 What's good job your boy Ross back again with another video? So we're gonna be checking out John Cena in 2007 was untouchable now You're probably wondering. All right. This seems like a good video to check out the Ross. Why do you have a robe on? Well, it actually got cold down here in Texas where I'm at in Houston it's in The mid 40s right now just took out Blondie to use the restroom and I was like, you know what I don't really wear This robe often But it's comfortable. It's warm. You know, it's keeping me warm right now And I don't feel like putting on anything else to record this video. So yes I have on my comfortable robe during the video. You know saying like this We're family at this point. So I should be able to sometimes record some videos in my road Man, just just to be comfortable and relaxed So yes, this is the fit for this particular video, man But all jokes aside man John Cena in 07 was he was just Vince said this is the guy and we're gonna go with him being the guy and we don't care what the fans think about it He's gonna be the guy. So we're gonna check this out Go down memory lane by none other than wrestling gifts. Make sure you subscribe to if you haven't already Let's get right into this video What it comes to sports every all-time great athlete has that one year that one year where there are no doubt at their absolute best The one year where they're at the top of their game and were straight untouchable looking back in history Jordan had 1993 Tom Brady had 2007 Messi had 2012 and Ronaldo had 2013 These were the years where the athletes reach legendary status and it's no different in the world of professional wrestling Every wrestler has that one year that just becomes synonymous with them Austin had 1998 triple H had 2000 Brock had 2002 and John Cena had 2007 John Cena in 2007 was just different. This man was on a mission It was his third year carrying the WWE on his back and he carried that shit like his life Depended on it. So seven is one of the most impressive years by any top-kind wrestling ever in my opinion What John Cena didn't owe seven the streets will never ever forget once he dropped the Marine in late Oh six and started saluting every two seconds and wearing camouflage. The game was changed This man a whole generation convinced he was a part-time Marine slash rapper slash trapper slash bad bitch snatcher and was The whole world was watching John Cena in 2007 became his year. It became the year where John Cena officially became a legend We begin in January to start off the year Sina found himself in a feud against umaga the Samoan bulldozer Umaga was rest in peace umaga, man. They had a pretty pretty intense feud. I'm not gonna lie to you They had a pretty intense feud. Umaga Definitely came off as a very viable threat genuinely terrifying as a kid I mean this man had face tattoos would give restless concussions with his ass and then casually stabbed him in the throat with his thumb This man was truly a savage after finessing a win and news revolution Sina had a rematch against umaga at the Royal Rumble a last man standing match for the W And yo on that night these two went out there and they just went mental John Cena in his early years before the WWE went PG was a god when it came to no DQ matches This man would bleed for the industry and this match with umaga was no different They killed each other umaga was destroying Sina so bad It looked like Sina was actually going to die announced tables were being broken monitors getting thrown around So this is a fun match more blood in this match than when it's your girls time It looked like umaga had caught a body and there was no way Sina would ever be able to put a manga out for the 10 count but after trying everything and anything after destroying the ring in the ringside area He resorted to doing this and he finally did it after 30 minutes of war That was a that was a pretty cool visual them taking down a top turnbuckle and pretty much John Cena putting him in the at the time they still called it the STFU and Just choking the life Umaga that was a pretty cool Visual I'm not gonna lie to you him with the bloody crimson face It was it was a different time of wrestling man The title and everyone knew right then in there that this was no doubt John Cena's greatest performance ever going to this show Everyone thought this match was gonna be whatever, you know just an average match a random gimmick match It was only umaga's second pay-per-view made event ever and the critics were very hard on Sina at this point But it didn't matter it ended up being the greatest last match standing match ever and this was just the beginning of 07 Sina I Wouldn't say it's the greatest last man standing match ever, but it was definitely a good one. I Gotta also remember that he's much younger. So his perception of what's the greatest ever is gonna be different I'm not one of those guys that be like, oh back in my day in the attitude there No, I'm not gonna be that person because at the end of the day Someone growing up who really just watch more of the ruthless aggression era They're gonna think a lot of those matches are the greatest error The same thing with people who grew up in an attitude here same thing with people who grew up in the 80s in the 70s Who thought those matches were the greatest error that greatest ever? That's just what it is on the time period you grew up on we can all coexist You know in different time periods of wrestling just put that out there for you guys The next two months were dedicated to building up the rest was good to this was a fun match During the build we got a match straight out of SBR 2007 where WrestleMania main event opponents had to team up The build up to WrestleMania was awesome We were fighting each other at the same time they were defending the titles, you know the typical what can they coexist by the time We arrived in April of 2007 It was clear that Cena was reaching a new level that this was going to be his defining run and what John Cena pulled off In April just cemented him as one of the greatest of all time not for real The shit that Cena pulled off in April of 2007 needs to be studied in the history books. It was April 1st It was WrestleMania 23 live from Detroit, Michigan in front of 80,000 people Cena drove into Ford Field in his Mustang broke through that glass and that was a cool Champion put on a banger of a match against Shawn Michaels 28 minutes of them just go They had a good match That's what a great story and had so much trauma and at the end Cena finally made Shawn Michaels tap out in the middle of the ring as 80,000 people went nuts. Yo, this was a great match I remember watching this so many times as a kid when I had WrestleMania 23 on DVD It had that big match field Dave Meltzer even give it four stars and to this day It is still a universally loved match For many main eventing WrestleMania and having a classic match against Shawn Michaels would definitely be the highlight of their year You know, let alone their career for Cena in 07. It wasn't even the highlight of his month They had they had a good series of matches on Monday night I was beginning because three weeks later. They ran the match back. It was Monday night London England Michaels one-on-one one more time and I was like, okay, you know what this is going to be like any other raw match Maybe I'll interfere maybe there'll be disqualification. There will at least be some sort of they showed out Something will go down, right? Yo, the only thing that went down was them casually having the greatest match in raw history Just three weeks after made a vetting They put on a clinic and had a 55-minute match on raw a match that many considered to be even better than their WrestleMania yeah, this is no doubt the best TV match I've ever seen live in my life It really felt like you're watching a playoff baseball game and extra innings and that at any moment Someone was gonna walk up to the plate and boom a walk-off home run. It was gonna end it They wrestled for 55 minutes and at the end Sean finally won with a clutch switch in music where he just fell on scene after hitting it at 1 2 3 It was over John scene at this point was battling you can't wrestle allegations at the time John Cena was looked at as a fraud by so many of the fans and he just pulled up like that scene in gladiator and was like I Wasn't all for April a WrestleMania classic plus the best raw match of all time wasn't enough because just six days later We got this John Cena versus Shawn Michaels versus Edge vs. Randy Four of the guys who defined their childhoods in one match for the title John Cena's 200 day reign on the line It doesn't get better than this you had Jim Ross losing his mind I forgot all about this for the full way Everywhere and one of the best endings I've ever seen for any wrestling match after seeing a wipes out rated RKO He turns around and boom switch in music HPK falls down after hitting the kick But the kick ends up having seen a land on or that's even though Cena was unconscious He got the one that's so crazy Three classics in one month, I am telling you I hold you man John Cena had some good matches Good grating, you know, some people will say oh, we got carried whatever situation whatever you want to call it He's a part of some good matches. He's always been a part of some pretty good pretty fun matches I will never take that away from him. I know this time period and Majority of the the male audience weren't really feeling him, you know But at this point he was moving merchandise the kids love him the women loved him That's really all Vince cared about is that bottom dollar honestly, so seven John Cena was special As the months went by the run just got even more godly in May and June John Cena was stuck in a feud with a great colleague Seven could barely move his knees were more done than Derek Rose's knees He had been in the company for over a year and had yet to have one decent match But he ends up in a few with John Cena and you I swear to God Stina give the great colleague the two best matches of his career Yo, just think how fucking mental that is that John Cena somehow some way in oh Seven made a feud with the great colleague work and let's be real the ending of the second match where he lifted Khali for the f you and dropped him off the crane is an insane moment One nice stand as a baby if you bring it back bring it back Michaels or he was in a last-minute standing match with the maga it didn't matter if he was in the ring against someone who couldn't move it Didn't matter if it's a tag team match a fatal four way a fatal five way Every single night Sina was out there putting in work and this was John Cena in his 1989 Ric Flair bag when the lights were on bright when it was time the true main event it came out every single night And made sure that the fans got their money worth and in July He was up against Bobby Lashley in the main event of the That is very different the one that we know these days This was a Bobby Lashley who had never main evented a pay-per-view prior to this This was a Lashley who had just been wrestling for a little over two years and once again Sina went out there as the WWE champion in the main event with the company on his back just weeks after the Benoit tragedy They had all this bad press on the WWE Didn't matter after an awesome powerhouse big-time main event a match that honestly certified Bobby Lashley as the real deal He hit Bobby with the top rope F you and retained his title He just proved it bring back the great American bash to as well It didn't matter who was the point it was John Cena was going to deliver every pay-per-view Sina was main eventing and Sina was defending there were no off nights. He was on raw He was even on smackdown every now and then he was on Saturday nights made event He just simply was the man. Oh, no, he was definitely was such he was definitely putting in work for sure respect to Roman Reigns and what he's been doing for the past two years But yo when I look back at what Sina was doing every single week This guy was just a different breed and his final feud of 07 began in August three years after they first Interacted on screen five years from the debut. We finally got the John Cena versus Randy The Smackdown versus raw intro video from 2004 was finally coming to life Sina had been champion for 11 months the longest reign in two decades in the WWE and it was going to be on the line for the first time ever against Randy Orrin at Summer Slam 07 I remember this match like it was yesterday. I begged my parents Please can you spend your $40 because I need to see Sina be Randy Orrin I had all my friends over I had all my cousins over and all like ten of us were cheering for Sina and this main event was so Electric it was so captivating. It was such a simple but awesome match I'll never forget when Randy hit him with the RKO and everyone's heart just dropped like oh, this is it It's over the the year reign is over But nah Sina one last time came through and hit him with the FU out of nowhere And I walked out of Summer Slam 07 still the WWE champion I'll never forget that night me and my friends and my family just bonding over the fact that John Cena came clutch There was no better feeling than seeing Sina retain I didn't know anybody that was a wrestling fan at this time anyone that was my age That wasn't a John Cena fan by September and October of 07 The Randy Orrin was just getting hotter and hotter it eventually became a blood feud which Unforgiven Cuffing Sina to the ring and being his this is when Randy went to that special place and all I Enjoyed this few what's his he involved his dad into it. I was like, oh, yeah, this is this is good I love this dad's ass in front of him and it was all going to lead to one final encounter No mercy Sina versus Orrin last man standing there was so much hype going into this match No mercy was definitely gonna be bought on pay-per-view. This was such a special feeling like yo Sina's been championed for over a year He's had this crazy run in 07 that even as kids we knew like yo We were watching something special and now it was gonna be as tough as test It was gonna be against as menace it was gonna be against Randy Orrin in a match where there are no rules But we never got it Sina's amazing run and his legendary 07 run ended a week before no mercy to the injury For 380 days and it ended to the way shoulder injury This was the saddest day of my One of the greatest runs of all legit forgot about that cuz he did get injured he ended up getting injured and yet It never happened. So I'm ending to the injury John Cena in 2007 was just different A special place in my heart because John Cena was my guy He was always my guy at witnessing this run from beginning to end was just special and even looking back at it The things he was able to do against some of the talent he was up against the work that he put in it was legendary This was the year that Sina truly became the man in 05 He had a great run when he first became champion, but they protected him You know, he was up against like Jericho and angle and in 06 He was mostly chasing the belt but 07 was when he became the guy This was when they gave him the belt and said yo be our Rick flair Pretend this is the 90s and just carry this damn territory and did he ever no doubt one of the most impressive calendar years a Wrestler has ever had one of the best title reigns ever and I'm so glad that I got to witness this live But yeah, John Cena in 07 was just different truly one of the greatest of all time And what a year it was to be alive in the Know your hey, man, this is one of those type of situations where I you know, obviously I watched this This is when I was still in into you know watching wrestling and stuff like that And I didn't have a problem with John. I understood the criticisms, but Hearing it from a perspective of someone much younger than me or younger to me Growing up watching that Routal-so-gression era I can appreciate it because it reminds me of how I felt Watching the rock and stone code as I was growing up. So this is why it's I check these videos out like this because one I did watch this era of John Cena into I can appreciate when there's a star That brings in younger fans to want to be a part of the wrestling culture That's the whole purpose is to be able to bring in new younger fans. So that way the love for wrestling will never die Like we have people now that love Roman Reigns. They loved him when he was considered the big dog So they love Roman Reigns and they got into wrestling because of Roman Reigns He is the next big star in the wrestling industry and I love to see that it's very cool And this is what the wrestling community should be all about it should be all about us being able to bring in Some of these newer fans to be able to enjoy Wrestling like we do, you know, yeah, it's gonna be a lot different from how we grew up But we can always just we should be able to appreciate What we see in front of us even if we're not the biggest fans of it. There's a kid out there that loves it There's no one out there that now they're checking out older wrestling clips Or maybe they become fans of some are our legends some are goats that we consider great Like stone codes and the rocks and stuff like that. You can check out all these footages, you know on YouTube or just online You know I'm saying so this was a cool video man John Cena during that time he definitely put the company on his back and He never looked back so comment down below. Let me know. What's your favorite John Cena match of all time? If I have to think It's not even hard for me John Cena see a punk money in the bank 2011 It's them. It's the feud that bought me brought me back to wrestling that match. It's a five-star classic Five-star classic the only thing I'm not a big the only downside to that matches They tried to do the Montreal screwdriver finish at the end. It was kind of forced They didn't have to do all of that, but at the same time It's still a five-star classic that atmosphere was just Relentless the feud itself between John Cena and see him punk was great The story behind the feud will if see him punk wins Will he leave and never come back like there's so many things that made that match what it was it was In my opinion the best John Cena match the best match He's ever put on is what see him punk in 2011 and money in the bank, baby But that's just my favorite match. Let me know y'all favorite match from him down below in the comment section But I appreciate all the love and support Road to 100k appreciate y'all kicking me. See y'all next one. Peace Road man. I like it