#66 John Cena at Judgment Day 2005
John Cena is the embodiment of WWE’s most cherished virtues: respect, patriotism, honour and determination. He is not a man that bleeds…at least, that’s according to WWE’s own narrative.
Yet there was one occasion on which John Cena did bleed… and boy did he ever.
Cena faced JBL in an I Quit Match for the WWE Championship and got his head crushed with a steel chair. Seconds later, Cena bladed and it looked like he had lowered his head into an enormous vat of cherry jam. His face, arms, and chest turned a morbid shade of crimson, and it looked like he had lost an unhealthy amount of blood.
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In today’s WWE, the company doesn’t want anyone – especially their top babyfaces, showing any weakness. And to those power-brokers, bleeding is a sign of weakness and ‘humanity’; these larger-than-life Superstars shouldn’t bleed like everyone else and are thus forbidden from showing any colour.
Even if it would’ve turned a modern WWE babyface into a total badass by bleeding like this, Vince would fire anyone foolish/brave enough to blade in such a manner.
