{"id":45807,"date":"2018-04-17T10:46:40","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T14:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45807"},"modified":"2020-08-06T10:46:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T14:46:57","slug":"if-the-john-cena-nikki-bella-split-isnt-a-work-it-should-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45807","title":{"rendered":"If the John Cena-Nikki Bella split isn\u2019t a work, it should be"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have to admit that I\u2019m a little surprised at how much mainstream media coverage the breakup<\/a> between John Cena and Nikki Bella has been, because no matter how big or small wrestling gets, performers in the industry seldom make any mainstream media unless it involves them dying or they\u2019re The Rock.<\/span><\/p>\n

I can\u2019t say that I\u2019m the least bit surprised that this happened because ultimately I don\u2019t believe that people are really capable of change without some traumatic or life-altering instances happening in their lives, and considering John Cena\u2019s life and career has been mostly the same over the last decade, I\u2019m pretty sure that regardless of what ear candy he\u2019s said about having changed towards the ideas of marriage and children, he really hasn\u2019t.\u00a0 As much as sucks for Nikki Bella or any person who has to endure a breakup with a long-term love, it\u2019s hard to say that John Cena wasn\u2019t<\/em> being transparent about his attitudes towards certain things, for quite some time now.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sure, it\u2019s probably a dick move that he proposed and let this roller coaster ascend to the heights it did mostly because of the fact that Cena is a moment-junkie, in the sense that he\u2019s completely sold on the notion that Wrestlemania is where \u201cmoments are made,\u201d and he probably went a little too far in the pursuit of a moment and proposed marriage despite the fact that he was against marriage<\/strong>, but frankly as much as it sucks right now, it\u2019s probably for the best that they ended things now instead of after being married and possibly with kids that also Cena would have been against in the first place.\u00a0 Sure, Cena would have obviously protected himself with a pre-nuptual, because he wouldn\u2019t even let Nikki move in without any sort of contract, much less married her, but divorce regardless is undoubtedly messier than a breakup between non-spouses.<\/span><\/p>\n

At first blush, my knee-jerk reaction to this news was that it was the seeds to what could possibly be the first real<\/a> swerve towards an audience beyond just the wrestling fanbase, considering that both John Cena and Nikki Bella have transcended the wrestling industry with movies and their reality television shows.\u00a0 If the WWE played their cards right, it would be a golden opportunity to get people outside of wrestling fans to possibly tune into flagship programming and\/or tie themselves into WWE Network subscriptions, because they\u2019re drama junkies eager to see the blurred reality of the fallout of their breakup \u2013 but in the ring<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now more level-headed thinking probably understands that this is probably more on the side of reality, since despite his in-ring persona, John Cena is barely anything other than a robotic tool, moldable to promotion and malleable to anything that can continue to make him look like a superstar, and getting married and being strong-armed into having kids would definitely compromise his stardom potential.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The thing is, this is probably not a work \u2013 but it totally should be<\/strong>.\u00a0 Or at least, if Cena and Nikki Bella were strong enough, the scenario should so totally be used for a long-term storyline, that could accomplish all sorts of things, that could involve other players, most notably the freshly-returned Daniel Bryan and his wife and sister to Nikki, Brie Bella.<\/span><\/p>\n

So after a week or two of laying low, John Cena returns to television, to earth-shattering boos; but not the ironic boos that mask a hidden appreciation of his talent, longevity and crowd appeal, but legitimate, X-Pac Heat<\/a> hate boos, like the ones Edge and Lita got after their affair was outed.\u00a0 But instead of \u201cyou screwed Matt (Hardy),\u201d the crowd is chanting \u201cYou screwed Nikki!\u201d and Cena is hardly capable of pretending like the chants can\u2019t be heard or ignored.\u00a0 There are no arrogant smirks or shrugs of indifference, and Cena looks around at the WWE Universe™ with a look of confusion and betrayal.<\/span><\/p>\n

And when Cena grabs a mic, the boos reign down from the rafters all over again, and again, and every time he raises the mic to his face, he gets the Roman Reigns treatment<\/a> where the fans crank up the boos to try and drown out whatever he has to say.\u00a0 This goes on for like 4-6 minutes before Cena powers through and just tries to cut a promo that ignores reality and starts talking about how he got his ass whipped by the Undertaker at Wrestlemania 34.<\/span><\/p>\n

BUT THEN, Brie Bella\u2019s music<\/a> hits and she comes down to the ring with a purpose.\u00a0 No hamming it up to the crowd, no pointing at little girls or doing any YES chants.\u00a0 Her face is not of anger, but of disappointment and sadness.\u00a0 Cena looks uncomfortable upon seeing his ex\u2019s slightly thinner, less-endowed twin sister march into the ring, and the crowd is cheering Brie, at appreciation for her return and her representation of her distraught sister.\u00a0 Brie grabs a mic, and then proceeds to light into Cena over what he did to her sister, about how he\u2019s a liar and an ego-maniac.<\/span><\/p>\n

After 1-2 minutes of being lit into by Brie Bella, Cena tries to defend himself and rebut, but Brie manages to do the impossible and talks over and talks down to John Cena<\/em>, and continues with her berating, and how he probably should have never strung her along with a relationship much less an engagement, if at his core he never wanted marriage or children.\u00a0 Frustrated at being unable to get a word in, Cena tries to grab Brie\u2019s mic, but she will not let go<\/em> without saying her peace, boiling over, Cena wrenches hard, wrestles the mic out of Brie\u2019s hands, but at the expense of knocking her down to the mat.\u00a0 Cena looks down in horror at physically imposing his will onto a woman, Brie looks up in shock at that a man she thought was going to be her brother-in-law would go this far.\u00a0 The WWE Universe is booing like mad at this point.<\/span><\/p>\n

BUT THEN!\u00a0 Daniel Bryan\u2019s music<\/a> hits!\u00a0 The WWE Universe explodes and goes ballistic!\u00a0 Daniel Bryan shoots out from the back, sprinting down to the ring.\u00a0 He soars underneath the bottom rope and is immediately at the side of his downed wife.\u00a0 Cena backs up, arms outstretched, trying to emote misunderstandings and apologies.\u00a0 Bryan helps Brie back up to her feet, and the two of them look at Cena with shock and disappointment in their faces.\u00a0 Here stands a man that was on the cusp of being a part of their happy, growing family.\u00a0 Cena slowly brings the mic up to his mouth, as the fans in attendance try once again to drown out whatever words he plans on saying.<\/span><\/p>\n

AND THEN DANIEL BRYAN RUNS UP AND DELIVERS A MASSIVE DROPKICK!\u00a0 Down goes Cena!\u00a0 Bryan rains down the rights and lefts onto the man that struck his wife.\u00a0 He plants a barrage of kicks onto Cena with his educated feet.\u00a0 The crowd is going gonzo throughout this whole assault.\u00a0 Satisfied, Bryan goes back to Brie and holds up the middle rope for her to exit the ring.\u00a0 Cena gets back to his knees and grabs the mic and says \u201chold on,\u201d and then just like that, Daniel Bryan is back on top of him, delivering the YES kicks™, knocking Cena out cold with the charged right leg.<\/span><\/p>\n

The crowd is continuing to go bananas, with the biggest YES chant since Bryan swerved Bray Wyatt<\/a> and beat the shit out of him in a steel cage.<\/span><\/p>\n

In ensuing weeks, Cena tries to make amends with Daniel Bryan and Brie Bella.\u00a0 First over the publicly seen social media accounts, that they\u2019ll talk about on the flagship television shows.\u00a0 But Brie and Bryan want nothing to do with John Cena and no-sell him.\u00a0 Then, Cena will grab the mic after squash matches against guys he\u2019s burying like No Way Jose and Baron Corbin, to try and ask Brie and Bryan if the can talk sometime.\u00a0 Failing that, Cena begins interrupting other peoples\u2019 matches like when the cruiserweights get a rare match on RAW where he\u2019ll jump in the ring, hit Mustafa Ali and Cedric Alexander with some AA\u2019s, take the mic and plead with Brie and Bryan to talk to him.\u00a0 And naturally, the crowd is absolutely loathing the further over-saturation of Cena, booing all the same, not even bothering to do the lame Let\u2019s Go Cena-Cena Sucks chant anymore.<\/span><\/p>\n

Eventually, Daniel Bryan will be in the process of climbing back up the ladder of contention, and in a critical number one contender four-corner match against Rusev, Randy Orton and Jinder Mahal, it will look like Bryan will be on the cusp of winning, until John Cena comes down the ramp to talk, and distracts him just long enough for Orton to hit an RKO out of nowhere and win the match because Randy Orton always wins.<\/span><\/p>\n

The following week on RAW, John Cena and Daniel Bryan finally confront for the first time since the initial beat down.\u00a0 Cena proceeds to act like he\u2019s some sort of pariah just because he doesn\u2019t want to get married or have children, while Daniel Bryan extols the importance of family and how Cena hurt his sister-in-law.\u00a0 After about 17 minutes of talking, it looks like the two are able to agree to disagree, but then Bryan brings up the fact that Cena did actually cost him a championship match, and that there are sour grapes over it.\u00a0 They agree to have a friendly, competitive match at SummerSlam, based on the nostalgia of where Daniel Bryan cleanly beat Cena for the WWE Championship a few years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

At SummerSlam, Bryan looks like he might beat Cena once again, but at a critical moment in the match, due to Cena\u2019s Hulk-like strength is able to swing a YES-lock into a counter to the STF(U).\u00a0 After Cena pulls Bryan back to the center of the ring and re-applies the STF(U), it looks like Bryan is going to tap or pass out UNTIL!\u00a0 Bah gawd, that\u2019s Nikki Bella\u2019s music<\/a>!\u00a0 For the first time since the breakup, we\u2019re seeing Nikki Bella!\u00a0 Cena immediately lets go of the STF(U), and immediately tries to talk with Nikki, giving Bryan critical time to recover.\u00a0 The argument is starting to get heated between Nikki and Cena, and suddenly Nikki rears her hand back to deliver a slap, but instead hits Daniel Bryan who was coming from behind to presumably deliver a German suplex, when Cena ducks.\u00a0 Nikki jumps off the apron covering her mouth in shock escaping to the back, while Cena delivers an AA to a dazed Daniel Bryan, and gets the win.<\/span><\/p>\n

Eventually, there is a rematch at the Royal Rumble, where Daniel Bryan is accompanied to the ring by both Bellas.\u00a0 But towards the end of the match, out of nowhere Nikki plasters Brie, leading to a moment of shock and hesitation from Daniel Bryan.\u00a0 And that\u2019s all that\u2019s needed for John Cena to capitalize on the distraction to hit Bryan with another AA and forcing him to tap out to the STF(U) while facing Brie, being held in a chokehold by her nefarious evil twin sister.<\/span><\/p>\n

After the match, it\u2019s revealed that it was a swerve all along!\u00a0 John Cena and Nikki Bella staged the whole breakup in order to get put into a high-profile feud that would catapult them to the top of the card for the better part of a year, because Cena was at a new low after jobbing to the Undertaker and Nikki hadn\u2019t been on television for nearly a year.<\/span><\/p>\n

They\u2019ve turned heel!<\/span><\/p>\n

The payoff happens at Wrestlemania, where there\u2019s a mixed tag match between Bryan and Brie versus Cena and Nikki.\u00a0 The match ends with Bryan neutralizing Cena with the knee while Brie gets Nikki to tap to the YES-lock.<\/span><\/p>\n

And after that match, Nikki breaks up with John this time, giving her closure to their marriage-less, baby-less relationship, and John Cena vanishes for six months to go film some crappy movie.\u00a0 Daniel Bryan, after a year back from injury is now ready to be put back into the contender picture, and Brie is content to get off the road and get back to being a mom.<\/span><\/p>\n

The following wrestling fanfiction fulfills such goals as elevating Daniel Bryan back to a top-tier status, successfully turning John Cena heel, while giving the Bella Twins one last hurrah on television. The timeline stretches from now until next year\u2019s Wrestlemania. and keeps both Cena and Bryan away from any title contention, leaving the belts open for the guys that really should actually be fighting for them over the next calendar year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Considering the WWE\u2019s willingness to take even the most uncomfortable real-life scenarios and turn them into storyline for the benefit of the company, there\u2019s no guarantee that something like this couldn\u2019t happen.\u00a0 It\u2019s a shame that the brog is still down, and not even my zero viewers much less any chance at WWE Creative could ever see this, because I\u2019ll be very amused if anything remotely close to this actually begins to take shape within the next year.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have to admit that I\u2019m a little surprised at how much mainstream media coverage the breakup between John Cena and Nikki Bella has been, because no matter how big or small wrestling gets, performers in the industry seldom make any mainstream media unless it involves them dying or they\u2019re The Rock. I can\u2019t say … Continue reading If the John Cena-Nikki Bella split isn\u2019t a work, it should be<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,83,91,54,55],"class_list":["post-45807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fantasy","tag-observations","tag-pf","tag-wrestling","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45809,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45807\/revisions\/45809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}