Yeah well Hogan and Austin are number one and two in terms of biggest stars ever and both had more to offer than Cena.
Hogan did? Hogan is an example of charisma over ring ability catapaulting a man to success in wrestling. The guy was not a great wrestler by any stretch of the imagination. He could put on entertaining enough matches, but nothing any more special than what Cena does. In terms of promos, hard to say really. These days, all that stuff is so tightly scripted. Who knows, maybe his improv would be a worse hot mess than Hogan's, hard to say. But Hogan had some pretty coked out, nonsensical rants as his promos in his day.
Going back to the actual character of the men behind the personae, I think if we were to judge worthiness by how they treated others backstage or by how good a person they were, that damn "hall" would be pretty empty. Hogan has let on to the type of politicking he's done. He's talked on occasion about how he'd been told guys like Piper would be the next big thing and how he'd express skepticism. Wasn't he the same guy Flair was known to sabotage a guy or two in the ring as well, I believe. Austin, as far as personal character goes, is a wife beater. Pretty high on the list of pieces of shit if you ask me. But at least he was one of the boys.
The story of wrestling seems to be one of a lot of rotten people doing a lot of rotten shit to each other.
I think in the end, it's about whether someone did something well enough that people were willing to cheer for them and buy their crap. If a guy has shit skills, but still somehow cons people into wanting to watch them, well I guess it's only suiting that happens in a business that's a work. Goes back to the carnival roots of conning people for their money.
Hell Warrior might have been a good carnie in that sense. He got the hell out of town with his money before everyone caught on to the con.
