The Opinion On John Cena

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Everyone speaks about how he is 'good for the business'. Maybe so, from a merchandise perspective.

What most wrestling fans regularly fail to acknowledge or overlook is several key points.

- WWE have turned into a PR machine and whilst I don't question that Cena enjoys the Make-a-Wish days, he'd be doing those regardless of whether he liked them or not. He's been given the ball, if he didn't run with it - he would have lost it.
- His off-air personality seems to be iffy and he seems to lord himself over the rest of the roster. Telling Punk that he 'almost gave up on him', shows that Cena can be a tool. The Alex Riley thing too.
- The second most important point, think about the amount of careers he has derailed. I mean, every single person on the roster (perhaps except Punk) is on a lower echelon to Cena. You could be riding the wave of momentum and then boom, loss to Cena. Totally irrecoverable because his character buries people. Dolph Ziggler used his 2 finishers and had a double interference and couldn't beat him. Think of the effect this has on Dolph Ziggler's credibility (kayfabe). This has happened to superstar after superstar since Cena's meteoric rise and it is the main reason why no new credible stars can be created. There is an on-screen glass ceiling named John Cena. (whether or not this is his fault is irrelevant, it happens.)
- The most important point, I simply don't enjoy him. As Juice said, I don't tune in every week thinking 'I can't wait to hear/watch John Cena.' He's the face of the company. He should be the main thing people are looking forward to. Only, in my opinion, around 20% of the adult male demographic want to see him on a weekly basis.

He's steamrolled everyone, not just Internet darlings. The only guy he hasn't beaten time and time again is CM Punk, who is now the second biggest star in the company because of it. I'm not counting The Rock, but we all know he's getting his moment against The Rock on the biggest stage possible.

I enjoy him when he feuds with CM Punk, and his match against Brock was one of the best of the year imo. However, he's been doing the same thing for so long. It's just old. Cena's talented, there is no doubt in my mind, but he hit his ceiling a long time ago. So you have to either do something new with him, or fans will continue to tell him he sucks. He's safe and wholesome, and in 2013 and especially in wrestling that's passé. You do the same thing long enough and people are bound to get bored with it. You get force fed something you are already bored with long enough and people are bound to grow spiteful. That's Cena.

I really HATE it when people say it is cool to hate him. Utter nonsense. Just a blanket statement to discredit peoples opinions that don't agree with your own.

My own personal taste comes down to what goes on in the ring. Wrestling has to have some sense of realism to it for me. Whenever Cena throws a punch it reminds me of what it would be like sitting in a cinema watching a film, then the camera guy walks on to the scene & waves to the audience. It is contrived & reminds you that suspended belief you had for a minute is gone.

He also seems to have two left feet like Matt Hardy, don't know whats going on there, but it makes his movement & timing awkward.

How did a guy in his position, not keep improving his basic skills?? A lot of fault must lie with co workers. Even people like The Rock would go up to the dungeon with Bret & brush up his skills, DDP would still go to the Power Plant etc etc.

Some of these things are really fixable, madness.

As for the character, well i don't like him. But i am not suppose to, he is a hero to million of kids, & pretty much nails it. As an adult though, i want to see the Dark Knight version of Cena, not the Batman & Robin version.

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yep, and give him time. sheamus will get his hate too, i know that i despise him. but there's no denying cena is the worse of those two evils.

just give it up, people have legitimate reasons for disliking cena.

The guy that recently lost the title totally cleanly?

Yeah. That guy. He lost the Title cleanly, doesn't mean he didn't spent the whole of 2012 squashing guys, or that he wasn't winning all the time, or that a good portion of fans didn't enjoy anything he did all year, or that he never showed weakness (up until that loss).

I have no issue with John Cena. I have issues with the way he's booked and handled, but that really has very little to do with him.

He gets it done in the ring, he's a public relations dream, and he has an intense and unwavering amount of love and respect for the business.

I hate the "Super Cena" concept and believe it's the largest contributing factor in leading a lot of fans to dislike him.

I do not like him, never have & cant pissibly imagine i ever will. As someone else said, the guy is just awkward in the ring, I don't understand, he's been wrestling for over a decade & he's gotten no better, it's uncanny. I hate his matches, watching him wrestle irritates me. I'm also not a fan if his promos, he's cringe inducingly lame & cheesy & the thing he does where he recaps everything going on makes me want to vomit. I honestly from the bottom of my heart think he is terrible.