{"id":376,"date":"2016-09-21T23:21:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T03:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=376"},"modified":"2016-09-21T23:21:13","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T03:21:13","slug":"revolution-john-cena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2016\/09\/21\/revolution-john-cena\/","title":{"rendered":"The Revolution of John Cena"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Cena<\/strong> is one of the most loved and hated wrestlers in the history of the business.\u00a0 There is a very large group of adults and \u201csmart fans\u201d who just do not like Cena, no matter what he does.\u00a0 There is also a very large group of kids and even adults who love Cena for their own reasons. Whether it is for his \u201cNever Give Up\u201d gimmick or just out of respect for how hard he works both in and out of the ring. The thing is, while you were too busy bashing Cena for his \u201cfive moves of doom\u201d or celebrating him for granting his 500th<\/sup> Make A Wish, you may have overlooked the fact that his character is finally<\/em> changing right before our eyes.\u00a0 This is the (R)Evolution of John Cena.<\/p>\n

The Revolution of John Cena<\/h2>\n

John Cena has won an incredible 15 World Championships in the WWE<\/strong>. It has always been a contentious subject for fans as many view Ric Flair<\/strong>\u2019s 16 World Championships as a record that should not be beaten. The fact that Cena has won 15 championships has not ever really been addressed by Cena directly\u2026 until just recently.\u00a0 Cena clearly stated that he wanted to win his 16th<\/sup> Championship on his return to Smackdown Live!<\/strong> last week. Could it have just been a way to reintroduce Cena back in to title picture? Sure. But let\u2019s take a look at the bigger picture.<\/p>\n

At Summerslam, John Cena lost clean to A.J. Styles<\/strong>.\u00a0 After Summerslam, Cena took a few weeks off only to return and make the proclamation that he wanted to win his 16th<\/sup> World Championship.\u00a0 Only a week after he returned, what happened? Cena lost clean to Dean Ambrose<\/strong>.\u00a0 Are you seeing a trend yet?\u00a0 John Cena, the man who many people despised for always \u201covercoming the odds\u201d and never losing, has lost two straight singles matches to internet darlings Syles and Ambrose.\u00a0 Keep in mind that Cena has not been pinned in a singles match on RAW<\/strong> or Smackdown in almost seven years.\u00a0 This is not just coincidence.<\/p>\n

Cena\u2019s upcoming schedule is in question as he has a lot of work outside of WWE lined up.\u00a0 According to advertisements, Cena is currently only booked for three dates between now and the end of the year.\u00a0 Clearly Cena will not be winning his 16th<\/sup> World Championship at No Mercy<\/strong> in two weeks, so where does he go from here?<\/p>\n

His Motivation for Beating Flair’s Record<\/h3>\n

Is this going to be the long awaited John Cena heel turn?\u00a0 In reality, what makes a heel or baby face any more? Both shows champions are heels and continue to be cheered as positively as any other person on their respective shows.\u00a0 Roman Reigns<\/strong>, who has been booked as one of the biggest baby faces on the Monday night show is routinely booed by most crowds.\u00a0 So there really is not that much of a difference between the top heels or baby faces.\u00a0 What this looks like is an evolution of the John Cena character that we have not seen before. After Cena fails to win the WWE World Championship at No Mercy, he will have fuel to do whatever he can to win that elusive 16th<\/sup> Championship.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s imagine Cena does take the pin at No Mercy and only makes sparse appearances throughout the end of 2016 and all of those appearances result in losses.\u00a0 After his outside commitments are completed and he returns in 2017 at the Royal Rumble<\/strong>.\u00a0 Does Cena cheat to win the Royal Rumble, thus guaranteeing himself a shot at one of the champions at Wrestlemania 33<\/strong> to try and win the 16th<\/sup> title? Or does he also lose the Royal Rumble and turn his attention to the other beloved record in wrestling, the Undertaker<\/strong>\u2019s 23 and one record at Wrestlemania?<\/p>\n

Either way, the John Cena character is evolving right before our eyes and it is going somewhat unnoticed.\u00a0 This change very well could be John Cena\u2019s revolution, cementing himself as one of the greatest of all time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Cena is one of the most loved and hated wrestlers in the history of the business.\u00a0 There is a very large group of adults and \u201csmart fans\u201d who just do not like Cena, no matter what he does.\u00a0 There is also a very large group of kids and even adults who love Cena for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1298,"featured_media":379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[145,147,165,213,148,47],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-wwe-universe","tag-aj-styles","tag-dean-ambrose","tag-john-cena","tag-no-mercy","tag-smackdown-live","tag-wwe"],"modified_by":"Sean Garmer (Reviews Editor)","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1298"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}