WWE And TNA: 7 Worst Moments Of The Week (Feb 5)

7. And We’re Tied

This stinks. WWE likes to ruin so many good things when it comes to records. Just let us keep one and be happy about it! The dominant Demolition’s title run was surpassed by midcard jokesters The New Day, who spent most of that time feuding with forgettable opponents. The Undertaker’s WrestleMania streak was given up for Brock Lesnar, who got nothing out of it. Now John Cena has tied Ric Flair’s Heavyweight Title reign and it doesn’t feel right.

Fans were into Flair’s sacred record. For awhile it felt like an astronomical number that couldn't be touched. Then WWE got all title crazy for a few years with title changes and even a guy like Edge—who had never been treated as a top, top level star—had 11 runs with a major title. We knew it was going to be broken eventually, and it went to the guy that roughly 70% of the vocal crowd doesn’t like. The big problem here is that a lot of fans simply HATE Cena and have for years. In fact, millions of people quit watching WWE while he was on top of the company. Is that the guy who future wrestlers should be compared to for possibly decades?

It seems odd to replace the possible greatest of all time with a guy who isn’t really in the conversation. Even if all of Cena's reigns happened in WWE, Vince basically owns all of wrestling history, so that shouldn't really matter.

Cena has been a hell of a wrestler (just watch the Styles match for example), but this isn’t something the audience had been cheering him on for. That means the company once again won’t get anything out of a record being broken, because the fans aren’t going to treat him with reverence once he does get that 17th title run. He'll get polite applause at best. AT BEST.

Let's hope he doesn't take down Bruno's longest title reign record...or we're going to have a rough 2,800 days ahead of us.