Is there a small chance that Cena has done more harm than good?

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Originally Posted by Bad News Gertner Cena has lost more than any franchise player the WWE has ever had. Bruno never lost. Backlund went from 1977 until his loss to Diesel in 95 without losing a single MATCH at MSG. Think about that. Hogan is Hogan. Nothing to add. Stone Cold wasn't putting people over left and right. The Rock did his share of losing but not to Cena's level. Cena is just a wrestler. He can't control his opponents mic skills, in ring skills, charisma, and what direction the writing staff goes. He works hard and more often than not has amazing matches. Everything else is out of his hands.

To be fair a bit, Cena has also wrestled a lot more matches at least on tv per year than most of those past franchise players. Think his yearly win percentage and yearly clean loss tally is still up there with those past greats.

In terms of comparisons with Hogan, Cena usually wrestled more on TV in a year than Hogan did over the course of several years.

Do agree about the stuff regarding him having little to no control over how Creative handles his losses afterwards. For example, Nakamura beating Cena for the #1 contender spot on Smackdown should have been treated as a rub by Cena to Nakamura's eventual title win at SummerSlam. Instead Nakamura lost to Jinder in the usual fashion and decreased the value of Cena's loss earlier.

[Bad News Gertner]

Originally Posted by Smelly Meatball To be fair a bit, Cena has also wrestled a lot more matches at least on tv per year than most of those past franchise players. Think his yearly win percentage and yearly clean loss tally is still up there with those past greats. In terms of comparisons with Hogan, Cena usually wrestled more on TV in a year than Hogan did over the course of several years. Do agree about the stuff regarding him having little to no control over how Creative handles his losses afterwards. For example, Nakamura beating Cena for the #1 contender spot on Smackdown should have been treated as a rub by Cena to Nakamura's eventual title win at SummerSlam. Instead Nakamura lost to Jinder in the usual fashion and decreased the value of Cena's loss earlier.

Oh yes definitley. Different era completely. You'd have to start realistically in the mid 90's to compare eras to Cena, although I'd have to do some more in depth research to compare Austin, Rock and Cena. Bruno lost once in a blue moon as did Hogan. Backlund never did, but they were mostly in a era where the Champ hardly wrestled on T.V. Those three never did House Show pinfall losses either