WWE has added somebody to progress the feud between John Cena and Brock Lesnar, and that man was Edge, the recently inducted hall of famer. With this, Edge is just part of a list of superstars that the WWE has used to sway the fans in Cena's favor.

Who could forget Roddy Piper's segment with John Cena in Piper's Pit? The legend drove Cena to the edge by making him acknowledge his haters and confronting the hate. This move was used primarily in order for one of the two things to happen, to either turn him heel or to make him appear to the crowd as the superhero of the WWE, a person undeserving of the boos. Guess which one happened, and it failed by the way.

Then again another legend was used at Cena's expense. In the build towards Rock and Cena's tag team match, Rock's former tag team partner and Hardcore Legend Mick Foley came back to the WWE to recreate the highest-rated segment in Raw history, This is Your Life. Mick defended Cena to the universe and made Cena look like a joke rather than the guy in what was an uninteresting segment at best. Again, for Cena to gain the favor of the fans instead of the Rock.

Then Kane returned after being out of action since July. The general concensus was that he was going to go after Mark Henry and his World Heavyweight Championship after injuring him. But it didn't happen and instead Kane came back as a heel to force Cena to embrace the hate in order to defeat Rock. In what was the most unnecessary and uninteresting feud of 2012 by far, the feud didn't help as fans still favored the Rock and didn't change its perception of Cena. The feud even didn't help in Kane's comeback as the feud rendered him as a weak wrestler.

In an effort to give Cena more cheers, he was paired with Internet sensation Zack Ryder so he could get the rub from the former U.S. Champ. It still didn't help Cena as Ryder was the one who got the rub from Cena and was sometimes booed by the crowd when tagging along with Cena. It would also give Ryder stupid segments and was made Kane's personal punching bag to advance his feud with Cena. He was even played by Eve and made to look like an idiotic goofball since being with Cena. Instead of helping Cena getting over again, Ryder was thrown into the oblivion and buried.

Point is, no matter who you pair with Cena, even though the wrestler is over with the crowd, won't help in swaying the fans in favoring Cena. This age isn't the age where fans are to cheer those who are faces and get to boo those who are heels. The situation now is that the fans cheer who they deem deserving of the cheers and they boo wrestlers who they think are deserving of the boos. In no way that Cena is deserving of the boos, but if the fans mandated that he should be booed then the company should let it be instead of forcing the fans to cheer the man even if they didn't want to. Stop pairing Cena with others and let those people make Cena always look like the hero that he is, the man that needs to be thanked for and acknowledged by all. Let Cena do it by himself.



Jed Mendoza is a writer for the Pro Wrestling Gazette. Engage with him by following him on Twitter @jedified.