Thread: Is there a small chance that Cena has done more harm than good?
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Old 08-28-2017, 05:35 PM   #36
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Originally Posted by #1-wwf-fan View Post
The PG move wasn't WWE restructuring around him though. They restructured him to fit what they wanted to be. WWE's failures over the past decade are because of the direction they've gone in as a company. The fact that Cena happens to be the top guy in the "We bought out our competition and no longer feel the need to try" era is unfortunate but there's nothing he could have done about it. If you just look at him as a talent, he's a fucking megastar in any era.
You're right that they didn't restructure and he was just the guy, but a lot of other guys couldn't do it, and none of them did. Cena was just that stable table. I meant that more of a positive than a negative. I mean, I don't like them going PG, but Cena navigated those waters about as well as anybody could have.

When it comes to the ratings and such, I do think those are larger problems with the WWE, but regardless, I don't think you can attribute hypothetical success in that category to Cena. Would he have been hotter if he were allowed to be edgy and grow into his own at a more steady rate? I absolutely think so, but it just didn't happen, so we won't know.

My argument isn't so much against John Cena in terms of him as an actual talent, as it is just how effective he was in that role of top guy. I certainly wouldn't give the WWE's hands a wash on the subject.
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