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Originally Posted by keg in kc
Very discouraging discussion on last night's Wrestling Observer Radio for people who want Cena to ever turn heel. According to Meltzer, there are people high up in WWE heavily against the Cena/Rock match at Wrestlemania next year, because they think it will be counterproductive to the current long term goal with Cena - to get him over as a babyface with males. They're afraid that Cena will be viewed as the heel in the feud regardless of what Rock does, so for months leading up to Wrestlemana and then that night in Miami, he's going to be booed. And they, of course, want Cena to be the face carrying the company for the rest of the year after Mania, since Rock will be gone.
This is not set in stone obviously, and they really can't see a way out of the feud, so it will probably happen anyway, the main point here is their long-term goal with Cena. Which I think is enlightening as far as his role in the current feud is. That would certainly explain why he's (illogically....) mirroring so much of what Punk says, because they want to get him over with the fans cheering Punk...
Which is never, ever going to happen. There's no way in hell they're ever going to get Cena over with hardcores....
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Can't say I'm surprised. They announce a huge match with 1 year's notice (which is like 10 years in real life) and 6 months later, they're not happy with it.
As for Cena getting over with males, age 18-45, good luck. Ironically, they may be able to get us to cheer for him if they turn him heel, which would in turn kill the kids' love of him. And we're never going to love him as much as the kids do....
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Originally Posted by keg in kc
On what I think is a slightly more positive note, Mick Foley is probably coming back to WWE in September, to start building a Wrestlemania program with...somebody. He supposedly wants his kids to be able to see him in one really big match, where he's a star, and that isn't going to happen in TNA...
(I'm big on new stars, but I've always found Foley to be really entertaining)
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Love me some Foley. Can see him taking someone who's almost at the ME level and putting them over the top (think Edge at WM22). Del Rio?
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Originally Posted by keg in kc
Cut day in WWE apparently. Gail Kim (well, she asked for hers), Melina, Kozlov, DH Smith and Chris Masters so far.
Might be some news on Money in the Bank buyrate this afternoon.
And Danielson has a new theme song on smackdown tonight. Which of course Cole buries immediately. But it might work better than Ride of the Valkyries.
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Wondered why they ever re-hired Masters, anyway. Dude sucked hardcore the first time, what would have changed?...
And I'm glad they gave D-Bry a new theme, maybe they're actually committed to developing his character and giving him some meaningful time before letting him cash in the MitB case.