>entire ethos and principle is to "leave WWE better than when he found it">would have objectively succeeded by an enormous margin if he had retired one year sooner but gaytch ruined it by fumblimg 2025 in every conceivable way
>old motherfucker is retiring>sets up a huge moment for a heel>this is le bad and we're gonna seethe about this for two days straight
>>19490345>Two daysPrepare for months, if not years of this
>>19490293>debuts when WWE was literally at its peak>had just won the Monday night wars, killed WCW>ratings 8m+ >WWE was a massive part of mainstream culture>he quickly becomes the top guy >product becomes boring and child friendly >guy who’s whole character is that of a children’s entertainer wins every week>all of the “attitude” and “ruthless aggression” that was popular gets watered down while the face of the company is a straight laced faggot with zero real personality >finally stops being full time with ratings under 2 million and the product being entirely just for kids - adults would be laughed at for admitting they were into wrestlingThen, with Cena gone the product finally starts to recover. It takes years but guys like Roman and Cody slowly start to turn around the business. Ratings increase above 2M and continue to rise. It’s nowhere near attitude era stuff or even ruthless aggression but the product starts becoming a little bit more mainstream again>returns for his “retirement run”>they try to make him an edgy heel but it falls completely flat>him and Rocky take all of the momentum that had been building with Cody and Roman and kill it>ratings and enthusiasm lower than a year ago, when he started his tourBoy you sure left the business better than you found it John!
>>19490614There's a reason the greatest heel booker of all time had to put him down
>>19490293and now we are going to do this again with AJ Styles and then Rey Mysterio and then Randy Orton and then CM Punk.
>>19490614My thoughts exactly
>>19490293>literally spends a whole year selling hundreds of thousands of tickets>the business is le worse offfuck sake
>>19490614this is the problem of vince (and now bald triple H).cena would have ran with whatever they gave him. even one of his signatures, the STFU, had to be dialed back to unbelievable levels (due to accidentally choking Edge out with it).over the years they had to sit down EVERY wrestler.hate The Game, not the player
