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Originally Posted by 4thstreetpete
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too much to get into with one quote, but, I'll have at it
Cena has been shoved down our throats in very much the same way that HHH has been. To say otherwise is ignoring who he was put into programs with and how he was marketed basically from the outset. Don't forget that for well over a year into his first reign with the strap he was a face that got consistently booed because nobody liked him and people saw through him
While some promotions have been built upon guys who aren't good workers, those guys were very transcendant or from another era. I'm sure the Shiek won't be drafted, so I'll use him as an example, the guy couldn't work his way out of a paper bag and did have detroit as a hot promotion for a much longer run then would be expected, but, still the fans got burned out by him and Detroit ended up crumbling as a promotion. Mid-South had a massive run with someone on the top who couldn't work and could talk a million times better then Cena could, but he did have the help of Watts bringing in a lot of talented heels to play off of and guys that could carry him.
Overall, there aren't that many promotions that have guys in for a long run who can't work. Hogan can work, I've seen matches of his from Japan and I have watched plenty of AWA. Hogan won't ever be confused with Kenta Kobashi by any means, but he was a much better worker then Cena could ever imagine to be
I honestly think that Cena is rated right where he belongs, and I think that people itt are over rating him a lot. I certainly don't think that a promotion should build themselves around very technical over-sized midgets that populate a lot of indy shows these days, but, there are a lot of guys in the past who have held the strap for a while on top and have made millions of dollars who can work and get over to the crowd at teh same time.
I give cena credit where credit is due, but his position right now is because of Vince not just shoving him down our throats, but just throttling him down our throats for years now