There's a misconception that, because Cena (the performer) is the hardest working performer WWE's ever had, that he's 100% committed to and passionate about professional wrestling. John Cena (the character) was created within the WWE system and John Cena (the performer) was raised as a WWE guy. He has few interests outside of work and now that his marriage is over and hes in a relationship with Nikki Bella it can be argued that he has no life outside of work. Hes got WWE in his blood, not wrestling. The WWE style is ingrained in everyone who works there, but people like Cena havent really ever known anything different. I mentioned that performers like CM Punk and Bret Hart could work with anyone: thats because theyd worked with everyone. Cenas worked the same kind of matches with the same kind of people - often, the same people over and over again - for his entire career. In his day, Daniel Bryan could carry most mediocre wrestlers to a good-to-great match, and he very rarely had a bad one. John Cena cant say the same, and its not just because Bryan was objectively better than Cena. Its because, despite a sixteen year career, Cena has little breadth of experience. Bryan could have left WWE in 2013 and gone back to being Bryan Danielson in Japan, or travelling the independents. If John Cena were released tomorrow, its almost unthinkable that hed go and wrestle somewhere else. Hed be more likely to segue into a television or film career, something he's already sowing the seeds for.
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