10 shocking moments from WWE 2002

#4 John Cena takes Kurt Angle to the limit

Ruthless Aggression has arrived.

WWE's biggest legends don't always have memorable debuts to their name. Stone Cold originally began with the company as 'The Ringmaster' while The Rock was busy trying to get a doomed vanilla babyface gimmick over with a hostile crowd. Even Hulk Hogan, perhaps the biggest legend of them all, began his wrestling career as an underwhelming heel before creating Hulkamania.

The same cannot be said for John Cena, however, as he made a huge impact on his main roster debut. The WWE loving cutting back to footage of Cena's first match as it makes his career look like a long, carefully constructed and highly successful endeavour, and in many ways, this is exactly what it was.

After Vince McMahon announced to the roster that he was looking for 'Ruthless Aggression' from his cohort of stars, Cena answered the boss's call by accepting an open challenge from Kurt Angle. Despite losing against the Olympian, the young lion came close to causing a shock upset on multiple occasions.

After the match, Cena came face to face with the Undertaker who asked him for his name and offered a hand as a signal of respect and admiration for his efforts. Fans should have known back then that big things were in store for this muscle bound, highly energised individual.

Like him or not, you can't deny that few have had better debuts in WWE than the one and only John Cena.