Lord_Nergal said:
I've never understood wrestling.
What's not to get? It's one part soap opera, one part performance art. The characters and storylines, when used correctly, enhance the in-ring action that, although choreographed and planned, can be highly entertaining and a well-worked match given a proper build up and played out by compelling, well developed characters can suspend the disbelief of the viewer and make you forget, but for a short while, that you're watching an orchestrated wrestling match. It's like watching a kung fu movie, you know it's fake, but that doesn't mean it's any less awesome and like in wrestling the story and characters are there, but only as an aide to the fights, which is something modern WWE seems to forget - but there's a whole world of wrestling outside of WWE, which I'm eternally grateful for, otherwise I'd have quit being a wrestling fan years ago.
Princess Skittles said:
He's basically this generation's Hulk Hogan or The Rock. They're all mostly the same schtick.
But because internet wrestling fans didn't grow up with him and have warm childhood memories of watching HIS stale catchphrases in their jammies, they hate him.
That's a load of crap - Cena was popular with the internet wrestling fans before he became a main eventer and took the top spot on the card for almost every PPV over the past few years. People are sick of having him shoved down their throats. The 5 Moves of Doom archetype that Hogan played in the early 90's is the same thing, and the equivalent of internet wrestling fans back then turned on him too, just like they have done with John Cena. Hogan was actually a great worker in his prime during the 80's, or whenever he wrestled in Japan, but it just wasn't the Hogan that WWF presented in that 90's, and it's the same thing with John Cena today. WWE have no interest in making Cena anything other than the corny, 5 moves of Doom superman who almost always can't be beat.
