John Felix Anthony Cena Jr., better known as John Cena is an American actor and WWE professional wrestler who is one of few wrestlers-turned-actors who have been wildly successful. He has starred in many different action films and many comedies as well. However, his biggest role to date has been inside the DC Universe as Peacemaker in James Gunn’s show. Cena was already a household comedy name in film but this shot him up into the stratosphere. Cena started as a bodybuilder before he got familiar with wrestling, this happened in 1999 when Cena joined the Ultimate Pro-Wrestler (UPW). By April 2000, John Cena was already the UPW Heavyweight champion.
The now extinct WWF caught wind of John Cena’s talent and signed him in October 2000, it happened during a SmackDown fight he lost. By 2004, Cena had already won the WWF Heavyweight championship. This led to a wildly successful 10-year period in the company as Cena became the biggest name in the new WWE. Cena is now a 16-time world champion in different wrestling categories. After conquering everything, John Cena started looking for the career shift very few have managed to land properly. John wanted to follow the footsteps of The Rock and Dave Bautista as an actor.
How much is John Cena worth right now?
The other two former wrestlers-turned-actors are also wildly succesful but each of them has a different set of skills as actors. While Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson has the action hero chops, Dave Bautista wants to take a more dramatic turn after many different secondary roles. John Cena was always a sucker for comedies and he got to flex those muscles alongside his action hero skills in the new Peacemaker. What he’s made so far between movie roles and his WWE wage is around $80 million of net worth. Cena was reportedly paid $500,000 for his role as Peacemaker. He also earns a reported $8.5 million per year from the WWE.