For: Orton and Cena
This is possibly the most worrying thing of all for the WWE. They had two of their most prominent performers in a match at their second most important PPV which begins the road to the 30th anniversary of the most important PPV of the year in the world title match. And the crowd booed them out of the building. This was not the usual polarising Cena chants and boos that the WWE is used to and puts up with because they claim it shows that Cena gets a reaction. This was a crowd that looked at both performers, looked at the feud and looked at the match and just threw up their hands and simply thought "we've seen this before". What is really troubling about this is that the hype between TLC and the Rumble match seemed like a greatest hits package of things that both men had done to each other. Orton had attacked Cena's dad before on Raw and Cena had brawled with Orton in the crowd. Nothing about this encounter seemed new or interesting nor did the angle between the two really develop. That's why the Wyatt's got such a pop when they hit the ring. Not because it was remarkable creative storytelling, but at that point the crowd were desperate for something new. Cena and Orton will now move on to different feuds, but the fact that the WWE were prepared to basically sleepwalk this feud through the Rumble and thought they could get away with it is a bit troubling. Furthermore, neither character really looks the better for this feud- instead all it has done is shown how long these two have saturated the main events of the WWE without any real change to their character or move set.