Re: Vince Tweets John Cena Is The 'Babe Ruth Of WWE
Some of this love in this thread for the GOAT Hogan :banderas
But bald cowards like Vince will wrongly say the entire greatest superstar of this company is that bald coward Cena :hogan or bald coward marks on this forum will say it's that coward Bret :hogan or that bald coward Austin :hogan Well, they are nothing compared to the GOAT Hogan, brother :hogan
But it is the GOAT Hogan, who is and always will be the entire business, brother.
Vince changes who gets the "Babe Ruth of the WWE" and the greatest of all time title as often as the weather changes. In the last decade, in some form or another they have promoted Sammartino, Hogan, Flair, Austin, and Michaels with the same reverence. Naturally they'd also do it for Cena and will again come Taker and Rock's Hall Of Fame inductions, respectively. The label like pretty much everything in WWE including the HOF is just another marketing tool for the company.
He's said the same thing about Hogan before. Meaningless, empty statement. He'll be saying the same thing about Roman Reigns when he starts to wind down, and boy, won't that be a chuckle for the ages.
LOVE this comparison. Few people know that Babe actually started off as a pitcher for the Red Sox in 1915. However, he was sent down to the minors due to them having a loaded roster.(Boston dominated the MLB with a loaded roster and won the World Series). He was a decent pitcher but nobody at that moment would've expected him to blow up and break homerun records and reign as the king of baseball for years later with the Yankees. Cena came onto the scene in 2000 ish. Around the same time that WWE/F assembled perhaps the greatest roster of all time (many think it was 2002). Nearly everyone thought he was a bust, didn't deserve a spot, and he was nearly fired. You couldn't have foreshadowed that by 2016 he'd just....
Have over 35 million dollars in net worth
Compete in nearly 3,000 matches
Appear in 14 movies (and counting)
Debut at #15 on the billboard 200 in 2005 (lol)
Have a record number of wishes granted by Make-A-Wish
Hold their most coveted prize 16 different times
Boost sales of live events by thousands of dollars
Be the biggest money-maker the company has ever had
He has been the king of the WWE for years
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and I'm not saying he's perfect, shit we all glorified Hulk Hogan until that tape came out lol... But I just don't understand the hate on this one...Happy Birthday, Champ!
While I'm certainly not going to disagree that Ruth far exceeded even the wildest expectations once he became a hitter, I don't think you are giving him enough credit as a pitcher. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/232338-babe-ruth-the-pitcher
I completely agree with this article that there's a good chance he could have had a HOF just as a pitcher. Would he be in the GOAT convos? No, but still well above average. I don't recall anything about him being sent to the minors. I could be wrong on this, though. In his last year with the Red Sox he had started to transition more into a hitting role. I have always been of the understanding that it was more to do with problems he had getting along with management that led to him being sold to the Yankees. Like I said, I may be wrong here.
I really like the Gehrig comparisons better for two reasons
1. The fact that like Gehrig, Cena got his opportunity to shine based on someone not being there. Gehrig with Wally Pipp and Cena with the departures of Rock and Lesnar. Just like Gehrig instantly shined so did Cena when he answered the Kurt Angle open challenge.
2. That work ethic. 2,130 straight games for Gehrig and we all know that Cena in his prime was the hardest working guy there. Working through injuries and returning from injuries way sooner than expected. All while having top notched stats that puts him on the convo for top ten all time but not number one.
The only major hole in my comparison is that Cena was the top guy for a long time just like Ruth and Gehrig was alway on a team with Ruth so both comparisons do have some validity.
I could've analyzed that too much haha but I think John Cena deserves that respect from Vince. He's just made him and the company so much money over the years. If not Cena the past 5 years then who? He's one of the goats of this generation for the WWE.
The WWF changed its name to WWE in May 2002, John Cena's inaugural match in WWE was one month later in June 2002, so yes John has been a WWE guy since his inception.
"Boss praises his best and most profitable employee to stay in his good graces to get every penny out of him that he can." I think that's a better title for this thread.
I think people are missing the reference Vince used. I mean if he was attempting to Diminish Rock or Hogan. I mean he could of gone biggest wrestling star ever! Or Michael Jackson of WWE. Which Rock got alot of the time. Babe Ruth makes sense, based on his position in Baseball in that era. IMO Rock is bigger then Hogan and Cena combined. And made more impact on pro wrestling, in the fact he transistioned it to mainstream. But Cena is the biggest wrestling star since 2004.
Do you just enjoy saying ignorant shit on matters that you don't have a fucking clue about? People aren't missing the reference at all. Quite the opposite actually. Ya know, those that actually know their ass from a hole in the ground about who Babe Ruth was. Position in baseball for that era? Lmao! Please do some research before typing out of your ass. Babe Ruth arguably had more mainstream appeal than any athlete in sports history. Ali and Jordan really are the only ones that are truly arguable to have had more.
Let's just say that Hogan didn't come up with this gesture on the fly. He was paying homage to one of the most famous moments in baseball history when Ruth did it in 1932.
Saying Babe Ruth is the Michael Jackson of baseball might not be giving him enough credit to be honest.
More like Vince's assistant tweets that Cena is the Babe Ruth of the WWe.
I can't imagine Vince tweeting anything other than Roman Reigns with his shirt off superman punching Braun Stroman.
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