We all saw it coming. As soon as John Cena shocked the wrestling world by announcing his retirement after 2025 Money in the bank last July last JulyHe won his record -breaking 17th World Cup. Wrestling fans around the world were on board at WWE Engineering A championship run for a man who had not won a single competition for seven years and was hardly part of the company during this period. They were so on board that they liked to sacrifice tension for fulfillment. These were more than 20 years, and generations of fans were ready to see how he wrote 41 history at Wrestlemania.
Then he did it. And it sucked. But why?
Before Cena won his generation battle with Cody Rhodes, the heir, who was obvious to his baby face throne, the WWE led a master class for the Storyline Development for the centuries. While everyone treated the Royal Rumble as a formality for Cena to get to Wrestlemania, the Chief Content Officer Triple H (we will come to him later) and the WWE authors could still create a shock in this foreseeable rollout by not only eliminating CENA at the end of the Royal Rumble, but also by fan-faje-faje-uso a well-grown championship track. Then after it was simply added to the elimination chamber Because he's John CenaHe books his ticket to a wrestlemania title game with a victory before smashing the heart of every CENA fans by taking up and executing with the soul theft final of The Rock The most shocked heel rotates in the professional wrestling story. And then in one of the most devastating heels -Promos of all time Reduced a small child to tears By presenting his 20-year relationship with the fans to be abusive in which he did everything for them and still wanted them more.
The rock was the orchestrator. Travis Scott was high and gave Rhodes a blue eye. Cena was selected by the insidious Vince McMahon as the face of the company, as well as Rhodes only in the position that he was able to absorb it due to Cena's absence and rhodes. Everything was defined. Everything that was left was that Cena and Rhodes attract the historical wrestlemania games that are known to do it individually. Boy do not.
After not inspired fist fists, the match simply went over to an exchange of final trains before ending in one of the weakest endings in wrestlemania history. After returning to the Cactus Jack Rapper with a cross -rhodos, the Champion Cena did not hit Travis Scott back on the championship belt. Why? After the facial expression, he didn't want to win the wrong way. Well, this Captain America Adel Bullshit let him step into the groin area and ruled out what made him a loser of the game. No surprise interference outside of Travis Scott, no ruthless aggression, no persistent fights. It was the equivalent of the WWE that pushed the full garden cast they ordered on their face and told them they should enjoy what they asked. In a wrestlemania in which Seth Rollins' surprise alliance with Paul Heyman could be seen; Iyo Sky, Rhea Ripley and Bianca Belair organize an immediate classic triple threat game; And Jey Uso wins the World Cup in heavyweight, Cena's title match would be a subsequent thought, if not for the written history.
Despite all this disappointment, I am not ready to give up the WWE's big plan. The most promising sign that the WWE has a worthwhile plan in which the terrible Wrestlemania 41 head event fits, Cenas is explicit request for “”Ruin wrestling. “” Today on The Pat McAfee ShowCena collapsed part of his after-wrestlemania plan and honestly sounds like the version of the WWE DC comics crisis to infinite earth, in which the DC time bar was reset, which was freed from its stressful multiverse.
“I will start the wrestling start. This championship comes home with me and I will be the last undisputed WWE champion. You will have to make a new title. You have to start again.”
A retired championship is really at the next stage. To punch someone into a bloody pulp, throw someone from a bridge and nail on a cross's daughter to sacrifice them. The balls to remove a championship is a seismic change that could be an intelligent step. Cena delivers a wrestlemania match that felt more than a formality than as a struggle and fans of the type of five-star game, in which you have to put your body on the line, Cenas way of ruining wrestling could be completely. Imagine the rest of his wrestling career focuses on simply removing everything that the fans expect every year and then walking with a title. That would be a hersoned earth plan that I can get behind.
Another saving grace for the WWE is time. CENA has already undertaken until the end of December to wrestle until the end of December. Another 27-37 games that will originally become wrestling in 30-40 games last year. So far, he has only wrestled in Premium -Live events. If he will meet this number of games, you can assume that we will see how he wrestles RAW and Smackdown. With the championship already won, the next eight full months can be a collection of dream games and title defendants. Perhaps Cena Roman Reigns can finally beat in a singles match after having failed the previous one. Perhaps the sleeping giant Randy Orton returns to his Legend -Killer -Wegen and begins his own potential retirement journey by ending Cena with a loss.
We will almost certainly get a CENA/Rhodes rescue, or we will get upset. If the plans of Cena and WWE for the new 17-fold world champion are part of the wrestling, they have a good start.
