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IS JOHN CENA THE BIGGEST HEEL IN WWE, IS WWE BEYOND HOPE?, ECW DESTROYING VENUES AND MORE

By Mike Johnson on 2015-01-15 10:00:00
With Chris Jericho having a contract that only has him working house shows, I was wondering if there has every been another wrestler that has had such a contract?

He's probably the first one, especially in terms of it being promoted publicly, with such a limited contract.

I'm so disappointed. A year ago WWE seemed so much better. They had great young acts like The Shield & the Wyatt Family, Daniel Bryan was on fire and the live crowds were excited for the product. Now, those acts have disbanded with little or no real payoff, the tired Authority angle is still going and RAW gets more boring each week. It's depressing. Is there any hope things will get better soon?

Wrestling is always one great angle away from things getting better. I'm not going to say that everything WWE presents is awesome, but there is probably more good wrestling per TV in this era then ever before. WWE produces a LOT of weekly content and they don't always make the best moves, so obviously, there is going to be a lot of bad and a lot of stuff that falls through the cracks, but it's not all bad. You mention the groups that have disbanded, but all those talents are still here. You mention Bryan and now he's back in the ring and if Raw is any indication, he's going to be back in full form. I'm as tired of The Authority as you, but I don't think everything all negative as I look at the horizon and landscape.

Whatever happened to WWE superstars being "shades of grey"? Vince told us 15 years ago the good guys vs. bad guys concept was passe and they didn't want to insult the audience's intelligence anymore by telling them who to cheer & boo. Now, if a "bad guy" starts to get cheers, like Cesaro with his big swing, they force him to stop because the audience cheers it. When did company policy officially return to it being ok to insult our intelligence?

15 years ago, they weren't promoting directly to children. That's where the break in that mentality began.

I have a question regarding enhancement talent of the 80's and 90's. Other than Barry Horowitz beating Bodydonna Skip a few times, and the 123 Kid Beating Razor Ramon, though he was never meant to be enhancement talent long term, is there any other examples of them winning? I do remember some good matches and not all were complete squashes, but never anyone else winning. Also, I know many wrestlers got their start as jobbers, are there any examples of enhancement talent become legitimate contenders with out changing there name/gimmick? The only one I can think of is Paul Roma.

I guess the other best example would be The Young Stallions, which of course was Roma and Jim Powers, but off the top of my head, I can't think of any others, since of course, their role was to make the stars look like stars.

Every so often you get e-mails asking when John Cena will get turned heel. Here's my question: why would WWE need to turn Cena? He already is the biggest heel in WWE. To wit: Cena constantly does heel things like attacking people from behind and belittling other wrestlers and not taking them seriously. He's attacked people like Michael Cole and Paul Heyman, theoretically people who can't defend themselves against a wrestler. He conned Rey Mysterio into putting his new title on the line, the same night Mysterio already wrestled 3 matches to win the belt. He recently put together a team at Survivor Series featuring Superstars who had no reason at all to join him. Their reward was they got fired if they lost, and nothing if they won. Except, of course, Cena kept his title shot. And in the weeks leading up, The Authority kept beating up Cena's teammates, and Cena never once helped any of them. And should we get into the one heroic thing Cena's done recently? Saving Edge from getting curbed stomped into a briefcase? The same Edge who once smacked Cena's dad and got Cena electrocuted to end a match? The Edge who Cena once threw into an ocean? I don't know, it seems to me Cena and Triple H do a lot of the same things. Only Triple H gets booed for them.

I can't argue with any of this!

How did ECW get away with wrecking so many buildings?

Well, when it came to the former ECW Arena, they were allowed to do whatever they wanted as long as they paid the bill. In other venues, they treated them the same and were often kicked out of places because of it, but well, that was just ECW. In hindsight, it was certainly a stupid way to run things, but in the bubble of that time period, it just went with the ECW mentality of fighting and wrestling hard.

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