How is he blaming anything on the PG rating? He said he liked where he and WWE as a whole is right now. All he said it that the freestyle would have to be held back on because of the PG rating... nothing else. Also that he wouldn't want to rehash a gimmick.
And how you could say that was the height of his popularity is insane, the guy is the poster boy for the company. Back then he was just starting to break into the main event.
When he was freestyling is when WWE was receiving their
all around ratings for the year His rap gimmick was such a success, that the WWE focused their entire company around him turned him into superman marine soldier then released the Marine in theaters. He was huge. Fall 2005, he entered a feud with Chris Jericho and that's what sparked the superman babyface getting boo'd.
So yeah height of his popularity seems justified, considering it wasn't cool to be a Cena hater until he lost the rap gimmick and went with his marine gimmick. Look at the latter half of
2004 Now if Ratings and the smarks were on Cena's cock in late 04 and practically all of 05. Yes he was at his height.
The question asks if he would ever go back to his rap gimmick and then he says his freestyle would be weak and watered. For a posterboy that's as much hate as you can get considering what that gimmick did for him. I doubt he likes his current gimmick. Every hardcore wrestling fan think he's a complete tool who once a month pulls off a decent promo even though he had 20 tries to do it.
His wrestling hasn't improved at all, so when you look at his skills you look at his mic work and all he did for four years was play the underdog role. Even though he was champion for a year he was still the underdog.. Why? It's not because he's tiny, or because he's hurt. It's because he's a bad wrestler and no one buys his rare sloppy dominant performance. This PG rating is an out for him.
If anything it shows his lack of character and heart. You would never see this from any 'superstar' post 2003
