John Cena: An International Phenomenon

This past Monday I was watching my favorite show on television (sorry wrestling fans that show isn't RAW or Impact).

The show?  BBC's Top Gear.

For those of you who aren't familiar with it, let me take a moment to get you up to date.

Top Gear is a British car show hosted by Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond.  This show, however, is not your typical car show that spouts off facts and figures that would make the average person's head spin.

Instead the show is more like NASCAR meets Monty Python.

I'm sure by now you are all asking, What the hell does this have to do with John Cena being an International Phenomenon?

Glad you asked.

In this particular episode the boys took a road trip through Romania in three super cars: an Aston Martin, a Ferrari, and a Lamborghini.

On their travel they got lost and ended up driving down a dirt road into a gypsy town where the most common mode of travel is a horse-drawn buggy.

The three super cars became just as dusty and dirty as your neighbor's '89 Honda Civic. 

As they stopped and asked for directions one of the gypsy kids wrote on the dusty Lamborghini "I love John Cena."

I wasn't so much shocked that the cameraman, editor, or producer might have known who John Cena was; after all the WWE is quite popular in England.  What surprised me was that some little Romanian kid who lived in a town that looked to have maybe one or two televisions for the entire community knew who Cena was.

I had no idea that the WWE's own G.I. JOE/Superman had such a long reach into Eastern Europe.  Good on you Cena!

So loyal reader, not much on wrestling news from me this week, just thought all the Cena fans out there would get a kick out the international sensation their favorite wrestler has become.