Pro wrestling star John Cena was involved in a car accident on the Schuylkill Expressway in Philadelphia on Monday.
Fox 29 has confirmed Cena was riding as a passenger in a vehicle. A spokeswoman for the WWE said Cena was not hurt in the accident.
TMZ says Cena was riding in a vehicle that was rear-ended by a tractor trailer.
He’s fine and will still appear on tonight’s show, but #prayforcena has already taken over as the #1 trending topic. As a result, here’s our poll of the week:
- To nominate a comment for one of the top 10 of the night, be sure to reply with +1. That’ll make it easier for me to differentiate between the 2,000-or-so comments that are left.
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I think Brandon would have had this week’s Best and Worst up by now but Uproxx thinks he’s posting too fast :(
+1
Ugh, hurry up and get to the ring Taker!
Sorry, this post made more sense when I tried to post it yesterday.
Very appropriate The Rock used Rocky Balboa in a promo. All of his work lately has been comparable to shitting on a glass table.
I live in Philly, and it should be noted that other than the Cena car wreck, the big story yesterday morning in the Philly.com sports section was that Rock had dropped by the NovaCare Center (where the Eagles train) and worked out with the team.
On behalf of Eagles fans everywhere, let me say: “Great. Another undersized defensive end who can’t play.”
+1 D Battery
So are Trips, Taker and Shawn going to complain about the music being too loud or the temperature in the arena is too hot. And honestly why didn’t Shawn just interrupt Taker during his intro, and don’t say he didn’t have time not to.
Sorry I couldn’t get this in last night, this 15 minute Canadian delay is killing me.
Undertaker/Triple H 3 at Backlash in a heinous Get Off My Lawn match.
With Clint Eastwood as special guest referee?
Cody Rhodes reminded me of glass joe in those big gloves.
Do you guys think they get a new shark every week, or do they just keep jumping the same one over and over again?
Jumping the shark doesn’t mean “not being good”. It’s a representative point that you can look back on in retrospect as the marker for when a once great thing changed, forever, for the worse.
I doubt anyone cares. It just gets misused online almost as much as “literally” does.
Consider me corrected
Literally
I could care less about people misusing phrases on the Internet.
I am continually saddened that my big boy responsibilities prevent me from jumping in on this. You guys look like you’re having so much fun! *pouts*
I will say that I am hoping for several Bests for HBK’s shit-eating grin the second ‘Taker said he was better than HHH. Little things like that are just deep-fried awesome to me.
I wanted to mention: only the Rock has enough goodwill in WWE to not only mention Ultimate Warrior favourably in a promo, but also use video of him in the promo. I did like him invoking the Wrestlemania Greats of Olde in his taped promo too.
One thing that everyone can agree on: Whoever the Undertaker paid to erase that “Sara” tatoo from his neck did a great job.
Missed the show. DVR’d it. After reading the last 30 comments, it sounds like I should just follow along with the comments section when I watch it so it makes some sense (if any). I am happy we all speak the same language.
Take that Aytch. I didn’t really wanna ‘Mania w/ you after all! YOUR PONYTAIL ISN’T EVEN THAT INAPPROPRIATE! #InappropriatePonytailTheatre
+1, retroactively.
+1
wonder how long HBK has to live… Looks like he has the “C” word..
“Chaps”?
“Cunt”?
crosseyes?
Chavito Heat?
Crotch burn from too much chopping?
Got it. HBK has a colostomy.
Shawn Michaels’ top qualification for guest referee is his ability to look at both participants at the same time.
Face to face to face to finger to finger to dumbass smirk and its coming up next!
They’re gunna talk wayyy tooo slowwww
Apparently it took A-Train 8 years to shave his back
/actually shoot excited about this
RIP Giant Bernard. Long live Giant Bernard in kabuki makeup.
I think Samurai Albert has weekly Best potential.
Was that Albert in the promo? Really? Really? Whats next, the Blue Meanie?
Because thats what the PG WWE needs, Dick Ladder vs Funkasaurus feud ending with a ‘funkette on a pole match.’
I was really glad they found a meaningful way to pay homage to the legendary feud that Show and Kane never had.
If you didn’t enjoy that last segment, your heart just isn’t in wrestling.
I enjoyed it when they did it last year.
Orton has great discipline. I beat the monster on a nightly basis.
Oh, +1, I cackled at this.
If this were happening 10 years ago, your main event for Raw next week would be Cena/Punk/Sheamus/Orton/HHH/Show vs Rock/Jericho/DBryan/Kane/Orton/Rhodes with HBK special ref.
*shuffles through notes* Aw, man! Why did Uproxx have to shit the bed? I had a great joke about Undertaker’s new Prodigy haircut. FOR REAL! (Maybe!)
That’s a legit, 40% MAYBE.
“Maury, I am 40 out of 60 percent sure!”-real quote from the Maury Povich show.
Someone brought Peter King onto the Maury show to discuss the best citrusy beer, and proper etiquette in Major League Baseball clubhouses?
and it was all on location in Wichata
Quasi-Wichita esque
I’m not sure who greenlighted it, but I’m pretty fond of Taker’s Daedric robe/Jarl of Death Valley look.
showracemenu
Add long hair.
Wrestlemania is on April 1st? Well, that sucks. I’ll be wanking to the season 2 premiere of Game of Thrones for a good hour during it. Oh well.
Shit, I didn’t realize that. Thank god for DVR’s.
Pure is trending world wide
Funk was not on a roll tonight.
H is the best pointer in this business
The finglongerer helps.
This episode of Psych has Miz returning to his reality show contestant roots.
Did anybody catch the photos from the Cena crash at the beginning of Psych?
I’m impressed we still got up to 600+ comments, even though we all post too fast for the internet! Good job, guys.
the post comment button was pressed at least 50000 times tonight
I’m pretty sure I pressed it 10000 times myself.
Man, tonight was more frustrating than a Kane v Percy Watson match. I just kept yelling ‘ JJJJjeeeEEEEEeeeeeeFFFFFFF” hoping Brandon’s tech guy was sitting on the wrong button while eating a meatball sub.
LET’S KEEP THIS GOING GUYS WE CAN BREAK 2000 COMMENTS!!!
With that kind of math, you too could be the director of social media relations at WWE who writes the copy for the bumpers about Nielsen ratings, Facebook, and Twitter statistics.
FUCK IT! WE’LL DO IT LIVE!!!
Almost there guys. Too bad UPROXX nearly Benoit’d itself.
I cant wait until Undertaker finishes off HHH at Mania by finally exposing his bald head, as a beam of light shoots out and melts the skin off of HHH’s face.
I’m hoping when Taker exposes his head it’s shortly followed by hearing an exasperated Jerry Lawler’s death fart.
Hey, Hunter…you remember that thing I said to you two weeks ago?
I’m saying it again tonight.
And I will also say it again next week and/or at Wrestlemania before the match itself.
thought that was ok, but poor booked…would have been fine at 10pm.
I kind of wish that episode ended with Kane coming out to light the ringpost pyro and high five ‘Taker, because “burn,” I guess.
+Rhodes
+a million brother backstory joke points
“AND…I will.”
“He is.”
And Shawn just stood there smirking like an idiot. Quite an ending. Compelling and rich.
THIS IS THE DRIZZLING SHITS. and not my garage band.
I feel like those three guys should be huddled around, trying to gain immortality from the Dark Crystal.
And now…I’M WAYNE BRADY, BITCH!!!
This episode of Psych was pretty funny. But I also like The Miz.
uhhhhhhhhhhhhh what the fuck?
Shawn Michaels’ awkward, “I have nothing to do but stand here and look I wouldn’t rather be skinning a deer” face has to get a Best tonight.
look like*
Oooooooh that’s how we burn ‘em on the Darkside baby! He is better than you!
There are enough pregnant pauses here for ten more seasons of “Teen Mom”.
I’m 99% sure that I’ve seen these same 3 guys staredown before. I think it was at Sturgis…and a spilled beer was the focal point.
+1 for South Dakota reference
So, wait. If Undertaker wins, he gets Stephanie and the kids? Was that in the Dark Crucifixion Wedding Pre-Nup or something?
“IT WAS ME, HUNTER… I WAS MARRIED TO STEPHANIE ALL ALONG!”
Best to the fan yelling “SUPERKICK!”
Oh God, I don’t want to see Undertaker’s “end of an era”.
Keep ‘em in your pants, fellas.
Goddamnit, I was really looking forward to the obligatory undressing of the sHHHuit.