People are still stunned that at Money in the Bank 2013 wwe had Mark Henry tap out. Let me repeat that they had the biggest heel in the wwe today TAP OUT. Are you serious?
It really annoys me how wwe builds these people up just for the purpose of being beaten by John Cena without any thought for what they will do with the person after they lose. I wish that Mark Henry wouldn't have lost the match but why did they have to make him tap out. It really crushes his character, even though he did do a really good job on raw when the crowd was chanting you tapped out and he said " yeah I tapped out and he would've tapped everyone of ya'll too" that was an awesome job by Henry.
Still though it's hard for Henry to be able to say that he is a huge threat now after this. It wasn't like Cena beat him in that match but Henry had won the match before or that after months of dominating people as a champion he was finally defeated. He just had one match with Cena and Cena made him tap out. Also did him tapping out really do anything for Cena, no not really Cena could have won the match a number of different ways and it wouldn't have done anymore or less for him.
That's another thing when wwe builds up heels just so Cena can beat them then it doesn't feel like a very big win for him. He's beaten tons of different guys so why should they care that he beat Mark Henry. Now Henry has been a big heel for a while now but he hasn't really gotten any big wins or championships lately that would make people want Cena to take him down. Like CM Punk pointed out a few years ago John has lost the underdog factor that heroes are supposed to have. No one was thinking gosh Mark Henry has been destroying everybody, we need someone to take him down. Nobody was thinking that they were in fact thinking the opposite. There's not much reason for people to care that Cena was able to beat Mark Henry because he's just another one of Cena's challengers.
Now if Mark Henry had been wwe champion for months and Cena was the only person that was able to dethrone him then maybe people would care about it more. This goes even more for people like R Truth and Ryback that were made into main event heels right before their match with Cena only to be beaten by him and go fade into the background.
Lot's of people compare John Cena to Superman and while there are some similarities with wwe and superheroes there are also many differences. With superheroes at least in superhero movies each main hero has about 5 or so main villains. The villains are used for the single purpose of facing the hero and eventually being defeated by the hero in the end. The villains are usually only used in one, maybe two movies, if they are used again than it's usually in a new redone series with different actors. Look at these last three Iron Man films, in each one he had a different villain, in the spider man movies, he had a different villain each film. They don't have to worry about making the villain stay credible because the villain won't be around anymore in the series and if the villain is still around then it'll be in a few years when they make another movie. Wwe though is very different John Cena has to have an opponent every single month for each ppv not every few years like superhero movies.
Wwe has been treating John Cena like he is in Superhero movies, they build guys up just for the purpose of having Cena beat them and then have no idea what to do with them after that. Wwe only has so many people on their roster and they can't afford for Cena to run through them all. The heels need to be able to stay at the top level after their feud with Cena and that's not what's happening. Look at R Truth and Ryback their only purpose was to feud with Cena and now R Truth is basically a jobber and Ryback's character has been completely destroyed and by this time next year he's probably going be in the mid card or jobbing. Also look at Mark Henry, he was the best heel in the company and now after being beaten by Cena they're turning him face, one because he doesn't have a whole lot of credibility anymore after the way they made him lose and two because they don't have anything for him to do now that he's been beaten by Cena. Henry was only scratching the surface of what he could do in that position as a top heel but all wwe was interested in having him do was being beaten by John Cena.
Eventually when you just run through all the heels on the roster and make them all look like fools then you run out of people to face, that's why John Cena ended up facing John Laurinaitis in a match last year. Not to mention that it hurts other feuds because if the feud features somebody that Cena has ran through then they probably won't have very much credibility. CM Punk ran into the same problem as wwe champion in 2011 when he ran through all of the top heels and made them all look like idiots. Then he too ended up feuding with John Laurinaitis and when your to the point that you have to feud with John Laurinaitis then you know that there's a problem.
Wwe needs to stop building heels like superhero villains, for purpose of just being defeated by John Cena and start building them for the purpose making a top star in the company.
I really wish that Mark Henry would have won the match at MITB or at least stayed a top heel but unfortunately he didn't. I'm hoping that the reason for him not winning is so Daniel Bryon can get the big win over John Cena at Summerslam.
Still though this is something that they have to get sorted out because it's destroying all of their major heels and it also makes Cena's matches less enjoyable because you know that there's a good chance Cena will beat the person so there's no real point in getting into their character because they probably will soon fall back down the card.
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