Once in a Lifetime: The Feud between John Cena and The Rock
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
- John Cena and The Rock's feud was pretty enjoyable. I was entertained and sure some of Cena's statements were a bit repetitive, but the promos in themselves were just good. I really loved their WrestleMania 28 main event. In my eyes, The Rock and John Cena delivered a classic that would've been so memorable had they never had the sequel. In this video, I cover the heated Once in a Lifetime feud between John Cena and The Great One, The Rock. If you enjoyed this video then make sure you like, share and subscribe!
Topics included in this video
The Rock finally makes his return in 2011
John Cena responds to the Great One's statements
The top guys of their generations make the match official for WrestleMania 28
John Cena and The Rock team up at Survivor Series
Cena delivers verbal jabs to the Great One
Both men confront one another
The Rock and John Cena finally face off at WrestleMania 28
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Enjoyable feud. Looking back, they shouldn't have done the sequel. The buildup and the match were just awesome only for them to ruin it with the sequel. I mean it's obvious why they did the 2nd one but still. What did you think of this feud?
i liked it
WrestlingsPremier 🤓🤓🤓Yeah I agree with you that they shouldn’t have done the sequel. Whenever people talk about these two guys wrestle at or watch them wrestle at WrestleMania, it’s always the first match. Even the casual fans unlike the hardcore fans like me.😎😎😎
The main evint of wm 29 should had cm punk vs the rock vs john cena
Bro finally I've been requesting this for the longest
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The difference between Cena becoming a part-timer and The Rock is that Cena was pushing 40 and didn’t leave for years in his prime. He gave pretty much the entirety of his adult life to the business
Or is it cause the Marine & 12 rounds flopped
No. The Rock was actually a big star and had more money in Hollywood. Why would he be full time with WWE while he's making all of that money in a different brand. No one would give that up.
Bruh cena is trying to copy the rock lol . I think he's jealous
@@darkprince6543 Why would he be jealous? What Cena is doing the most logical step in his life. With the skills a pro-wrestlers have acting in shows and movies is the closest thing to that while not have to be as physically demanding. I’m surprised we don’t see more wrestlers become actors.
@@jaimonjohn2516 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
About John Cena being a part timer:
He left to Hollywood past his prime and carried the company through a tough time, from beggining to end of the PG era.
Worked night in and night out for almost 15 years.
The Rock left as soon as he became famous...
The Rock left for Hollywood in 2004 which was way past his Attitude Era Prime.
@@thestickiestman the rock only spent 7 years in the wwe
And?
@@thestickiestman Cena is what carried wwe INTO the tough time.
@@zk3212 Chris Benoit did that
That WrestleMania 28 match really did feel special. I’ve got nothing but fond memories of that build and match. But then the stuff at 29 happened and it just tarnished the ‘Once in a Lifetime’ thing bigtime.
I felt like Cena should've won the first match looking back. The rock didn't need the win anyways.
The match at WM 29 was more memorable than the once in a lifetime match at WM 28
Should’ve been Punk vs Cena or Punk vs the Rock
@@machiavelli8379 I 1000% agree. I would've had Punk vs Taker built much better and have those 2 main event. Unless you'd want to do the Punk vs Cena vs Rock 3 way, or Punk vs Cena.
@KayfabeCandyass fam he went on to be full time for atleast next 4 years, he did need to win that lmao
WWE: this is a once in a life time
Also WWE: There is another
Stone cold: and another what another what another what another what another what another what another what another what another what another what another what another what another what another
This was and still is the biggest match in history. The build was amazing and the match at 28 was awesome and had us on the edge of our seats.
Really Rock vs Hogan was pretty big, the crowd was nuts and I think it was just a little bit bigger as far as hype and historic value. They really worked the crowd in that one...
How about HBK vs undertaking WM 25 AND 26 WAS GREAT
@@fuckthepolice.9410 Bruh it was very big and had Big historic Value, but if we compare it to rock vs cena(I) , They were close, but rock vs cena was bigger and about being The Biggest match Ever In history, those 2 are not close
not even close, there are Way better matches
@@Tamruthatguy Ye it was
I just noticed Cena went to a black shirt after the fruity pebbles comment lol 😂
Same
If that was a deliberate part of the story, that is genius
Worst thing he could of done. I'm glad he eventually embraced it and actually went on to be on the cover of fruity pebbles.
@@cjvaye99 it worked tho
Nah he went to red, then black
Remember the rock vs John cena at wrestlemania 28 in Miami
Tayshun Smith yes
Thanks for the reminder...i thought the video is about the same topic you mentioned but thnks
No I'll look it up
This was the perfect time for Cena to turn heel, The Rock did it for Hogan and I think Cena should have played the heel for this feud
The Rock didn't turn heel till after his first bout with Hogan
John Cena was making too much money on merchandise to be turned heel
@@brucemcelroye5054 I bet the rock was making alot of money on merchandise but he still turned heel
It would've been a lot better if john cena would've turned heel
@@Johnny1672._ John Cena was the Heel in that feud lol
@@The-Endo-SymArmor but he was still face after the fued
It would've been better if he was a heel after the fued
He should've attack the rock after the match
I loved this feud, and it was a personal dream feud of mine. The Rock is my #1 favorite of all time, and I grew up in the Ruthless Aggression era as a huge Cena fan. Couldn't really ask for more at the time.
Funny looking back at this feud and watching John in Hollywood. He even admitted in recent interviews about how he’s more understanding about the Rock’s schedule.
Ut is a difference tho
There still is a difference tho and while I like John owns up he was and still is right rock left in his late 20s while he was the top draw in the best era of wrestling in the states meanwhile John left when he was over 40 and his era as the main draw was done for it atleast fastly heading that direction .
The match was Once In A Lifetime.
And it should have stayed that way. The sequel tarnished the prestige of the match that is supposed to be “Once In A Lifetime”
This was probably the last box office feud WWE ever had.
This was a great rivalry, Two Mega stars from the Attitude and Ruthless Aggression fighting. This was a dream match
I remember my senior year in high school. This feud was all my friends wanted to talk about. Half of us were team cena. Half were team rock. I really enjoyed this feud great times
I’ve got a idea about a video how about “a million dollar move: the Prime Time Players. Nobody has done this video and the Prime time Players are barely noticed by fans now
Great idea mate.
Idk why but the prime time players just reminds me of cryme tyme ngl
Queso_jesus kinda, Chryme time was more thug
As a kid I didn't care that "once in life" became "twice in a life" I was just happy Cena got his win back 😂😂😂. But now that I look back at it I still don't care 😂😂 Cena got his win back
From someone who saw this whole build up from February of 2011 and was attending WM 28, just want to say that the moment the bell rung got one of the biggest pops of the night since it was completely official by that point with one having to be the winner.
One of the best nights of my life and just a great feud with Two Larger than life Characters..... something we really haven't gotten since.
i was 12 when this whole feud took place and i was always team cena and i always will be i know people love to hate on him because he's successful but hes always worked harder than anyone else and was there every night he deserves all the success he's gotten
Must be nice to get everything handed to you unlike Jeff who actually outsold John who just got to popular to contain
@@Jags4Life well jeff couldn't stay off the drugs
my fued right here remember watching this whe i was 5 my hero john cena vs my one of my big brother favourite wrestlers the rock
Same this had a huge big fight feel I mean the papers were every where
Of course Cena's your hero if you were 5 back then lol.
Waltdood that was back then though, people change throughout and have new favorites
@Roku Go Stupid when I was 3-5 edge was my hero as well even as a heel
@@walterdbrown problem?
7:58 don’t you mean the corporate elbow
ONE OF MY FAVORITE FEUDS IN THE WWE, I LOVE BOTH MATCHES AND THE SEGMENTS LEADING UP TO THEM 🔥
The first one was good and had a great build up but second one was terrible from the match to the building
Never forget they marketed it once in a lifetime knowing damn well there would be a rematch AND teased a third one on raw and never delivered on it
Great feud and I was glad to see the Rock go over in the match while returning the favor in their rematch.
When this fued happened I was 5 so I didn't realize how important these two facing off was. But now I realize how important it was to WWE fans
Once in a Lifetime felt so damn personal and it felt HUGE. But sometimes it felt like Rock was holding back or letting Cena win in promos. And he never made the one point that there wouldn’t have been a John Cena if The Rock had never left to Hollywood.
Mad facts
He should have dropped that line
I mean it's true lol
He couldnt use the language he once used in the attitude era so he had to hold back and he isn’t used to that
Well
Brock Lesnar made that point in his promo segment with Cena for that extreme rules match in 2012 (the best match of their rivalry in my opinion)
It was a great feud and you can they even in some of there promos they went off script and got personal when they both was taken shots at each other made the feud some more personal
After rewatching both matches, I think that both of the matches were great. If someone watches the WM 29 match first, it will hit so different. Performance-wise, WM 29 was better, storytelling-wise, WM 28 was better.
Nah WM match was better
I love this channel and content worth my subscribe 😂 but good grind
Would've expected the sequel in the same video but nevertheless thank you for covering the once in a lifetime match up. I was 12 and it's nostalgia for me to have seen those icons go head to head. As my dad was a Rock fan, I was a Cena fan and that match was the only one we ever sat and watched together. Thanks again for the memories.
Why don’t you do the full Rock vs Austin rivalry. A lot of people only care for their 3 WM matches but those guys had a lot of classic encounters
@WrestlingsPremier what about the next video on "The rise of Stone Cold Steve Austin" or "Vengeance 2003".
Can’t believe you said it didn’t have a good build up it was perfect to me especially being a kid at the time
I felt like since cena was so desperate to win at WrestleMania 28 he could’ve done something detestable marking the start of a heel cena
Let me find out they snitching for violating wellness policy...my god that’s sad
You can’t hold it too much against The Rock being part time. You’d do the same thing if you got the Hollywood opportunities. He put in his time. Vince is the one that let his contract expire at the end of 2004
Vince was betting on him failing in Hollywood
Bro finally I've been requesting this for the longest
man this was when I was so invested like I think I was like 10 or 9 or sum but the build for this match was so hype for this match and at the time I wasn’t so familiar with the rock but that didn’t matter to me I was just so hyped for this match and wrestlemania as a whole
the very momorable moment is the survivor series awesome truth vs the rock and john cena
I loved this fued. The year long build and promos between the two were epic. I was firmly on Team Cena though. lol
This was the last mega feud
Wrestlemania 29 should’ve been Cena Rock and Punk or just Cena and Punk 1v1
Agreed
Once in a Lifetime? More like Twice in a Lifetime.
You know whats more annoying, the amount of time people write this same shit in every comment section
Cena54Chaingang you know what’s more annoying, when someone talks about their opinion but we didn’t ask
@@M1CHA3L22 whos we?
@@georgey5027 me & Cyan crewmate
Once in a lifetime fun we are young
Wait Evan Bourne snitched on Truth? That’s funny because the same thing happened to him in Japan 5 years later 😂
Karma
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You never miss with these videos man 💯
Cena was legendary on the mic. A lot of wrestlers nowadays pale in comparison to his promo skills
Facts it’s the reason why I’m fine with the rematch because I loved the promo for their second match
Not gonna lie he is probably the best wrestling channel. Like his thumbnails are the best on RUclips
wrestling premire could you do a video about what you think about daniel bryans face and heel and which one do you think daniel bryan is good at
It’s so weird now how John Cena is becoming a big actor in Hollywood he’s a part timer and he was talking about the rock 10 years ago
Cena was 100% right though, he said what you all complain about most today. “This isn’t just something you should come back to when there isn’t anything else going on in your life”
That rise above hate t-shirt was awesome. Hate him or love him everything about John cena was inspiring...even when he lost he somehow won.
The Rock ending Wrestlemania 27 by standing tall was a burial of The Miz tbh
To be fair John cena comes back way more than the rock does
The Rock is still a better entertainer thn cena
Do you know how many times the rock returned? Stupidity
@@rajbhargaw6 nope
I don't think Cena's movie schedule has reached The Rock's yet when it comes to roles.
Plus, The Rock has other projects besides movies.
In this feud Cena came off as a whiny heel begging the crowds to like and cheer him. "I'm at every show so I care therefore you should cheer me" was his logic. They'd repeat the same storyline in the Reigns vs Lesnar and Rollins vs Lesnar feuds with Reigns and Rollins in Cena's place.
You should do more WCW stuff like the LWO
Yo the commentary on this one 🤣🤣🤣🤣
do a teddy long comp of him telling ppl he is going to face DA UNDATAKA or do History of Shawn Michaels Special Guest Referee
17:02 U missed something
When rock said u strip away catchphrases, cena interrupted with “ if u strip away then what ya got “
The promo bit where Rock said "rip your throat out", the story I heard is Rock was legit pissed and forgot his lines, so he made most of it up. The problem is, his made-up promo was so bad that the entire next segment from John was unplanned. John apparently made the whole next promo part up because Rock's promo was so sloppy he lost the crowd.
5:49 Looking back this is hypocritical because now Cena's an actor. But at least he finally understands that people don't have to be wrestlers until they retire or die and it doesn't mean they've "betrayed and abandoned" wrestling if they do. That's just a weird cult like mindset WWE's brainwashed some people with.
Fruity Pebbles vs Tooth Fairy 😭
He told Bryan Danielson that he looked like what would happen if a homeless lumberjack and umpa lumpa had sex...I remember being on floor laughing. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I already knew Rock would win because Cena was always banged up espically before the big 4 PPVs.
their match at wrestlemania 28 was amazing, top 10 best mainevent match in wrestlemania history
And he wasn't gone in 2016, he was gone in 2018.
This is also my Top 10 favorite Main Events also
I think next video should be for you to finish The Legacy trilogy!! Loved those videos!
bro our peaks of watching wrestling run concurrent. i was watching in the late 2000s and early 2010s and took a break in the fall of 2011. i feel like we’re in a simulation or something🤣🤣🤣
i know lot of people disagree but imo cena should've won that match.he was seriously more dedicated to wwe then rock. rock was full timer for what 5 or 6 years but cena was full timer for 14 years.
Exactly and if Cena won the 1st match there would be no need for the 2nd match. Which means we could’ve gotten Punk vs Cena at WM 29 instead
I'm not going to lie but Cena was the heel of the fued. But as much it would have been interesting. But to me it's hard to see him as heel because he has been a face far so long.
Plz do one of the year they both had following this and their build up to the rematch etc 🤙🏻💪🏼
John still shows up more then the rock but there both Hollywood now I’m glad because there are j some of my favorite movies they were there for are childhood who cares if there not there when we’re adults 😹 great video
WrestlingsPremier is here!
You should do the throwback episode of raw that happened around this time I just remember it well cuz George Steele was there before he passed and he was actually my mom's high school gym teacher in Detroit
Can you do Finn Balor’s main roster run
He never had a run end of Finn balor on main roaster
Plz for your next video do the 2002 year of wwf/e I love your videos bro
Bruh I LOVE your content bro im about to enjoy this
The rematch should have been a triple threat with rock, cena and cm punk, with cena pinning the rock after hitting punk with a chair and AA to rock, it would have worked for everyone, the rock gets his last match and movie promotion, cena gets his win over the rock and cm punk gets his long awaited wrestlemania main event, plus the finish sort of turns cena heel for the upcoming feud with cm punk
Cm Punk the next year could of still faced the undertaker and possibly beat the streak if anyone was gonna do it, but all those ideas i mentioned make too much sense so wwe would have ignored them
Peacemaker vs Black Adam
I wished The Rock continued his Hollywood gimmick on this feud. It would be interesting and funny!
He should’ve turned heel after losing like how he said 2012 was his worst year he could’ve been driven crazy by the loss and have been the top heel on raw and face brock like he did
This Fued was memorable. But the wrestlemaina 29 was just a finsher unlitemed match
I love unlimited finishers
Watching this in real time it should've just been 'Once In A Lifetime' they built this feud basically from February 2011 when The Rock came back to announce he was hosting WM 27, but I understand business wise why they did Rock v Cena II and it did BIG TIME business for WWE to have Rock come in as champion he was(and is) THE BIGGEST STAR in Hollywood at that time, but yeah I thought Cena would win as a 13 year old kid. That feud should've lead to a Cena heel turn.
This feud was massively exaggerated for tv and it worked. At times it resembled a free-style rap battle between Dre and Eminem. During an episode of Raw before their second straight Wrestlemania match, John reflected on how it all got started. "This all started back in 2008 when I called the Rock out on the radio. He said he loves this business and in so many words, I said prove it."
This was literally greatness!
2nd one didn't need to happen at all. they could have just given cena the win during the 1st one and been done with it
Nice shots at cena ''burying'' people by the way
I would like a wrestlemania 25 video
There's so much irony in the feud in hindsight.
Do the CM Punk-John Cena feud next.
Still can’t figure why WWE never made Hulk Hogan vs John Cena Dream Match
cause he was too old when cena was top
Wrestlemania 28 was the last ppv I ever saw pre- WWE Network
I think the Rock returning was my first ever glimpse of WWE. At the time I only knew Dwayne from movies but I had no idea he was a former wrestler. I was like “What’s this familiar bald guy doing here?” My second glimpse was the Miz disguising as the Rock and attacking John Cena. After that I wouldn’t get into WWE until maybe late 2012 thanks to SVR 2010 for the Wii.
We went from this to nowadays WWE and AEW crap they are feeding the people, in the space of like, what, a decade? Yes, it wasn't the most technical gifted match, in history, not even close, but it told a story and had 2 great larger than life characters, love them or not. Some people would call them sellouts, Hollywood wannabies, Chinese sellouts etc. but those guys were great ambassadors for WWE and the wrestling industry, in general.
You should cover Mick Foley and his match with the Undertaker at King of the Ring if you haven’t already
Really think, they really wanted John Cena to stand there and get verbally abused by the Rock and not say nothing.
Yeah the original plan was to have Cena do his self righteous "rise above hate" shit and not respond to Rock. Even though Cena ignoring people and acting like he's better than them isn't rising above hate. It's being passive aggressive.
I remember being worried about this match because this was the same Wrestlemania where they had Daniel Bryan lose in 28 seconds and pissed off the crowd with the opener. I also really wanted The Rock to legit kick Cena's ass during that promo where The Rock said he wanted to rip his throat out. I didn't think the build was done properly given the amount of time they had but they found a way to get you emotionally invested when it came time.
I was 12 years old
The Rock humbled tf outta Super Cena, so much his character spent a year in his feelings about, a perfect time for him to go heel.