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Post by Instant Classic on Sept 21, 2013 12:47:29 GMT -5
Edge, Orton, or Punk?
I'm going with Orton, Edge being a close second.
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Post by Bub (BLM) on Sept 21, 2013 12:52:45 GMT -5
Edge, easily. Regardless of Cena already being a main-eventer for around a year at that time, it was the feud with Edge that solidified both guys at the top of the card. Cena vs. Edge in 2006 was the modern era Austin/Rock.
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Post by klapaucius on Sept 21, 2013 13:05:32 GMT -5
Edge.
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Post by Bootista on Sept 21, 2013 13:14:40 GMT -5
Edge by far
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Post by Sparkybob on Sept 21, 2013 13:16:49 GMT -5
Edge is my vote as well. Thought you should have add JBL to that list since he was the main who elevated Chena to the top.
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Post by Instant Classic on Sept 21, 2013 13:18:40 GMT -5
Edge is my vote as well. Thought you should have add JBL to that list since he was the main who elevated Chena to the top. Ehh I guess, but by that we should also add Big Show.
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Post by Glitch on Sept 21, 2013 13:20:40 GMT -5
MechaCena?
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Post by 1 Free Moon-Down with Burger on Sept 21, 2013 13:23:17 GMT -5
As much as I like Punk and Cena's matches, their feud was mostly a tool to establish and put over Punk.
The Edge feud made both guys into bona-fide main event superstars.
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Post by CH Punk on Sept 21, 2013 13:27:51 GMT -5
Edge
Punk
Orton
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Post by kidglov3s on Sept 21, 2013 13:30:21 GMT -5
I feel like there's something to be said for Rock and Cena. Not that the matches were good, or that the segments were good, but it was such a big deal and stretched out over like 5 years if you start with Cena making comments in the press. The whole thing was just... so John Cena. Lame, fake, plastic, vapid, vain. Chock full of obnoxious, self-satisfied bullshit. Thoroughly unmemorable. Like that whole ordeal just kind of defines John Cena.
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Post by Hit Girl on Sept 21, 2013 13:32:38 GMT -5
Of the three, I'd say Orton
But really, Cena has never had a proper arch-rival, and that's been a real problem and what's contributed to his staleness over the years.
If he's playing a superhero, he needs a worthy adversary. He hasn't had one.
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Post by mizerable on Sept 21, 2013 13:34:01 GMT -5
Easily Edge, followed by CM Punk, then Batista.
Hell...I'd say that Orton is probably 6th or 7th. Most of their confrontations had no real investment whatsoever.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2013 13:38:21 GMT -5
Well, we know it's not the odds. As boring as John has become, it's nice to see him ne used to put people over now. It wouldn't have flew just a few short years ago.
As to his best feud, I'ma abstain until he finally heels it up again. I think he'll be so pent up being stuck in his current schtick that he'll make it come to life, whoever it's with.
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Post by Wolf Hurricane on Sept 21, 2013 14:21:00 GMT -5
Cena versus Edge, by a mile. Truth be told, you could just as easily have Cena/Angle up there too; Angle was his debut feud of sorts and they feuded over the WWE title from mid-'05 into '06.
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Post by thuschongswing on Sept 21, 2013 14:46:18 GMT -5
The odds. {Spoiler}Seriously, nobody has said this yet? FAN, you're slipping...
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Post by Kayfabe FAN don't want none on Sept 21, 2013 14:55:20 GMT -5
Britney Spear's ex fiancé.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Sept 21, 2013 18:27:33 GMT -5
Not Orton, much as WWE would like it to be.
It's definitely Edge. JBL may have elevated Cena, and Triple H helped solidify that, but Edge was a guy that Cena helped elevate, their matches and angles were great and that rivalry ran in one form or another for years and years.
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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Sept 21, 2013 18:29:17 GMT -5
Cena/Punk produced the better matches but better overall feud? Have to give it to Cena/Edge. That feud made both men.
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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Sept 21, 2013 18:30:33 GMT -5
I feel like there's something to be said for Rock and Cena. Not that the matches were good, or that the segments were good, but it was such a big deal and stretched out over like 5 years if you start with Cena making comments in the press. The whole thing was just... so John Cena. Lame, fake, plastic, vapid, vain. Chock full of obnoxious, self-satisfied bullshit. Thoroughly unmemorable. Like that whole ordeal just kind of defines John Cena. I suppose the fact that it headlined the biggest drawing PPV in wrestling history should be mentioned as well.
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Post by babyfootball on Sept 21, 2013 18:35:10 GMT -5
I still say Edge, mostly for the reasons that others have stated. They totally should've had a WrestleMania one-on-one blow-off at some point. Edge was one of the few characters at the time who could get the crowd behind Cena at the height of the hate against him, before he had really proved his mettle as a legit main event wrestler rather than just an over-pushed hack. The beginning of Edge's Rated-R run was really what solidified his status as more than just another upper-mid-carder, and without Cena as his main adversary, I don't know if it would've been as successful as it was.
I understand the natural rivalry between Cena and Orton, but it just never quite clicked the same way Cena did with Edge.
And as far as Cena and Punk go, it always felt that Punk was way more against the system than he was Cena himself, and despite Punk's scathing words regarding Cena as being representative of what he was fighting against, it never felt personal in the way that it did with Edge (or Orton, for that matter).
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