The Legend wrote:I don't believe that he doesn't react to any of it though. He gets passionate, he gets angry and he digs in harder against anybody that's trying to take away who he is and stays true to it. Call it corny or whatever, but the thing that pisses you off about John Cena is the same thing that in a lot of ways inspires me. It's easy to bend to the pressure to change it's much harder to stay true to who you are and I enjoy seeing someone doing that and inspiring others to do that as well. I relate to it by wanting to be able to do more of it and find more of that strength to do it myself more of the time.
Yeah, and that's why he makes a good role model. But I don't think he makes a good character. You have to see the character struggling to make his perseverance seem really effecting to your average viewer.
I'll always respond to a character who's courageous in spite of being afraid, more than a character who's simply fearless. That's my major problem with Cena. They talk about him "overcoming" stuff all the time, but it feels like as a character, he never has to struggle.
The Legend wrote:To be frank on this point, I've stopped giving a damn or even noticing how half the crowd reacts to something because I've realized that they don't watch professional wrestling the same way those people do. What I'll care about is the result will excite me. It will make me mark for the moment, because to me the story is still the most important part.
I believe for me that the most enjoyable way to watch pro wrestling is to buy in. It's to care about the story they are telling and to play along with how they are expecting the crowd to react to a story. That doesn't mean I don't have my personal favorites or that I can't even appreciate the work of a particularly talented heel. I can appreciate it and I do, but while the match is going on rarely do I want to see them actually win.
Okay, that's fair enough. That's talking about things from
your specific standpoint. This is what you want to see, regardless of what anyone else wants. And that makes sense.
But in this same thread you've talked about what makes sense from a purely business standpoint. So from a business standpoint, can you see how Cena beating Rusev doesn't make sense?
