Cena HATED going over Nexus

[Solid Snake]

So this is something new I learned today.

When it was Cena vs Nexus, and Cena ultimately destroyed them in 2010 at Summerslam, he hated it. He didn't want to go over on Wade or Nexus because they were such a good group at the time. There are other reasons too I am sure but he did what he was told. His way of apologizing for it is to lose at every Summerslam, once for every member.

In 2011 - Cena lost to CM Punk
in 2012 - Cena lost to CM Punk
in 2013 - Cena lost to Daniel Bryan
in 2014 - Cena lost to Brock Lesnar
in 2015 - Cena lost to Seth Rollins
in 2016 - Cena lost to AJ Styles

And this year... Will be the 7th year he will lose at Summerslam and who will it be to? No one knows yet!

This is very telling of John's character. I think this is a very cool thing he has done.

 

[Rosie]

So this is something new I learned today.

When it was Cena vs Nexus, and Cena ultimately destroyed them in 2010 at Summerslam, he hated it. He didn't want to go over on Wade or Nexus because they were such a good group at the time. There are other reasons too I am sure but he did what he was told. His way of apologizing for it is to lose at every Summerslam, once for every member.

In 2011 - Cena lost to CM Punk
in 2012 - Cena lost to CM Punk
in 2013 - Cena lost to Daniel Bryan
in 2014 - Cena lost to Brock Lesnar
in 2015 - Cena lost to Seth Rollins
in 2016 - Cena lost to AJ Styles

And this year... Will be the 7th year he will lose at Summerslam and who will it be to? No one knows yet!

This is very telling of John's character. I think this is a very cool thing he has done.

You got that from WC...didn't you?

 

[Geek773]

So this is something new I learned today.

When it was Cena vs Nexus, and Cena ultimately destroyed them in 2010 at Summerslam, he hated it. He didn't want to go over on Wade or Nexus because they were such a good group at the time. There are other reasons too I am sure but he did what he was told. His way of apologizing for it is to lose at every Summerslam, once for every member.

In 2011 - Cena lost to CM Punk
in 2012 - Cena lost to CM Punk
in 2013 - Cena lost to Daniel Bryan
in 2014 - Cena lost to Brock Lesnar
in 2015 - Cena lost to Seth Rollins
in 2016 - Cena lost to AJ Styles

And this year... Will be the 7th year he will lose at Summerslam and who will it be to? No one knows yet!

This is very telling of John's character. I think this is a very cool thing he has done.

Heard this in a WhatCulture video, also today. Glad I got into wrestling late enough to never hate Cena and be able to love everything he has done recently without prejudices.

 

[Solid Snake]

Heard this in a WhatCulture video, also today. Glad I got into wrestling late enough to never hate Cena and be able to love everything he has done recently without prejudices.

Yup I heard it on the same video. I actually love that he has done this. The dude may be a lot of things but for anyone to say he is a bad wrestler/entertainer, RUBBISH!

 

[Rosie]

You can do this conspiracy theory, or it can just be general booking as each of those years, his opponents had bigger things planned.

CM Punk in both years was white hot and he was going to be facing Rock in the Rumble the year later.
Daniel Bryan was also white hot and while he wasn't originally planned for it, he did eventually go on to the WM 30 main event.
Brock Lesnar just beat the Streak and they wanted him to put over Roman the next year (didn't work)
Seth Rollins was going to face HHH at WM 32, soooooo
AJ Styles was going to be WWE Champion.

 

[SWL]

His way of apologizing for it is to lose at every Summerslam, once for every member.

I actually don't think this is a fact rather than just a theory by WC. I can't even find anything about Cena speaking out about the whole Nexus thing. I think it's just coincidence that he's been losing at Summerslam because all of his opponents were just great talents who deserved to win. It's not like anyone expected Cena to go over these guys.

Punk in 2011 was an obvious choice as he was red hot at the time
then in 2012 it was even more obvious when they built his title reign up to be one of the longest ever
2013 couldn't go any other way because he was injured and needed time off (which is something you just can't plan ahead)
in 2014 Lesnar needed that win more than anything after losing his first match to Cena back in 2012 yet coming off of his biggest win against the Undertaker from that year
2015 saw the upstart Rollins capture both the US and WWE title which is just a random WWE rule of: whenever there's a title for title match, the heel usually wins
2016 was Styles' stepping stone to winning the WWE title

I wouldn't be shocked if Cena had a match at Summerslam and just won because it's not a real fact that he "hated" going over the Nexus. Hell, he didn't even make that decision and it's not like he has any creative control over his wins/losses. He's a total company man and will do whatever they ask him to do.
The only real explanation I have for Cena losing at Summerslam all the time is that they wanna keep him a winner for Mania so they're using Summerslam as a platform to showcase other talents by making him the loser. So Summerslam is like their cheat day to let people go over John Cena so they don't have to do it on a bigger stage.

 

[Grievous 3D]

Well...if we are talking about Summerslam this year...

I think Cena should "put over" Baron Corbin...clean...

 

[edge4ever]

Cena should put over jinder at this point. Why not? They want push the Punjabi steroid monster. Let Cena and jinder fight and he beat Cena clean. Imagine that Shit.

 

[edge4ever]

So this is something new I learned today.

When it was Cena vs Nexus, and Cena ultimately destroyed them in 2010 at Summerslam, he hated it. He didn't want to go over on Wade or Nexus because they were such a good group at the time. There are other reasons too I am sure but he did what he was told. His way of apologizing for it is to lose at every Summerslam, once for every member.

In 2011 - Cena lost to CM Punk
in 2012 - Cena lost to CM Punk
in 2013 - Cena lost to Daniel Bryan
in 2014 - Cena lost to Brock Lesnar
in 2015 - Cena lost to Seth Rollins
in 2016 - Cena lost to AJ Styles

And this year... Will be the 7th year he will lose at Summerslam and who will it be to? No one knows yet!

This is very telling of John's character. I think this is a very cool thing he has done.

This sounds like horseshit. Not the part that Cena didn't wanna go over the nexus but to make up for it he's lost at summerslam ever since. I think it's bs. I mean has Cena ever come out and said that directly? That he tells Vince that at the second biggest PPV of the year, because of the time he didn't put over nexus, he wants to lose. I don't buy it. There may be a backstage story reason for it. Idk what. But this seems odd and bs.

 

[Prince Bálor]

Nakamura vs Cena at SummerSlam would be nice. :nakamura4:

 

[Zardnaar]

From what I heard Cena refused to lose and changed the finish as Nexus was supposed to win.

 

[WholeFN'Moe]

Just because he said that.... doesn't mean its true lol

 

[Mustafar Reginald]

Yeah, I like Plumpy and all but him throwing in a "Fun fact" before a statement doesn't make this a credible fact. I'd like for him to provide a better source on this. Especially considering we know from Jericho & Edge that Cena was all for going over the Nexus, at least to the extent that the former two were against Cena's proposed finish (not strictly Cena going over, but Cena getting DDT on the floor and then beating both of them - I don't think Cena decided Team WWE would win but he certainly made the finish stupid). According to them, Cena did agree that his idea was dumb after the fact, so that could lend some credence to the theory but if this is Cena's way of making penance, what an odd way to apologize. It's like he's apologizing to the event, not the superstars who were actually negatively affected by the decision. He could've used any pull to not constantly ruin Barrett's push if he wanted to apologize for the finish of WWE vs. Nexus.

Suffice it to say, but I don't believe this. Others have already gone on but there's far more important reasons for Cena losing. Whether it's the red hot faces of Punk & Bryan in 2011 & 2013, the Slammy award winning worst year of Cena's career storyline of 2012, facing the "I just beat the greatest record in WWE history" of 2014, or needing to have Styles establish since he'll become WWE Champion to hold it until Cena comes back for the RTWM of 2016. I know I skipped 2015, but I wasn't paying even the slightest attention to the product at the time, but I doubt it's some grand scheme by Cena to make amends for winning a match he shouldn't have.

As for this year, I'm figuring he'll end up facing Jinder Mahal for the WWE Championship to be honest. It's hard to imagine Cena won't be immediately thrust into the WWE Championship pic, and Jinder's classic bigotry heel heat gimmick is like custom made for a Cena feud (though truth be told, so is Kevin Owens' Face of American gimmick, but I imagine he'll be busy with Styles at SummerSlam, I'd be down for a triple threat), which yeah, I suspect Cena will lose. But I don't think that's because Cena feels bad, I think that's because WWE wants Jinder to be WWE Champion going into their India tour in September.

To be honest, I wouldn't even be surprised if most WWE higher-ups weren't even consciously aware that Cena's been losing that frequently. Undertaker's WrestleMania Streak was built on complete happenstance until like the double digits at least.

 

[Snowman1]

And he was on a three-match losing streak before that. What a pile of bullshit

 

[Stopspot]

Once again WC spews out heir own twist of actual historical facts.

Cena's losing streak at Summerslam predates the Nexus by a fair amount of time. The last time Cena won at Summerslam outside of the nexus match was 2007.

Cena is just the reverse Undertaker in that rather than him winning every year at mania, he loses every year at Summerslam. And usually that is to set up his program running into at least the Royal Rumble.