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WHO HAS BENEFITTED FROM WORKING WITH JOHN CENA, WWE IGNORING WHAT THE CROWD WANTS, IF HOGAN’S JUMP TO THE WWF FAILED AND MORE

By Dave Scherer on 2015-05-06 09:59:00

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How many wrestlers have truly benefited from being in a program with Cena? Bray Wyatt hasn't recovered from losing to him last year and it's looking like Rusev (who in my opinion is a GREAT Heel) will be buried by saying "I quit" here in 3 weeks. It seems like Cena pretty much halts the progress of future main eventers' careers. I'll never get over how he single-handedly destroyed the Straight Edge Society. Am I being too negative about Cena?

Brock Lesnar is only one the pops in my head. Cena even got his heat back on The Rock. Maybe Daniel Bryan, but Cena did do the “my arm was destroyed going into the match but Bryan still beat me” promo. Yes, Vince has a history of feeding people to Cena and they are never the same afterward.

Ok, so Vince and the WWE invest time and money into developing a talent, (ie. Sandow, Ryder, Bryan, Ziggler etc.) then when they send said talent out and that talent clicks with the audience and gets over, Vince books those certain talents poorly and attempts to kill their momentum instead of attempting to cash in on their popularity? Isn't that just money wasted if you aren't going to attempt to get a return on your investment?

It is mind boggling to me, it really is. I have ranted about that very thing many, many times. I just don’t understand why Vince can’t say, like with a Mizdow, “Wow, I didn’t see him getting over, but he did. Let’s make some money with him!” Shoot, last year, if the fans hadn’t started hijacking shows, we would have never had the great Daniel Bryan moment at WrestleMania either. I just don’t understand the thinking. To me, if you have something people want to buy, sell it to them!

How does Bray Wyatt go from feuding with The Undertaker to feuding with Ryback? Was there no other feud creative could have given him?

Well, to be fair, he really wasn’t “feuding” with Taker. It was one sided, with him calling Taker out. Then Taker accepted and beat him. As mentioned before here, Bray has been floundering since he lost his heat in the John Cena feud.

After reading the history of Verne Gagne, upon his passing, I have a question. Do you think if Hogan would have failed in going back to WWF, got hurt, fans rejected hulkamania, etc... that things would have been different for the AWA? I would have to imagine after Hogan's success that when VKM was cherry picking talent from the AWA all he had to say was "look what i did for hulk".
I know if Hulk had failed the entire landscape of wrestling would be different so feel free to expand but I'm just curious on what effect you think it would have had on the AWA in particular.

Perhaps the end wouldn’t have come as quickly, but if Vince hadn’t made it going National, Jim Crockett probably would have. Verne just didn’t see that kind of big picture, so the AWA would have most probably met the same fate.

With Billy Corgan joining TNA as a producer, are they cutting anyone from the creative team or reassigning them?

As of this time, nope. John Gaburick will probably have less to do with the process if all goes well with Corgan, but he wasn’t hired to run creative in the first place.

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