It's kinda hard to suspend disbelief and just watch what was a good match as a wrestling fan when Cena is consistently calling spots and talking to the audience loud and clear.
Shut the fuck up asshole we can all hear you!!! It's like watching a movie for the first time with the director's commentary on. Who the hell would want to see it that way?
Maybe another decade as the franchise and he'll learn to cover his fucking mouth, talk quieter, and trust who he's working with(cesaro can wrestle) instead of turning a good long raw match into an instructional video for wrestling rookies.
I never do either, I wouldn't even know about it if there wasn't so many who whine about it. Maybe others have a better sound system or watch with headphones because all I hear is the action in the ring and the commentary. Never any spot calling.
I give Cena and Cesaro a free pass on this one. Considering they literally came back from a 3 day tour in Singapore/Japan, on the other side of the planet, the display those 2 put on was very generous of them. They did not need to go above and beyond like that.
Yes there were some botched spots, such as the Stunner, but you could tell their legs were a bit more wobbly than normal, and I think the travel and jet-lag played into it. Something about them just screams fatigue to me, and not the kayfabe type. WWE really does travel and work them relentlessly, and the applause Cena received at the end was much deserved. Like him or not (and I particularly don't), both he and Cesaro did their part to make sure the Chicago crowd got their money's worth last night.
Yes the spot calling was there, but you gotta consider the bigger picture. I feel like WWE could have scheduled to squeeze in an extra day off at least between Japan and Chicago, but hey, they gots to make that $$.
Im amazed people bitch about Cena doing it but dont complain about all the other people who call spots loudly. Then again Cena gets hated for shit everyone does all the time.
It's embarrassing. How anyone could say, with a straight face, that he's a "great" ring worker is laughable to me.
Cesaro had a good showing, but John Cena didn't do shit to warrant the amount of cum dripping from some peoples dicks. He gets all the trimmings in his matches while everyone else has 5 minutes to work with at best. That's not even a joke when it comes to WWE, some of the best wrestlers on the fucking face of the Earth are literally given 5 minutes to do their thing and sometimes even less. How fucking tragic is that?
It's a running joke with him now. Half of the time is like "oh lookie John's just called for his opponent to duck underneath him to run the ropes into the shoulder tackle to start the five moves of doom YAYAYAYAY!!!111!!!1!" :no:
I'd hate to know what would happen if smoke detectors go off in the houses of those who "don't hear it." You don't see it either? Forget the hearing. The fact that he doesn't even bother to cover his mouth is the worst part.
And the excuse that "oh, he just came back from a tour." Do you realize that's the case for everyone?
Throughout history, top stars have been able to work matches without being this blatant.
Good point to the person who said that maybe Cena should learn to actually trust someone. These people have been working in the industry for years, they don't need Cena to tell them everything to do like a daddy. Especially if it's going to take away from matches so greatly, and be so distracting.
Shows you how much Vince has favorites, because if this was a lower card guy, Vince would ream him for constantly doing this.
Having said that, Cena must rub off, because Cesaro was pretty obvious and lazy with it last night too.
For those who don't hear his spot calling and might think it's nit picking, trust me that if your equipment picks it up it is loud and obvious. I listen through hi-fi speakers, one of which is next to me when I watch wrestling on the computer - you hear certain wrestlers e.g. Cena talking in a normal speaking voice and it's like somebody in the same room as you is speaking low. That's when he isn't just shouting REVERSE ME! during irish whips and things!
It does take me out of the match for a few seconds and the fact that he's the #1 guy makes it absolutely pathetic - the biggest most successful wrestler in the world makes seemingly no effort to stop giving the game away. I don't get how he doesn't take pride in doing what he does efficiently in that sense, it's a bit like the loose STFs - most wrestlers would be embarrassed about it!
You'd rather hear each move being called? That is the total opposite of what Pro Wrestling should be. The whole point is to put on a pretend show that is meant to look real.
Cena isn't the only one, though he's the worst. Paige and Nikki do it a lot too.
Imagine Cena as a magician?
"Ok ladies and gentlemen, watch me saw this lady in half!"
You'd think a guy who has wrestled 15 years would have improved in that area by now. But then again, he never usually improves, he just stays the same, mundane goof he's always been.
I don't even hear it and the director's comparison is totally off point. If it wasn't live, and Cena had a ton of times to retake each spot, do you think he'd call it? Cena spot calling does nothing to lower the grade of a match for me, it's that stupid fucking springboard stunner that looks like a both 90% of the time that kills the match for me.
I mentioned this in another thread earlier today, hearing the wrestlers call the spots in the ring has become a new wrestling pet peeve for me, and Cena is the main person to blame for that.
It doesn't ruin the entire match for me though, just the parts where I hear them call the next move and then they hit that move. It's hard to suspend disbelief at that moment.
If I went out of may to hate John Cena, I'd probably notice it and let it bother me too. He does need to drop the springboard stunner, though. They covered it about as well as you could and crowd was still buzzing by the end of the match. That blown spot didn't ruin the match at all.
That was directed at production members not the crowd. And on topic I find it very easy to tune out half the time I don't even notice. Course I don't watch wrestling with the mentality of a perfectionist expecting things to be flawless. So John calls his matches it's not that big of a deal. If it was it would be adressed right?
Cena loudly calling spots is just whatever to me now. I usually don't notice it and if I don't it doesn't really affect the match quality for me. I get more upset about Cena's STF more than anything Cena does. That stupid ass Stunner is getting to be unbearable too.
Cena makes it so obvious it's not even funny. Somebody like him who's always in the spotlight should be better than that. A true in-ring general (Bryan) knows how it's done.
Just another reason for me to bitch about Cena. As if the half-assed springboard stunner isn't enough.
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