https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkndS227IGE Its pretty well known that Dave Bautista doesnt like the PG-13 direction of WWEs current programming, instituted to attract bigger and better advertising in summer 2008: he claims, after all, that it was the reason for him leaving in 2010 to pursue a career on the big screen. In this short clip from a phone interview with radio personality Chad Dukes on his show in December 2011, Batista goes further than he ever had before or since, claiming that the PG direction only works with Cena, who was loved by children and women, but hated by real wrestling fans. He calls him Mr. Hokey, Mr. PG, and specifically states that he killed hardcore, edgy wrestling one assumes he doesnt mean actual hardcore matches, but more the occasionally bloody drama and on-the-edge antics that characterised WWE and WWFs booking before the PG-13 direction. Batista graduated from WWE developmental in the infamous Class Of 2002 with Brock Lesnar, Randy Orton and of course John Cena, and it can be argued that few people know Cena and the WWE of the last dozen years or so better than him. Were not sure you can legitimately blame Cena for the companys family-friendly direction, but hes certainly the poster boy for it.
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