Being Extra (2006)
John Cena and CM Punk’s story didn’t begin in the ring. It started at WrestleMania 22 in Chicago.
Cena was set to defend his WWE Championship against Triple H. Before Big Match John’s music hit, the ramp lifted and a 1940s-style gangster car drove to the ring. Standing on its right rocker panel was a man outfitted in a blue suit and gray fedora, holding a Tommy gun.
The man was CM Punk.
Dressing in a Halloween costume to be a prop for the face of the company isn’t exactly a glamorous job. But hey, at least Punk did technically get his WrestleMania main event moment out of it.
The best part of Cena’s cartoonish entrance is the fact that the song the gangsters drove out to was once in a famous cartoon. David Farnon’s “Cape Crusader” played in the episode of SpongeBob that introduced us to Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy. It hypes up their return to crime-fighting to serve as Bikini Bottom’s geriatric superheroes.
Do with that information what you will.
