We should never see John Cena in WWE ever again. It used the last 20+ years of wrestling history to tell a story, and that story should have repercussions for the future. To make the Firefly Fun House Match something more than just an oddity, a bold attempt at something different WWE probably wouldn’t have allowed Wyatt & Cena to even attempt in any other year, it has to have meaning. That realization let The Fiend in, and allowed him to end “the most overhyped, overvalued, overprivileged WWE superstar in existence.”
He showed Cena the sacrifices “of mind, body, and soul” he’d made to prove to Vince McMahon he had the “ruthless aggression” to be the face of WWE. Love it, hate it, or didn’t understand it (and if you’re in that last camp, or if you think you got it but want a really great breakdown of everything that happened & what it (probably) meant - read Wai Ting’s Deconstruction of the Firefly Fun House Match for Post Wrestling here). Wyatt lured Cena into his Firefly Fun House, then proceeded to take the 16 time WWE World champion on a journey through his career - as reflected through Bray’s unique prism, of course. There wasn’t much of a match, and the real victory belonged to the man who counted 1 - 2 - 3.
The Fiend defeated John Cena last Sunday (April 5) at WrestleMania 36.
