Thread: WWE RAW 1/5/15 featuring the Authoritah, non-smoking ambulances, and Ziggy regretting being a Cena Guy
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Old 01-06-2015, 05:40 PM   #259
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Originally Posted by Tom Guycott View Post
Shame, too. Not really his fault. How do you get over being an "accomplished introvert" with a shitty theme and a losing record and no angles to expand the character?
Pfffffftttt. The dude has been given loads of angles. He was a mostly mute brute who did the bidding of Bray Wyatt, then he had a fascination with Renee for 2 weeks, then he hated bullies and had a genius IQ for 2 weeks. Loads of angles/characteristics.

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Originally Posted by James Steele View Post
Seriously, do any of us have any idea what John Cena will do next week or going forward? While not on as huge of a level, this is almost as big of a potential crossroads/major shift for John Cena's character since his loss to The Rock. I sincerely believe Cena's character could get more interesting than it's been in a long time. He's basically gotten the shit beaten out of him for the past 6 months, not had a legitimate big match win in as much time, and now he has screwed over his friends, going to lose at Royal Rumble, and for the first time in his career be in a non-title match 2 years in a row at WrestleMania. There is no way a catchphrase and new t-shirt solve this dilemma for the Cena character.
This might be part of the pessimism; we know - absolutely KNOW - that John "Teflon" Cena won't be affected by any of this. Nothing, NOTHING, sticks when it comes to Cena.

This time could be different but chances are it won't be.

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I mean, it's true.

I loved the earlier incarnation of the Ascension, but if they're going to do the same "beat up two random dudes off the street in 30 seconds" schtick for a year that they did in NXT, I couldn't possibly care less if they get buried on commentary. They were built up as this world-beating tag team in NXT, but 90% of their time was just beating up backyard wrestling looking guys. It's not even like THE RYBACK where their offense is impressive. They just punch and kick kind of hard, a lot.
Dunno. They should do what they did on NXT; they need to be established to the wider audience as a dominant team. They will already rush things with The Asension; The Usos have the belts back with the express purpose of dropping them to Konnor/Victor, then what? They've conquered the mountain after a couple months, now what?
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