John Cena's first heel promo in the WWE was not just great, it was the single best promo segment ever seen in professional wrestling.

In betraying and brutalizing undisputed WWE champion Cody Rhodes at Elimination Chamber, John Cena not only turned heel but also rekindled a decades-long rivalry with WWE's rabid fanbase. Throughout his time on top as a perennial main eventer,

John Cena spent a long time as a wildly divisive WWE Superstar, and some live audiences were explicitly hostile towards him.