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Originally Posted by XL
HHH is/was right about Punk tbf. I'm a massive Punk fan but he really would not have faired well in Cena's position, at least not in the MAW/charity/publicity stuff.
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Originally Posted by Noid
Probably not, but does a top wrestling star need to do that? I don't remember that being the case made against Triple H when he was constantly hitting Mick Foley over the head with steel chairs. That a top star needs to do the talk show circuit and all that is one of those modern expectations that you can't help but wonder might be a little forced.
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Agree with both.
Punk probably would have burnt out a lot faster if he had to take on a Cena workload with public stuff on top of the regular wrestling stuff. Based on the past stories about him, he seemed to be the type that rather be left alone or relaxes whenever he's not wrestling.
Like a lot of things, modern WWE (Cena Era to present) tries way too hard to force a mainstream appeal instead of letting it occur naturally or the other way around. Makes sense they use Cena the most since for the past 10+ years, the company has revolved around him even if others were more popular in the mainstream. Even their charity stuff has a forced feeling when lots of times its either used to prevent Cena from getting booed or inflate their own PR image like with the Warrior Award.