Every so often in WWE, a babyface needs to be able to make an outlandish statement about something that they're going to do to a heel, then exceed that expectation. Ronda Rousey talks a TON of trash to be a "babyface," but the people love her because she says these seemingly insane things and then walks into the octagon and backs them up. The last major babyface that WWE made was Brock Lesnar, and it was all due to the fact that Lesnar says completely insane things about how he's going to harm his opponent, and then, shazam, they're done. People like to believe in superheroes. WWE needs to make heroes and then every so often allow them to walk through the curtain and do exactly what they said they were going to do. However, instead of these things being meek proclamations like "I'm never gonna give up," what if John Cena said he was going to "pound someone's face into the ground," and did just that? Maybe then the people might not be so inclined to be divided in support of him.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
