WWE Raw: Why Didn't John Cena Try Stopping Last Week's Employee Walkout?

John Cena is the face of WWE, whether you want to admit it or not. The only man to ever hold the WWE Championship 10 times is one of the most notable men on the current roster and was an obvious absence from the vote of no-confidence against COO Triple H last Monday night on RAW.

Not only did the majority of the roster show a lack of trust in their boss, but they all walked out of RAW at the end of the episode. Cena was among those who did not even show up to ringside for the segment.

Why would Cena not be out there for that moment? That is the question he must explain to fans tonight on RAW. Cena has not tweeted once since the episode aired but doesn't seem like he would have the same alibi that others have had.

CM Punk has tweeted about fighting if he had a problem with anything. Randy Orton was interviewed Friday night on SmackDown, saying that he doesn't behave well with others and doesn't have any personal problems with Triple H. What could Cena possibly say to explain his no-show?

If I know John Cena, which most people assume that they do by now, he will have a mic and talk about how he is a company guy, likes the job that Triple H has done and throw some outdated jokes in to make himself sound edgy. There needs to be more to this explanation, however, because this lack of showing up is out of character for Cena. Then again, is it really that odd to have Cena be hypocritical?

Cena has won tag team gold on multiple occasions but has never won them with a man that he wasn't feuding with at the time. Cena was not on good terms with Batista, The Miz, Shawn Michaels or David Otunga when he held gold with them. In fact, it's hard to imagine, but there isn't really one specific superstar that can be labeled as a legitimate and long-term ally of John Cena. In a way, Cena is a loner.

Notice the end of the 12-man tag team match this past Monday night on RAW. At the conclusion of the match, Cena is mentioned as the captain of the team (Michael Cole referred to the winning team as "Team Cena"), yet he couldn't really celebrate with them.

The other five men on the team celebrated on one side of the ring, while Cena stood all alone on the opposite side's turnbuckle. His focus was the fans and not his friends in the ring. Cena's lone wolf ability once again rears its ugly head.

With his loyalty to fans and the company, it doesn't surprise me that he wouldn't show solidarity and walk out with his fellow superstars. Cena could have tried to be the lone man defending the company and its COO, but that would only widen the divide between Cena and the rest of the roster. It was certainly a Catch-22 for Cena, but staying backstage was certainly an easy way out. Even if Cena couldn't have ended the quarrel, he could have at least tried to help.

Cena's "Hustle, Loyalty, Respect" motto can always come under fire, but a moment like this deserves it coming under a microscope. The only hustling that Cena did at the end of last Monday's episode was two-fold: he hustled himself backstage while he hustled all of our emotions to think that he cared about the direction of the company.

For the same guy who wanted a fair match with CM Punk at Money in the Bank, this isn't the Cena we knew. He wasn't loyal anywhere, not even to the fans. He hid from them, avoided his co-workers and didn't show loyalty to WWE, despite not voting with no confidence.

As for his respect, his lack of appearing at the end was disrespectful all around. His lack of tweeting to his 946,000 Twitter followers for the entire week is disrespectful for a guy who prides himself on his relationship with fans.

Cena has almost shelled himself off from everyone for the last seven days in order to avoid the situation entirely. However, he is a poster child for today's WWE and a major draw for the company. On the other side, he is a big superstar with a lot of pull that can work very well for the superstars in any negotiations.

John Cena is that high-profile star that has to decide which side of the fence he is on. The longer that he waits, the worse it is for him in the long run. Perhaps, we will discover where Cena stands on the issues tonight. His silence will be broken as he has to face the music on where he wants to stand.

Tonight's decision may do wonders to the way he is perceived for a while. It may change the way fans react to him. It will likely change the roster's reaction to him, and it may hinder his Survivor Series team at that event in less than six weeks.