For a decade now, John Felix Anthony Cena has been the poster boy for a PG era WWE: a cartoon fan favourite, or babyface, pushed to be the WWE Champion no less than a record twelve (12) times. Beloved by children and women of a certain age the world over, John Cena is also the most divisive figure in professional wrestling history because hes a good guy that gets booed out of the building almost everywhere he goes. It got to the point year ago that he acknowledged the weird reactions he was getting, and these days he pretends hes not bothered by it. Some say its Cenas tired, stale character thats at fault. Pro wrestling suffers from burn-out like any other form of entertainment, and Cenas character has barely even fluctuated in ten years, except for the colours of his excruciatingly bad merchandise. Some say its the fact that Cena is written by the powers-that-be in WWE to be an undefeatable Superman figure, like Hulk Hogan back in the eighties only its not the eighties anymore, and we prefer Batman these days (hey CM Punk, howre you doing? >waves). Some say its because he cant wrestle, although those people are kind of kidding themselves... Still others reckon that the much hyped Cena heel turn whereby the pro wrestling fanbase fantasise about the different storylines, the different matches and feuds, that might take place if John Cena was turned into a bad guy has actually already taken place that were booing him because they want us to. Is that a conspiracy theory too far? Dont ask Cena. Summa yall like him, and summa yall hate him, and thats fine with him. Jack.
Professional writer, punk werewolf and nesting place for starfish. Obsessed with squid, spirals and story. I publish short weird fiction online at desincarne.com, and tweet nonsense under the name Jack The Bodiless. You can follow me all you like, just don't touch my stuff.
