10 Radical Ideas For WWE To Save Alberto Del Rio

3. Continue Cena's Weekly Open Challenge

This should go without saying, really: but John Cena brought a good deal of prestige back to the United States Championship with his weekly open challenge on RAW, and (hero or villain) Del Rio€™s character loses nothing by continuing the tradition started by his predecessor. As a babyface, Del Rio gets as much out of it as Cena did, which is considerable: he went from being a drag on RAW to being one of the more entertaining segments on the show in a matter of a fortnight. As a heel, Del Rio can add to his heat by pretending to run an open challenge, but ending up either screwing them over to win or accepting matches with challengers that are clearly beneath him - when a real babyface challenge turned up and Del Rio couldn€™t get out of it, the match would have heat regardless of who his opponent was. And of course there€™s the inevitable moment that Del Rio issues the challenge and Cena himself comes out to answer it€ although I€™m not keen on the idea of a proper, long-running feud between the two men, a good, intense match on free television wouldn€™t do any harm, and Cena doesn€™t necessarily have to walk away with the title again.