Bischoff Comments On WWE Show

[The Mac]

Checked out tonights Raw. Cena is one of the best talkers in the business in my opinion.

From Eric Bischoff's Facebook

[Nature Boy]

It's his opinion, which of course he is welcome to!

It will never be an opinion I share however...

[Metalitia]

I don't get the big praise for Cenas promo. It was what it needed to be more or less but came across as a bit flat and the same stuff being said.

When Rock finally responded and then Cena did too there was more energy and anticipation building but overall it was average.


Hey if Eric liked it though good for him

[Swinny]

I don't get the big praise for Cenas promo. It was what it needed to be more or less but came across as a bit flat and the same stuff being said.

When Rock finally responded and then Cena did too there was more energy and anticipation building but overall it was average.


Hey if Eric liked it though good for him

Agreed. It was certainly decent enough, but nothing more than what has already been said and done, and done better. Nothing that stood out, going into WrestleMania.

[RasslingFanatic]

Cena is a good promo...he is just a bitch to go with it. "It isn't my job to care what the fans think. It isn't my job to be a worker or anything like that...just say the words and do the moves. I'm an acrobat and I sell t-shirts"

Sorry about that little rant...I will pay the $50 for Mania is The Rock shoots on that bitch.

[James Raine]

Cena's promos are horrible, and he makes other people fail at their promos as well. The problem is, his "Rise Above Hate" shit means he doesn't sell what people are saying to him. So while The Rock is standing there, intense as shit, ready to rip his fucking head off and shit down his throat, Cena is standing there smiling, not selling a bit of anything The Rock is saying. Then he goes onto say that no matter how people feel about him, he's gonna win. Cena's been doing it for years, he's basically the biggest fucking troll on the planet.

[RasslingFanatic]

I think I have posted this before, but Rock was a babyface who the fans started to hate. Did he keep smiling and tell them he doesn't care and keep being a goody goody? No, he eventually told all of us to shove it up our asses, became the biggest heel in the WWE an eventually the fans were dying to cheer him.

He also spits in the fans of what business he is in. He is a worker, not a performer. If you want to be a babyface, make the fans love you. That is your job and if there is a segment of the audience who hates you, find a way to change their view. When Hogan did it, nobody in the building booed him. When they started to do so, he turned and become a top heel in the business for a little while.

Cena and the company are putting merchandise sales ahead of a segment of their audience. Right or wrong, that is what they are doing.

[James Raine]

I think I have posted this before, but Rock was a babyface who the fans started to hate. Did he keep smiling and tell them he doesn't care and keep being a goody goody? No, he eventually told all of us to shove it up our asses, became the biggest heel in the WWE an eventually the fans were dying to cheer him.

He also spits in the fans of what business he is in. He is a worker, not a performer. If you want to be a babyface, make the fans love you. That is your job and if there is a segment of the audience who hates you, find a way to change their view. When Hogan did it, nobody in the building booed him. When they started to do so, he turned and become a top heel in the business for a little while.

Cena and the company are putting merchandise sales ahead of a segment of their audience. Right or wrong, that is what they are doing.

You're right, and unfortunately, as well as merchandise sales may be doing for Cena, the buyrates and ratings during this whole Cena era continue to drop year over year. Wrestlemania being the exception because it's Wrestlemania, and everyone orders it.

[FozzyRock]

The thing is, Randy Orton, Triple H, Edge and so many others, when they were heel they still had a hell of a lot of merchandise being sold, so why do they think a heel Cena would sell a hell of a lot less?! When I went to a live event over 4 years ago that's what I bought 1 Orton, 1 Triple H and 1 Edge t-shirt. I have a huge collection of WWE T-shirts that I still wear to this day and none of them are Cena products, that's one of the points they are missing.

In terms of Cena's promo, this "I don't give a rat's ass" facade he is putting on now is hurting the business, I listened to a candid Kane interview from 2009 the other day and he admitted that the only reason he is still around is because he is a "company man". He does what they tell him to. Which does then bring up the question, is this Cena, the Cena that WWE wants, or is this Cena, the Cena that John Cena wants to be?

In my opinion, Cena has deluded his mind that everything he does is okay because at the end of the day all he sees is $ signs. In terms of the WWE show, he's in it for the money.

[RasslingFanatic]

You're right, and unfortunately, as well as merchandise sales may be doing for Cena, the buyrates and ratings during this whole Cena era continue to drop year over year. Wrestlemania being the exception because it's Wrestlemania, and everyone orders it.

And they bring in all the real stars like Rock, Undertaker etc.

The thing is, Randy Orton, Triple H, Edge and so many others, when they were heel they still had a hell of a lot of merchandise being sold, so why do they think a heel Cena would sell a hell of a lot less?! When I went to a live event over 4 years ago that's what I bought 1 Orton, 1 Triple H and 1 Edge t-shirt. I have a huge collection of WWE T-shirts that I still wear to this day and none of them are Cena products, that's one of the points they are missing.

In terms of Cena's promo, this "I don't give a rat's ass" facade he is putting on now is hurting the business, I listened to a candid Kane interview from 2009 the other day and he admitted that the only reason he is still around is because he is a "company man". He does what they tell him to. Which does then bring up the question, is this Cena, the Cena that WWE wants, or is this Cena, the Cena that John Cena wants to be?

In my opinion, Cena has deluded his mind that everything he does is okay because at the end of the day all he sees is $ signs. In terms of the WWE show, he's in it for the money.

When Raven was a heel in Portland as an announcer/wrestler, Roddy Piper made him pick his nose on air so the fans would call him Snotty The Body rather than Scotty The Body. Raven made his own shirts with Snotty The Body written on them and had them sold to the fans. He worked the fans to think he hated them wearing the shirt and they bought them and wore them.

If Cena were to turn heel and the WWE were to release Anti-Cena merchandise, it would sell like crazy. He is so over with 2/3 of the audience by turning on them they would be so heartbroken, they would have to hate him. Hogan was probably still selling heaps of Merchandise in 1995, but he turned heel by jumping on the NWO bandwagon and that shirt was outselling the WCW babyface merchandise.

I think it is just too much work for the WWE and Cena to pull off.

[DarkClown1981]

You're right, and unfortunately, as well as merchandise sales may be doing for Cena, the buyrates and ratings during this whole Cena era continue to drop year over year. Wrestlemania being the exception because it's Wrestlemania, and everyone orders it.

Let's blame the drop in ratings in Cena's lap. He is the what is the problem is with the business. Whatever. Cena is part of the problem, but he is not THE problem. Stop blaming everything on Cena.

[James Raine]

Let's blame the drop in ratings in Cena's lap. He is the what is the problem is with the business. Whatever. Cena is part of the problem, but he is not THE problem. Stop blaming everything on Cena.

The truth is, when your headline guy, your top guy, the guy Vince shoves down everyone's throats, doesn't draw ratings, doesn't draw buyrates, that person needs to take time off. No one, NO ONE, orders a PPV because they wanna see the opening match, or who's fighting for the IC title. The PPVs are sold by their main events, hence the reason why they get so much promo time. Since 2005, John Cena has been in the main event of roughly 95% of the PPV events in that time frame. He's been the companies most pushed man, winning countless matches and championships, and yet, YEAR OVER YEAR, buyrates drop like fucking rocks. Ratings barely hold to the low numbers they're at now, and yet, John Cena is still closing out Raw and PPVs. Where does logic come into play here? When will Vince stop and go "business is down, people are buying less PPVs and tuning out in massive numbers, maybe we should push someone else"? It's not me blaming Cena for everything, I don't need to blame him, I'm telling you, I'm stating a FACT, Cena is the reason why people tune out. Cena is the reason why people don't order PPVs. The proof is in the fucking numbers. Stop drinking the kool-aid already.