Icon vs. Icon. Franchise vs. Franchise. The face of one company against the face of another. No, I'm not talking about a Shane Douglas match, but of course the tantalising idea of Sting going up against the man who has redefined what it means to be the face of a wrestling promotion: John Cena. So the idea of a build up filled with John Cena pandering-promos fills me with many different forms of disgust, but this is another match that I genuinely believe that every wrestling fan subconsciously would be very excited to see. In a way this was proved with the Triple H match last year; the idea of it filled me with ambivalence, but as soon as they locked up in the centre of the ring I was a young fan again. On top of this, John Cena is (whether you like it or not) the yardstick by which wrestlers in WWE are measured. For a company that constantly plays up the fact that if it didn't happen there it doesn't matter, putting Sting up against Cena in order to prove his legacy is delicious in its dastardliness. Looking back at the Vince McMahon match, this is the logical progression of that. Cena is also a proven big match performer, and all of the stops would be pulled out for this.
Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.
