John Cena's heel turn shocks fans

John Cena Did Something Unthinkable. Now All Hell Is Breaking Loose.
No, on Saturday night, John Cena—the iconic wrestler and up-and-coming movie star—drastically altered his character. He’s a bad guy now—a despicable heel. To prove it, he beat up the top star on the show and announced himself as the WWE’s preeminent villain.
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Another reason the heel turn is so newsworthy is that Cena is currently in the midst of a retirement tour with WWE. Instead of facing Rhodes at WrestleMania in a matchup of babyfaces (the wrestling term for a good guy), it now appears he’ll enter WWE’s biggest event of the year as one of the company’s top heels.
WWE: John Cena's heel turn shocks fans
If you're not a long-time WWE fan, this might seem confusing, so why are fans so shocked? In pro-wrestling, wrestlers are usually split between good guys and bad guys or villains. The bad guys are known as heels while the good guy is known as a face.
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