5 Superstars Vince McMahon was not originally interested in signing

#2 John Cena

Vince McMahon and John Cena

It's hard to believe now that Vince McMahon once was not a fan of John Cena. But there was a time when the WWE Chairman didn't see a future 16-time World Champion in Cena.

SmackDown Executive Director Bruce Prichard was an important part of Vince McMahon's team when Cena was a young Superstar. Prichard revealed the very honest and brutal assessment of Cena given by the WWE Chairman:

"I'll give you Vince's exact quote the first time he saw John Cena, which was backstage, I believe at Staples Center... and Vince came up to me and said 'Get the walking billboard for steroids out of my backstage area' and pointed at John."

Prichard informed McMahon that Cena was signed by WWE and that his drug test showed that he was clean.

Jim Ross too said that McMahon wasn't initially sold on Cena but that opinion changed dramatically over the years.

"I thought I met somebody very special, told Vince that much and he wasn't as sold on it as I was but he didn't know John Cena. He couldn't have picked him out of a lineup, but he got to know him pretty well over the next three years."