John Cena Steals the Show with Nude Moment at the 2024 Oscars

It's not every day that you'll hear the words "John Cena," "naked," and "awards show" in the same sentence, but here we are.

John Cena showed up to a nationally televised awards show (mostly) naked./p pFor More WWE:brstronga data-entity-href="https://www.usanetwork.com/usa-insider/jade-cargill-reflects-on-her-wwe-royal-rumble-debut" data-entity-title="https://www.usanetwork.com/usa-insider/jade-cargill-reflects-on-her-wwe-royal-rumble-debut" href="https://www.usanetwork.com/usa-insider/jade-cargill-reflects-on-her-wwe-royal-rumble-debut" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Jade Cargill Reflects on Her WWE Royal Rumble Debut/abra data-entity-href="https://www.usanetwork.com/usa-insider/all-the-2024-wwe-premium-live-events-and-when-theyre-happening" data-entity-title="https://www.usanetwork.com/usa-insider/all-the-2024-wwe-premium-live-events-and-when-theyre-happening" href="https://www.usanetwork.com/usa-insider/all-the-2024-wwe-premium-live-events-and-when-theyre-happening" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Here's When You Can Catch All The WWE Premium Live Events of 2024/abra data-entity-href="https://www.usanetwork.com/usa-insider/wwe-rhea-ripley-announces-engagement-buddy-matthews" data-entity-title="https://www.usanetwork.com/usa-insider/wwe-rhea-ripley-announces-engagement-buddy-matthews" href="https://www.usanetwork.com/usa-insider/wwe-rhea-ripley-announces-engagement-buddy-matthews" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Rhea Ripley Breaks the Hearts of the WWE Universe, Announces Engagement/a/strong/p pWhat a time to be alive, huh?/p pThea href="https://www.usanetwork.com/usa-insider/charlotte-flair-break-wwe-father-ric-flair-record" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"16-time WWE world champion/amade quite the impression on millions of viewers watching the 2024 Oscars on March 10 when he took an opportunity to participate in a comedy bit orchestrated by host, Jimmy Kimmel – all while showing off his impressive physique that thea href="https://www.usanetwork.com/usa-insider/show/wwe-monday-night-raw" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"WWE/aUniverse knows all too well./p div class="listicle-heading" h2span class="title"Why Was John Cena Naked During the 2024 Oscars?/span/h2 div data-embed-button="media" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:media.embed" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="62c9cf9b-7831-44f3-85e8-467692a08699" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"div class="media__image" style="max-width:862px" div class="media__image-wrapper" div div img loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" src="https://www.usanetwork.com/sites/usablog/files/styles/scale_862/public/2024/03/john-cena-oscars2.jpg" width="862" height="575" alt="Jimmy Kimmel and John Cena onstage at the 96th Annual Oscars" typeof="foaf:Image" /div /div /div div class="media__metadata" div class="media__metadata-wrapper" span class="media__caption" Jimmy Kimmel and John Cena onstage at the 96th Annual Oscars held at Dolby Theatre on March 10, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. /span span class="media__credit"Photo: Rich Polk/Variety via Getty Images /span /div /div /div /div /div pIn true John Cena fashion, he proved once again that he will do anything he can to entertain, even if it means showing up in his birthday suit to one of the most prestigious award shows in the world./p pBefore Cena was set to present the award for Best Costume Design, host Jimmy Kimmel began the segment by noting it had been 50 years since the Oscars ceremony was infamously delayed due to a streaker running across the stage. After quipping, "Can you imagine if a nude man ran across the stage today?" audiences caught Cena cowering behind the curtain./p p"I changed my mind, I don't want to do the streaker bit anymore," Cena quietly confessed./p pAfter a brief (and hilarious) back-and-forth that included a well-delivered a data-entity-href="https://www.usanetwork.com/usa-insider/why-does-john-cena-wear-denim-shorts-jorts" data-entity-title="https://www.usanetwork.com/usa-insider/why-does-john-cena-wear-denim-shorts-jorts" href="https://www.usanetwork.com/usa-insider/why-does-john-cena-wear-denim-shorts-jorts" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"jorts reference/a (a nod to Cena's trademark WWE attire), Cena was convinced to go through with the pre-planned bit. After a few moments of awkward shuffling – covered only by an envelope marked "Costume Designer" – Cena haphazardly presented the award as planned./p pWe're not sure how any of thea href="https://www.usanetwork.com/usa-insider/celebrities-wwe-wrestling-history" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"celebrities in attendance/acould focus on what John Cena was saying, as his superhero-esque (and mostly nude) physique was fully on display – how distracting! What award was he presenting, again?/p pIt was an instantly iconic Oscars moment – and if you ask us, the only thing missing was a quick plug fora href="https://www.usanetwork.com/usa-insider/how-to-watch-wrestlemania-40" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"next month's WrestleMania/a. (But don't worry, we'll do that right now.)/p p/pdiv class="embed-code-other embed-code-youtube"iframe loading="lazy" fetchpriority="low" src="about:blank" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6aFgLHrMBuY?si=uoIk2vb29WwYD-bH" class="optanon-category-13" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen style="width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 560 / 315;"/iframe/div div class="listicle-heading" h2span class="title"Did Other WWE Superstars Appear During the 2024 Oscars?/span/h2 div data-embed-button="media" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:media.embed" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="651084cc-92ed-443e-ac00-2ede78aa8298" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"div class="media__image" style="max-width:862px" div class="media__image-wrapper" div div img loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" src="https://www.usanetwork.com/sites/usablog/files/styles/scale_862/public/2024/03/john-cena-oscars4.jpg" width="862" height="575" alt="John Cena wears a golden toga onstage at the 96th Annual Oscars" typeof="foaf:Image" /div /div /div div class="media__metadata" div class="media__metadata-wrapper" span class="media__caption" John Cena onstage at the 96th Annual Oscars held at Dolby Theatre on March 10, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. /span span class="media__credit"Photo: Frank Micelotta/Disney via Getty Images /span /div /div /div /div /div pDon't worry; Johna href="https://www.usanetwork.com/usa-insider/rock-john-cena-bond-revisited-clip-wrestlemania-29" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Cena/awasn't the only WWE Superstar to appear on the telecast. Fully-clothed versions of The Rock anda href="https://www.usanetwork.com/usa-insider/wwe-backlash-bad-bunny-speaks-on-dream-experience" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Bad Bunny/aalso appeared, presenting the Best International Feature Film award. Before the pair announced the winning film, Bad Bunny spoke candidly about the importance of cinema, calling it the "universal language."/p p"Beautifully said," The Rock replied. "You see, he's not such a bad bunny. Happy birthday, brother."/p pBad Bunny, celebrating his recent 30th birthday, responded in kind to The Rock's well wishes: "Gracias. Thank you."/p pInterestingly, fans witnessed a version of The Rock that was far removed from his recent persona on WWE television. The Rock has firmlya href="https://www.usanetwork.com/usa-insider/the-rock-villain-wwe-wrestlemania-40" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"embraced his villain side/ain recent weeks, and The Great One has capitalized on every opportunity to throw shade at the WWE Universe and Superstars likea href="https://www.usanetwork.com/usa-insider/the-rock-cody-rhodes-roman-reigns-drama-explained" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Cody Rhodes/aand Seth Rollins./p p/pdiv class="embed-code-other embed-code-youtube"iframe loading="lazy" fetchpriority="low" src="about:blank" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nNRJDEkZ4sQ?si=z5SvCDMaeF2bS7yo" class="optanon-category-13" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen style="width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 560 / 315;"/iframe/div pWith WrestleManiaa href="https://www.usanetwork.com/usa-insider/wrestlemania-40-match-card-wwe-superstars" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"less than a month away/a, we have a feeling more and more WWE Superstars will be popping up across countless media outlets to promote the massive multi-day event. However, we're reasonably confident no Superstar will toe the line of good taste as much as John Cena did over the weekend, despite clips of Cena's naked body officially crossing over into viral territory in the past 24 hours./p pSo, with that,strongemUSA Insider/em/strongwill now transition back to our regularly scheduled, non-naked WWE programming. Carry on./p pemYou can tune in to/ema href="https://www.peacocktv.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"emPeacock/em/aemto watch WrestleMania on April 6 and 7. In the meantime, catch up on all things WWE Universe on/ema href="https://www.peacocktv.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"emPeacock/em/aem./em/p