[2014-04-06-WWE-Wrestlemania XXX] John Cena vs Bray Wyatt

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[supersonic]

This one turns out to not hold up. The video package was phenomenal stuff, reminding me that other than Cena channeling Hogan from October 1998, this was a truly excellent program to elevate a fresh talent and give a potential wrinkle to Cena's character. The use of Eminem's "Legacy" certainly didn't hurt either.

But the match itself, it really just never picked up. The story was a fine idea on paper, that Wyatt would try to be Heath Ledger's Joker, a tortured soul that left Cena opportunities to display that he would finally be corrupted. And like the Joker, Wyatt would utilize Cena's ethics against him to gain an advantage when he felt like it, as well as making sure that Luke Harper & Erick Rowan intervened behind the ref's back. I appreciate that the goal was for Wyatt to be an unpredictable heel.

With that said, Wyatt showed once again that he fails to be emotionally engaging when he has the heat, as he does nothing to fire the crowd up, to make them hate him and wanna see the babyface make a comeback. That is the ultimate failure of this highly anticipated showdown. Once Wyatt figures out how to engage the audience, perhaps he won't feel so overpushed at the expense of others who do a significantly better job of connecting with the paying customers.

I don't even care at this point that Cena won the match. Sure, Wyatt, much like Cesaro, was an ascending star, and even had the bragging rights of pinning Roman Reigns twice as well as the only clean singles victory over D-Bry in the past year. But as I just detailed, would the Wyatt character have any additional value had he won this match when the guy portraying the gimmick has such obvious holes in his game still?

[Makai Club #1]

Ah, this was okay. Can't say that I enjoyed it a ton. Liked the entrances and the overall story but the match was lacking for me. Perhaps it's because I was never a Bray Wyatt fan or what but this wasn't good nor bad. **3/4

[xlynwoodx]

Agree with both above.  John Cena is fine.  Bray Wyatt is fine.  Story was interesting, and the match was fine.  At the end of the day, there were enough memorable moments at Wrestlemania XXX and this will be forgotten.