John Cena Hits Make-A-Wish Milestone

[Hoofbite]

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/john-cena-make-a-wish-300-requests-pro-wrestling-wwe.html

Wow. Hats off to him.

 

[NeonNinja]

Wow! Major props to Cena.

 

[BoysFan4ever]

Good for him. He could use the good publicity. He's getting bad press regarding his divorce.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

This is one of those things thats always been really great about John. Pretty amazing that he's granted that many wishes.

 

[Hostile]

I still don't get why so many people (wrestling fans) don't like him. He does things the right way, reverences his sport, and is good a on mic.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

I still don't get why so many people (wrestling fans) don't like him. He does things the right way, reverences his sport, and is good a on mic.

I know what you mean. I've always been a fan of him.

I liked him going back to his days on the West Coast when he was running the Prototype character, before even going to OVW (The WWE training league).

ALways been a fan and I'm a bigger fan now days because of how cool a guy he is and you can just see how much he respects wrestling and all that goes into it.


Sometimes his character gets boring for me, and I don't always like the way he's booked, but that goes with any wrestler to be honest.

 

[BoysFan4ever]

I think he's ok on the mic. Generally though to me his promos go on way too long. So do many others! I am thinking of one in particular I just watched a few days ago that I taped from a few weeks ago with John Lauranitis. Cena kept getting in his ear saying LOSER. It was just really bad. He had some good stuff with Rock but nothing lately to me.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

I think he's ok on the mic. Generally though to me his promos go on way too long. So do many others! I am thinking of one in particular I just watched a few days ago that I taped from a few weeks ago with John Lauranitis. Cena kept getting in his ear saying LOSER. It was just really bad. He had some good stuff with Rock but nothing lately to me.

IMO a lot of his vanilla mic work in the last several years is do a great deal to his gimmick. The character they've got him being doesn't lend itself to a whole lot of great mic work or edgy mic work.

I've seen this guy cut his promos when he had a lot more leeway and he used to be pretty dang good on the mic when they'd let him go.

 

[BoysFan4ever]

That one promo is on my mind because it's the one I just watched. I am behind several shows but in that one John looked really bad. I don't know if they told him to do that or he was just ab-libbing but it was bad! He was acting really stupid. Got several shows to catch up on & I am hoping it gets better. Maybe his personal situation is wearing on him. He is being accused of being a really rotten guy by his soon to be ex.

 

[silverbear]

I still don't get why so many people (wrestling fans) don't like him. He does things the right way, reverences his sport, and is good a on mic.

And he's extremely vocal about supporting our troops... better, he's not just vocal, he does something about it...

 

[Hostile]

And he's extremely vocal about supporting our troops... better, he's not just vocal, he does something about it...

This^

 

[Hoofbite]

I'm not sure if the article is meant to be taken as straight fact but it says that he never says "no".

That in itself is truly noteworthy.

Always willing.

And for anyone who has had experience around the kids he sees, it should be obvious how important that is to them.

 

[big dog cowboy]

I'm surprised he only has 300. It seems like he has been doing that a long time. I would have guessed higher.

 

[BoysFan4ever]

Thank goodness Jericho interrupted John's promo last night. That was awful.
He's just not funny. Why put him in a situation of trying to be funny?

 

[silverbear]

Thank goodness Jericho interrupted John's promo last night. That was awful.
He's just not funny. Why put him in a situation of trying to be funny?

Actually, Cena cracks me up, and I was enjoying his schtick when that moron Jericho came out...

If you wanna talk about a wrestler with no real ability and no real charisma, it's Jericho... he's a one trick pony on the mic, all he has is "I'm better than you plebeians"... he also tells us how he's the best in the world at what he does, then goes out and loses another big match...

 

[BoysFan4ever]

Actually, Cena cracks me up, and I was enjoying his schtick when that moron Jericho came out...

If you wanna talk about a wrestler with no real ability and no real charisma, it's Jericho... he's a one trick pony on the mic, all he has is "I'm better than you plebeians"... he also tells us how he's the best in the world at what he does, then goes out and loses another big match...

I think Jericho is much better on the mic & I would much rather watch him wrestle. He's always been great since I've been watching. I really like him.

 

[silverbear]

I think Jericho is much better on the mic & I would much rather watch him wrestle. He's always been great since I've been watching. I really like him.

We'll have to agree to disagree on that one, there is no one wrestler that I dislike more than Jericho... I long ago grew bored of his boastfulness, and his "plebeian" schtick... he's been doing the same act for YEARS...

I actually like him better in the ring than on the mic... the thing is, I know he could do better work on the mic, as I've heard him on a radio show that my nephew likes, featuring Nikki Sixx and Casey Kasem's daughter (can't think of her first name right now), and found him entertaining and amusing...

But like I said, he's been doing the same tired crapola for years now...

 

[TellerMorrow34]

Thank goodness Jericho interrupted John's promo last night. That was awful.
He's just not funny. Why put him in a situation of trying to be funny?

I actually thought his Star Wars thing was pretty funny myself.

Actually, Cena cracks me up, and I was enjoying his schtick when that moron Jericho came out...

If you wanna talk about a wrestler with no real ability and no real charisma, it's Jericho... he's a one trick pony on the mic, all he has is "I'm better than you plebeians"... he also tells us how he's the best in the world at what he does, then goes out and loses another big match...

Oh I couldn't disagree more.

Jericho is great on the mic.

He's better in a face role, and doing sophmoric type humor, but he's gold, IMO, as face or heel.

 

[Cowboy Brian]

In WWE's latest update of financial indicators, the number of buys for WrestleMania has dropped to about 1,150,000, after originally being projected at 1.3 million. They are still about 100,000 buys ahead of the 2011 show but the bloom is kind of coming off of the rose here.

The Elimination Chamber show only did about 170,000 buys, way down from the ~300,000 that it did a few years ago. It looks like the once-promising concept has been hurt by the lack of legitimate top tier talents entering the two main matches.

Extreme Rules, featuring the WWE PPV return of Brock Lesnar, is holding at about 250,000 buys, which would be around a 20% improvement over the previous year's show.

The early number for May's Over The Limit show is about 150,000 buys, which would be its lowest number of the last three years.

Lalalalala

 

[Yakuza Rich]

I still don't get why so many people (wrestling fans) don't like him. He does things the right way, reverences his sport, and is good a on mic.

He’s corny.

I think most wrestling fans view him as a good person in real life, but his character is very corny and his wrestling skills leave a lot to be desired.

Personally, I view most over faces in wrestling as corny. Whether it be Hogan, Sting, etc. Very few faces that were over that were not corny (IMO) like Steamboat, Magnum TA and Andre. But the real value of those corny faces is that they made me become a fan and appreciate the really good heels even more. Hogan had Piper, Sting had Vader and Flair. Cena had Punk (who has now become corny himself as he’s a face, but he’s made me appreciate Daniel Bryan).

I just think it’s unwise when fans think Cena should turn heel. He’s too big of a draw and merchandise seller. If he’s ever to turn heel, it should be when he is struggling to sell merch and it should be a massive deal for the WWE.

Anyway, my congratulations goes out to John for doing such a fantastic job.




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