Mainstream Cena

Scott,

It’s clear that Cena has one eye on retirement/a part time attraction role and is all over movies,SNL,his reality show etc. Thing is,don’t you think that all this is a little late? He’s 40 next year and has been a main eventer 12 or so years.

If he’s such an icon,why wasn’t there a greater effort to overlap these careers nine,ten years ago,like Rock hosting SNL at 27 and making movies/songs at 29? To me,it’s like Bret Hart or Lex Luger trying to be a comedy star in 1998,the wrestling fans know them but to a casual viewer they’re an older near-retiree goofing around and none of it is really feeding back into WWE ratings/subscriptions etc.

​WWE isn’t the ones pushing the Cena mainstream thing, it’s NBC-Universal. WWE spent years insulating Cena from doing this sort of thing exactly so he WOULDN’T up and leave them. That’s probably why they gave him all the WWE Films roles, trying to make an internal movie star out of him so that Vince could keep all the profits. Which is smart, but you can only go so far with that. Clearly Cena is hurting and aging and wants to make even bigger money before he hangs it up, and good for him. The more people that can make this generation of wrestlers realize that you don’t need to be indentured servants to the WWE machine, taking whatever meagre payoffs you can get, the better. ​