cena - John Felix Anthony Cena, Jr. (born April 23, 1977), is an American professional wrestler, rap music artist and actor who wrestles on the RAW brand of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where he is the reigning WWE Champion. Cena's first televised WWE match was in answer to an open challenge by Kurt Angle on June 27, 2002. Inspired by Vince McMahon's speech to WWE's rising stars, exhorting them to show 'ruthless aggression' to earn a place among the legends, Cena took advantage of the opportunity and almost beat Kurt Angle kicking out of the Angle Slam and enduring the ankle Lock submission hold, but ultimately lost to a hard, amateur-style pin. Cena then played the role of a typical underdog face in each match. After losing alongside Billy Kidman in a tournament match for the WWE Tag Team Championships, Cena turned heel, blaming Kidman for the loss. Shortly after his heel turn, on a Halloween episode of SmackDown!, he performed a freestyle rap for Stephanie McMahon while wearing a Vanilla Ice costume prompting a gimmick change to a white rapper. At first, this gimmick got Cena heel heat from the fans, but his frequent comical 'freestyles' about other wrestlers helped to gain him a following. During this time Cena adopted the classic WWF logo (without the 'F') along with the slogan 'Word Life' as his 'signature symbol'. He was joined by an enforcer, first B-2 (also written as B², pronounced 'B-Squared'), who was later replaced by Rodney Mack under the moniker 'Red Dogg'.