The Crowd... how much pull do we really have?

[Kodo Sawaki]

Originally Posted by CBKDiamond

1.) If the WWE can do this with The Rock... why can't they do it with Cena? According to some people, though I'm not sure if it's true, Punk earlier last year started out-selling Cena in merchandise sales, so why not turn Cena instead of Punk when Cena was the one getting the negative reaction. I feel that we have some pull in the turns of some Superstars, but is it that strong?

after 1:00...

Listening to that promo some time ago and understanded that Cena is good as it is and doesnt need heel turn. Would be huge deel but dont think he should do it now because there is absolutely no reason to do it. If they build it properly then maybe but right now he is good face of the Company. Someone else from around here would maybe even said that he is not as much hated as we think he was...

[HellBoundPower]

I think the crowd has as much pull as Vince McMahon and the Creative Team want us to have. Vince always makes the final decisions, despite what the crowd wants most of the time. There are instances when he lets the crowd dictate his decisions, but they are few and far between. During the Attitude Era, the crowd had more pull because WWF was in desperation mode to beat WCW in the ratings and stay in business. These days WWE is the only relevant company in town, with no real opposition, so Vince can basically spoon feed the crowd whatever he wants to. And even is he loses some fans in the process (which has obviously happened based on the ratings dropping since the Attitude Era ended) he knows that people will continue to watch with either the hope of it improving, or simply out of habit.

[wrestlingmasters55]

Simply put, it's all about the money and it really got nothing to do with the die-hard fans. Those fans like me and everybody on this board will go a buy anything the WWE does not matter how crappy it is. Everybody in WWE knows that. The real power lies with the casual fans. The families that follow the product on tv. The fans that only goes to WWE show once in a while. These are the people that actually have pull with WWE because these are the peoples that will go and buy a John Cena or C.M Punk shirt. These are the peoples that will cheer for guys like Daniel Bryan And Kane even through the die-hard fans would love to see these 2 break up already.

At the end of the day, the causual fans are the ones that will make the most money for the WWE because they just don't care about who is the better wrestler and how badly a guy is booked. If they like a character they will buy his merchandise no matter what and that's how the WWE was able to survive since Vince Mcmahon bought the company from is dad back in 1983. That's how Hogan was able to stay on top for as long as he did. That's how Bret Hart, Diesel, Undertaker, Shawn Michaels, HHH, Austin And Rock were able to become legends in wrestling, because casual fans actually like them enough to go and buys their merchandises.

So in the end, the only way you would get somebody like John Cena to turn heel would be for all those fans that hate Cena to stop buying is merchandise, outside of that, that the real power of the crowd.

[cups.solo]

Not as much pull as you think, The corporate suits do not care what we want or think,