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ITT: what if
The year is 2002, John Cena is immediately buried and reduced to jobber status.
Fast forward to current day, what's changed?
>>1874292
chris benoit still murders his family and wwe goes pg anyways
>>1874292
Blandy is going for his 16th title instead.
>This board is just air gun and kung fu talk.
>What is wwe
>What is wrestling?
>Roman winslol
>CM Punk commits suicide because Cena isn't there to pull him into the main event scene
>Daniel Bryan goes to the indies, dies
>Zack Ryder buried harder
>Ryback, Barrett, Sheamus, ADR, Cesaro fully developed and over as fuck
>AJ Styles squashed by Ryback and given comedian gimmick
>Brock Lesnar squashes everyone else
>Kane gets a better designed mask
>Dolph Ziggler, & The Miz still exactly the same
>Rollins never goes over after ending Cena
>Bray Wyatt, Ambrose ???
>>1874315
this
>>1874292
Brock is pushed as the companies face, feuds with Randy "Word Life" Orton, becomes the companies face. He gets more cash, doesn't leave to play football.
Bore-k Lazer is 15 time champ.
Ryback becomes the beast incarnate
>>1874997
>Orton getting a rapper gimmick
Hilarious premise.
>>1874292
Based Batista becomes the guy and ratings are much higher
>>1874292
Triple H has all the belts.
>>1875033
>Byetista
Get out
>>1875043
>implying he's wrong
Actually it's a pretty well known fact that Vince and Hunter didn't like Cena at first and he was basically on the chopping block in '03. They decided to bury him with the street rapper gimmick but he used it to get over with the fans and the rest is history.