10 Live Observations From WWE SmackDown In St. Paul

8. Cena Blows Everyone Else Away

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No full-time wrestler in WWE comes close to matching John Cena’s star power or charisma. When he opened SmackDown, he was greeted as a major star. While he received the customary “let’s go Cena!”, “Cena sucks!” chants, he began winning over quite a few of the most vocal haters by the end of the segment. The show was pretty much downhill from there.

A lot of fans were ready to hate the star the moment his theme song played, but he was given some pretty good material to work with and he pretty effectively put The Miz in his place. Cena proved that despite us being in an era of new stars, no one can still quite touch him.

Roman Reigns should maybe study some of his work. At the Raw event a few months ago in Minnesota, he was booed throughout the night and was unable to bring any new fans over to his side by the show's end. The passionate hate against him lasted right on into the dark match. There's something about Cena these days that makes him harder to boo.

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