his Universal Title to Goldberg - pointed at the WrestleMania sign to indicate a challenge.

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The former face of WWE, John Cena accepted the challenge, and while it was thought to be a rematch from six years before, it turned out to be quite different.

Having WrestleMania 36 behind closed doors meant that WWE had to get creative. And instead of a wrestling match, we got the cinematic Firefly Fun House Match.

It wasn't a traditional match at all, and John Cena and Bray Wyatt took a trip down memory lane. It was a unique match in its own way, but WWE fans were still raving about the cinematic Boneyard Match a night before.

Ultimately, John Cena still repaid the favor from WrestleMania 36, and by vanishing into thin air, he would disappear from WWE again.

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Rohit Nath is a content writer from Bangalore, India. A former full-time employee of Sportskeeda, Rohit was a part of building Sportskeeda's WWE section in its rapid growth. His work has been featured in both Sportskeeda and Wrestlezone.

Some of the big names interviewed by Rohit are AJ Styles, Jinder Mahal, Jimmy Uso and Sasha Banks. Some of his popular weekly features include RAW Preview, "X things Subtly told us" and "Wrestling rumors we hope are true and those we hope aren't".

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