False. John Cena is the problem. He refuses to take a back seat to anyone. Cena could have put over Ryback (on numerous occasions), Mark Henry should have taken the title from Cena and continued his run as a monster heel. Now he is relegated to the "Cena's B*tch" list after tapping out to a basic step over cross face after essentially being overpowered by Cena. John Cena has a lot of stroke in the company, at least in my opinion.
Exhibit 1:
Ruining the Nexus. Look at how awesome they were until dun dun dunnnnn JOHN CENA got involved. Turned it into a living joke.
Exhibit 2:
Dolph Ziggler. Back many months ago Cena really demolished Ziggler's credibility. I can remember a series of matches where Ziggler beat Cena constantly and then Super Cena jumped up like nothing happened BOOM AA 1,2,3 match over.
Exhibit 3:
2012 was the year of Cena. He was the main event for 75% of the WWE Pay Per Views. Talk about not giving fresh talent a chance. Big Show, Big Johnny, Kane. None of them NEEDED to be in the main event. 2013 has essentially turned into much of the same. Winning the Royal Rumble (totally unnecessary at this point...)
Exhibit 4:
Cena competed in nine pay-per-view main events in 2012.WWE Champion CM Punk, on the other hand, competed in just three. Imagine that. The Longest reigning champion in the past what 2 decades had to take a back seat to JOHN CENA. You speak about titles losing prestige well I'm sure THAT had nothing to do with it right!?
To add to it here is a brief 2012 breakdown of the PPV main events of Cena vs title defenses:
John Cena: 9
WWE Champion CM Punk: 3
World Heavyweight Champion (multiple): 0
Nuff said. The 2 biggest problems in the WWE right now ARE in fact John Cena & Vince McMahon.
Edit: And if John Cena beats Daniel Bryan it will further my point of Cena killing off any momentum people get.
put down whatever intoxicant you use and seek medical and mental help. almost everything you stated is ridiculous. cena tried to put over ryback, but ryback just doesn't resonate with the crowd strongly enough for those in charge to trust him to go over cena. you seem not to understand that there is a difference in putting someone over and winning a scripted match.
i have never heard reports about any one in the back saying cena refused to take a loss. you seem to think he's got the ego and control that hogan sufered in the 80's. he doesn't. he's always in the main event because he has a large crowd of supporters that want to see him in that position, and haters like you who don't understand that by complaining about him, all you are doing is pushing to be in your face all the time.
stfu is not the most impressive submission move, but it is a lot more impressive, especially on a guy built like henry. just being able to get the heel hold on and stretch and pull around his head/shoulders is impressive. it's certainly better then del rio's crossarm breaker or swagger's ankle lock, which frankly is overplayed.
Nexus ruined itself. they came up too big a group, and with too many of them green as snot. that's why some of them disappeared for a while (flash: ryback was skip sheffield in nexus) and look at the roster and where people are slotted now. when ryback seems to be the one getting the breaks, and wade barrett is a going downhil fast, otunga is nowhere, slater is in jobber trio 3mb, and i don't even know where gabriel is that shows the lack of talent in the group that was leading them to fail anyway, even if they never had the cena angles, which frankly where the only watchable times they were onscreen.
Personaly, i never felt Ziggles had any credibility anyway. and most of those ziggles beating cena moments involved some kind of outer ring distraction or interference.
2012 year of cena? good for them. that indicates that he is doing what he needs ot do since if he wasn't making them some kind of money, they wouldn't have continued to put him in htat position in the first place. sure people like you complain about him, but when you go to raw/smackdown or buy/go to a ppv, and boo then you are doing what wwe wants: giving them a reaction.
actually, i think his health and knee issues were contributing factors to punk taking a back seat to cena. and let's not be oo enthusiastic about punk's title rain, a lot of it was pushed as far as it could be by heyman interfering or distracting opponents, and frankly even a decade ago there was at least once and possibly 2 or more times where he would have been stripped of the belt for not defended within their kayfabe 30 day defense rule. As good in the ring as he is, and can sometimes be on the mike, punk simply doesn't have the appeal to reach the mass audience that cena does. also during that time you list that cena was main event of 9 ppv's while punk had 3 ppv title defenses. you forget ot mention that cena hasn't had the championship for more then a month or 2 at a time in several years. cena is frankly at this point, beyond the need for titles. he doesn't have to be the champ to be considerd the top guy, and none of the people you mention (henry, ryback, punk) are going to be in that position anytime soon.
so suck it up buttercup.
The problem isn't cena or even vince(although a contributing factor), it's the disconnect between smarks like you(okay i might fit here too) and the younger fans that still want to believe in good vs evil and right vs wrong. the problem is the internet and the opening of the door's that has lead people like you and me to stop watching to enjoy what these athletes put themselves through and assuming that we have a right to know everything about the athletes and the stories they are trying to tell. We've grown up, and lost that innocence of not knowing their real names, wife's names, divorces, kids, affairs, financial situations, etc... Of only knowing them through their characters and their in ring actions. we assume that we all know more about how to work a match, pull off a move, or run a show and forget that unless you've lived that life, and been in the thick of it, we have no greater understanding about what's really going on then we do when watching a baseball or football game. Everyone thinks they can do a better job then the guy in charge, no matter the fact that they don't understand all the nuances and tricks of the trade that you only learn by doing, not by watching. There's a reason no baseball team has ever hired some fan from the stands to run the team, even if he's been watching the sport for 40 years. They forget that they got into the world first by being a fan and think that they are management.
so you want to solve the problems, here's the one truest solution: sit back, shut up and enjoy the action. cheer for who you want, boo who you want, and stop bitching if the guy at the top isn't the one you want. there's a reason he's there and the guy you like isn't. you might not agree or understand that reason, but it is there. problem solved.
