Thread: Is there a small chance that Cena has done more harm than good?
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Old 09-02-2017, 10:01 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by Noid View Post
Did Cena job left and right? I seem to remember him being frustratingly well protected. I'd probably make more of a case for protecting him now, because wins and losses do matter (and for those saying booking is a large part of the problem -- that is a large part of booking), if the timing of his elevation was right. He felt really jammed in there at the time, and I remember being off the Cena train well before he was originally given the title and had as long a reign as JBL.
He's always lost way more than any other face of the company. It started slowly around the time he went to Raw but then eventually he was losing more PPV matches than he was winning which is just unheard of for a top face.

Don't get me wrong, it's not the SOLE reason. His booking has been shitty outside of that. But having him job so much is absolutely the biggest fuck up.

Reigns jobs a lot for a top face, too. They made some mistakes early with him that fucked up his character but then it's like they tried to get people on his side by making him take a lot of "harmless" losses and it's just a retarded strategy. Your top face looking weak half the time and then winning a "big one" here and there doesn't endear people to him.

Basically, it's the 50/50 bullshit. The effects are just more noticable with the guys who are being shoved down people's throats as the major stars even though they lose about as much as they win.
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