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I don't hate Cena as a person or a character. Could his character be better? Sure.
With Cena they made the fatal mistake they continually seem to make when turning a popular heel into a babyface - they make them "vanilla". We cheer heels for a reason. Whatever reason that is irrelavant, but what they need to realise is that in order for us to keep cheering they have to have the guy do the same things he did as a heel now that he is a face.
With Cena his rapper persona got him over, all they had to do was change his focus from babyfaces to heels. Same attitude, same edge to the charater, diffrent focus. We've seen it time and time again in WWE (Orton's first turn, Carlito, MVP, etc).
At least they seemed to have corrected this with Orton's current babyface/tweener run.
Yes, he wa shoved down our throats. Yes, we could do without him overcoming the odds every other week (esecially given how many times he has done it, how can we be expected to believe he won't this time?). Yes, his matches/promos are now "by the number". But that all comes from higher up in the company (mostly).
I thought Cena was good in the ring when he debuted (pre-jean shorts) and we all agree his promos during his rapper gimmick were good. IMO Cena has the goods, he's just not allowed to use them.
Maybe part of that is that he's not been allowed to turn heel - he hasn't been able to show his versatility. IMO it's far more difficult to be a longterm babyface than a heel. So, we go on hoping that the heel turn will come.
Who knows, we've all heard/made the Cena - Hogan comparisions,after 10+ years as a the babyface, who'd have thought that Hogan would become a top heel?
Just another 5 years for us to wait for that epic Cena turn...
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