Who's a Better Wrestler:John Cena Or The Rock

[I-Hate-You]

Rock

Cena's "great" matches are typcially marathon false finish fests that could make any competent worker look good. Rock has too many matches where you were actually invested in a well paced story.

 

[malbaker86]

Rock but Cena has had great matches as well.

The Rock DID have better wrestlers to work with as well.

 

[MrSinnister]

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[richaveli83]

The Rock easily. He's no Bret, Michaels, Benoit, etc but dude could go in the ring.

 

[Osmosis]

Sorry @R=G

Rock is my alltime favorite but as a technical wrestler Cena is better

 

[R=G]

The Rock was in the greatest WM main event of all time and was such a smart storyteller that he had fans more into matches than anyone in the Attitude era.

Cena is a epic no seller, doesn't carry, and really just relies on illogical spots and Superman comebacks to stretch out match lengths. The match with Cesaro was a Match carried by Cesaro...what did he really do better than Punk in those matches except kick out of everything....Bryan made him look like a novice at Summerslam 2013.

 

[R=G]

Cena is a great technical wrestler. Yes. Sorry.

You don't know what a technical wrestler is unfortunately.

 

[Kang Deezy]

I'm as big a rock fan as anybody but cena while not matching the rocks promos or charisma, is a much better worker in the ring and I don't even think it's that close.

 

[Kill Dat Noize]

I'm as big a rock fan as anybody but cena while not matching the rocks promos or charisma, is a much better worker in the ring and I don't even think it's that close.

which guy got a better response from the crowd during his matches, rock or cena?

that's who the better worker is.

 

[Silkk]

Rock but Cena has had great matches as well.

The Rock DID have better wrestlers to work with as well.

Cena's worked with a lot of the same guys Rock did(Y2J, Angle, HHH, Lesnar, Taker, Big Show, Punk) aside from Austin

and he's also worked with Edge, Bryan, Rollins, Cesaro, HBK

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

how was this up for debate?

 

[Vice Queen]

I came in here ready to clown then I thought about it.

The Rock always had charisma on his side and that brought a spark to his matches that sometimes Cena's matches are lacking. In addition, he's a way better seller than Cena is (which is one of my biggest gripes with Cena, like motherfukker, stay down!!) and his ring psychology is pretty good as well.

Cena, although proficient, just seems like his matches are a paint by numbers affair sometimes and I don't get as invested in them as I would a match with the Rock in it. And he doesn't fukking sell that well. So I gotta go with the Rock.

 

[Beautiful Bobby Eatin]

Cena is a great technical wrestler. Yes. Sorry.

Coquito season has returned

You cant be serious, man.

 

[Versa]

One of those times where you can't believe it's a real question

The Rock's selling ALONE was more captivating than Cena's entire body of work.

Neither are "technical" maestros, but The Rock never tried to be. He wrestled with electricity, bravado, and was a great storyteller.

Meanwhile Cena tries to be technical and usually ends up looking stiff and sloppy with it outside of the strong man stuff(which he's great at). Cena also really sucks at selling anything.

The guy who made me start investing in wrestling vs the guy who has been making it boring for 10 years HMMMMMMMMMMMM TOUGH ONE

 

[MexicanKingpin]

The rock by far