Boo!
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Post by Boo! on Nov 28, 2014 22:12:20 GMT -5
It's one of those "if my parents never met how would my room currently be decorated?" questions.
So much is a knock on effect from the other. No Cena then possibly Edge wouldn't have been pushed up to be his opponent. They might have found someone else - a bigger guy who they created bigger guys to feud with. You can't erase Cena from the equation and assume everyone else for the next 10 years or so would be in the same position or even with the company at all. When you're the centrepiece of the company the tectonic plates of the business move around you and therefore no Cena and you could probably not guarantee 99% of names people will mention would have even been with the company for any length of time at all.
A different guy may have meant different booking and different booking may mean a different style of opponent...and so on.
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Nov 28, 2014 22:13:49 GMT -5
Headline: GUNNER WINS 16TH WORLD TITLE AT WRESTLEMANIA BEFORE WELCOMING 4TH CHILD WITH NIKKI BELLA Sublines: PHIL BROOKS AND DWAYNE JOHNSON TO STAR IN GRITTY DIE HARD REBOOT GOVENOR BAGWELL ANNOUNCES RUN FOR PRESIDENCY What a dark timeline
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Post by Ryushinku on Nov 29, 2014 9:16:16 GMT -5
If Cena never existed, they would have to create him.
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wildojinx
Wade Wilson
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Post by wildojinx on Nov 29, 2014 9:59:12 GMT -5
Headline: GUNNER WINS 16TH WORLD TITLE AT WRESTLEMANIA BEFORE WELCOMING 4TH CHILD WITH NIKKI BELLA Sublines: PHIL BROOKS AND DWAYNE JOHNSON TO STAR IN GRITTY DIE HARD REBOOT GOVENOR BAGWELL ANNOUNCES RUN FOR PRESIDENCY What a dark timeline I dont know, Gunner Scott as WWE champion? They could and have done worse.
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Post by PTBartman on Nov 29, 2014 10:11:19 GMT -5
Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!
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ICBM
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Post by ICBM on Nov 29, 2014 10:21:59 GMT -5
Orton becomes the Super Cena. There must be and always will be a superstar face of the company we hate en masse. Orton was the next likely candidate. If Cena doesn't get called up from OVW, than Orton debuts and is pushed as a face instead of a heel. Evolution happens with Shawn. Michaels instead.
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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Nov 29, 2014 11:40:54 GMT -5
I dont know, Gunner Scott as WWE champion? They could and have done worse. Wrong Gunner. TNA's Gunner. That one used to be a security guard that got his ass beat every week?
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Post by Speedy Cerviche on Nov 29, 2014 20:28:06 GMT -5
With no John Cena we'll be screwed when Hitler jumps out of the end of the wormhole in 2025 with his army of robotic super soldiers.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Nov 30, 2014 19:11:17 GMT -5
I guess we could manage.
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Post by thegame415 on Nov 30, 2014 20:32:58 GMT -5
Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! You discovered the face of the company. His custom boots would've caused a new boom period.
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Post by foolwriter on Dec 1, 2014 13:01:20 GMT -5
Probably we would have Batista and Orton as the main guys...boring as it is with Cena now.
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Allie Kitsune
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Dec 1, 2014 15:06:34 GMT -5
Tatanka wins the title upon his comeback and has a reign that breaks Bruno's record in length.
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Crimson
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Post by Crimson on Dec 1, 2014 15:55:00 GMT -5
Realistically, after bouncing back and forth between Batista and Orton as main champs, Rey Mysterio would probably have been the person pushed as the top face. I think people underestimate how much of a linchpin Cena is to the modern era though. Without Cena, Edge's cash-in doesn't catch-on the way that it needed so he's not a top heel. No Edge means Vickie Guerrero doesn't stick around for La Familia. No Vickie Guerroro means no Dolph Ziggler having his chance to get over with assistance of her heat. Orton, Jeff Hardy, Batista, and Edge would have been the top stars. Jeff would have carried Smackdown with Undertaker instead of Edge, who would be busy being top face on RAW. Let's be honest though, his contract literally expired right before he would have gotten his third strike. Jeff literally being forced into the main spot right then and there would've meant him burning out quicker than he did.
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Post by Lance Uppercut on Dec 1, 2014 16:38:14 GMT -5
Interesting question. While I'm sure the WWE machine would have kept on rolling, many people cite Cena as the man who saved WWE after Benoit since he was so squeaky clean and great for PR and beloved by children. Who knows who would have stepped up post-Benoit. Hothead Orton? Douche McGee Batista? CM HatesEverybody Punk?
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Post by PTBartman on Dec 1, 2014 18:23:03 GMT -5
Interesting question. While I'm sure the WWE machine would have kept on rolling, many people cite Cena as the man who saved WWE after Benoit since he was so squeaky clean and great for PR and beloved by children. Who knows who would have stepped up post-Benoit. Hothead Orton? Douche McGee Batista? CM HatesEverybody Punk? Mr. "I never did the roids...Whoops" Kennedy. Kennedy!
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