[2006-04-02-WWE-WrestleMania XXII] John Cena vs Triple H

[ohtani's jacket]

lol at Triple H's King Conan entrance. It was better than Cena's entrance. The crowd was electric for this and the split crowd made for quite the spectacle. Even JR admitting that he couldn't relate to Cena gave the match a different feel from the typical JR commentary. He leaned into the blue collar aspect of Cena's gimmick vs. Triple H being born with a silver spoon in his mouth, even though the latter hadn't been part of Triple H's gimmick for a while, and of course there were the obligatory football mentions, but it was straight hearing JR call a match where he wasn't slobbering over the babyface. The match was well laid out. In fact, I thought it was the best Cena match in quite some time given how disappointing the Angle/Michaels feud was. Credit should go to Triple H for not sabotaging the match, I suppose. He brought his A game. I liked that they kept it simple and didn't try to do too much. The crowd was stunned when Triple H tapped. It's hilarious to me that after Triple H's reign of terror, the crowd hated Cena so much that they welcomed a Triple H title win. That's some serious backlash. It was cool that they leaned into it instead of ignoring it, even though Cena must have felt a little hurt.