The REAL Reason John Cena And Daniel Bryan Are Missing WWE Crown Jewel

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At April's Greatest Royal Rumble, John Cena addressed the Saudi Arabia crowd to talk in detail about a future as bright as his neon attire. He was on message as usual, as was the entire company thanks to co-promoted videos and a strategic social media approach in keeping with the country's Vision 2030 diversification plan.

As he spoke, his recently-released breakthrough Blockers was earning him rave reviews ahead of his spot in December's Bumblebee that'll likely offer him similar acclaim. Little has changed in Saudi Arabia (certainly nothing for the better) between Cena's April address and November no-no, but 'The Champ' himself has elected to take his business out of the country at what he clearly sees as a key time for his newest career venture.

As videos of his time in China have inadvertently expressed, 'Big Match John's having a big weird year - the last thing he needed was negative press for appearing complicit in anyway with a country currently with more blood on its hands than Big E did when he dressed as Gangrel for the Halloween edition of SmackDown.

Cena, like rival-turned-colleague The Rock before him, made a choice for his greater good. It's transparent, sure, but better to be transparent in your position of relative power than indifferent. And greater goods are sometimes great and good. Daniel Bryan can wholly be considered as both...

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