John Felix Anthony Cena or better known as John Cena, the WWE superstar was born on April 23rd, 1977 in West Newbury, Massachusetts
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John Cena has been WWE's top face for longer than most wrestling fans can even remember. For the first time in years, we saw a Cena heel turn teased on Raw last night
The IWC is fully aware of Cena's potential character shift if and when a leader is revealed for the Nexus group. While Triple H's name is most often affiliated with the role, Cena is in the discussion as well.
It doesn't matter how it's done—now is the time for John Cena to turn heel.
There are solid arguments for keeping Cena as a face. He's the biggest monetary draw in WWE. Raw has too many main-event heels. He's immensely popular with the younger crowd, WWE's current target audience.
While Cena is a great box-office draw, WWE wouldn't be losing all of the money he brings in every week. Cena may not have made the company millions when he was a heel, but he brought in plenty of money for Vince McMahon.
Furthermore, Raw alone has guys like Triple H and Randy Orton to help subsidize any money lost via Cena's heel turn. m/
While the Raw roster is stacked with main-event heels such as Edge, Chris Jericho, and Sheamus, it wouldn't be too hard to flip one of those characters over throughout the course of the ongoing Nexus invasion angle.
Triple H's return is one not to be forgotten. Numerous Internet reports have stated Triple H wants to return as a heel, but he's wanted a heel turn for quite some time. How can we rule out Triple H remaining a face for a few months while John Morrison or Evan Bourne enter the main event picture?
There is little doubt Cena is incredibly popular among children. Just listen to any entrance he makes on Raw if you have forgotten.
Cena may get a huge pop, so does Randy Orton. Over the course of the last year, Orton has stepped into the spotlight as the future face of WWE. He can carry the company while battling the company's newly minted top heel, John Cena.
The precedent here is the man Vince McMahon wants Cena to be Hulk Hogan. When Hogan turned heel at Bash at the Beach in 1996, he was still wildly popular among children. But to the educated wrestling mind, Hogan's character had grown stale.
Fourteen years later, we've reached a nearly identical place in time. For nearly seven years, John Cena has been a babyface. The vast majority of the IWC (the 20- and 30-somethings in the WWE Universe) are painfully sick of Cena's character. We no longer question if Cena will win the WWE title, we question when. Cena cannot lose without the aide of outside interference or a match favoring a title change
Change is the operative word. Much like TNA, WWE Raw is starting to become frighteningly predictable. A change is necessary, so why not start with the one thing that hasn't changed since before many of Cena's fans weren't yet watching wrestling?
It doesn't have to involve the Nexus angle, but John Cena's heel turn should happen much, much sooner than later.
