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John Cena
John Cena tied Ric Flair's long-standing record of 16 world championship reigns in 2021, a total that reflects nearly two decades of being positioned as WWE's top merchandise-selling, most consistently featured performer across the company's global expansion during the 2000s and 2010s. Cena's "Never Give Up" persona and his Make-A-Wish Foundation record — he's granted more wishes than any other single individual in the foundation's history, well over 650 — made him the performer most closely associated with WWE's family-friendly, mainstream-facing branding during his prime years. His rivalry with CM Punk and, later, his headline WrestleMania matches against The Rock in 2012 and The Undertaker in 2018 (ending the streak-less Undertaker's post-Lesnar career), placed Cena at the center of some of the highest-grossing pay-per-view events in the company's history. Cena's transition into a full-time Hollywood acting career in the 2020s, following a path similar to The Rock's before him, combined with his in-ring championship record and merchandise sales dominance, make him one of the most commercially significant performers WWE has ever employed, and his 16 world titles remain tied for the most in the company's history.
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The Rock
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson became one of the WWF's biggest stars during the late-1990s "Attitude Era," a period defined by edgier, more adult-oriented storylines, winning multiple world championships while building a catchphrase-driven, charismatic promo style — "Can you smell what The Rock is cooking?" — that made him one of the most quotable performers the genre has ever produced. His rivalry with Stone Cold Steve Austin, headlining WrestleMania X-Seven in 2001 in front of more than 67,000 fans at Houston's Astrodome, is still widely regarded as one of the greatest matches and best-attended events in WrestleMania history, capping the most commercially successful period the promotion had experienced up to that point. The Rock transitioned to a full-time Hollywood film career in the mid-2000s, eventually becoming one of the highest-paid actors in the world — a crossover from pro wrestling to mainstream movie stardom more successful and sustained than any performer before him had achieved, reshaping expectations for what a wrestling career could lead to afterward. He returned for occasional high-profile matches even after becoming a movie star, including a WrestleMania main event against John Cena in 2013, and his combination of in-ring success during wrestling's most-watched era and his subsequent global film fame make him one of the most recognizable performers to ever come out of the business.
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