LOL. I beg to differ. Would you like to explain you logic?
Pretty certain I already did...
Those 3 statements make it clear you are mearly a Cena fanboy who has probably only come into being a WWE fan in the last 3 or so years. I have been watching Edge and Jericho since they first came into the business, and how you can say Cena is more talented than both of them is hilarious.
What does when I started watching wrestling have to do with the quality of matches Cena is putting on compared to the quality of matches that Jericho and Edge are putting on? I don't understand your reasoning here. Oooh, you've been watching wrestling since they started in the business. Well, clearly, with that kind of background, the facts are obviously going to jump to your side. I mean, with that kind of logic, you should just say that Doink the Clown was a bigger draw than Sting. After all, you've been watching wrestling longer than I have, so clearly, the facts would side with you.
In the last three years, John Cena has put on memorable and wonderful bouts with all sorts of wrestlers in all sorts of matches. JBL, Jericho, Angle, HHH, RVD, Edge, Umaga, HBK, Lashley, Orton...he's had good matches with all of them. Lashley doesn't work the same way HHH does, JBL doesn't work like Angle, and RVD doesn't wrestle like Orton. All of those guys have different styles of wrestling, and Cena's had good matches with them all.
Now, do me a favor. List me all the different wrestlers Jericho has had good matches with. List me all the good matches Edge has had, that do not include a gimmick of some sort. Then we'll start talking about quality.
Go back and watch all the TLC matches Edge competed in and all the matches he had with Kurt Angle before his neck injury. He was probably the most complete wrestler the WWE had at the time. He had the perfect combination of mat technique and high flying ability. The reason he doesn not so those things these days is two fold. 1. His injuries have slowed him a bit, and 2.
The most complete wrestler? LOL, not a chance. Guys like Benoit, Eddie, Rey were all far superior workers, in a variety of categories.
As the classic 'cowardly heel', Edge is supposed to make it look like his in ring skills are limited. If you had an understanding of the business, you would know that.
Hahahaha, while you get the general gist of the point of being a heel, you're failing with the execution. A heel isn't supposed to make his skills look limited, a heel is expected to avoid crowd-popping moves. A heel is expected to use moves and a match style which forces the crowd to get behind the face, not to cheer wildly the heel.
Do you think Ted DiBiase made it look like his ring skills were limited? How about Roddy Piper? Do you think Harley Race went to the ring and said "OK, I don't want people to think I'm a good wrestler"? Of course not. However, what they DID do was go to the ring with the mindset they wanted the crowd to hate them, and to support the face.
There's a difference between wrestling heel and wrestling good.
Trust me, if Edge was suddenly turned face and Cena to heel, Edge would magically turn into the better wrestler over Cena.
I've seen Edge work as a face. He's not a better wrestler.
Ever since the attitude era, the line between good and evil has been blurred. It seems as though they are going back to that late 80's philosophy in seperating faces and heels.
No offense, but professional wrestling has ALWAYS used face vs. heel. Now, what quantified a heel, and what determined a face was different, but faces have always been faces and heels have always been heels.
HBK has been a face since 2002. HHH was a heel in the down period after Attitude, pre-Cena. Austin was a face, McMahon was a heel. There was no blurring lines, just a re-description of the definition.
Cena is good at what he is paid to do
And, since ALL wrestlers are paid to make the employer the most money possible, I would say that Cena is the best at what he is paid to do.
I will admit that, and that does involve co-operation from his opposition in making him look great in the ring, no matter how much you deny it.
I don't deny anything. Of course that's true. In EVERY wrestler's case, he requires co-operation from his opposition to make him look good. I mean, how can Lex Luger look good when Bruiser Brody is going into business for himself, simply because he doesn't want to put the young kid over?
Edge is just as good(or even better) at his job for being the weak heel character. He makes people hate him so much they pay to see him get his ass kicked week after week.
But, Edge obviously doesn't do his job as a heel as well as Cena does his job as a face. If he did, more people would pay to see him.
