>>19275308
>not giving niggers a chance to get a rub from Cena
Sounds based to me. Bron doesn't need it.

>>19275308
That's it?

>>19275308
Tell me there’s another list with exciting wrestlers on it

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>>19275308
oba and trick are still in NXT for SOME fucking reason
if oba had to drop the title when he did then he should have never came back to NXT, debuted as a surprise in this and won the whole thing
i have no idea what they're doing with trick, he carried TNA for most of 2025 now he's jobbing for ricky stanks

>>19275999
Hard fact is, exiting wrestlers don't exist anymore

>>19276004
Rumble callups. Why would they call them at the most dead time of the year to have them do nothing?

>>19275308
Jey Uso or Gunther are winning.

>>19275308
no one cares about those nxt niggers

>>19276004
Oba's still too green, he's only been at NXT for like a year or a bit more? Trick I dunno, he's not particularly great at anything despite several years there, they're prob very hesitant on him.

I think they're going to go with Knight retiring Cena.

>>19276004
They're absolute shitters

It's going to be Jey Uso

>>19276316
they know they can't get away with this again

>>19276319
Bro it's WWE

the moment they announced finn for this tournament is the moment i lost all interest. fuck all these old spotlight hogging faggots

>>19276333
i feel like the tournament should have been composed entirely of cena's old rivals that didn't get to face him and hungry new blood
rusev, miz, ryder, sheamus make sense but they probably shouldn't have had finn, gunther, jey, priest, etc in there

>>19276347
If it was always going to be 16 people it should have been:
>Randy Orton
>Miz
>Lesnar
>Reigns
>Edge
>Kurt Angle
>CM Punk
>Rock
And then 8 random young guys Cena has never faced.
Obviously this would have never really happened because asking half the list above to do a job for a young NXT literal who would make them shit their pants but whatever

>>19276073
oba is relatively new but he got wrestling down basically instantly. he could dethrone cody tomorrow and would be able to fill those shoes. he's ready.
trick is extremely charismatic and good on the mic. he's not bret hart in the ring but he doesn't have to be, he's better than jey uso at least. his run with the TNA belt this year showed he's capable of putting the brand on his back.
both will get over easily.

there will be a surprise

>>19275308
Oof

>>19275308
n-fatigue

>>19276013
>Why would they call them at the most dead time of the year
this is the biggest problem WWE has, and it's only worse because fans like you accept it. even as recently as 2015, there was no such thing as "dead time", meaning, book nothing exciting besides the build to big 4 PPVs.
Every week there was a development and big surprises and twists and turns. why should there be months of filler? imagine any other TV show writing purposefully mid, nothing happening episodes for months, because they can only write exciting episodes for 2 yearly specials.
why do people accept this from WWE?

>>19276316
Fuckin Suge Knight Rikishi treats WWF like it's his Death Row Records. Has he hung Haitch by his ankles over the edge of the Titan Tower or something?

>>19277907
Dead period used to be after WM until labor day for staggered vacations and cos most of the execs went to the Hamptons or the Mass Islands/coves. Summerslam changed it a bit, plus the threat of a real billionaire buying Crockett
out.

>>19276013
You guys have been claiming Trick and Oba are being called up forever. Every time something happens it's for them. Oba will beat Sami, Oba will beat Ilja, Oba will be in the Cena tournament, Oba will be at the Rumble. And it's never fucking him lol. Oba fans are insane.

>>19276004
>oba and trick are still in NXT for SOME fucking reason
Nikkita

>>19275308
NOBODY CARES ABOUT TRICK WILLIAMS GET IT THROUGH YOUR THICK SKULL ALREADY YOU STUPID NIGGER

So Ryder and Hendry are the surprises eh

>>19275308
Trash

>>19275308
Oba can't talk and wrestles like shit, Trick Williams is a meme and Bron is a turbo manlet.

>>19275308
Grimola

>oba already getting more views than ilja
KWAB

Penta's the only wrestler in the tournament I care about so he should win

>>19275308
Who wants to see any of these midcarders face Cena? Make it someone actually relevant to his career ffs. Nobody is getting a rub out of this

>>19275308
God no one cares about Gunther. He can only do the “retired your childhood hero” routine once. If he’s doing it with Goldberg, there’s no point doing it with Cena too. He can only milk one accomplishment so giving him Cena accomplishes nothing

>>19276004
>oba and trick are still in NXT for SOME fucking reason
They're black and worse than that are post-Black and Gold guys. They are basically always going to be on Gaytch's shitlist.

>>19277907
>imagine any other TV show writing purposefully mid, nothing happening episodes for months, because they can only write exciting episodes for 2 yearly specials.
>why do people accept this from WWE?
One Piece and Naruto are/were extremely popular

>>19278718
He got KWAB'd by Jey and then came back to retire Goldberg but never really got to use it because then he had to job to Punk just for Seth to cash in five minutes later. Gunther is fucked but retiring Cena via submission is perhaps the only way to salvage him.

>>19278245
Amazing. Everything you stated is completely false.

>>19278718
>>19278878
he's getting it because he can give cena a solid match

Tournament looks shit but in all fairness, how many guys are there that are credible enough to retire Cena, need that rub and will continue to look credible in the future to make something out of it? Probably only Breakker and he isn't even in it.

>>19275308
Everyone keeps saying it's gonna be Gooner but that can't be right, it'd be the biggest fumble I've ever seen

do you guys think cena should lose or retire on a win? i really think cena shouldn't lose

>>19278943
Should have done the Kobashi style send off. A big multi man tag match full of guys Cena wants, new and old.

>>19278999
Having him win is easier and a good crowd pleaser, especially after this fumbled retirement tour. That said, Cena could put someone over and make them a bigger deal.

>>19279091
cena should of interacted with the whole roster on screen at the start of his retirement tour and put people over then. these are his final dates ever he shouldn't be putting over anyone especially not nxt wrestler

>>19275308
Here’s how you do it.

IF CENA WINS…

If you decide that Cena should win his last match (for crowd-pleasing reasons), then you let Je’Von Evans win the tournament. Similar to the Dom Mysterio match, Evans will get to put on a great show, prove he belongs, and get a huge boost even in a loss.

Everyone else in that tournament doesn’t get (or need) any sort of pop from losing to Cena. Rusev, Sheamus, Uso, Gunther, Knight, Penta…these are all established guys the fans know and have feelings about, or simply don’t care about (Hayes, Balor, Sikoa, Reed). Them losing to Cena isn’t going to “do” anything for them.


IF CENA LOSES…

If you decide Cena should lose his final match, then you would ONLY be doing it to give someone a HUGE boost and put them on the map. Who needs that? IMO, very few people on that list really need that. Rusev, Sheamus, Uso, Gunther, Knight…these are all established guys the fans know and have feelings about, or don’t care about (Hayes, Balor, Sikoa). Them beating Cena changes nothing for them in the eyes of the fans.

The only 2 guys on that list who could get a legitimate bump from beating Cena would be Penta and Bronson Reed.

Penta is riding a huge wave of midcard popularity right now. Having him beat Cena would actually make sense. I doubt they do it, though.

Reed is a mystery to me. The fans are ambivalent toward him. He gets no heat. But WWE seems to insist on pushing him. Having Reed retire Cena is exactly the “sort of thing” WWE would do thinking it would boost him more. But it won’t. Fans just aren’t responding.

If you REALLY want Cena to lose while putting someone on the map, then you give the TBD spot to Oba. Oba then destroys Solo Sikoa in 10 seconds. Oba then destroys Gunther in 20 seconds. Oba then destroys Uso in 30 seconds. And then you’ve created a monster to destroy Cena in his final match. It instantly puts Oba on the map as the biggest unstoppable badass since Brock Lesnar.

>>19279486
giving a nxt wrestler the last ever cena match is retarded

>>19279523
As a stunt, yes, it would be retarded.

But if the brass feels that either Evans or Oba is ready and capable of becoming the next big thing, then this is how you do it.

Personally, I think the tournament is stupid and I think it’s silly to try and make Cena’s last match “mean something.” The AJ Styles match (the way they did it) should’ve been the last match. Dec 13th isn’t even a PLE. It’s a Saturday Night Main Event which isn’t even one of their top TV brands. Just have fun with it and don’t worry about it tying into “the story.” That’s what I would’ve done.

But since WWE insists on taking itself so damn seriously, they might as well use it to put one of the young guys on the map. In promos, Cena keeps talking about the next generation and leaving the business better than he found it, etc. You don’t do that by having him face fucking Gunther, Rusev, Sheamus, Knight, or Jey Botching Uso, lmao. And certainly not by facing Hayes, Balor, or Sikoa who the fans give zero shits about.

You do it by having Cena barely defeat the next rising baby face (Evans), or by getting absolutely obliterated by the next rising heel (Oba).

Or, like I said, you give it to Penta because he fucking deserves it, or you give it to Reed because for some reason you insist on pushing him.

As long as it’s not fucking Gunther, I’ll be happy though. Gunther is literally the worst possible choice.

>>19279606
wwe is only going to allow diehard company employees to face cena, imagine if a nxt wrestler beat cena then fucked off to another promotion

>>19279642
True. There is always that risk.

I don’t know the contract status of either Evans or Oba, but yes, you’re right. If I’m Khan/HHH, I make sure they’re locked in before moving forward with that plan, lol.

>>19276073
>Oba's still too green
He's better than Jey Uso who's been around forever. Oba has IT and should be pushed to the moon.

he has no idea

>>19277907
That part. WWE fans are tapped and are petrified of questioning these things.

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>>19277998
wrong coalburner

>>19275308
Where's the new landscape

>>19276073
solo is green af too and is the reason smackdown creative sucks

>>19275308
No idea

>>19275308
>Trick
Solos mystery opponent nigga

>>19275308
weak shit