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Don't be marks. It's just a show. Cena tapping out is a beautiful bookend to his career.
It really is. His last twenty years have been "Never Give Up" and finally, at the end, he has. Not as shocking as the Lesnar-Taker WM30 match, but damn close. Complete shock, myself included.
 
Triple Nose is seething.

He's getting the reactions Vince got after 20+ years of booking.
When you're getting "We want Vince!"'d, you done fucked up boy.

Just say "we made the best out of a bad situation. Thank Dwayne." bro.
 
Cena tapping was the right thing to do. Gunther is now actual Hitler to WWE fans, he will get mega heat for this
They're only mad at Triple H

Edit: "We swear to god, this was the way Cena wanted it to go down!"

The damage control on this is insane. Maybe they should have just had him give a good speech and explain "I couldn't escape Gunther. My time is done and I accepted that." instead of yet ANOTHER video package you could have avoided all this.

All in all this whole thing was executed terribly.
 
They're only mad at Triple H

Edit: "We swear to god, this was the way Cena wanted it to go down!"

The damage control on this is insane. Maybe they should have just had him give a good speech and explain "I couldn't escape Gunther. My time is done and I accepted that." instead of yet ANOTHER video package you could have avoided all this.

All in all this whole thing was executed terribly.
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It's absolutely crazy they're trying to say this was all Cenas call in the post show and he wouldn't have had it any other way when he's said in interviews they only let him do like a third of the appearances he wanted.

I'm supposed to believe Cena was cool with his shit show heel run?

What a fucking disgrace.
 
Who had the best retirement match and storyline? HBK's match against Taker was great, they had a history with each other, and had a rematch that was with Streak vs Career on the line.
I liked Sting, with how they got his sons(who I'm convinced could be dimes but no promotion could actually make good use of them) to play his past incarnations of his characters. It felt like a genuine event and farewell, much like HBK v Taker instead of just "ok here are the dates where you'll hear John Cena's entrance so yeah please pop"
 
Faggots on reddit are crying about "tradition", but the more I think about it the more I'm like there is NOTHING traditional about this retirement.

For real, when has there been a retirement that has been advertised for a whole year? Where tickets were sold at such a premium? Where it was basically it's own event because, let's be honest, they could have dropped the SNME and just called the whole show "Cenas Last Match" for how it went.

The more I think about it, the more I think Cena should have won. Cena was always about what the fans wanted, and this wasn't a retirement match during a show, this was a whole show devoted to a retirement match. A retirement show that fans paid thousands to attend.

I'm not even a Cena fan, hell I'm not even that big of a pro wrestling fan anymore, but what a crock of shit. What an absolute blunder.

And for what? To elevate Gunther? 38 year old Gunther who has the longest IC title reign, two WHC reigns, was King of the Ring and retired Goldberg?
 
Gentlemen (and perhaps a few ladies), we are now in the Post-Vince, Post-Hulk, and now Post-Cena Era. The new year really will mark a new era. I can't help but feel it adds to the energy of the overall cultural shift, with the quality (likely continuing to sputter downwards) being irrelevant to the shift. It really does feel like Things Are Happening.
 
Triple Nose is seething.

He's getting the reactions Vince got after 20+ years of booking.
When you're getting "We want Vince!"'d, you done fucked up boy.

Just say "we made the best out of a bad situation. Thank Dwayne." bro.
I've been saying we want vince bacl ever since he left in 2022 in case triple H, a guy who was jealous of Cena & Edge was booking their final runs.
 
Gentlemen (and perhaps a few ladies), we are now in the Post-Vince, Post-Hulk, and now Post-Cena Era. The new year really will mark a new era. I can't help but feel it adds to the energy of the overall cultural shift, with the quality (likely continuing to sputter downwards) being irrelevant to the shift. It really does feel like Things Are Happening.
I'd go as far as to say we've been in that era since the start of the year. If I were more cynical I'd claim we've been in that era since HHH took over, because then it felt like the era of "Moments™".
A year or two ago I'd say the Moments™ were Run-ins and Interference on every single main event match, entrance pops, and the occasional cool moment.
Now I'd say the moments are Run-ins and Interference on every single main event match and entrance pops.
 
I can see the conservation already

Paul: John, we gotta move your match to the main event or the crowd is gonna boo the entire rest of the fucking show.

John: I don't give a fuck, I want to be the opener.

Paul: ...I'll get Steph to give you an angry handy-j in the parking lot after the show...

John: And you gotta slide Vince into that little package at the end of the show.

Paul: Really John? What about the optics? The man looks like a Temu version of John Waters and is a sex trafficker.

John: I don't care Paul, I love him and I want him in the package.

Paul: Fuck, fine, deal. You know they're gonna boo the fuck out of me when I walk out there at the end.
 
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