I think if Cena had been booked different in the past few years, then yeah maybe I could see it. But u gotta remember this muthafucka beat all of Nexus and Awesome Truth by himself. He has been booked as this unstoppable force and they shoved it down peoples throats. That's why he gets booed. He's never the underdog. Rock took asswhoppings like when Austin beat the living shit out of him with that chair, that was Mania 17 and Stone Cold won that one!!! Its the way he's booked, its tiring. You never expect him to lose, its stale, so in a rematch we all know he's going over, and its going to suck unless he goes about it the same way Austin did at Mania 17 and kills him with that chair because of desperation. But that would involve turning him heel and that's not happening
Yep. As I've said before, the one time in the last few years he really was getting a lot of support was the Nexxus feud but they never let Nexxus keep any real heat on him. He lost a "Loser Leaves" match and didnt miss a show.
The ship has sailed with Cena. Fans have made up their minds with him, one way or another.
Who? All of Cena's best matches have been against ppl who are known to carry others with the only exception being Sheamus that I can remember and their feud was decent but the matches weren't that good.
I'd take Ryback vs Brock, Cena VS Taker, and Punk vs Austin (the buildup has been getting better and better that WWE 13 interview was classic)
Nope. His matches with Batista were very good, with their SummerSlam match being great and he had a very good match with Bobby Lashley.
Brock/Ryback would be a trainwreck and not in a good way and Austin, as of now, isn't coming back. I've always liked Punk vs HHH, if they take him out of the Rock-Cena circle with Taker being an outside possibility (and only if he breaks the Streak).
They're pretty much like CM Punk in that they are big names on the indie scene, the problem is if they get a cricket type reaction then wwe will panic like they did with legacy. Punk's title reign has been mediocre at best even though he's had some outstanding matches during his run. Punk has never been able to shed that "indie" vibe and i think that's hurt him, couple that with a lame face run where he was nearing cena level corniness and that amounts to a meaningless title run.
That's completely WWE's fault. I'm glad to see Ambrose and Rollins make their debuts and to do so in a pretty significant way, now Creative has to get them over quickly, not just make them Punk's stooges like Ryder and Hawkins used to do for Edge.
Turning Punk face was a mistake (he should be no less than a tweener) and turning him back was even worse. It just doesn't make sense for people like Lawler, JR, Foley and the like to not call him "the best" when he's beaten everybody by clean pinfall (except HHH) in the last year. If he ain't the best, who the fuck is?
It also didn't help that even with Punk as champ, they made sure we understood that Cena was the main event, even if it's was working with John Laurinaitis (Johnny Ace in WWE main event. FOH.).
November had a TNA ppv, an Extreme Rising ippv, and a WWE ppv and they came in third again and they have far and away the most expensive show.