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Went with Brock. Cena got in on Brock's departure. No doubt he would have got there eventually, but Brock is just that league above...well, most human beings on the planet earth.
Cena might be more versatile than Brock -- I'll give him that. He's a better promo when he is in that money promo mode. He can also be as terrible as Brock when he's burying talent and missing the point of what he's actually trying to sell. Brock is arguably funnier when they do comedy too. Unintentionally or otherwise.
In the ring, Cena is wonderful, but Brock is just...fucking...wow. The way he makes anyone who touches him look like a god. Cena doesn't have that quality built into him. His selling and his offence can still look a bit shit. He's great, to the point that someone in his position needs to be great, but he's not Brock great in the same spikes.
And, when it comes to being a draw, Cena is controversial. Business dipped under the Cenazoic Period. The company went all-in with him, and their audience decreased. Now, of the people who are left, he does impact business positively, but that's the bed they've created by making it the John Cena Show.
He and Brock are the only real stars they have, so both should be holding the World Titles in this two-belt world we live, but I actually do think that Brock is just, ultimately, that little bit more objectively valuable. Although, if it came to building a new company with either him or Cena at the center, it's a bit like Sophie's choice. Cena would turn heads, because it's John Cena in a new environment, whereas Brock has worked places like New Japan before. That being said, I wouldn't choose Cena because he's the overall better talent.
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