Reel in Place

  Coming into this show, it has been four months since John Cena has main-evented a PPV. So, let's run down what has happened in the interim. Shortly after the JBL match, John Cena gets drafted to Raw, where he'll spend over a decade as the centerpiece of that show. And to celebrate that momentous occasion, Cena was given the poisoned chalice of Chris Jericho wanting to put him over, which really never works except if you're Chris Jericho. Already tasked with overcoming that, John Cena's gimmick also now has come to include the fact that he can't wrestle. Fans took this bit of storytelling to heart to such a degree that ten years after this, a lot of fans still believed it, despite mountains of evidence to the contrary. At Vengence in June, Cena beats Jericho and Christian in a triple threat and at SummerSlam he beats Chris Jericho is a singles match. This leads us here to Unforgiven, and the continuation of the John Cena can't wrestle saga, this time up against...

  I got the idea to watch every John Cena PPV main event and rank them. I don't know what the general consensus on Cena is anymore, but I'd say generally I'm pretty high on him, although there are matches of his, the Umaga one comes to mind, that I don't love as much as most. So here goes nothing. Cena just beat JBL for the WWE Championship at Wrestlemania the month before, so this is his first defense in his first PPV main event, so it's a big spot for Big Match John. Things start slow but escalate quickly. JBL chokes Cena with a belt, JBL takes a massive back body drop through the announce table, JBL brains Cena with a chair, and Cena comes up just gushing blood. JBL is great here playing a giant prick. He's eating the shit out of Cena, but he knows Cena won't quit, certainly not from any sort of pain Bradshaw is going to inflict, so he basically tries to reason with him. Cena won't quit but maybe he will if Bradshaw's gonna end his rap career, his...

  Roman got COVID, so WWE threw Brock Lesnar in a Fatal 4-Way, and proceeded to have a 5-way hoss sprint. It ruled. Just non-stop big moves, all gas no brakes. Brock starts spamming suplexes, especially throwing some brutal ones on Kevin Owens. Big E dumps Brock out of the ring. Lashley brains E on the ring post then spears Brock through the barricade. Owens and Rollins, non-hosses, team up to try and match meat with Lashley and the Brock. That brings us to the plunder portion, Ring steps, the top of the announce table, all leading to Big E hitting a uranage on Lashley through the table. Seth and KO take over again on Brock and then E. Big E gets the knees up on Owens' Moonsault but Rollins follows right up with a Frog splash. Seth goes to Stomp Brock, but no. Brock F-5s him, then E, then KO, Brocks primal, and then he eats a Lashley spear. Hurt Lock on Brock, Big breaks it up, Big Ending on Lashley, F-5 on Big E and Brock is the new champ.  I don't know what Roman-Brock was s...