The rivalry between John Cena and CM Punk helped define WWE during the early 2010s. Their match for the WWE Championship in Money in the Bank 2011 It established Punk as one of the company’s biggest draws and the match will happen again on TV or pay-per-view six more times before Punk’s sudden departure in 2014. The last of those matches officially turned 10 this weekend. The match took place on the February 25, 2013, episode of Monday Night Raw At the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas.
By this point, Cena had already won the 2013 Royal Rumble while Punk saw his reign of 434 days as WWE Champion come to an abrupt end when he lost to The Rock that same night. This paved the way for Cena vs. Rock at WrestleMania 29, a rematch of the “Once in a Lifetime” match a year earlier. But even though Punk failed his rematch against Rock at judiciary department, Fans were still hoping to see him get added to the WrestleMania main event and make him a triple threat. WWE played into this idea by challenging Punk Cena for his spot at WrestleMania on Raw, which Cena accepted.
The match lasted over 26 minutes and was famous for Punk nailing Cena with the Piledriver even though the company had quietly banned the move years earlier. It’s also the match where Cena broke out of a Hurricanrana, then delivered an Attitude Adjustment for the win. Punk would go on to face The Undertaker at WrestleMania in what many consider to be the last truly great WrestleMania match during “The Deadman’s” undefeated streak, while Cena would win the WWE Title from The Rock at the moment the torch passed.
You will be recognized later WWE behind the scenes His February 2013 match with Cena is the WWE match he is most proud of. This was mostly due to the fact that he was seriously ill while wrestling that night.
“Ironically, a guy who calls himself ‘the best in the world,’ I don’t like talking about myself,” Punk said at the time. But off the top of my head, I remember John Cena wrestling in [Dallas]…and it was kind of thrown together at the last minute and I was told it was going to be for a shot at The Rock at WrestleMania. Becky [Lynch] She’s sitting here talking about chips on her shoulders, being hot and cold… Michael Jordan had the “flu game,” I had the flu game. I was mortally ill for this. And I remember lying on the ground like, man I feel like I’ve run another marathon and I’ve come to the finish line and I have to hand the baton to somebody else who runs the last .2 miles and can cross the finish line.”
“I was like, ‘Man, I don’t know what I’m doing anymore.'” And John was like, “Well, what do you want to do?” And I just said, “I want to give you a river, John.” That was all we had. “We went in there and I think the crowd definitely helped because I was so sick that… it was really hard to care for him, and they made me care. I went there and I felt their energy and we gave them something for them that I think stands the test of time.”
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