watchingandwaiting
Unashamed Cena fan
I agree with Xfear's point that it isn't right to use this one match as "irrefutable evidence of Cena's worth". No one match can do that for any wrestler. If anything, I think it could serve as evidence for Cena's potential.
What I don't agree with is the complaint that some people have raised that there wasn't enough pure wrestling in the match. While its true there wasn't much of it, and what wrestling there was was concentrated in the opening (for the most part), I don't think that Cena's gimmick allows for a pure wrestling match. He is a brawler,a punch-thrower and a high impact move guy, as King and JR make sure to remind us every week. Now whether that gimmick is in place to cover up his deficiencies in terms of wrestling ability is a subject that I'm not going to touch right now. Sufficed to say, it would like very weird to see Cena using pure wrestling moves for the majority of the match based on the style that he has used for as long as I've been watching.
One other quick comment about the booking of the match. Some people have complained that they weren't impressed by the length of the match because it was boring. I agree there weren't any really big, impressive spots. The biggest bump of the match that I can remember would have been either the top rope leg drop or the back body drop on the outside. Either way, not very big bumps in comparison to stuff we've seen both of those guys take. In retrospect, that isn't surprising at all. It was the last show before a PPV, so I'm sure it was booked in a way to minimize the risk of injury to either of them. I really think that if those two get another shot at a 1 v 1 match at a PPV they can put on a match that would be memorable.
What I don't agree with is the complaint that some people have raised that there wasn't enough pure wrestling in the match. While its true there wasn't much of it, and what wrestling there was was concentrated in the opening (for the most part), I don't think that Cena's gimmick allows for a pure wrestling match. He is a brawler,a punch-thrower and a high impact move guy, as King and JR make sure to remind us every week. Now whether that gimmick is in place to cover up his deficiencies in terms of wrestling ability is a subject that I'm not going to touch right now. Sufficed to say, it would like very weird to see Cena using pure wrestling moves for the majority of the match based on the style that he has used for as long as I've been watching.
One other quick comment about the booking of the match. Some people have complained that they weren't impressed by the length of the match because it was boring. I agree there weren't any really big, impressive spots. The biggest bump of the match that I can remember would have been either the top rope leg drop or the back body drop on the outside. Either way, not very big bumps in comparison to stuff we've seen both of those guys take. In retrospect, that isn't surprising at all. It was the last show before a PPV, so I'm sure it was booked in a way to minimize the risk of injury to either of them. I really think that if those two get another shot at a 1 v 1 match at a PPV they can put on a match that would be memorable.