
Originally Posted by
Slim
I can see where you're coming from but it has to be said that Cena can indeed wrestle. He can and before he was severely limited he could. I mean let's go back in the past... not his debut against Kurt Angle but when he started using this thugonomics gimmick... he was a heel. He was a heel and he would bust rhymes on everyone.
Remember those days when Cena was... entertaining. That was when he had his own material and was actually doing something. He could do something. Actually he did what Austin, Rock, and Triple H were allowed to do to get themselves over. He was himself and when he did that he was golden. His gimmick was not, I repeat, was not a thug. It was a rapper. He adopted the name of Doctor of Thugonomics and at the time it fit him just right.
The thing about is he went from being a heel to being a tweener. He could say whatever he wanted in his own fashion and everyone liked it. The style in the ring fit perfectly. He was loved for who he was and what he did. Then enter WWE creative team.
They came up with the brilliant idea to turn him full fledged face and that gimmick is not meant for that sort of turn. But then to top it off Cena was no longer writing his own material. He then started doing poop jokes and that was when things started to go downhill for him. When he wasn't able to produce his own material.
Then enter the WWE title reign that started at WM 21. It would have been good. I mean think about this as well. When the draft lottery was announced and Jericho had the Hi-Lite reel going for the first person to be drafted, nobody knew who it was. Nobody. Then we heard the theme. We heard that theme and I dunno about you but I was shocked and that was the first time that face Cena actually grabbed my attention. Because on SmackDown! he would be editted but on Raw he would be allowed to say and do more since at the time Spike was well more free willed than UPN.
What happened there was they botched it up by continuing to have Cena do the exact same thing over and over and pretty soon he just did nothing. No more raps, no more rhymes. Just talked about the Chain Gang, and became a 5 trick pony. Now he is a 6 trick pony with the STFU and the way he does it is horrid.
So in essence you can't really blame Cena for why he's being "hated" because it started way back in the day when creative got the idea to turn a guy that was getting massively over by doing his own thing as a tweener, doin the heel stuff but still gettin cheered much like Austin did durin the Attitude era, into their puppet to control and ruined a very good thing.