Umaga vs. John Cena for the WWE Championship (Last Man Standing), from WWE Royal Rumble 2007 (revisited)

I dared to wonder if this was as good as I remember. The years haven’t been kind to plenty of art, and WWE have had plenty of matches more technically sound than this. That said, they haven’t had a monster mash quite as good as this (the main event of SummerSlam 2017 came close). Cena is, well, Cena, but this should’ve been a starmaking performance for Umaga, simultaneously conveying his own monstrous power while making Cena’s offense against him feel valid. The truest sign of this match’s success: San Antonio were kind of on John Cena’s side by the end.

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