Why People Hate John Cena

John Cena is the WWE’s poster boy... and has been for the last... 9 years, which in wrestling terms feels like a millennia, he has been at the top longer than Hulk Hogan, Bret hart, Stone Cold and The Rock ever was in their Primes. And yet by the vast majority of the WWE fans (I refuse to call it a universe) that aren’t teenage girls or little kids, he is despised!. Not like disliked... he is vilified. And the WWE i don’t think understands why he’s hated, they sell Anti-Cena t-shirts but they don’t understand why. And here it is... Change...

Cena has had the same lame vanilla ice fake marine gimmick for ten years... thats a decade. Think about this. Hogan through the 80’s and 90’s wore the red and yellow, tore of the t-shirt took his vitamins and said his prayers, the audience by 96 got bored of the same crap. And to Hogan’s credit he knew he had to change and roll with the times he helped form the NWO, he became the ‘Bad Guy’ and in a way become even just as popular, another is The Rock, he went from the all American hero Rocky Maivia, to the leader of the nation, to the corporation to the peoples champ, to the Hollywood sellout and yet despite all that The Rock is loved and cheerished by ALL fans, much like Austin did, Triple H and even the Undertaker they changed and rolled with the times Its got nothing to do with his(lack of) wrestling ability or the crappy promo’s its just currently on WWE tv CM Punk is the most interesting character to watch because he has evolved so much in the last yearr and half from the disgruntled employee to the pipebomb champion of the voiceless to his alliance with Paul Heyman and becoming a weesle of a champion and the fact that at the time he was 400 days plus as champion, unheard of in todays era, he knows how to connect to the fans on every level, whilst cena is strugglin to get any positive reaction from fans

It would be silly to say that Cena is not in the same league as Hogan he is the top guy in the WWE whilst currently CM Punk is the Randy Savage the second top guy... But Savage was always the more fascinating to watch than Hogan, had the better feuds and had the better matches I’m Doing My Best not to Bash Cena, but change is necessary in this business, people get tired really quickly of the same shtick and Cena has been Doing The same shtick for 10 years.

Royal Rumble... after thought

Sunday night with my girlfriend away for the weekend, I had one of my best mates Wags come over for essentially a bit of a guy night... we watched a bit of the NFL pro ball (cheering on the NFC) but as soon as 1am came... we switched over and watch... THE ROYAL RUMBLE, now for me the Royal Rumble is my second favourite PPV of the Year, being behind Wrestlemania of course. The first match of the night... was simply the best of the night (who’d have thought that?) Del Rio vs Big Show in a rematch of their Last Man Standing match a few weeks ago on Smackdown. This was a really good match and for the last five months big show has been putting on the best matches of his career, one of the highlights of the match was when big show chokeslammed Del Rio off part of the rumble set through a table. The finish came from when Del Rio knocked show on the mat and Ricardo taped shows feet to the ropes so he couldn’t get up before the 10 count. A really good finish and a suspect will not be the end to this fued Just to quickly go over the tag match between Team Hell No and Rhodes Scholars it was a good match, I really did expect Kane and & D-Bry to lose the titles, but the hint of their implosion was seeded in the royal rumble match itself. So to quickly move on... this rumble for the first time in many many many years I had no real interest in, because as a ‘Smark’ I knew what was gonna go down John Cena was gonna destroy all and win and then go on to face The Rock in the twice in a lifetime match for the WWE title at Wrestlemania 29, But i really hoped I would be wrong especially since Dolph Ziggler earlier in the night gave a promo saying that he would enter at number 1 and win and then unify the world and wwe titles at mania... and the fanboy inside of me was excited, I honestly believed after that Ziggler would win.

And when he entered at numero uno I believed... I really believed that he would and well he didnt, Cena Won and I lost interest even my friend Wags who isn’t a major wrestling fan declared his hatred for Cena. And then I knew The Rock would go on to defeat Cm Punk, in what was really, I pretty boring, uninteresting match despite having two of the greatest wrestlers ever in it. I don’t know whether it really does show that The Rock is really rusty still in the ring (he’s wrestled 3 matches in 8 years) or that CM Punk really didn’t give his all especially since he’s been very vocal on his distain on The Rock coming and going on WWE TV, we got the screw job type of finish where the lights went off (me stupidly thinking that The Undertaker was returning) but instead we got The Shield attacking The Rock, Vince then coming out about to strip Punk of His title only for the rock to deliver a peoples elbow, get the win and become champion.

overall, this wasn’t a very good event, Cena winning killed the crowd, no one wanted to see it, and everyone knew after that, The Rock was going to beat CM Punk, the whole event itself was a little underwhelming with the highlights of the rumble being Jericho’s and Goldusts returns getting the biggest pops of the night. I just hope leading up to Mania season the WWE writers pull something better out of their asses.