Tomorrow night, John Cena will likely get some flashbacks to one of his greatest WWE rivals. He will team with LA Knight to face Solo Sikoa & Jimmy Uso – which is far from Cena’s first fight with The Bloodline.
Cena has met members of the A’noai Family in the ring since his early days facing Rikishi on Smackdown in 2003 – but no one tested him quite like Umaga. The Samoa Bulldozer gave Cena some of his hardest fights, and Cena sees a lot of Umaga in his nephew – Solo Sikoa.
John Cena Can’t Ignore The Parallels Between Solo Sikoa & Umaga
While appearing on The Bump – Cena would compare Sikoa to Umaga – saying the following.
“The striking parallel that he runs to Umaga, in every facet. To be put in that conversation is rarified air. Solo is a bit of a conundrum, but when I see him, and see him perform, I think of the hard fought battles I had against Umaga, and they run a lot of parallels.”
Perhaps the most defining match in the Cena vs. Umaga rivalry came at the 2007 Royal Rumble – when they clashed in a brutal Last Man Standing match. The match saw Cena come out the winner, and changed the mind of some of his doubters in the process. It was the type of war that Cena needed at that stage of his career, when fan backlash against ‘Supercena’ was becoming more commonplace.
What LA Knight Has Done Is Incredible
When it comes to the work that Cena’s tag team partner LA Knight has done in WWE – Cena can’t help but be impressed. Cena had the following to say about Knight on The Bump.
“I felt great, only because it reminds me of when I started to gain a little bit of notoriety and relevance in WWE. LA Knight and my story run parallel, he kind of just refused to give up and has done it his own way, even with being an underdog and being forgotten by the people in the bowels of the arena, but not by the people in the arena cheering him on. I think what he’s done is incredible. We work so hard to get where we’re at, and this is a job that shouldn’t exist. I sit in a director’s type chair in wristbands and t-shirts, this shouldn’t be a thing. So when you get a level of consistency and you get a certain level of relevancy, you don’t want it to ever go away and I totally respect that.”
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