Vince McMahon Reportedly Pushing Creative to Book Cena Even Stronger

If we didn't already think Vince McMahon had lost touch with the WWE Universe, this latest news is proof that he must have drifted off into some other location entirely. Insert your own theories about the multiverse, but Vince's comprehension of the WWE fans' opinion is clearly somewhere else. 

According to a report by PWIndsider (h/t WrestlingInc.com), Vince has been "drilling" the WWE Creative staff to push John Cena even harder and make him look even more invincible because he is worried that the fans think he is a "lost cause" after being so soundly defeated by Brock Lesnar for the WWE World Heavyweight Title at SummerSlam.

This is where you all smash your heads against your desk. Careful, don't break they keyboard. It's probably expensive, and Bleacher Report needs you to comment on this article below. 

John Cena, the man who WWE pushed Hulk Hogan to say on the Busted Open radio show (h/t ProWrestling.net) is the greatest WWE champ of all time, who Michael Cole repeatedly reminds us is the greatest WWE champ of all time, the man who has been the singular focal point of the company's product for nearly a decade, is not in any danger of looking like a "lost cause" any time soon.

In fact, it's the exact opposite. Throughout the entire SummerSlam match, as Lesnar hit suplex after suplex after suplex, I sat on my couch cringing. I wasn't making faces because of how stiff Lesnar was working the match and the beating Cena was legitimately taking. It was because I feared that moment when Cena was going to pop up with a second wind, hit the five moves of doom and pin Lesnar. 

If this happened, nobody would have been surprised. Cena would have been booed out of the building while the camera looked for any three-year-old in the crowd with his Cena gear. This child likely had no idea what was happening anyway and will not be a wrestling fan in three months. But who cares? The kid is worth a couple hundred bucks to Vince. 

Just as we all foolishly thought once again that WWE may actually have something interesting to add to Cena's character—a flaw, a chip, something—to turn the stalest character on television this side of Peter Griffin into a compelling component of the show, Vince pulls it out from under us. 

I'll keep this last rant brief, because I feel like I say it every time I post something related to Cena. The biggest problem with the entire company's creative direction at this moment is the over-reliance on Cena as the lead draw.

He is without a peer on the full-time roster. The majority of the Creative staff's time is dedicated to his storylines, which are often cookie cutter and redundant to begin with. 

The reason the crowd rebels and cheers for heels is because they are so bored with the one and only main event babyface on the active full-time roster. They so desperately want something new, something original, something compelling, that they will cheer for heels. 

If you give me a babyface that I like (Daniel Bryan, Dean Ambrose, Dolph Ziggler), I will boo whichever heel you put in front of him. Even if I am a big fan of the work the heel does, I will boo him out of respect for the product. Fans want to be part of the show, and when you give them something they hate, they will let you know it.

There was a time that Vince listened to his fans. But somewhere, he must've went deaf when they started chanting "Cena Sucks," "CM Punk" and "YES!" He doesn't notice when the crowd is completely silent during Cena's girlfriend, I mean, Nikki Bella's extended bad soap-opera exhibitions each week. 

Cheers to the day that Triple H officially takes over the company, for it may be all we have to hope for at this point.