John Cena is one of the greatest WWE wrestlers of all time. Cena’s WWE career is winding down, and he has just one date on his retirement tour. Cena’s appearance on the December 13, 2025, edition of Saturday Night’s Main Event will be where Cena’s career will come to a halt.
In the Last Time Is Now tournament, he’s poised to face Gunther or LA Knight. Nevertheless, Cena’s a first-ballot WWE Hall of Famer, and he can thank his championship haul for his future induction.
The Never Seen 17 is a record-breaking 17-time WWE world champion, and he became a Grand Slam Champion by defeating Dominik Mysterio for the Intercontinental Championship in Cena’s hometown of Boston. However, Cena’s Intercontinental Championship reign lasted just 19 days, dropping the title back to “Dirty Dom” in a rematch at Survivor Series.
This article will feature different championships that Cena won in his WWE career. Not all of Cena’s championship reigns have been long. Despite Cena winning a whopping 27 championships in his WWE career, only eight of those championship reigns have lasted over 100 days. Some of Cena’s title reigns have been incredibly short, but beating Cena holding a title for a long while elevates a championship’s prestige.
6. 3rd Shortest: WWE Tag Team Championship – 1st Reign (2010)
Reluctantly, John Cena joined The Nexus after he lost to Wade Barrett at Hell in a Cell 2010. A few weeks later, at Bragging Rights 2010, Cena was forced to team with Nexus stablemate David Otunga. They challenged Cody Rhodes and Drew McIntyre for the WWE Tag Team Championship. Rhodes and McIntyre were champions for a month as they won the titles at Night of Champions 2010.
Cena and Otunga brought gold to the Nexus by dethroning McIntyre and Rhodes. However, Cena’s third reign as a Tag Team Champion overall in his WWE career was short-lived. By orders of Nexus leader Wade Barrett, Otunga lay down in the ring with fellow Nexus stablemates Heath Slater and Justin Gabriel, the beneficiaries of ending Cena and Otunga’s one-day WWE Tag Team Championship reign.
