How good and convincing would a John Cena heel turn would actually be? Especially if he were to do a NWO Hogan style Heel turn on us, would he be able to sell/carry it?
It's never too late to turn heel. Hogan had been a babyface for 13 years when he finally turned heel. Cena has been a face for 9 years. Also Hogan was in his 40s, Cena still is in his 30s. He's got many, many years left in this business.
Maybe Vince waits for the heel turn until the opportunity presents itself. Which means that there has to be a real successor. Someone that can carry the company as top face just as good as Cena can. Like in 96, Sting was there to take over Hogans spot and in 2001, Rock was there to take over Austins spot.
probably going to do it at the most fucking random time..but i do think when it does happen i will shock everyone and will reverse everything all the adults cheering and all the kids booing
He will eventually turn heel but it won't nearly be as huge as Hogan's heel turn, sure it will be big and people will be screaming in the crowd but the majority of the viewers have wanted him to turn heel and have turned their backs on Cena since 2007 and it just won't have the same effect.
John Cena will never come close to anything Hogan achieved. One was a pioneer of wrestling, the other is the biggest WWE puppet of all time. If ever Cena turns heel it'll be too late and most likely because the WWE is close to dying (well more so than they already are). It takes guts to push for your character to turn heel. Hogan had it, Cena doesn't.
Won't have the same effect because a large portion of the audience hates his current character. I can see it failing because if he changes he may just end up getting cheered by adults and booed by kids.
Hogan was booed more than Cena leading up to his turn. 80% of the building were booing Hogan by 1996, WCW did their best to edit it out, and his merchandise sales were way down. Cena has gone from 60%+ boos to 25% boos (The 16 year old girls and 11 year old boys have endured) with strong merchandise. So it would have an impact, but it would have a financial one too so it won't happen. Yet. Bischoff and Hogan had no recourse, he had to turn heel. WWE have plenty of milking yet to go with Barney the Dinosaur.
I expect Cena the Dinosaur to remain as is especially if WWE Network launches. They'll want to push him to sell the kids side of things, cartoons and what not. But if the network fails and Linda fails at politics, theres more chance of it happening. We'll probably get a rapping Cena, they might even try to sell him as an adult-male favourite. Cena's latter career might be a tweener/anti-hero role.
They should've turned him during that embrace the hate angle.... the way he attacked Swagger? That should've been followed up on by him losing control, getting angry first at fellow competitors then eventually the crowd. I wanted to see a Cena segment the episode of Raw after he beat down Swagger. I looked forward to his slow and steady loss of grip on himself. It never happened...
I actually now think I should have added what kind of heel would he turn into. He is not a huge domination wrestler like Henry or Big show, nor a superior technical wrestler to show off and consider others inferior, nor is the most handsome guy around to pull off a Rick Rude or is as eloquent as Piper or charismatic as Rock/Hogan. What kind of heel would he even make?
I think it'll be pretty big considering he's pretty relevant in media. I'm sure it'll get some buzz. Sad thing is, he'll always get a split reaction: As a heel the smarks are gonna cheer him and the kids are gonna boo him. There's no point in turning him tbh.
Not a chance. Sure, Cena is the top guy of the current era, but he is NO WHERE NEAR the star power and impact Hogan had on the business, let alone Hulk's heel turn at BatB.
For everyone saying Cena heel turn wont be as good or as big, or mean as much as Hogans, It might not to you, but to the kids that turn in every week just to watch Cena like many of us did with Hogan it'll will mean just as much to them as Hogans did you.
For the kids and casual fans now Cena's heel turn is going to be huge, If they hold it off until WM30 it's going to make WM30 a must see ppv, iI cant see them doing it before that.
Well I've always said that John Cena needs to turn heel. It would freshen up his character and make him less stale. But as far as caring for him goes. I don't know, there's still a lot of stuff about him that I dislike.
It would make his character twice as interesting but it won't have even half the impact Hogan's turn did. Hogan lead the WWF during the first mainstream boom period, the internet wasn't nearly as prominent back in '96 so few people knew what was coming, NWO was very edgy in a cartoony period of wrestling. Plus an invasion angle hadn't been attempted in American wrestling back then.
A Cena led NWO could work but it still wouldn't have half the impact Hogan's turn did. Hell no one in the mainstream gives two damns about Cena.
Hogan actually cares immensely about the business, he just has a huge ego that takes a lot of satisfying. It was the same with Austin but he never gets the same internet rage. Both refused to job except under very certain circumstances because they believed their position in wrestling meant they should always be on top. Hogan was probably better than Austin though, he lost twice to The Rock in about a year; Austin lost twice to The Rock in his entire career and one of those losses was in a tag match. Of course The Rock was much less of an ass in terms of jobbing than both of them; he even lost to the freaking Hurricane.
I'm way past caring about him turning heel now. I just want him to stop being the center of attention all the bloody time. Besides, they keep on point balnk refusing to build anyone else up to his level, so until the time when they do, there wont be anyone to replace him as top face, which a heel needs.
In short, I don't care what he does now, the less I see of him the better.
Oh look another John Cena Heel turn thread, it’s not going to happen, let it go. He is never turning to the dark side, if anything he is already a Heel while being the top Face lol.
It wont be as big as Hogans turn. Cena is such a polarizing character that the heel turn will get cheered by people who hate him now, and booed by the little kids that love him now. Cena is a strange dynamic.
Anything could help freshen up his bland ass character. The closest I have been to being interested in Cena since Rock beat him was Lesnar busting his lip and then the EXCELLENT promo between him and promo on the NOC go home Raw
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