TWJC: The Beginning
Royal Rumble Winner
If ever there was a chance it was tonight. Hell, if ever there was a chance to do ANYTHING, it was tonight.
But instead we see Miz and Truth beat by AN ELBOW THAT HASN'T BEEN USED FOR SIX YEARS. AND THEN CENA MADE TO LOOK A CHUMP. Why?
Seriously, it makes me so dissatisfied to watch what could be the greatest year of booking go down the toilet. Cena joins Miz and Truth to beat Rock at his time of need and declares instead of Rise Above Hate, I Am The Hate. There you go, a slogan I made up in five seconds that you can shove on t-shirts and sell, with a gimmick that plays on him being Super-Cena and that being why the crowd hates him.
Ok, so instead of turning him heel you could have at least made me interested in seeing who would win in a fight at WM28 between two future HOF guys. For this, you could use the animosity to give Truth and Miz the win, even a cheap win - that pushes them forward instead of continuing to stagnate their growth. And then have a brawl to end the show. Hell you could still have the 'crowd reaction display' thing they did. Just have the balls to pull one of the guys off mid display instead of just looking there, limp.
At least have Cena say 'this is my time'. Instead he wants Rock to get the plaudits. The spotlight. Why should that make me care about Cena? Or WWE in 2011? I won't see The Rock wrestle for another 5 months and then never again - so should I pay attention to the top guy who will be there next show, next PPV? Nah, he thinks the retired guy is all that is worth seeing.
People don't want Cena to turn heel because they are contrarion, 'to be saying the opposite just because it is cool'. It is because he is getting stale. Someone said to me the other day, to paraphrase, 'If people have stopped caring about Cena, then why do WWE still sell as many tickets and get views etc.' - well because they now want to see Ryder, Punk etc. You can have bad heat at the same time as good heat. WCW in 98 had the future generation of guys in their cruiserweights and midcard and people were getting bored of seeing Hogan, Flair, Piper, Savage and co. It was their most successful year in history. Did they see that as a time to develop what came next or go out of business? WM28 will be huge no matter what but then? Same old Super Cena? No more Rock? Make a mistake and fans might forgive you. Get stale and fans will leave one by one, knowing they aren't being entertained, listened to, never will be and that it isn't worth the effort.
If Cena were getting stale, people wouldn't buy his merch, they wouldn't make noise, and his quarter hour ratings (that WWE can analyze better than you and get better information than you) would be low. You are wrong.
Second, "why should I care about Cena?" Because he's a good guy. Rock is a dick. Rock's character is a prick. He's a shit actor (nominated for the goddamned RAZZIE of worst actor) who comes back and says "I love the fans"....via satellite, then acts like a prick at Survivor Series. If you can't see that, then you are blind.
You guys ALWAYS clamour for "realistic characters" well what if this IS John Cena? What if that IS the Rock? It's pretty likely that there are strong similarities. Turning Cena heel would be unnatural and unrealistic.
There is literally not a single, sound, logic driven answer to turn Cena heel. It's always opinion based.
Whether or not you personally think Cena is stale is irrelevant. The facts I stated above are indeed, FACTS. People don't watch what they hate, they don't make a TON of noise for something they think is stale, and they sure as fuck don't dedicate hours of the day to it on the internet. Unless they are dumbasses, in which case....why listen to them?