5 Best rivalries in SmackDown Live history

AJ Styles and John Cena.
AJ Styles and John Cena.

3. AJ Styles and John Cena (WWE Championship feud)

16 Time World Champion John Cena .
16 Time World Champion John Cena .

AJ Styles and John Cena are two of the most iconic names in professional wrestling history, however both Superstars took very different paths to the top of WWE.

John Cena has always been a WWE guy. WWE molded Cena to be a sports entertainer and hand picked Cena as the face of the franchise. In fact, Cena has never even wrestled for another promotion.

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To the contrary, AJ Styles traveled all around the world before signing with WWE. Styles has been with some of the best professional wrestling promotions like TNA, NJPW, and ROH. Styles has also won the World Championship in almost every promotion he's ever worked for.

This nuance in their background was the major highlight for John Cena's early 2017 WWE Championship feud against AJ Styles. The build to the match featured a number of work/shoot style promos and they were all believable. Styles and Cena were at their very best.

The two Superstars put on a stellar performance at WWE Royal Rumble 2017 and it was voted match of the year by the WWE Universe.

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