bigdogstalfos
Dark Match Winner
I have to agree with those who think Cena will just take some time off and get healed up and then come back, I'm guessing at the Royal Rumble, since it's in his hometown and everything. Why? Because other options would really hurt the storyline.
This is the culminating event in the Cena-Nexus feud. Sure, Barrett isn't champion, but he and Nexus did something no one thought possible. They got Cena kicked out of the WWE. That "if I go down, I'm taking you with me" attitude should translate into Barrett's heat going off the charts and I hope he milks it to show how Nexus is changing the WWE's landscape even when it's not winning. Having the Raw GM reinstate Cena or Teddy Long come out and sign him is an incredible deus ex machina which would derail the whole "Nexus is an incredible invading force" theme they've been going with in addition to ruining the dramatic impact. How would you have felt if say, at the end of Romeo and Juliet, it turns out Juliet missed stabbing her vital organs with the dagger and Romeo didn't drink enough poison to be fatal, so they both survive? And this happens immediately after the death scene. It would be unsatisfying. That's why Cena can't just come back immediately or go to Smackdown. It would hurt Nexus' credibility and render the storyline kind of a waste of everyone's time.
And as a practical matter, if Cena went to Smackdown, who would he feud with? There's only one ME heel there, and that's Kane, who should continue his program with Edge. Unless one of the many midcard heels there gets elevated, which I don't see happening as probably the biggest rising heel there, Del Rio, is presumably going to continue feuding with Rey and the others don't seem ready to go straight from IC-level stuff to feuding with the biggest face in the company.
This is the culminating event in the Cena-Nexus feud. Sure, Barrett isn't champion, but he and Nexus did something no one thought possible. They got Cena kicked out of the WWE. That "if I go down, I'm taking you with me" attitude should translate into Barrett's heat going off the charts and I hope he milks it to show how Nexus is changing the WWE's landscape even when it's not winning. Having the Raw GM reinstate Cena or Teddy Long come out and sign him is an incredible deus ex machina which would derail the whole "Nexus is an incredible invading force" theme they've been going with in addition to ruining the dramatic impact. How would you have felt if say, at the end of Romeo and Juliet, it turns out Juliet missed stabbing her vital organs with the dagger and Romeo didn't drink enough poison to be fatal, so they both survive? And this happens immediately after the death scene. It would be unsatisfying. That's why Cena can't just come back immediately or go to Smackdown. It would hurt Nexus' credibility and render the storyline kind of a waste of everyone's time.
And as a practical matter, if Cena went to Smackdown, who would he feud with? There's only one ME heel there, and that's Kane, who should continue his program with Edge. Unless one of the many midcard heels there gets elevated, which I don't see happening as probably the biggest rising heel there, Del Rio, is presumably going to continue feuding with Rey and the others don't seem ready to go straight from IC-level stuff to feuding with the biggest face in the company.