10 Reasons Why John Cena Will Be WWE's 2015 MVP

1. He Made The WWE Universe Care About New Wrestlers Like They Haven't In Some Time

The Shield were cool because there were three of them, they rarely lost matches, and in the first month they were in the company they triple powerbombed every super-duper-star that wasn't nailed down. Insofar as Cesaro and Kevin Owens, who weren't granted these opportunities, their path to getting over with the WWE Universe has not as easy. Cesaro's been around for a bit and has been teased on probably five different occasions as being much more than "just a Swiss guy being Swiss on the roster." He won the inaugural Andre The Giant Battle Royal, was in the Elimination Chamber, has Paul Heyman's co-sign, is now viewed as being on the level of the legendary Hart family in the ring and he picked up the Great Khali upside down one time and gave him the Neutralizer. But, until he started wrestling John Cena on a regular basis we didn't truly care. Kevin Owens had less than ten on-screen matches in WWE, and was a fat dude in a t-shirt and boxing shorts who at every step of his decade-plus long career has been lampooned for being a fat dude in a t-shirt and boxing shorts. However, even after powerbombing the NXT Championship away from Sami Zayn, the mainstream WWE Universe still didn't care. The second that John Cena sold for this fat dude in a t-shirt and boxing shorts who had the temerity to rip him a new a**hole with promos and then beat him clean in the middle of the ring? That's when -- moreso arguably than CM Punk and Daniel Bryan's entire career, because face it, they weren't fat dudes in t-shirts -- WWE fans stood up and really took note that the top tier of "indyriffic dudes" are actually seasoned veterans who can more than carry their weight. John Cena spent a decade being Atlas and holding up the WWE Universe on his shoulders. In these two of what will likely be before 2015 ends, many times, that Atlas shrugged and shared the weight of the WWE Universe with someone else, the WWE Universe now cares passionately about them because they succeeded at bearing that seemingly immense weight.
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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.