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WWE: John Cena - Word Life

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Word Life is John Cena's personalized DVD. It shows Cena's process through the WWE. Now if you don't like Cena's freestyle's or battle raps then you shouldn't buy it. Now the "Movie" is only 45 minutes long but with the extra's and easter eggs it becomes three hours. The movie is mostly Battle Raps and Freestyles but a good thing is if you want to see the matches that the freestyles led upto then go to the extras. I think the raps and freestyles are really funny and the matches are pretty good on a scale from 1 to 10 I give them:
vs. Chris Benoit 7/10 Winner JC
It is a suprise ending!
vs. Brock Lesnar 8/10 Winner BL
JC comes close to winning but loses at the last minute.
vs. The Undertaker 7/10 Winner Taker
Good match and good effort by JC
vs. Eddie Guerrero 8/10 winner JC
Great match
vs. Kurt Angle 5/10 winner KA
JC TAPS OUT!
The other stuff is also really good
Totals:
Movie: 7/10
Matches: 7/10
Extras:8/10
Alltogether: 8.5/10

I'm a huge John Cena fan, but this DVD could be much better. The extra matches included are a nice bonus, but there's only 5 matches on this DVD period. When I buy a wrestling DVD it's for wrestling. The whole DVD is John Cena's freestyles. Really the whole DVD is JUST his freestyles, with Cena introductions. I like his freestyles just as much as the next Cena fan, but what about some content. Not a whole lot of replay value to hear him rap. The other extra features are a Before They Were Superstars, wich is a really cool look at his past. A funny outside the ropes segment from WWE Confidential. Behind the Scenes of the YJ Stinger ads. Smackdown Magazine cover shoot. John Cena & Eddie Guerrero in Singapore (funny segment). And Battle rap in Baghdad were he battle raps a soilder.
The matches are:
vs. Chris Benoit
vs. Brock Lesnar
vs. Undertaker
vs. Eddie Guerrero
vs. Kurt Angle
So if you are a huge Cena fan pick it up, if not this one should be passed on.

The only reason why WWE made this DVD was to capitalize on how over John Cena is on the fans. John Cena's had a limited career at the time this DVD was made, so not many note worthy matches. The "special features" weren't that great either.

Get it if you must, but it's not really worth it. WWE should have waited until after Wrestlemania 20 to even think about making a John Cena DVD.

i like this dvd, but it should have john cena's best matches
here is the list
John Cena vs. Kurt Angle(cena's first match)
John Cena vs."Y2J"Chris Jericho(Vengence)
John Cena vs. Brock Lesnar(WWE Title)(Backlash)
John Cena vs. The Undertaker(Vengence)
John Cena vs. The Undertaker(Smackdown)
John Cena vs. Eddie Gurrero(Parking Lot Brawl)(Smackdown)
John Cena vs. Kurt Angle(No Mercy)
Team Angle(Kurt Angle, Chris Benoit, Bradshaw, Hardcore Holly, and John Cena) vs. Team Lesnar(Brock Lesnar, Big Show, Nathan Jones, Matt Morgan, and A-Train)(Survivor Series)
John Cena vs. Big Show vs. Kurt Angle(No Way Out)
John Cena vs. Big Show(US Title)(Wrestlemania XX)
John Cena vs. Reene Dupree(US Title)(Judgement Day)
John Cena vs. RVD vs. Reene Dupre vs. Booker T(US Title)(Great American Bash)
John Cena vs. Reene Dupree(Lumberjack Match)(Smackdown)
John Cena vs. Booker T(Best out of 5 Series for US Title Final Round)(No Mercy)
Team Gurrero(Eddie Gurrero, Big Show, RVD, and John Cena)vs. Team Angle(Kurt Angle,Luther Reigns, Mark Jindrak, and Carlito Carribean Cool w/ Jesus)
John Cena vs. Jesus w/Carlito Carribean Cool(Street Fight)(US Title)(Armmagedon)
John Cena vs. Kurt Angle(No Way Out)
John Cena vs. JBL(WWE Title)(Wrestlemania XXI)

WWE put this DVD out around WrestleMania 20 but you can tell this DVD was just rushed out to make some $$$ off his growing popularity. The DVD for the most part is just "the best of his raps" because that's all the documentry is, all his rapping promos. Weather you like him or not, Cena's got some funny punchlines at times. Eventhough it's rushed, the matches would have possibly made up for it but nope...most of the matches were from SmackDown.

It starts with his first rap at the SmackDown Christmas part back in 2002 as Vanilla Ice. His promo raps on Brock Lesnar (Backlash 2003) & Undertaker (Vengenance 2003) are shown. Battle raps he did with people like Rikishi, Brian "Spanky" Kendrick, Kurt Angle, and the funniest one of them all with Big Show ("your the white girl & I'm Kobe Bryant!"). His little "masturbation" rap on Stephanie McMahon & his promo on Vince & Sable are also shown. Pre-match raps on people like Rhyno, Billy Gunn, Funaki, and A-Train along with his rap at the first SmackDown in Iraq close out the documentry.

Extras are matches from SmackDown against Chris Benoit, Undertaker (nope, not the Vengenance match but one from two weeks later), Eddie Guerrero (nope, not the Latino Parking Lot brawl but from the week before) along with matches against Kurt Angle (No Mercy '03) & Brock Lesar (Backlash '03). There's also a battle rap against a shoulder in Iraq, a bunch of features from Confidental, and his hidden Stacker 2 commercial.

Again, this isn't worth your time unless you just want to get some cheap laughs from his raps.

It's nice to have a collection of all of Cena's early raps on one DVD. The extras aren't too bad either. If you like Cena, then I'd recommend buying this DVD. If you don't like Cena, then don't buy it. It's as simple as that. WORD LIFE.

I loved this DVD! I am a HUGE John Cena fan and enjoyed this much more than 'Here Comes The Pain' or '619'. I believe John did a great job and put in funny segments and highlights of his career. i hope this isn't the only one and that John releases another DVD later in his career. It has good matches, good clips and great features. A definite buy for WWE fans. And for those of you don't like it, you obviously haven't been watching the same DVD as me. A great buy overall.

I don't think that it is right that everyone is putting down this DVD. John Cena is a great wrestler, and a great rapper and this DVD represents that. If anyone actually put aside the fans in back-ground, they would realize that. Some creep was saying how you could barely hear him over the fans screaming, well they were screaming for a reason! Geez, you could hear him fine. They were saying that it felt like they spent about an hour editing it. If you stop thinking about stupid things like that you could actually appreciate that. This was a great DVD.

Now I have to admit I do like John Cena. I think he is funny and a hell of a competitor but it is a little too soon to put out a dvd about him. There is nothing in this dvd that really makes you excited that you bought this dvd in the first place.
It is just a bunch of his freestyles that you have already seen on tv. Oh and hey the extras arent that good either.
Here are the matches on the dvd:
1. vs chris benoit
this match is good and Benoit is great but this match wasn't too exciting. 7/10

2. vs Brock Lesnar
A ok match with the monster, and had some dominating moves by Lesnar. Seemed to drag ona bit. 8/10

3. vs Undertaker
I thought this match was gonna be the one from Vegeance but it was already a match I saw on Smackdown.I was very dissappointed because I thought it was a ppv match but it was just aregular tv match. It was still good. 9/10

4. vs eddie Guerrero
Another match I thought was gonna be different. I thought it was gonna be their parking lot brawl. But it was their match the week beforethat match. An ok match, but nothing to jump up and down over.7/10

5.vs Kurt Angle
A fantastic matchup,kurt and John put all their effort into this match. 10/10

In closing, this dvd was not that good because it was released too early in Cena's career.Cena hasnt had to many gimmick matches the only gimmick match I've seen in him was the lumber jack match. When he starts doing cage and hell in a cell matches then thats when you make a dvd about someone. An ok buy just dont expect too much . WORD LIFE

We've Cen-enough,

when will the WWE stop pushing John Cena, lets be fair he came into the company as a jobber, and a jobber he should be. I saw parts of this DVD on a John Cena special on cable and it did not convince me to give him a chance. He has no wrestling abilty, he can;t cut promo's without sounding like a cross between Stone Cold and The Rock, his character consists of doing a poor impressions of a black man (Booker T does a far better job because he is a black man, unlike Cena, who just plays one on TV).

Instead of pushing Cena, they should have pushed Vanillia Ice, his just like Cena, except he might be able to wrestle.