WWE No Mercy 2016: 3 Reasons John Cena Should Win
By Mike Janela
1. It Creates a SmackDown Attraction
Say John Cena wins at No Mercy and takes back the belt he’s owned 15 times before. What then, if he decides to go missing for a month or two for some Hollywood project after all?
Drawing another parallel to Brock Lesnar’s most recent title reign: part-time champions work. An inadvertent but pleasant byproduct of Lesnar’s contract situation was that, while he was champ, the belt grew in exclusivity. Unlike recent Seth Rollins or Roman Reigns title reigns, where they’d often start and end every weekly show and you’d get sick of seeing the champ, Lesnar’s sporadic appearances heightened his own importance.
Doing the same with Cena could actually be a temporary goldmine for Smackdown.
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Not only do you give the belt and champion more of a special attraction feel, but you set everyone else on the show in exciting motion.
Dean Ambrose has already bristled at how Cena’s nothing more than a part-timer whose lack of commitment irks him. Can you imagine where Ambrose could go with that thread if Cena took the belt on a part-time schedule?
And you thought Styles liked to whine when things didn’t go his way now? Picture how brilliantly petulant The Phenomenal One would become if he a.) not only didn’t factor in the decision to lose his belt, but b.) sees his most hated foe carting the belt around to award show tapings instead of WWE events. Sign us up.
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The idea in drafting John Cena to Smackdown in the first place was to get the A-list panache and story possibilities that only he can bring to compete with Raw. There’s no better way for Smackdown to do that than by putting the belt back on the original “Face that Runs the Place” at No Mercy.