Racing Guy wrote:Roman Reigns.
I hope he forms a tag team with his cousin Luther
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Racing Guy wrote:Roman Reigns.
Str8Shooter wrote:I'm not sure I like the idea of Goldust turning on Cody leading to a Mania match. First off, people seem to love Goldust and I'm not sure people will buy him as a heel and a legitimate threat to Cody.
Hanley! wrote:People want to like Cody though. Turning people heel just for the sake of it isn't good business and he hasn't even been a face for that long. There's room for him to be a face on the roster, even if it keeps him at upper midcard for the time being. There's nothing wrong with that, provided he still gets booked and gets story lines. Ziggler is kinda in that position too, though it seems he should be ahead of Cody if the company didn't keep stop/starting his push.
I know it's been beaten to death, but Cena as a face is ruining a lot of the potential dynamics in the company. Nobody wants to like the guy and there are a bunch of fresher talents that are getting hugely over as faces and being held down because of him. That's not me saying that he's using backstage politics to hold them down, I'm just saying that a side effect of him being kept in a position that doesn't suit him is that others are not being allowed to get as far as they can go.
There's nothing left for Cena to do as a face. He's held every title, run every kind of feud, exploited the "face that fans hate" gimmick to death, and competed against every major heel contender. To keep him as your number one face is to run your company backwards at this point. But turn him heel and suddenly you have a wealth of great new feuds. Heel Cena versus face Punk, heel Cena versus face Bryan, heel Cena versus face Ziggler, heel Cena versus face Rhodes, etc.
It'd provide fans with a credible heel that they'd be worried their favourites won't beat. It would allow them to invest in each story as intended - to root for the face and boo the heel and be satisfied by the pay off of a feud, rather than frustrated. It would make programming fresh and create goodwill among the fan base who would be happy they'd finally been listened to. It would help to drive things forward.
Which is why it won't happen. Because wrestling companies have been playing it irresponsibly safe for far too long.
The best Wrestlemania 30 main event they could probably have to kick off 2014 with a bang is a heel Cena playing the part of Corporate Champion facing off against Daniel Bryan. Punk or Rhodes would be acceptable substitutes, but I think Cena v Bryan is the best way they could go.
Hanley! wrote:People want to like Cody though. Turning people heel just for the sake of it isn't good business and he hasn't even been a face for that long. There's room for him to be a face on the roster, even if it keeps him at upper midcard for the time being. There's nothing wrong with that, provided he still gets booked and gets story lines. Ziggler is kinda in that position too, though it seems he should be ahead of Cody if the company didn't keep stop/starting his push.
I know it's been beaten to death, but Cena as a face is ruining a lot of the potential dynamics in the company. Nobody wants to like the guy and there are a bunch of fresher talents that are getting hugely over as faces and being held down because of him. That's not me saying that he's using backstage politics to hold them down, I'm just saying that a side effect of him being kept in a position that doesn't suit him is that others are not being allowed to get as far as they can go.
There's nothing left for Cena to do as a face. He's held every title, run every kind of feud, exploited the "face that fans hate" gimmick to death, and competed against every major heel contender. To keep him as your number one face is to run your company backwards at this point. But turn him heel and suddenly you have a wealth of great new feuds. Heel Cena versus face Punk, heel Cena versus face Bryan, heel Cena versus face Ziggler, heel Cena versus face Rhodes, etc.
It'd provide fans with a credible heel that they'd be worried their favourites won't beat. It would allow them to invest in each story as intended - to root for the face and boo the heel and be satisfied by the pay off of a feud, rather than frustrated. It would make programming fresh and create goodwill among the fan base who would be happy they'd finally been listened to. It would help to drive things forward.
Which is why it won't happen. Because wrestling companies have been playing it irresponsibly safe for far too long.
The best Wrestlemania 30 main event they could probably have to kick off 2014 with a bang is a heel Cena playing the part of Corporate Champion facing off against Daniel Bryan. Punk or Rhodes would be acceptable substitutes, but I think Cena v Bryan is the best way they could go.
Hanley! wrote:People want to like Cody though. Turning people heel just for the sake of it isn't good business and he hasn't even been a face for that long. There's room for him to be a face on the roster, even if it keeps him at upper midcard for the time being. There's nothing wrong with that, provided he still gets booked and gets story lines. Ziggler is kinda in that position too, though it seems he should be ahead of Cody if the company didn't keep stop/starting his push.
I know it's been beaten to death, but Cena as a face is ruining a lot of the potential dynamics in the company. Nobody wants to like the guy and there are a bunch of fresher talents that are getting hugely over as faces and being held down because of him. That's not me saying that he's using backstage politics to hold them down, I'm just saying that a side effect of him being kept in a position that doesn't suit him is that others are not being allowed to get as far as they can go.
There's nothing left for Cena to do as a face. He's held every title, run every kind of feud, exploited the "face that fans hate" gimmick to death, and competed against every major heel contender. To keep him as your number one face is to run your company backwards at this point. But turn him heel and suddenly you have a wealth of great new feuds. Heel Cena versus face Punk, heel Cena versus face Bryan, heel Cena versus face Ziggler, heel Cena versus face Rhodes, etc.
It'd provide fans with a credible heel that they'd be worried their favourites won't beat. It would allow them to invest in each story as intended - to root for the face and boo the heel and be satisfied by the pay off of a feud, rather than frustrated. It would make programming fresh and create goodwill among the fan base who would be happy they'd finally been listened to. It would help to drive things forward.
Which is why it won't happen. Because wrestling companies have been playing it irresponsibly safe for far too long.
The best Wrestlemania 30 main event they could probably have to kick off 2014 with a bang is a heel Cena playing the part of Corporate Champion facing off against Daniel Bryan. Punk or Rhodes would be acceptable substitutes, but I think Cena v Bryan is the best way they could go.
Hanley! wrote:I'm not exactly watching much these days, but whenever I hear a Cena promo or hear about a Cena promo, people seem to be booing the crap out of him. I don't doubt that many people who hate him as the top face have stopped watching, but it doesn't seem to have shifted the overall fan base back in his favour. Probably because more and more people are getting sick of his current role over time.
Cena as their main face hasn't been a massive financial success - they've been slowly bleeding ratings, pay per view buys and overall profit since his run started. And with him stuck in the current position, it's going to be harder to get a new face over - one that might actually take the company to the next level. Bret Hart was really popular in the mid-90s, but if they hadn't heel turned him and let someone else take a run at playing the top face, the company probably wouldn't have made it through the Monday Night Wars in quite so good a position.
Hogan's turn in WCW shows that an old, resented babyface can draw big money with an effective heel turn. Cena turning heel is definetely something that can work.
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