When the match between Kofi Kingston and the Miz is roughly 1700 times as interesting as the one between your WWE champion John Cena and ECW champion Jack Swagger, that probably means something
It means that John Cena is completely fucking boring. He's not *quite* as bad as Randy The Wonder Dog - when Cena was a rapping heel, he was fun to watch and he *can* put on a good match when he's not stuck pretending to be Hulk Hogan.
Swagger didn't come across as all that interesting either, whereas the Kingston/Miz match had a ton of energy in it. But yeah, you're pretty much dead on as regards Cena.
Unfortunately (depending on how you look at it), HHH is back on RAW, so I'm guessing that means that everyone else gets to take a back seat to his super-ego.
In the average year, I watch Wrestlemania (with a fast forward button), The Royal Rumble (with a bottle of whiskey, a bunch of friends, and money on the line), and anything Lance Storm points out as particularly awesome.
But yeah. Cena keeping up with Kurt Fucking Angle when he started? Awesome. Vanilla Ice Cena, kinda boring. Evil Rapper Cena was allowed to say everything the crowd was thinking, and wasn't censored - meaning, he could call out the useless faces *for being useless* and get real heat when he yelled at a face for maybe-understandable things. And, he could go at that point and put on a good match.
Face Cena?
He's slow. His promos are boring. He's got five moves an a requirement to not move outside them for fear of screwing up his marketing.
(About HHH: The Hs swap between awesome and terrible pretty much on a consistent 1 year schedule. The real question isn't "will his ego take over", so much as "will he be fun to watch in the process.)
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Unfortunately (depending on how you look at it), HHH is back on RAW, so I'm guessing that means that everyone else gets to take a back seat to his super-ego.
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In the average year, I watch Wrestlemania (with a fast forward button), The Royal Rumble (with a bottle of whiskey, a bunch of friends, and money on the line), and anything Lance Storm points out as particularly awesome.
But yeah. Cena keeping up with Kurt Fucking Angle when he started? Awesome. Vanilla Ice Cena, kinda boring. Evil Rapper Cena was allowed to say everything the crowd was thinking, and wasn't censored - meaning, he could call out the useless faces *for being useless* and get real heat when he yelled at a face for maybe-understandable things. And, he could go at that point and put on a good match.
Face Cena?
He's slow.
His promos are boring.
He's got five moves an a requirement to not move outside them for fear of screwing up his marketing.
(About HHH: The Hs swap between awesome and terrible pretty much on a consistent 1 year schedule. The real question isn't "will his ego take over", so much as "will he be fun to watch in the process.)