John Cena Won't Be Embracing The Hate At This Rate

I may have been wrong with all three of my guesses as to the Royal Rumble match winner, but the match between Cena and Kane didn't really surprise me. Excellent wrestling match? No, not really. Storyline taking the major focus? Yes, quite really.

There was no actual winner to the match, so that guarantees another match and the storyline continuing. But after the match officially ended, the two still brawled. This led to Zack Ryder once again being destroyed by Kane. It's getting redundant. Luckily, they didn't wheel him out on Raw to get destroyed again. Back to the Rumble, Kane then took out Cena too. Even though the match was already over, you can say Kane won the segment. He got the momentum.

What did happen on Raw? Without getting too much into diva matters, which I will cover another day, Kane now tried to target Eve. John Cena saves the day, and even gets the better of Kane in the brawl. That is an understatement. He destroyed Kane. Kane had to run away.

The WWE has two weeks to continue the progression of this feud before Elimination Chamber. That is where it should end. How will they build it? Have Kane chokeslam Eve? Really, what good would that do? I think they've already sold the idea that the frustration Cena has towards Kane is not going to lead to him turning heel. If they still want to tease that idea, they have to build more in the storyline department. And with so little time left, with The Rock coming soon to build for his match with Cena, there is no point in bothering. Now is the time to build this feud into some kind of gimmick match. Inferno match? Haven't had one of those in a while. Street fight? Stretcher match? Whatever it is, this feud has gone beyond the storyline development part. Time to build to the final, hopefully epic, encounter. And with that, Kane will join a list of monsters that Cena has gone over in major feuds, including Umaga, The Great Khali, and so on.

One last thing I want to say about Cena. His match with Kane probably will not be the main event of Elimination Chamber. That would make it the third PPV in a row in which Cena was not in either the final match on the card or the WWE title match. He was not used at all at TLC. I already talked about his only performance at the Royal Rumble. He was not in the Rumble match itself. And he is not even one of the six going into an Elimination Chamber match? Obviously, one of the things Cena gets hate for is being overpushed. Can't say that now, can you? But I think the WWE is just taking it to a bad extreme. There are ways to use John Cena without overdoing it. You did not have to leave him off of TLC. I had an idea of having him feud with Miz there. I would have put Swagger in the TLC WWE title match, then do some more shuffling. Instead, no Cena at all. Fine. At the Rumble, they could have had both Kane and Cena compete in the battle royal. Even if it turns into a brawl where both eliminate each other, Cena would not win the title shot, but his feud with Kane would gain that added development. And now he is not one of the guy's going for the WWE title at Elimination Chamber? But Kofi Kingston is? I could understand the real reasons the WWE has for doing all this, but how do you legitimately explain this in kayfabe (storyline). And even if I understand the real reasons, that doesn't mean I totally agree with them. I am not a Cena fan, I like pushing a new face right now, and I do not feel bad for Cena at all, since it isn't a real burial anyway, but I feel there has to be a better way of handling these three PPV events with his booking.