>>19486746The tradition of a retiring star "giving back to the business" doesn't always have to involve jobbing in a retirement match. Cena spent much of the last 5+ years as a big name part timer who would return occasionally to "give back to the business" by means of jobbing to heels getting pushed. By the time he got thumbed in the neck repeatedly in his job to Solo, I felt his ability to get others over by jobbing to them had been exhausted. At that point, old man Cena's efforts at "giving back" may well have been better fulfilled by giving fans a storybook ending. I don't totally hate the decision to have Cena lose his last match, because it does serve future booking by making Gunther into the "career killer," but the tap-out deserves the ridicule it is getting. Cena's career, the legacy of which is a part of the business he was supposedly giving back to, ends with a whimper. I would've preferred to see something like Cena fighting tooth and nail against losing by submission until Gunther had no choice but to win by pinfall after another powerbomb.
>>19486943Are you sure that's the "media literacy" argument of the Redditers? I haven't looked into it, but that's sufficiently dumb for me to believe it. Cena may as well have verbally forfeited the match right after Lilian Garcia introduced him by that logic. Smiling dipshit triumphantly takes an L in a (mock) competition instead of simply ending his career with a tweet.
