The Sad Truth Behind Cesaro’s WWE Career
WWE even took the ultimate fantasy booking shortcut with Cesaro by pairing him with Paul Heyman—cruelly, at the worst possible time. Fans, won over by Cesaro’s great performance at WrestleMania XXX, weren’t itching to jeer him. In the years since, Cesaro never generated that groundswell of casual fan support.
It is sacrosanct to criticise Cesaro in inner circles, he’s held in such high regard: but is he bland, unremarkable as an all-round performer? For all the deafening online support, Cesaro perhaps lacks the true, intangible magnetism with which to jump over the language barrier. Cesaro generates a reaction—but not a huge pop. He gets over in matches because he’s so spectacular and powerful a talent, but he has to work for it. He isn’t and perhaps has never been over enough to compensate for his lack of a superstar aura.
Does hope remain for Cesaro in WWE?
The strict narrative framework—of long opening talk segments, talk shows, and contract signings, in which everybody talks—inhibits any sort of realistic character arc. Cesaro isn’t a charisma vacuum. He has a personality; he showed a great, smug, nasty prick side to him in The Bar, and he generally carries himself as a man who knows precisely how good he is. That’s crucial. But he can’t engage in lengthy, witty banter, and that’s more crucial.
The sad truth behind Cesaro’s WWE career is that the Swiss Superman is a phenomenal professional wrestler in an abject sports entertainment world.
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