Yeah, I been thinking that after Wrestlemania, I might stop tuning into WWE.
I hadn't been thinking about it till recently, but now I'm pretty sure that if WWE doesn't change in some big way after Mania, I have no interest in watching it.
If you listen to the reports and follow the current storylines, you can get a good picture of what is to come in WWE.
For one thing, WWE will not be going back to a more mature show anytime soon. Now when I say that, I don't want people to get the idea I'm some big "Attitude Era" fan. When I first joined this site I got sick of the term the "Attitude Era" quick. To me it was just late 90s, early 2000's wrestling. I wasn't even a fan of it especially, I liked all of wrestling from Hogan/Warrior/Andre era till the Alliance Invasion/nWo return about the same.
I always liked the baby faces like Bret Hart and Sting and didn't even appreciate Austin until recently, but I was a fan of The Rock. Anyway, the point is, historically I should be a fan of a guy like Cena and a more kid friendly wrestling show, but I'm not.
I think because of who they are, WWE can easily swallow/hide their mistakes. They are like the New York Yankees. The yankees can give a guy 50 million dollars and if he bombs, they can make him disappear. Right now there is a guy named Kei Igawa who the yanks paid 50 million for somewhere in the minor leagues for the past few years. They made a mistake, but it seemingly hasn't affected them in anyway. Where as you have a team like the mets who are really handicapped by the deals they made with players such as Luis Castillo(6 mil a year) and Oliver Perez(12 mil a year). They can't just release the players, no one will trade for them and so the mets are forced to keep them on the roster and try to figure out a way to utilize them. Both have been a hindrance to the mets in recent years and are one the team again this year.
Point is, it doesn't seem to matter what WWE does, they always will maintain a decent audience. Their top face is booed by half the crowd at every show, if this were any other company, he would not be the top face for very long. But WWE makes up for this in other ways.
Anyway, let me get to my real issue. What Cena has said about The Rock recently and in the past has bothered me. It bothers me because people buy it. I can not stand when a face says all the wrong things and is cheered for it. It's almost like Cena could come out and say something about Jerry Lawler's mother and people would justify that Cena was right.
John Cena likes to say that if The Rock loved wrestling, he wouldn't of left for movies. Well John, why do you make movies? I'm guessing it's because of the money. The money is also the reason why John Cena is on RAW each and every week, he would not be doing this for free. He's an attention seeker as well so I'm sure that's another reason. John Cena doesn't wrestle for the love of the business and the love of the fans. He didn't grow up wanting to be a professional wrestler, or at least it wasn't his first pick. He wanted to be a football player, but he said he was too small. Sure he does the make a wish stuff and charity work, but so do all the wrestlers. When John does all the publicity work, it's what cements his place in the company and now guys like The Miz are following his lead.
What I'd like to know is, would Cena be around "forever" as he says, if he was jobbing each and every week and cut back to midcard. I remember The Rock would lose and lose clean like every other week. Triple H, Austin, Undertaker, Mick Foley, Benoit, Jericho, Angle, Lesnar, Goldberg ... I think The Rock might of lost more matches then he actually won.
Every week is the same thing for Cena. The odds are stacked against him and he always comes out on top. If he loses, it's never clean except maybe too a Triple H/Orton. And he's always fucking on! Would Cena be in wrestling forever if his career were more turbulent. If he wasn't always the good guy and had to portray the bad guy once in a while and didn't come out on top in every way possible? Cena is too comfortable.
Also how can you call out a guy for leaving the business when he's on top. No one who ever leaves wrestling should ever be questioned. With all the deaths, steroid and drug abuse, and injuries that occur - I really found Cena's reasoning to be stupid. Test, Benoit and Eddie have died since The Rock has been gone. Hell, The Rock is cousins with Umaga and Yokozuna. To make a statement that The Rock doesn't love the business or the fans because he left is just beyond stupid in my opinion. The Rock had a great career and left on top of his game. Where would he be if he had stayed? Limping around like Taker/HBK, constantly needing surgery like a Hogan? You never know if Rock could have ended up like a Test, Eddie, British Bulldog, and his cousin Umaga and dying from some bad mix of chemicals.
The Rock is an entertainer and has continued to entertain, just in a safer environment.
Point is, I'm tired of Cena and tired of his garbage. He should walk a mile in The Rock's shoes before he passes judgement like that.
By the way, this isn't even about Cena or The Rock. It's a dislike for the way Cena comes across as well as him being the key figure in WWE now and for years to come.
Cena will remain in the main event scene and he will most likely not turn heel anytime soon. If Cena were to turn heel at Mania, I would probably continue to watch WWE, if not, there really is no use.
Cena and Orton are the top faces. If Orton went back to heel, I couldn't care less. Same boring character anyway you cut it.
No matter what happens in WWE, these guys are always pencilied in at the top of the card and will receive the most air time/story importance.
The only thing that WWE has going for them right now is Sin Cara, but he will probably be on Smackdown and he does not speak english so .... though I'm still interested to see how he debuts and against who.
Other then that, I can't realy find a reason to watch WWE, or more specific Raw(I don't usually tune into Smackdown.) Their writing is not good, in my opinion. I think they have a lot of flaws that aren't being addressed because they are who they are. Their is no depth to their storylines. Sheamus vs Bryan, because Bryan looked at him the wrong way. Cena vs Miz because Miz eliminated Cena from the rumble. Orton vs Punk because Orton kicked Punk in the head in 2008 (probably the best story of the bunch.)
I think WWE needs a big re-haul and needs to start treating all wrestlers as equals. If they don't believe in their guys, why should we? If you wrote them some good storylines and booked them right, their would be no problem. 20 years ago, Wrestlemania had about 10 matches that people would consider mainevents(and that's when the belt never changed hands nearly as much.) They spend way to much time focusing on Cena/Orton and whoever they are feuding with that month who will eventually be discarded.
This is just me ranting. Do any of you share the same thoughts or totally disagree?
I hadn't been thinking about it till recently, but now I'm pretty sure that if WWE doesn't change in some big way after Mania, I have no interest in watching it.
If you listen to the reports and follow the current storylines, you can get a good picture of what is to come in WWE.
For one thing, WWE will not be going back to a more mature show anytime soon. Now when I say that, I don't want people to get the idea I'm some big "Attitude Era" fan. When I first joined this site I got sick of the term the "Attitude Era" quick. To me it was just late 90s, early 2000's wrestling. I wasn't even a fan of it especially, I liked all of wrestling from Hogan/Warrior/Andre era till the Alliance Invasion/nWo return about the same.
I always liked the baby faces like Bret Hart and Sting and didn't even appreciate Austin until recently, but I was a fan of The Rock. Anyway, the point is, historically I should be a fan of a guy like Cena and a more kid friendly wrestling show, but I'm not.
I think because of who they are, WWE can easily swallow/hide their mistakes. They are like the New York Yankees. The yankees can give a guy 50 million dollars and if he bombs, they can make him disappear. Right now there is a guy named Kei Igawa who the yanks paid 50 million for somewhere in the minor leagues for the past few years. They made a mistake, but it seemingly hasn't affected them in anyway. Where as you have a team like the mets who are really handicapped by the deals they made with players such as Luis Castillo(6 mil a year) and Oliver Perez(12 mil a year). They can't just release the players, no one will trade for them and so the mets are forced to keep them on the roster and try to figure out a way to utilize them. Both have been a hindrance to the mets in recent years and are one the team again this year.
Point is, it doesn't seem to matter what WWE does, they always will maintain a decent audience. Their top face is booed by half the crowd at every show, if this were any other company, he would not be the top face for very long. But WWE makes up for this in other ways.
Anyway, let me get to my real issue. What Cena has said about The Rock recently and in the past has bothered me. It bothers me because people buy it. I can not stand when a face says all the wrong things and is cheered for it. It's almost like Cena could come out and say something about Jerry Lawler's mother and people would justify that Cena was right.
John Cena likes to say that if The Rock loved wrestling, he wouldn't of left for movies. Well John, why do you make movies? I'm guessing it's because of the money. The money is also the reason why John Cena is on RAW each and every week, he would not be doing this for free. He's an attention seeker as well so I'm sure that's another reason. John Cena doesn't wrestle for the love of the business and the love of the fans. He didn't grow up wanting to be a professional wrestler, or at least it wasn't his first pick. He wanted to be a football player, but he said he was too small. Sure he does the make a wish stuff and charity work, but so do all the wrestlers. When John does all the publicity work, it's what cements his place in the company and now guys like The Miz are following his lead.
What I'd like to know is, would Cena be around "forever" as he says, if he was jobbing each and every week and cut back to midcard. I remember The Rock would lose and lose clean like every other week. Triple H, Austin, Undertaker, Mick Foley, Benoit, Jericho, Angle, Lesnar, Goldberg ... I think The Rock might of lost more matches then he actually won.
Every week is the same thing for Cena. The odds are stacked against him and he always comes out on top. If he loses, it's never clean except maybe too a Triple H/Orton. And he's always fucking on! Would Cena be in wrestling forever if his career were more turbulent. If he wasn't always the good guy and had to portray the bad guy once in a while and didn't come out on top in every way possible? Cena is too comfortable.
Also how can you call out a guy for leaving the business when he's on top. No one who ever leaves wrestling should ever be questioned. With all the deaths, steroid and drug abuse, and injuries that occur - I really found Cena's reasoning to be stupid. Test, Benoit and Eddie have died since The Rock has been gone. Hell, The Rock is cousins with Umaga and Yokozuna. To make a statement that The Rock doesn't love the business or the fans because he left is just beyond stupid in my opinion. The Rock had a great career and left on top of his game. Where would he be if he had stayed? Limping around like Taker/HBK, constantly needing surgery like a Hogan? You never know if Rock could have ended up like a Test, Eddie, British Bulldog, and his cousin Umaga and dying from some bad mix of chemicals.
The Rock is an entertainer and has continued to entertain, just in a safer environment.
Point is, I'm tired of Cena and tired of his garbage. He should walk a mile in The Rock's shoes before he passes judgement like that.
By the way, this isn't even about Cena or The Rock. It's a dislike for the way Cena comes across as well as him being the key figure in WWE now and for years to come.
Cena will remain in the main event scene and he will most likely not turn heel anytime soon. If Cena were to turn heel at Mania, I would probably continue to watch WWE, if not, there really is no use.
Cena and Orton are the top faces. If Orton went back to heel, I couldn't care less. Same boring character anyway you cut it.
No matter what happens in WWE, these guys are always pencilied in at the top of the card and will receive the most air time/story importance.
The only thing that WWE has going for them right now is Sin Cara, but he will probably be on Smackdown and he does not speak english so .... though I'm still interested to see how he debuts and against who.
Other then that, I can't realy find a reason to watch WWE, or more specific Raw(I don't usually tune into Smackdown.) Their writing is not good, in my opinion. I think they have a lot of flaws that aren't being addressed because they are who they are. Their is no depth to their storylines. Sheamus vs Bryan, because Bryan looked at him the wrong way. Cena vs Miz because Miz eliminated Cena from the rumble. Orton vs Punk because Orton kicked Punk in the head in 2008 (probably the best story of the bunch.)
I think WWE needs a big re-haul and needs to start treating all wrestlers as equals. If they don't believe in their guys, why should we? If you wrote them some good storylines and booked them right, their would be no problem. 20 years ago, Wrestlemania had about 10 matches that people would consider mainevents(and that's when the belt never changed hands nearly as much.) They spend way to much time focusing on Cena/Orton and whoever they are feuding with that month who will eventually be discarded.
This is just me ranting. Do any of you share the same thoughts or totally disagree?
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