John Cena has been WWEs main event mainstay, the face of the company, for over a decade now. Throughout that time the only thing thats really changed about him is his shorts (jorts to cut-off cargo pants - definitely a trade-up). Now, in the old days the people that hated John Cena were the geekiest of the geeky wrestling fans, the ones that used to call themselves the IWC - the Internet Wrestling Community. However, that decade at the top coincided with the transition of online wrestling discussion from message boards and the so-called IWC to a more general, less nerdy dialogue, as the rise of social media, the smartphone and cheaper broadband connections made the internet widely available to all. That means that, in the last ten years or so, everyones had an opinion on WWEs most controversial star, not just furious, sweary obsessives with Dorito crumbs in their beards and keyboards stuck on ALL CAPS. Hes your prototypical, archetypal white meat babyface star: clean of cut, square of jaw, an American patriot whos about as unthreatening as the GI Joe action figure he resembles most. And yet still, there are valid reasons to raise an eyebrow at this most wholesome of figures. This article is a look at some of the problematic issues that Cena represents: some tongue-in-cheek, some a little more serious.
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