Ever wondered if by some bizarre twist of fate (see, I miss Jeff already), the biggest face and most evil heel there is switched places?
Now, before you get some funny idea, imagining Orton in denim short pants prancing around making up rap songs about everything, and by gosh Cena wearing trunks, allow me to stop you right there. That’s not what I meant.
Those two guys got in the WWE almost at the same time and have stayed in their roles for as long as you can remember; that being Cena as a face and Orton as a heel.
But what if they were given different roles? Cena was a heel before and Orton tried being a face but it didn’t last that long. How or what would the storyline be if they were to turn them the opposite of what they are now? Would it work? Would it sell?
Let’s start with the HOW.
I think it’s easier for a face to make the heel turn, especially for Cena who gets heat as much as he gets pops in most places.
For the last couple of PPV’s, Cena has been booed, whether he’s exchanging blows with Triple H or with Randy Orton. And this could be the “root” of his turn. He could go Jericho on the Cenation.
Imagine this: Cena’s music hits and he walks in to a huge heat, of course there’s the little voices screaming for him still but that would be drowned out by big booming boos. He doesn’t do the salute, and he walks to the ring with a really somber mood. He takes the mic and this is what he says.
“Week in and week out, I try to be the best man I can be. For this company, for the fans, for everyone. I work hard, harder than anybody. I follow the rules to a t, I respect every single one of the people I work for, every single one of the people I work with, and every single one of you who are sitting in the stands and watching at home!”
That gets a huge pop. And then…
“And what do I get?” Crowd goes silent. And then he continues. “You buy arm bands, you buy my wrist bands, you buy my caps.” He takes off the said items and throws them on the canvass as he mentions them. “YOU BUY MY DAMN SHIRTS!” He takes that off and throws it to the canvass as well. “Do you think I care?!”
Jerry Lawler says something like, “Michael, what’s going on here? Cena’s acting crazy!”
“I don’t know King, but this is so unlike the John Cena we know.” Responds Cole.
Cena hears them talking and gets crazier, “You two need to shut your mouths when I’m talking or I’m gonna go down there and shut it for you! Nobody wants to hear the crap that comes out your mouths and you don’t even realize it!”
He looks at the crowd again, and shakes his head. “See, this is what I’m talking about. Nobody respects me! Week in and week out I do what I do to please all of you and yet I get disrespected by you people, and I’m TIRED OF IT!
"From now on I’m going to do what I want to do, when I want to do it for myself and not for anybody else, and because I CAN and there’s nothing you can do about it!”
He drops the mic then he walks out to the backstage, brooding, with no music, leaving the audience in shock, and BOOM, the heel turn begins.
They can fuel it more if they bring the smack talk with The Rock to the front. Rock and Cena have kind of been exchanging banters in the media haven’t they? So there’s plenty of material there.
They could even bring the Hulkster back since Cena’s been compared to him, and Cena would play the “I’m nothing like you, I’m better than you!” card.
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