10 Things I Hate About John Cena

8. His Miraculous No-Selling Comeback Is Now An Official WWE Thing

You€™ve all seen it dozens upon dozens of times: Cena takes huge moves through tables or barriers and foreign objects to the face, but nothing fazes him. Often, he€™ll recover completely during the same match, abandoning efforts to sell the damage he€™s taken. It€™s irritating, because John Cena the performer is actually really good at selling injury - he€™s believable and credible, and it increases the drama of a match when he does it. He just doesn€™t do it consistently. Remember how hard they worked to sell us on Alberto Del Rio€™s lethal cross armbreaker? Now remember Cena powering through the hold while it was applied to an already (kayfabe) hurt arm, to suddenly pull off a powerbomb? How about taking a brutal DDT to the exposed concrete at ringside, only to leap back up literally seconds later and defeat all of his opponents one by one as though nothing had happened? The worst part is that it€™s contagious. Roman Reigns no-sells damage in exactly the same way. Look at the Royal Rumble this year: attacked, brutalised and carted off to receive urgent medical attention, he returned to the match half an hour later completely restored to health, selling nothing of that beatdown. Even Daniel Bryan had started to do it a little bit, before his hiatus with injury and eventual retirement: and Daniel Bryan was taught in-ring storytelling at the knee of William Regal. Thanks to a decade of Cena on top, WWE babyfaces with the €˜indomitable€™ characteristic don€™t seem to feel the need to sell any longer. Can WWE not see that this makes a nonsense of our suspension of disbelief, and makes us like these characters a little less? Where€™s the heroism in defeating someone that easily? Sami Zayn works hard for his victories, and he doesn€™t win all the time€ but when he does, it means more, and it takes something out of him. That€™s the kind of hero that kids should be looking up to, because life is hard and things don€™t come easily.