5 Reasons Not To Cheer For John Cena's WWE Return

5. It Won't Do Styles, Owens, Zayn, Cesaro, Et Al Any Favors

Since WrestleMania, it seems like WWE is finally starting to give chances to new and up-and-coming talent. Men like AJ Styles, Kevin Owens, Sami Zayn, Dean Ambrose, and Cesaro are all played prominent roles at Payback, and Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows are cast a shadow over the show's main event. Further down the card, Enzo and Cass, The Vaudevillains, Charlotte, and Natalya all had featured matches.

It can be argued that the only reason this show is giving so many of these wrestlers opportunities is because so many of the top guys are out. Once John Cena returns, everybody below him will get knocked down a peg - just look at WrestleMania in recent years, where superstars come out of the woodwork and so undercard singles matches are almost nonexistent.

To be fair, Cena's return doesn't need to be bad for stars on the cusp of breaking out; he could easily work programs with some of them that would elevate their stock. Unfortunately, as we've seen in the past, it doesn't seem to work that way. Cena's feuds with Bray Wyatt, Rusev, and even Kevin Owens have irreparably harmed those men in the long term, and we don't need more of that.