Welcome to the latest Tybo Talks… where I’m talking the problem with Brock Lesnar being WWE Champion.
This article was originally meant to be my thoughts on SummerSlam, which honestly was a pretty solid PPV, maybe the best in a while. Well, except for the fact that there was no sign of the United States Championship, and that the reigning Tag-Team Champions were lumberjacks! Seriously, what’s that about?
But that’s not what I’m here to talk about. The main event made me wonder what in the blue hell WWE are thinking?
Firstly, let me say that anyone who thought that John Cena was going to retain the WWE Championship at SummerSlam wasn’t very bright, especially after Lesnar conquered the Streak by defeating the Undertaker’s at WrestleMania. There was absolutely no chance he was losing his next match, regardless of who it was against or what it was for.
Let me secondly say that I am 100% a John Cena fan. Anyone who reads my Twitter feed (@Greg_SLTD) or my Facebook page (Greg SLTD), or listens to SLTD Radio every other Thursday – some Sheamus Plugs there (If you listen, you will know what I mean – will know this, so what I’m about to write will sound like another Cena mark hating on Lesnar because he beat ‘The Champ’
It’s really none of those but…Brock Lesnar winning the WWE World Heavyweight Championship the way he did is an absolute piss-take! Let me explain…
Brock Lesnar winning in such a clean and decisive fashion would be great if it wasn’t for two simple factors – one being that Lesnar beat Cena! John Cena is really the only made guy in the company at the moment, as sad as that is to say. Daniel Bryan and the CM Punk were too, but in a completely different way.
Whether anyone likes it or not, Cena has been the face of the WWE for the last 10 years and more, and here lies the problem – Lesnar absolutely decimated Cena.
It was maybe one of the most one-sided matches I have ever seen (in a main-event capacity that is). In between the 16 German suplexes, Cena mustered little to zero offence whatsoever. Seriously! 16 German Suplexes! And fans get pissed off that Cena only uses ‘five moves of doom’. What?!?
Talking about Cena and how bad of a beating he took, to all the Cena haters out there – I’m fully aware there are millions of you out there (including my business partner and SLTD Wrestling’s very own Scottish Nightmare @George_SLTD) – to all of you who cry out that Cena does nothing but bury talent and never ‘does the job’, this match proved that he is willing to do just that.
I’ve been watching wrestling for many years and I have never seen the likes of Stone Cold, The Rock, Triple H, Chris Jericho or CM Punk (the list goes on) take a beating and have such a one-sided match in the main-event of a PPV as big as Summer Slam as John Cena did last Sunday.
If you can think of anything that comes close, please, comment below.
You should all tip your hat to Cena, and he deserves it. He agreed to a match like that when so many others wouldn’t even entertain the idea of it.
Anyway…back to my original point – beating Cena like that was dumb because there’s no-one close to the calibre of Lesnar to face him, especially when he’s gone through a guy who’s been at the top for a decade in such convincing fashion.
Don’t get me wrong. If that was 1999-2002, I would’ve thought it was the coolest thing ever! “Why?” I hear you ask. Is it because the Attitude Era was a far more entertaining time in the WWF/E? No. Well, not in this instance anyway.
It would’ve been awesome because of the amount of established guys – Austin, Rock, Taker, Triple H, Kurt Angle and Jericho to name just a few – who were ready to step up. But right now, in 2014, once you’ve torn through Cena, who’s left? Reigns? Wyatt? Sheamus? Could Rollins cash in his MiTB briefcase?
After what he did to Cena, there’s no-one who I can see Lesnar looking at from across the ring and thinking “this is going to be a battle”.
Maybe this is me being naïve. I’m not sure, and maybe this is one of those times that I’m just not seeing the bigger picture, but honestly I can’t see what they are going to do with such a dominant “part-time” WWE Champion.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m interested to see where they go with this. But does anyone else see WWE dropping the ball once again?
What if they get bored of Lesnar as the champ because they haven’t got the 500,000 new WWE Network (which you can get for $9.99 by the way) subscribers that they were expecting to get off the Lesnar win, give the belt back to Cena (for the 16th time, which would be a joke!) and no-one sees Lesnar until WrestleMania 31?
If that happened, it’d make him conquering the Streak and destroying John Cena completely pointless. In all honesty… I really hope I’m wrong!
Thanks again for reading my ramblings. It may have been a little controversial this time but, love it or hate it, let me know what you think below.
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