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That's true, he spends a lot of time in the match getting his ass kicked. However, once the 5 Moves of Doom start in(6 if you count the STF), it's over pretty much every time, unless it's a PPV, then it might stretch out a bit more. The last time he lost cleanly that I can remember is Hell in A Cell against Orton, which was well over half a year ago. And as for tapping out, I believe the last time that happened was against Benoit in either late 2003 or early 2004. Out of all his WWE Title reigns, only two of the times he lost the belt were legit, and one of those involved him eating 3 finishers in quick succession in an elimination chamber. Pretty much everything else involved interference or goonery of some kind, such as Batista and Edge taking the belt off of him after he won an elimination chamber. He's definitely talented, but what I see at the end of the day is what is put out by him and the writing - and that's Cena winning 19 times out of 20, and putting no one over. His feud with The Miz last year is a solid testament to this. I don't really feel like jumping through a table to lose the title helped put Sheamus over. I mean, come on, Cena has faced Big Show 5050350350 times, and I think Show has only pinned him once ever, after interference from Edge no less. Hell, the day after Show threw Cena through a light or something to cost him the World Title against Edge, he was up and walking around on RAW to cause Show to lose a match. They make him look like Superman. Cena losing a little more and looking more vulnerable would probably erase a lot of the hate sent his way.

I have hard time appreciating wrestling, mostly because i can't get into it, i need to have that suspension of disbelief hit so i can enjoy it. I need to think in my head this is real. I can do it in a movie, because the movie comes out and says hey i'm fake, but here's a story. Wrestling tries to come off as, we're professional wrestlers (we're not amateur wrestling, which is more legitimate test of talent than wwe), and this is a real show these guys are really going at it, and are really pissed off. If they were more like a movie, and said hey it's clearly acting, but we put on a good show for you all, if they came off like they're doing a play, which they are... I'd like it a lot more. They're telling me this is real, and i'm like no it's not. Secondly, the reason i can enjoy a movie which is equally fake, not just because the movie tells me it's fake, but they do a much better job of making it easy to suspend my disbelief. Firstly, at the beginning of the movie they establish to the audience a set rules and mechanisms, axioms, if you will that they say hold. For example they may assert at some point in the movie a certain character can fly, that's their axiom, now in a good movie he'll use his flying when it's wise, he's not forget his ability, in obvious cases where he should choose to fly. Essentially as long as they have internal consistencies, with their initial assumptions I can watch it without distraction. Second feature that movies do a good job of is having quality acting and special effects to help things look real, so I don't get distracted by certain "fake acts".

In a fighting movie, often times they aren't hitting a person hard, but with special effects, camera angles, and audio effects it looks seamless. I watch wrestling and the guys hand stops a foot away from other guy's chest, then that guy stumbles backwards (what do you have powers>) It's just bad acting, or I see them attempt a move, and i realize they mess up, and so they go to set up the same situation again so they can try again... the story line is at best and honestly described as a male soap opera. I want to like it my best friends really like wrestling, I can't watch it. I try.. I really try. I'll sit through hours of it just to hang out with them, and dammit!

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Bad Acting, Bad story, comes off as if the whole thing is real when it's clearly fake, if you're an observant watcher you see a lot of the fakeness in the execution of the moves, and how unrealistic the moves themselves are.

I realize a movie is also fake, but there are things movies do to suspend my disbelief, and that having a better story line helps.

Certain guys are entertaining to watch, like Ray Mysterio, there is a certain coolness to the undertakers gimmick, and interesting to see to incredibly strong guys go at it, or have Cena body slam the Big Show.