WWE has surpassed several eras since Vince McMahon purchased the company from his father in 1982. Every era had a frontman who carried WWE to the next level.
John Cena made his WWE debut in 2002 by answering Kurt Angle’s open challenge. Cena then adopted a rapper gimmick, which made him a main eventer in the company. He has been the face of WWE for more than a decade.
In 2017, John Cena passed the torch to Roman Reigns at No Mercy. However, Reigns was unable to connect with the audience until “The Big Dog” changed the gimmick to “The Tribal Chief”. With Reigns’ part-time schedule, it’s hard to refer to Roman Reigns as the frontman of this generation.
John Cena appeared on the WWE After the Bell podcast, where he was asked about WWE’s current era and how he thinks it will remembered. The GOAT said that this era needs a frontman, but the fans won’t let that happen.
“It needs what I’m not sure it can produce and that’s just a state of where everything is right now it kinda corrects itself, so we’re in a day and age where it needs a frontman, and that’s what will define what an era is because it takes on the personality traits of its top star. I don’t know if, all things considered, the crowd is so mixed that if the company puts its faith behind an individual, the knee-jerk reaction of the fans, even if they liked the guy last week, will be, ‘F–k you… you’re not gonna tell me who I like.’ So, the audience is also tipping the scales of not letting this happen, universal popularity will never happen, because someone will see it and get onto it and be like, ‘he seems to be getting popular, let’s stop this right now.”
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