8 Bad In-Ring Habits That John Cena Needs To Change

6. Playing Up To The 'Let's Go Cena/Cena Sucks' Chant

WWE is burly pantomime, and everyone knows it, but that doesn't mean the performers should do everything to remind the fans of that fact mid-match. The best wrestling matches are the ones that are either too big to apply logic (TLC 2 at Wrestlemania X-Seven for example) or that ones that pull in the audience's engagement with a simple believable story. If there are too many kickouts of big moves, the logic suffers, if one of the wrestlers isn't selling properly, the logic suffers, and if one of the wrestlers is letting an audience chant dictate how he acts in a rest hold, the logic definitely suffers. The 'Let's Go Cena, Cena Sucks' chant has been ubiquitous in the leader of the Cenation's matches for almost a full decade, and sometimes he plays up to it a little too much. This scenario has happened many times: John Cena has a rest hold applied to him and the fans start chanting. With every 'Let's Go Cena', John strains and reaches out towards the crowd, with every 'Cena Sucks' he shrinks back into the hold, rinse, repeat. It's understandable why John Cena does this, to make the crowd feel like they matter, but it hurts the inner logic of the wrestling match. It doesn't make sense that Cena can only find his strength when the fans are chanting a certain way. It's pure pantomime and makes it so much harder for the audience to suspend their disbelief with what they're seeing. Likewise...