10 Things John Cena STILL Can’t Actually Do
6. Call Spots Quietly
oh my god i thought Cena was yelling NO NO at the Philly crowd who were chanting YOU BOTH SUCK
— MaffewBotchamaniaGuy (@Maffewgregg) January 29, 2018
he's yelling NOW NOW SHINSUKE NOW pic.twitter.com/1BvDgs4fmt
These are not isolated incidents. Cena himself knows it, too. 'The Champ' moved to defend himself from the routine accusations of his loud spot-calling with perhaps the most ludicrous broadside launched this side of Jonathan Coachman commentating on a bearhug. Speaking on the criticism, he suggested that his job was about "playing to the people out in section 313" and that "I don't care if the first six rows or someone who's snarkily watching the broadcast hears what I'm going to do before I do it".
All well and good, other than the fact it negates one of the primary functions of his job, and neglects the practice every single one of his colleagues attempt to perfect in order to protect the fraying magic of an industry almost entirely exposed.
John Cena can do virtually anything he wants in a professional wrestling ring - or a WWE one at very least - but this represents a fundamental misunderstanding of what it even is to be a professional wrestler.
The art of wrestling is so much more than a podcast that defeated WWE in court - it's the thread that weaves something which is not real into something that could be. Cena pulls on that thread in many ways...