WrestleMania 29 |OT| RematchaMania XXVIII-2: Out with the new and in with the old!

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"Very small group of 30 year olds".

Tell them that when you're booed out of the building by 70,000 fans tonight.

He'll shake the Rock's hand, Rock will tell him how great he is. Cena will be wearing his trademark smirk, then lift his foot to an angle and turn his heel on the mat.
 
I am pretty sure there were kids who still loved Hogan before the nWo and he still turned John, he did it for business and to spike up interest in WCW.

Same goes for every superstar who turned heel....ever
 
a Cena heel turn isn't even necessary and he'll still be the same smug character, only the chants will be reversed

Want to make Cena tolerable? Stop having everything end in cenawinslol.jpg. stop the overcoming the odds angle. He's Superman, the adults know it, the kids know it. all it does is make people suffer through a 15 minute promo about how he's a failure BUT NO MORE!
 
a Cena heel turn isn't even necessary and he'll still be the same smug character, only the chants will be reversed

Want to make Cena tolerable? Stop having everything end in cenawinslol.jpg. stop the overcoming the odds angle. He's Superman, the adults know it, the kids know it. all it does is make people suffer through a 15 minute promo about how he's a failure BUT NO MORE!

If he's the same smug character, he's going to get booed by everyone. I don't boo Cena because he's a face and cheer Punk because he's a heel, I boo Cena because he's boring, stale and annoying, I cheer Punk because he's entertaining as hell.

All that would change is Cena is actually meant to get booed. Assuming he doesn't fundamentally change. Really, he could never be a better heel then to just take his Super Cena character and turn it up to ridiculous, sarcastic levels, so that the kids hate him too.
 
Don't know if you guys caught this blurb on the evil Wrestlezone.com site or not...

Original Plans For IC & US Titles

Additionally, WZ was told that the creative team initially pitched an 8 man double ladder match for WrestleMania, which would have seen both the U.S. and Intercontinental Titles on the line (one man could win both, or two separately), however Vince McMahon nixed the idea as he is reportedly not a big Antonio Cesaro fan.
 
Cena is right tho

You can't please everyone

If he acted more heelish, he'd let down the kids and soccer moms

If he stays the same, he'd let down the 30 year olds

He became too popular for his own good.


Look at The Rock's run between 2001-2003

Rock was the face of the company going against a heel Brock Lesner who was destroying everyone.

The fans turned on Rock during his match with Brock for no reason despite being the same character he always was.

Rock comes back as a heel to beat up Hogan at No Way Out then his last match with Austin and got cheers.

I blame Canada for this.


edit: It also depends where the fan turn happens. Daniel FRYIN might not even be in the spotlight if it wasn't for the ROH crowd marking out at that Raw last year.
 
Put me down for #HEEL

I will take a crack at it...Cena hits Rock with everything he's got but still can't finish him off, finally he flips out, referee gets knocked out somehow, Cena cheats by using the belt on him to finally win.

Probably isn't happening but I can hope.
 
here's the Brock vs. Rock match if you've never saw it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHtqOnoc2WQ


The setup for this match was amazing

They didn't even have a face to face meeting until the last Raw before the ppv. It was all built up like a UFC match where it was video packages of them training for the match. Just something WWE doesn't do anymore which is sad. Smackdown during the brand split use to have tale of the tape before big matches.

I thought they boo'd Rock because of Hollywood

It might have been but what's the difference from Rock then and Rock now?
He only came back to take the title off Undertaker. Undertaker didn't want to lose to Brock yet and they were saving Brock/Angle for Mania.
 
however Vince McMahon nixed the idea as he is reportedly not a big Antonio Cesaro fan.

however Vince McMahon nixed the idea as he is reportedly not a big Antonio Cesaro fan.

however Vince McMahon nixed the idea as he is reportedly not a big Antonio Cesaro fan.


WHAT. HOW THE FUCK? HE'S BUILT LIKE A GREEK GOD (Probably stronger than Ryback), HAS MIC SKILLS UP THE ASS, AND BECAUSE HE SPEAKS FIVE LANGUAGES HE'S PERFECT FOR INTERNATIONAL STUFF. DA FUCK!
 
It might have been but what's the difference from Rock then and Rock now?
He only came back to take the title off Undertaker. Undertaker didn't want to lose to Brock yet and they were saving Brock/Angle for Mania.

The difference between the Rock then and now is that time has passed and he now has nostalgia on his side. The Attitude era has taken on a mythological aura of the time when all of wrestling was great, and Rock was one of the top stars during that time. Ironically, one of the reasons that era is looked back on so fondly (IMO) is because the Cena era has been so bad. Mix those two together and you have a crowd 100% in favor of Rock over Cena.
 
A 6 or 8 man ladder match easily would be the most exciting match on the card. Shame they took that away for a terrible PPV.
 
It’s not hard for Lee to connect with WWE fans, considering it hasn’t been that long since she was one. She said she still marvels over the opportunity to work side by side with many of the stars she grew up admiring, including Stephanie McMahon and The Undertaker. She even had a “huge obsession” with Kane.
“When I was like 12 or 13, I had this poster of him above my bed,” Lee said. “I actually told him this. I don’t think he enjoyed it that much.”

It's a shame Soulplaya is MIA.
 
You guys hoping for a Cena heel turn are fucking crazy.

You know, deep down in your heart of hearts, that tonight is going to end the same way it always does.

Super Cena overcomes the odds, clean pin, the music hits, he raises the belt, stupid grin, fade to black.

Blahblahblah.
 
You guys hoping for a Cena heel turn are fucking crazy.

You know, deep down in your heart of hearts, that tonight is going to end the same way it always does.

Super Cena overcomes the odds, clean pin, the music hits, he raises the belt, stupid grin, fade to black.

Blahblahblah.

It's still nice to want things, though.

You're probably right.

Don't know if you guys caught this blurb on the evil Wrestlezone.com site or not...

Original Plans For IC & US Titles

Damn, this would've been pretty good.
 
I am pretty sure there were kids who still loved Hogan before the nWo and he still turned John, he did it for business and to spike up interest in WCW.

Same goes for every superstar who turned heel....ever

Hogan is really the best example since he was at one point the most requested Make a Wish guy, he turned heel, and kept doing Make a Wish and charity stuff. The main difference being it wasn't publicized on WCW TV in self congratulatory videos a few times a month. During the height of the NWO, Hogan/Hall/Nash/Savage were still requested all the time. Vince McMahon was requested at the height of Austin vs McMahon. Austin himself was still requested after his heel turn. Rock was still requested during Hollywood Rock. HHH was requested all during the 2000s, where he was the main heel most of the time.

I think that kind of thought is actually insulting to the fans since they openly admit its fake, have their wrestlers do promotion out of character all the time, and even show the big bad heels doing the same charity/Make a Wish/Tribute to the Troops/BA* stuff on TV every week in video packages. All but the very smallest of kids get it.
 
Pretty sure the 30-year old demographic is the majority of their viewership.

Probably, that said we're the most difficult to influence with advertising. That's where the money is.

It's not the demographic buying the goods.

You can see a similar thing with the game industry, and probably most others. With making things accessible.
 
I believe in myself, I believe in this heel
I believe in myself, I believe in this heel
I believe in myself, I believe in this heel
I believe in myself, I believe in this heel
I believe in myself, I believe in this heel
I believe in myself, I believe in this heel
I believe in myself, I believe in this heel
 
Probably, that said we're the most difficult to influence with advertising. That's where the money is.

It's not the demographic buying the goods.

You can see a similar thing with the game industry, and probably most others. With making things accessible.

I bought a Punk shirt. And a Daniel Bryan shirt.

And if they hadn't increased the shipping to 25 dollars (because of same lame tax excuse even though most of the time customs won't tax it) I would've bought a Damien Sandow shirt (and maybe a robe because Damien Sandow is the best ever!)

And where's my plaid cutesy AJ t-shirt anyways.
 
Hope to see some of your pretty #faces at the end tonight~ Will be at a friend's watching, hopefully posting from ye olde mobile.
 
Hogan is really the best example since he was at one point the most requested Make a Wish guy, he turned heel, and kept doing Make a Wish and charity stuff. The main difference being it wasn't publicized on WCW TV in self congratulatory videos a few times a month. During the height of the NWO, Hogan/Hall/Nash/Savage were still requested all the time. Vince McMahon was requested at the height of Austin vs McMahon. Austin himself was still requested after his heel turn. Rock was still requested during Hollywood Rock. HHH was requested all during the 2000s, where he was the main heel most of the time.

I think that kind of thought is actually insulting to the fans since they openly admit its fake, have their wrestlers do promotion out of character all the time, and even show the big bad heels doing the same charity/Make a Wish/Tribute to the Troops/BA* stuff on TV every week in video packages. All but the very smallest of kids get it.
The biggest Cena fans of all.
 
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There's no way Cena's ever going to telegraph the heel turn in an ESPN interview, of all things. That'll be his attitude and answer to the question until the day he turns, because his eventual turn already has "shocking, out-of-nowhere" written all over it.

Think about it. How else can he answer that question? He's not going to say "Yeah, I've thought about it, it could potentially happen down the road."
 
A 6 or 8 man ladder match easily would be the most exciting match on the card. Shame they took that away for a terrible PPV.

It's just bullshit these days that the mentality in regards to Wrestlemania seems to be 'we're going to get the buyrates and the ticket sales anyway so we don't need to have any big, gimmick-based matches.' God damnit - you put everything on the line for Wrestlemania. Don't save shit up for your petty PPVs.
 
People are just using the Cena heel thing as an excuse for change. Everything in wrestling eventually gets stale, and what's going on has been stale for years.

This is the ninth year of the Cena run at Wrestlemania, which basically ties Hulk Hogan's run from Wrestlemania 1 to 9. Then again that was a different time, there weren't 14 PPV's a year to tire up.
 
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