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TORCH TRIVIA 1/28: Answer to who John Cena teamed with six years ago at a WWE house show Jan 29, 2009 - 9:20:59 AM
Original question: In January 2003, WWE star John Cena was rising up the ranks of Smackdown's mid-card delivering raps on unsuspecting babyface opponents. On January 26, 2003 in Regina, Canada, Cena was in the semi-main event of a house show against Rey Mysterio. It was a tag match and Cena teamed with a man wrestling under a funny name who would later take on a different name that led him to mid-card notoriety. Who was Cena's tag partner?
(a) Nova
(b) Redd Dogg
(c) The Masked Canadian
(d) The Roughrider
The answer is (b) Redd Dogg. Known as Redd Dogg at the time, Rodney Mack replaced Bull Buchanan as Cena's thuggin' tag partner when B2 was "future endeavored." Mack then jumped to Raw to be part of Teddy Long's Thuggin' and Buggin' group, which included current concussion-researcher Christopher Nowinski.
Some words from Dusty Robinson... "Redd Dogg debuted earlier that month on Smackdown as John Cena's new enforcer and helped Cena betray Bull Buchanan of Right to Censor fame. The next month, Redd would go to Raw renamed Rodney Mack and be a part of Teddy Long's new group. Mack was most known for his white boy challenges where white wrestlers would have to wrestle him for five minutes. He was undefeated in these challenges until Goldberg beat him in 26 seconds on a June Raw."
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