Cena raises an interesting point (E&CPod)(it's about Reigns)
Sept 26, 2017 14:18:01 GMT -5
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Post by Jake, The Jake, Jake on Sept 26, 2017 14:18:01 GMT -5
So I listened to Cena's appearance on Edge and Christian's podcast, and something he said got me thinking. I don't remember the exact quote, but he was talking about the back-and-forth promos he had been having with Roman the past few weeks, and he explained how he didn't pull any punches on the mic. He explained his reason for doing that was to force Roman to up his own game. And it's pretty obvious that Roman failed to do that at first, but improved as the weeks progressed.
And it got me thinking---throughout this whole agonizing Roman experiment, no one's really DONE that yet.
Through all of Roman's feuds, he's never really been forced to CONSISTENTLY contend with people that can straight up evicerate him on the microphone. There several people in the WWE who are capable of doing that, but for the most part, Roman's feuds have all been structured so that he wouldn't HAVE to go one-on-one with a better mic-man. Cena himself is untouchable on the microphone, but he didn't start out that way. The way Cena got that way was by having guys like The Miz, guys like CM Punk, guys like Edge, guys like The Rock---just completely rip into him, tearing his character apart from the jorts up to the point where he would fire back and show what he's really capable of.
Roman NEEDS that pressure. He needs someone like Miz ripping into him the way he ripped into Daniel Bryan on Talking Smack. He needs probably even more time with Cena. He needs someone across the ring from him to bring the same kind of aggression that a night-after-Wrestlemania-crowd brings at him, because that's when we get Roman at his best.
And it got me thinking---throughout this whole agonizing Roman experiment, no one's really DONE that yet.
Through all of Roman's feuds, he's never really been forced to CONSISTENTLY contend with people that can straight up evicerate him on the microphone. There several people in the WWE who are capable of doing that, but for the most part, Roman's feuds have all been structured so that he wouldn't HAVE to go one-on-one with a better mic-man. Cena himself is untouchable on the microphone, but he didn't start out that way. The way Cena got that way was by having guys like The Miz, guys like CM Punk, guys like Edge, guys like The Rock---just completely rip into him, tearing his character apart from the jorts up to the point where he would fire back and show what he's really capable of.
Roman NEEDS that pressure. He needs someone like Miz ripping into him the way he ripped into Daniel Bryan on Talking Smack. He needs probably even more time with Cena. He needs someone across the ring from him to bring the same kind of aggression that a night-after-Wrestlemania-crowd brings at him, because that's when we get Roman at his best.
