I kind of have to agree. Usually if I don't like a wrestler at first, they'll eventually grow on me. But it's not happening with John Cena. It's been years and I still just can't force myself to like his gimmick, even when I want to. The worst thing is that he's the center of the WWE product.
I also know a lot of people like to argue that the PG rating is not the reason why the product sucks and that it's Creative's fault, etc, etc. I partly disagree. With the program being PG, Creative has the added chore of making sure everything they come up with is "within the rules." If they had to write a TV-14 show, maybe they'd feel like they have less strings pulling them and would be free to explore new, unpredictable and exciting storylines. Let's look at it in simple terms. The best storylines are the ones that are real; the ones that depict real life. Well unfortunately, in real life, when violence is involved, swearing and blood can't be ignored. I'm not saying we should smere the whole program with it, but definitely use it appropriately. Miz's beat down of Lawler would've gone over much better if Lawler could've bladed. Cena could've expressed how pissed off he really was at Punk if he could really lose his composure and drop a couple curse words. It would be believable, aka, something you might see in real life when a guy is losing his shit on another guy.
Right now, the only thing keeping me watching WWE is the fact that I am a wrestling addict and have been for 13 years. I watched my first RAW in 1998 and refused to miss any episodes after that because Austin was a tough son of a bitch and legitimately fucked people up that got in his way, and I always had to see what he would do next week. There's none of that anymore. Cena is a pussy. Nexus has not been an intimidating, antagonistic group at all. I enjoy Orton sometimes but always think they could blow his gimmick into something better if they tried. Bottom line, if I was 10 years old again, and tuned into RAW for my first time today, I don't think I would've become as obsessed as I was when I was introduced to it in 1998.
I also think it's worth noting that I started watching wrestling as a 10-year-old kid/major mark and I hated characters that resembled today's John Cena. I liked the badass guys even as a kid. So I don't understand what the hangup is with kids and Cena these days.