1. John Cena Vs. John Laurinaitis – Over The Limit 2012
Despite not holding a world championship in 2012, John Cena headlined a whopping nine out of 12 PLE main events on offer. CM Punk was the reigning WWE Champion for the entirety of the year, and he only closed out PLEs three times, which is shocking for the WWE Champion. Arguably, half of the PLEs that Cena closed out in 2012, he shouldn’t have. The pick of the bunch was his match with John Laurinaitis at Over the Limit 2012.
Had anyone under contract interfered, they would’ve been fired. Cena and Laurinaitis had no right to go on last, considering CM Punk and Daniel Bryan’s WWE Championship match tore the house down. Undoubtedly, Cena was always going to be on top, and outside interference was the only way that Laurinaitis could dream of stealing a victory over Cena.
Nonetheless, Laurinaitis fired Big Show previously, but the World’s Largest Athlete returned and turned heel by knocking out Cena with the WMD. Laurinaitis picked up the upset victory to preserve his roles as Raw and SmackDown’s General Manager.
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