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Originally Posted by Red Hot Scott
No, I meant, should he have been traded to Raw in exchange for someone else. (I should've been clearer.)
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Listen, you can only give out so many big pushes on one show. Between Orton and Shelton and Kane getting re-established and the Xtian/Jericho feud, where would Cena fit in? Who's going to out him over? Flair, again, as if that has any meaning any more?
The purpose of the brand extension is to have two reasonably blanced shows. Cena is a mainstay on Smackdown. The fact that they can match up Renee with someone as new as Cena and this feud is going to get Renee madly over as a heel is just sign of how popular Cena really is. He's basically doing what The Rock has done in his last few runs in the WWE: come in, get the crowd worked up, and put over the new guy to get them heat with the crowd. And because Rocky, and now Cena, are so damn popular, whether or not they actually go over doesn't matter; fans still love them.
As a matter of fact, after this Dupree thing is done, I wouldn;t be surprised if Cena was fed another midcarder like Jindrak or Haas just to get that worker over, too. And by the end of the year he'll get a big name feud against Booker T (who might be SD's biggest heel by then) or Undertaker (who if he turned, would definitely be SD's biggest heel).
Either way, outside of some minor tweaks, I don't see one damn thing wrong with the way the WWE has used John Cena--he got over ridiculously fast and now he's being given some time to establish himself while still being one of the main stars on Smackdown. With Angle out, he and Eddie are the guys that show should be built around.