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Post by Old Jack Burton on Nov 2, 2013 22:32:33 GMT -5
I was a fan of his all the way up til his first world championship, which I felt was a bit too early. After that he got really shallow, boring and juvenile for a long time. Then he had a seemingly endless series of ppv matches with Edge while I was in college, and I barely paid attention to the WWE.
Sometime around 2009 WWE started to get good-ish again, and by the time he was feuding with Batista I was a fan again.
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Post by RIHT on Nov 3, 2013 15:48:11 GMT -5
I think when he started wearing the Rise Above Hate gear and got more serious in his promos. Never personally a huge Cena hater, but really, minus his feud with Big Johnny and the Ryback feud of utter disaster, Cena's been booked pretty well and done a good job since the end of 2011 and whatnot.
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Post by rybackrulez on Nov 3, 2013 15:52:31 GMT -5
I've been a fan of the guy since he became "The Doctor of Thuganomics." Yup Once he shed that blue chipper gimmick he became awesome
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Post by "Gentleman" AJ Powell on Nov 3, 2013 15:57:46 GMT -5
Never really hated him. I'd say the time I really became a proper fan was after the hour long match with HBK, showed he can really perform.
Plus, he seems like a really nice dude outside of wrestling.
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Post by Hit Girl on Nov 3, 2013 16:18:11 GMT -5
I've never hated him. I just have a few problems with aspects of his persona and promos
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Nov 3, 2013 16:29:55 GMT -5
When he came back at the 2008 Rumble and I marked like a little girl. This was also the moment I became a Batista mark.
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Post by ededdneddy on Nov 3, 2013 16:53:31 GMT -5
Haven't stopped hating him and won't stop until he is gone from WWE forever.
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Post by DZ: WF Legacy on Nov 3, 2013 17:14:54 GMT -5
Never liked him, never hated him. I respect what a good, hard-working dude he is. I dig watching his big matches. I just can't stand his character anymore. He'd be tolerable if they gave him the Kofi treatment of moving him into a tag team for a year or so.
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Post by "Trickster Dogg" James Jesse on Nov 3, 2013 17:20:21 GMT -5
My opinion on his hasn't changed, if anything it's been cemented. Dude is a stand up person, and the fact that he loves the industry shows. I want people like that to succeed. However, the combination of overexposure and absolutely zero character development beyond "this isn't a character" (when Total Divas either proves that it is), has me screaming "it was time two years ago, God damn". Taking out the maybe 6 months of injury time he has been out, the dude has been on at least once a week, if not more, for nearly 9 years. THAT is oversaturation, and while I don't "hate" him, it does make me change the channel. I'd enjoy him more if he would just really break character as he says he has. He says it's no gimmick, then stop with the "oh, I'm the only one the kids and the troops have to root for". He's a solid to excellent worker, he can sell when they let him, and he can cut a damn good promo when he keeps it short. When he goes beyond 2 minutes, just like with Trips, I change the channel. I remember the old Hogan line "Less is more" and maybe it's not just about what you do in the ring. Say less, and show up less, and it will mean more. If you're always there, then there's nothing special about it, and if you're always talking and always saying the same thing, then it means nothing. Pretty much all this. The guy's a great in-ring talent, he can cut a great promo when he's serious and focused, but he hasn't changed his gimmick at all in almost a decade and has been on top of the card for the same amount of time. He could go out every week and wrestle five-star matches and cut quality promo after quality promo after quality promo and that still wouldn't convince me to tune in, because I'm really tired of the guy, and have no inclination to watch if he's still the main focus of the product.
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Post by Indiana Miz on Nov 3, 2013 17:34:41 GMT -5
I became one of those guys who hated Cena and Batista because they "couldn't wrestle" until some point in 2009. I think all the unwarranted hate he got online and realizing he was like a modern-day Hogan made me a fan again.
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