Mighty NorCal
SHALL WE BEGIN?
Post Mania there were two champs and Batista was pushed as the bigger champion, he most the MEs after but it was Cena who emerged bigger in a year's time.
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because he was the bigger champion.
Such pushes were obvious though, when Cena was drafted to RAW just months later, right? There was no "choosing" going on by that point, they were both as over as it gets, and had to be in order to be in that WM spot in the first place.