John Cena Dud or Superstar?

John Cena? Again? What he's won again? With that crappy move he does? (well he does only do about 3) Boooooring. Come one what do the fans see in this untalented guy with a cheap and relatively poor wigga gimmick that's staler than the idea that wrestling's a sport. It's sports entertainment, the fans of it accept that, we all know if you punch someone in the face their face messes up and your hand breaks simple.

Sadly for those real wrestling fans who remember the likes of The four Horsemen and the Fantastic Freebirds, John Cena takes a dump on what we used to watch. The idea that a wrestling match should have turns, the heel V the face, the good guy bad guy, the coming back from the brink of a loss. Sadly the great matches that made the Rock-Stone Cold, and the Flair-Steamboat rivalries so good are so rare now that the WWE is dying a death of it's own cause. 

With the idea that John Cena could be the next great beacon of the WWE's survival, this generations Rock/Hogan/Austin/Thesz if you will, sadly, is misguided. In wrestling your move set often limits your matches, look at the good old pokemon of wrestling, Kevin Nash who knows 4 moves (Powerbomb, thrust thing, big boot, irish whip) managed to reach the top due to being a 7 foot fella who fulfilled Vince's fetish for giants, but rarely seemed to be in a good match. Cena fails on the one thing Nash did, and even under cuts him on the moves side, if you look at the most exciting fighters, the Mysterio's or the CM punks, the Hardy's and (going to TNA) Samoa Joe, Chris Daniels and AJ Styles these have a huge amount of moves in their arsenal and as a result attract fans.

If the WWE is going to survive on the (admittedly strong) shoulders of Cena it needs to change a whole load of things, and one of them is to stop viewing Cena as a good guy. If you try forcing something down some ones throats the result is them throwing up all over your hand, the phenomenon has been seen in wrestling in the past, can you remember the Rock's debut? He was forced down as the next smiling happy face, and was boo'ed by the crowd because they saw through it. Austin was pushed as a heel and the WWF (well it was WWF back then) hit pay dirt as the fans loved the act and made him a fan favourite despite him being a heel/tweener. Cena on the other hand has seen fans divided, the marks (the guys who believe it's real) have fallen head over heels for a white American with muscles who thinks he can rap sadly those who can see they are being force fed tripe have boo'ed him, showing that his face role isn't winning folks over. 

Now a quick turn of the company's top face would seem like the best idea, but historically there hit and miss, with WCW's two biggest face to heel turns going under ground swiftly with Sting and Goldberg's. So Cena who's a lousy wrestler in all honestly, merely a strong guy in a wrestling industry, could try and turn and the turn would be a huge success as he's not been a clean cut good guy, he's been a rude face. It's not been the I'm going to beat you type act that has taken him to where it is, it's the your stupid and ugly and I'm stronger that's done it for him. Those outside of 13 year olds can see through it. So turning into a heel on the principle of you all suck, and I'll beat you all, especially you, you little mommy's boy towards the crowd will guarantee him being a huge heel.

Though how much the company are willing to risk their flavour of the month being booed just because it'd be offensive, is the problem. The company's top fighters such as The Undertaker, Shawn Michaels and HHH are all getting on, and the next generation such as CM Punk aren't quite there yet. The reliance on fairly standard fighters like Cena and Edge to supplement the top of the current crew (Orton, Batista) means that the need for Cena to remain face is definitely there, a shame. 
The huge and rather undeserved push of Cena has annoyed a lot of true wrestling fans, sadly it's ever emerging younger audience has taken a rather loving approach to him. This generations Hogan he isn't, a complete failure? Hardly, just not what he's cracked up to be, more a rather limited brawler.