Cena crushed it last night. Big assist to the kid beating cancer in the crowd, but I loved everything about that segment. Cena/Owens has done more in 3 weeks than Cena/Rusev did in three months. And I enjoyed that feud.
With this feud and the US Open Challenge, I'm more interested in what Cena is doing 10x over than whatever Rollins and the Authority are doing at the end of the night.
I wonder if Kevin Owens was thinking to himself, "holy crap - now THAT'S how you cut a promo" when Cena was rolling last night. Cena has his faults, but he knows how to work a mic. That was about as good as it gets. Wrestlers have to occasionally be in awe of each other.
Whoa. Color me surprised, I thought Cena's promo was one of the worst promos I've ever heard, and that Owens had greatly outclassed him. I thought Cena came across as a gigantic crybaby, just as he often did in the Rusev feud. Cena gets beat clean, then basically says that doesn't matter because Cena is a real man and Owens isn't is an argument a 4 year old would make.
I apologize for going on a rant here, but Cena's promo was really a great example of why people hate Cena. He lost cleanly, but instead of letting a guy go over, he has to cry about it, leading to a rematch which Cena will no doubt win, and take all of Owens heat in the process. Tying the never give up thing to Owens career was nice, everything else was awful. Throwing shade on Adam Rose, someone who actually is fighting for his sick kid, was annoying and pointless, and not very respectful. Owens
called Cena an empty shell of a person filled up with corporate slogans and hollow moralizing nonsense. So Cena comes out and gives a bunch of slogans and hollow moralizations. He pointed out some kid with cancer not once, but twice. For what purpose? To what end? What does that have to do with Owens? It was a rambling bunch of nonsense after that. Just loud shouty noises absent substance.
Is it any wonder why so many younger, greener guys like poor Roman Reigns can’t cut a promo when THAT is what the face of the company comes up with? He spent five minutes spouting nonsense and then accused the OTHER guy of not thinking before he speaks. Unbelievable.
People have said it was cool that Cena put Owens over, but Cena doesn't put anyone over ever, he always gets his heat back. Everybody always looks worse after feuding with Cena. Rusev looks like just a guy right now, Wyatt still hasn't recovered, and even Punk got hindered by it. Even against Brock there had to be a BS finish in their rematch.