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Originally Posted by Mota
You are correct. He can lose the title one PPV, lose the rematch the next PPV, and somehow he's the one getting the title shot and not CM Punk. How much sense does that make?
I'm just at a loss to understand what their goal is with Cena right now. Wrestlemania is in Miami and not a single person will be cheering for him. It'll be like Chicago all over again. They're setting him up for failure right now and he's failing. He's a face that can't get cheered. So do they turn him heel before Wrestlemania? The crazy thing is that a heel Cena would probably get cheered just as much as the face one!
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How would you book Cena right now? Would you try to get him cheered v. Rock in Miami at Mania, and how would you go about that?
I do know a lot of people want Cena to turn heel, and I understand that, but the business he does with the casual/kid audience is enormous, I can also understand the hesitation with throwing that away.
We are not the fans that bring money to the company, we're not the fans that buy PPVs enough to make a difference (as proven by the MITB buyrate), and we are not the fans that buy merchandise. Superman Cean v. Umaga/Khali/Lashley (that "reign of terror" streak he went on on B-PPVs a few years back during his long title reign) did better buyrates the internet fan-dream PPV at MITB. But they're still pushing this Punk thing, at least to some degree, really just to placate the hardcore fans for bit....and then they won't buy the PPVs anyway. MITB would have drawn better if it were just Super-Cena v. some monster they built up...that's just the facts, that's what sells to the casual audience.....I don't envy the WWE's position, but at the very least, we continuously get great matches out of it no matter what they do (I was a fan when we got Mabel v. Kevin Nash main events, it's still unbelievable to me to see what we get on PPV and even free TV now). I mean, even Rock is very limited in-ring as was Austin post-neck break.