Therapy With Glenn Jacobs

John Cena has a problem. Kane has analyzed that problem. Kane wants to help John Cena with his problem. That heat Cena gets is supposed to be like therapy? It is for an eventual possible heel turn.

You can compare that Kane promo at the end of Raw to a lot of things, but he did come off kind of like a therapist to me. Or Darth Vader. Trying to get Cena to join the dark side? However you put it, Kane did do a good job with that promo. Even if he hasn't wrestled a televised match since his return, he definitely is making things interesting.

That is pretty much all the good stuff I could have said about this storyline after recent developments. Now, the things I don't like. The WWE had a chance to run a similar storyline to the one they had with Mark Henry on Smackdown, but for Kane on Raw now. Create a dominant monster that is doing extreme or mysterious attacks. With the return of the mask and Cena being the primary target, there were ways not to make it too similar to what was going on with Mark Henry. WWE tosses all that aside and turns this into something similar to Nexus in 2010. Nexus ended up putting over Cena's character that year. After that, the stable and storyline really started to fall down. Kane is being used to further Cena's recent storyline revolving around the heat he is getting. They are pushing the idea that the boos should turn him heel. I'm not against them doing that. I expected it would go that way sooner or later. The way I would have done it is by having Cena lose cleanly to Kane. The WWE could then sell the idea that all the hate really has gotten to Cena. It's come to a point where it is costing him matches. They could even have a spot in his match with Kane where Cena allows himself to get distracted by chants against him, which leads to him losing. If Cena could not beat Kane, how can he handle The Rock? Heel turn. Things may still work out like that somehow, but the way they are going about it right now is way too elaborate in terms of promos. It makes things kind of blatantly obvious. More action would have been nice.

Speaking of action, the main-event segment on Raw featured a promo, not a match or any real physical altercation at all. It also did not feature the WWE Champion, who was in action in his hometown. John Cena's storyline trumped it. Even without the title or even competing, John Cena closes Raw. People can say it is because of the horrible ratings CM Punk and friends got in the same segment time last week, but I would be interested to see how John Cena, and Raw in general, could do against an NFL game that saw Brees make history and the Saints take their division. They hyped pretty well that Kane would still be coming out later in the show, and that mystery they had surrounding the attacks had potential to draw, so I would not be surprised to see the segment do better. If not, you still have football as an excuse. Won't be there for you much longer.