7 Ups And 10 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Dec 28)
3. Cenas Back From Where?
Just as this writer had pessimistically predicted, WWE went for the path of least resistance Monday night, welcoming John Cena back to the fold after two months away with no explanation whatsoever for his absence. This really is a function of laziness on the part of the writers, plain and simple. Cena is WWEs biggest, most marketable star. He lost his United States Championship in less than 10 minutes at Hell in a Cell to a returning Alberto Del Rio and promptly disappeared with no explanation. He returned two months later to great fanfare and offered no reason for his departure. To be sure, this wasnt an unplanned hiatus. WWE knew it was coming, so they had time to work out a reason for his absence an injury, a suspension, losing his smile, or the truth (he was filming a TV show). But instead we got nothing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtZIAxHbANQ Sure, this will be forgotten next week and things will roll along, but its little things like this that insult peoples intelligence and makes them think that 1,000 chimpanzees banging on typewriters could write a better script for Raw.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
