John Cena is a 16-time World Champion and carried the company on his back throughout the PG era. He worked hard to become the biggest name in the business but it appears he used to be mocked by the WWE locker room in the past for his wrestling skills.

When John Cena debuted on the main roster in 2002, his future was uncertain in the company as many felt he didn’t havev what it takes to make it in the business. It didn’t help his character had no depth to it.

While competing in OVW, John Cena wrestled under the gimmick of The Prototype. He used that character to wrestle in a few dark matches on Sunday Night Heat and Jakked before his main roster call up.

While speaking with Attitude Era Podcast, D’Lo Brown recalled the locker room laughing at Cena while he wrestled as The Prototype due to his robotic method of wrestling in the ring.

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“I’ll tell you this. Here, I’ll give you a little story. Here, so, in WWF we do dark matches, right? They’re matches that no one sees on TV. So, for about a year John Cena kept coming in as The Prototype. And the boys, all of us would go sit up in the stands because back then it wasn’t full arenas. So, we can go sit up in the arena and no one would see us and you could watch the matches. And we would laugh at John Cena going, ‘He’s so robotic. he’s so robotic

John Cena also returned during the WWE Money In The Bank Premium Live event. We will have to wait and see when The Leader of Cenation will be making his return to WWE television once again.

John Cena also returned during the WWE Money In The Bank Premium Live event. We will have to wait and see when The Leader of Cenation will be making his return to WWE television once again.

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