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Originally Posted by KDawg
Cena was shoved down our throats from the begining. Once Vince fully decided to go with him, he got the IC belt fairly fast and moved his way up the card in a lightning manner.
Fans were booing him on his first reign because they didn't want to see him with the belt, and he was being pushed as a face. Remember all of the Cena Sucks chants from the crowd, that was because they saw through his being the champ. The emotion was because they hated who Vince was shoving down our throats. Sure, its heat, but its not the good kind of negative heat. Honestly, if he hadn't gotten injured shortly after his first reign came to an end, and he would've gotten the belt back like planned, I could've imagined a WCW-like problem on Vince's hands.
Then we're having 2 totally different viewpoints when we're watching wrestling. The fans didn't boo him because they didn't see him as a top star, Cena's feud with UNDRAFTED already cemented him as a top star already. The fans made him a star when they loved his edgy rapper gimmick so much. The fans hated him when WWE decided to turn him face and became all cheesy and dropped his freestlying schtick. Like I said this wasn't Cena's fault at all. Had it been anyone else WWE wouldn't have hesitated to go back to what made Cena popular or at least change his character. Like when the crowd started chanting "Rocky sucks" when Rock was a chessy face and the fans hated it. They quickly changed Rock's character and he became arguably the biggest star the company has ever known. However Rock would've gotten there one way or another because of his charisma.
WWE stayed with Cena because
not everyone was booing him and hating on him. Women and children still loved him, while the rest of the audience was livid but they still loved to hate on Cena. That is not negative heat. Negative heat is someone like UNDRAFTED when the
ENTIRE crowd was chanting
UNDRAFTED SUCKS because they genuinely didn't want to see him there and never bought a ticket to see him, they hated his gimmick and was so annoying that they flipped the channel and took bathroom breaks because they didn't want to see UNDRAFTED. That's negative heat.
Cena drew money and is a star while UNDRAFTED never became anything because the crowd just don't care about UNDRAFTED.