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Old 09-15-2015, 08:59 PM   #19228
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Originally Posted by The CyNick View Post
You're way off base about Cena. Those kind of comments show a lack of understanding of the business. WWE wishes they had 3 more John Cenas lined up to take his spot. Its in their best interest to create one and let him run with the ball. The problem is nobody on the roster is close to Cena's level. I know thats unpopular with the IWC and places like this, but its true. He hustles more than anyone else on the roster, he's loyal to WWE almost to a fault, and he respects the business. You never hear "oh John refused to put over X". If anything he's similar to The Rock in that he probably does too many jobs for the latest flavour of the month.

The issue with the brand split is just math. If you split the brands, you have half the talent on each side. I think its BS to think there are a boat load of guys who could be headliners (who draw) but cant because their stuck in some bottleneck. The only guy who could lead his own tour was Daniel Bryan, but he's on the shelf. The next closest are probably Reigns and Orton, and neither of those guys will light the world on fire. I just dont see the benefit of splitting talent to create some fake form of competition.

At the height of WWE their was no such thing as a brand extension, and plenty of dudes got over big time.
The benefits have already been summed up by The Undertaker, but you do make a good point about John Cena being someone special. That being said, you cannot deny that the booking for some guys has done its absolute best to fuck up the momentum of a lot of guys, possibly so they don't get too hot because the WWE wants everyone to be luke-warm so no one has the confidence to do a Bobby Lashley or whatever.

The WWE actually does have a lot of guys who could potentially serve as hooks and get people more invested in the product. Dean Ambrose was getting really hot last year, and was almost as equally important to the show as John Cena was. Then they had Ambrose lose any sense of direction and start losing on basically every PPV until Extreme Rules. Bray Wyatt could have been a new era's top heel, but instead he's spent the last two WrestleMania events losing, proving that he's all talk. Cesaro was presented as a world-beater at WrestleMania XXX, then had the world beat him.

Not one of those guys is John Cena, but not one of those guys needs to be -- after all, they still have John Cena. There's no reason you cannot present them in a way that allows fans who like them to feel that their emotional investment is going to lead to memories being made -- memories that invariably fuel their fandom of the product.

Earlier this year -- despite me thinking it was possibly the stupidest direction to take a once great personality -- Damien Sandow got really fucking over building up tension between himself and The Miz. Where is Sandow now? He's nowhere. Don't tell me that guy wouldn't benefit by being on a different show right now.
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