It almost looks as if WWE jumped the gun and got here up with something more interesting for John Cena to announce at WWE Backlash, apart from just more Club WWE stuff, as was originally reported, and thus, we got the John Cena Classic. While interesting, this initially felt extremely rushed when Cena was attempting to describe it, and now that I’ve considered it more, that basically appears to be the case. We’ve no details about just when this may happen, where it’ll occur, or if the “classic” means a tournament or simply a showcase of matches, and there are various other elements of this that puts the John Cena Classic overall within the “L” category.
The tournament appears like it could possibly be set as much as put a belt, albeit meaningless, on Oba Femi before he hopefully wins the World Heavyweight Championship from Roman Reigns. With Cena’s involved, we could see Mason Rook vs. Femi, despite “The Ruler” not being all that far faraway from “WWE NXT” himself. But, as I considered that a part of things more, WWE could easily keep Femi out of the tournament, fully knowing that he’d be the star fans would vote to win all of it. Even with a “fan vote,” it’s hard to trust WWE to not game the system within the favor of the star they need to construct. With as big of an organization guy Cena is, it doesn’t appear to be he’d have much to say against that.
While mostly every part in regards to the John Cena Classic is smart in theory, because the matches at Saturday Night’s Primary Event in December were excellent, the aspect of fans having the ability to vote for his or her favorite, even when that star loses their match, leaves so much to be desired. Sure, it is the “hustle” aspect of “Hustle, Loyalty, Respect,” but I do not know if I ever thought WWE could be so blatant within the “winners don’t matter!” category of sports entertainment.
Cena really didn’t provide a variety of details about anything, really, nevertheless it appears like a straightforward assumption that only Club WWE fans will give you the option to vote for his or her favorites. At best, members could get more votes for being a component of the club, while those that don’t need to pay the more money to become involved only get one vote per X account, or something like that.
Fans were left with more questions than answers at Backlash regarding the John Cena Classic. We got the fundamentals, but while we needn’t know who will likely be competing from “NXT” and the essential roster just yet, it will have been nice to at the least know just when to expect this event.
Written by Daisy Ruth