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    1) John Cena made his WWE debut in 2002, answering an open challenge by Kurt Angle and showing "ruthless aggression" but ultimately losing the match. 2) In October 2002, Cena turned heel for the first and only time by attacking his tag team partner Billy Kidman after they lost in the first round of a tournament. 3) Later in 2002, Cena adopted a new rapper gimmick called "The Doctor of Thuganomics" which saved his career and became his breakout character, cutting promos while rhyming.

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    1) John Cena made his WWE debut in 2002, answering an open challenge by Kurt Angle and showing "ruthless aggression" but ultimately losing the match. 2) In October 2002, Cena turned heel for the first and only time by attacking his tag team partner Billy Kidman after they lost in the first round of a tournament. 3) Later in 2002, Cena adopted a new rapper gimmick called "The Doctor of Thuganomics" which saved his career and became his breakout character, cutting promos while rhyming.

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    1) John Cena made his WWE debut in 2002, answering an open challenge by Kurt Angle and showing "ruthless aggression" but ultimately losing the match. 2) In October 2002, Cena turned heel for the first and only time by attacking his tag team partner Billy Kidman after they lost in the first round of a tournament. 3) Later in 2002, Cena adopted a new rapper gimmick called "The Doctor of Thuganomics" which saved his career and became his breakout character, cutting promos while rhyming.

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    1) John Cena made his WWE debut in 2002, answering an open challenge by Kurt Angle and showing "ruthless aggression" but ultimately losing the match. 2) In October 2002, Cena turned heel for the first and only time by attacking his tag team partner Billy Kidman after they lost in the first round of a tournament. 3) Later in 2002, Cena adopted a new rapper gimmick called "The Doctor of Thuganomics" which saved his career and became his breakout character, cutting promos while rhyming.

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    Throughout the early months of 2002, Cena constantly found himself competing on house shows for the

    WWF, where he wrestled against the likes of Shelton Benjamin and Tommy Dreamer. After his main call
    up in June 2002, he continued to appear on OVW programming until September 25, when he lost to
    Kenny Brolin in a Loser Leaves OVW match. He would later appear in a one-off appearance for the
    developmental farm in November under the ring name Mr. P in a six-man tag team match, where he
    teamed with future WWE Hall of Famer Big Boss Man and Charlie Haas, in a winning effort against
    Lance Cade, Trevor Murdoch and Sean O'Haire.

    Ruthless Aggression (2002)

    On the June 24 episode of Raw, Vince McMahon ordered the entire roster to the ring and declared he
    needed them to all find some "ruthless aggression" from within themselves and that he was looking for
    one of them to stand out from the rest.[48] Cena made his WWE television debut on June 27 on an
    episode of SmackDown! by answering an open challenge by Kurt Angle. After declaring he possessed
    "ruthless aggression", he lost by a pinning combination.[49] After the match, he was congratulated by
    Billy Kidman, Faarooq, Rikishi, and The Undertaker.[50] Following the near-win, Cena became a fan
    favorite and began feuding with Chris Jericho, defeating him at Vengeance.[49] Then, Cena feuded with
    Los Guerreros (Chavo and Eddie Guerrero) and picked up a victory over Chavo Guerrero on the
    September 7 episode of Velocity. On the September 12 episode of SmackDown!, Cena teamed with Edge
    in a losing effort against Los Guerreros, thus ending the feud in the process. He later went on to defeat
    the likes of Albert and D-Von Dudley as he was restricted to appearances on Velocity for the rest of
    September.

    In October, Cena and Billy Kidman took part in a tag team tournament to crown the first WWE Tag
    Team Champions of the SmackDown! brand, losing in the first round. The next week on SmackDown!,
    Cena turned on and attacked Kidman, blaming him for their loss, turning heel for the first and only time
    in his WWE career.[49] On the October 17 episode of SmackDown!, Cena defeated Kidman in a singles
    contest but was ultimately defeated by Kidman in a rematch on the October 24 episode of SmackDown!.

    The Doctor of Thuganomics (2002–2005)

    On the 2002 Halloween-themed episode of SmackDown!, Cena dressed as Vanilla Ice and performed a
    freestyle rap.[49] The following week on SmackDown!, Cena received a new character: a rapper who cut
    promos while rhyming.[49]Shortly after, he took on the nickname The Doctor of Thuganomics and
    expanded his gimmick to include rapping before his matches. He began wearing hats and sports jerseys
    as part of his ring gear.[51] In a 2020 documentary on the WWE Network focusing on this period, Cena
    revealed that at the time, the gimmick change to The Doctor of Thuganomics saved his career. Before
    this, the WWE was planning to release Cena as the "ruthless aggression" gimmick wasn't impressive
    enough. On a bus journey with other WWE superstars, Cena got involved in a freestyle rap session with
    Rikishi and Rey Mysterio, impressing Stephanie McMahon, leading to the gimmick's adoption.[52] As the
    character evolved, Cena began adopting a variant of the 1980s WWF logo—dropping the "F"—as his
    "signature symbol", along with the slogan "Word Life".[53] At Rebellion, he teamed up with Dawn Marie
    in a losing effort against Kidman and Torrie Wilson in a mixed tag team match.[54][55]

    Eventually, Cena was joined by an enforcer, Bull Buchanan, who was rechristened to B-2 (also written B²
    and pronounced "B-Squared"). B-2 helped Cena kick off 2003 with a win over Rikishi on the January 2
    episode of SmackDown! and a win over Chavo Guerrero on the January 9 episode of SmackDown!. Both
    Cena and B-2 participated in the Royal Rumble match, but were unsuccessful in their attempts.[56] Cena
    and B-2 failed to capture the WWE Tag Team Championship from Los Guerreros, resulting in Cena
    replacing B-2 with Red Dogg until Red Dogg was sent to the Raw brand in February.[49]

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