Maybe I'm looking too much into this, but there is a massive problem with the way Cena vs Edge was booked at Judgment Day. The breakdown is simple:

- Vince wanted Edge to win.
- Vince wanted to establish a new feud.
- Vince wanted to keep the face strong.
- Vince wanted an original ending.

This is not so much a trite look at what happened, its more HOW it happened and how it applies to the WWE's ineptitude of booking. Moreover, it shows obvious cracks in the already unstable booking committee. WWE has a history of excess, not knowing where to draw the line. In recent years, they either overindulge or underwhelm with their angle. By recent, I mean the last 12 years. It could go farther back than that, but we'd be getting into Nailz-era booking and if i f*cking have to talk about Nailz for an entire column, I would rather have Luscious Johnny pentrate me from behind while watching Nazi propaganda videos (that means it wouldn't be fun..... or would it?).

I fully agree with Booking 101, where faces should be kept strong. There are times when faces can expose a weakness, thus allowing fans to rally behind him, to overcome his weakness. It is my belief (and Mick Foley's as well, as he talks about this in his book), that every person DOES want to overcome their weaknesses. Showing weakeness is not a bad thing, as long as you overcome it. However, Vince & Co are so adamant about keeping their main eventers "strong" (in the sense that they can't lose), they blew the doors off suspension of disbelief and completely turned the end of the match, and thus, John Cena, into a preposterous superhero that logical-reasoning individuals (like me) can not stand.

Lets Tarantino-it and break it down some more.

Vince needed to separate Cena and Edge, because he understood that their feud has been done to death. At the same time, he needed to get the belt on a Smackdown WRESTLER, because 2 belts on the same show is akin to f*cking pandemonium in the WWE Universe. The only plausible outcome was to have Edge win, with interference. Vince was absolute, in his decision to not have Cena lose cleanly. Cena has NEVER lost cleanly (Almost like Hogan, who only lost the belt clean once). Cena lost at NYR 2006 when Edge cashed in his MITB shot after Cena took a sh*t kicking inside the Elimination Chamber; Cena lost to RVD due to Edge's interference at ONS 2006; Cena was stripped from the title twice due to injury. He lost in the Elimination Chamber at NWO 2009 but that was when 4 men were in a ring. One on One, which by all experts (Jim Ross included), is where the real main events and decisions are, Cena has never lost the title clean.

The only WRESTLER who is bigger than Hogan is... Austin (thanks to available merchandise revenue numbers). Austin frequently showed character flaws, his short-temper, his dancing with Dude Love's girls on an episode of Raw (COMPLETELY out of character), his concern with Debra (2001), especially in later years, when he sided with Vince, as a way to get the championship back. This is what makes a 3 dimensional character. Turns, twists, words, layers of character.

Cena's character is as flat as the booking sheets they write on. Cena fans will quickly respond to me, saying that he was a heel pre-WM20, however, his character was layerless. He was a young punk who rapped. How did they build upon that? They haven't. There has been no mention of who Cena was, during his heel days. Sure, you can say he won the US Title as a heel, but that figures nothing into building character. Much like this writer, who has columns cursing out other people on this site, I have layers. This column is a layer. My cursing is another layer. My sexual innuendo and wrestling knowledge is a layer. I draw upon these layers to create a (quasi) semi-individual who can hold people's attention.

Now that this insight of character helped set up the scenario, here is the truly most appalling aspect, to me. Cena has been essentially labeled a Superman. I'll call him Super Cena. Because, no normal individual can withstand being exploded. If this happened to you at a construction site, you would be dead or in the hospital's ICU for a week, undergoing treatment. You would have skin drafts and burn marks.

When Austin broke his neck, a month later, Vince came out all worried and had him sign release agreements. So, Cena's been blown up and no one cares? You just wobble out and stare? What about Vince? Doesn't he care?

Finally, the most important issue: John Cena can no longer be beaten unless he is blown up. Reread that f*cking sentence and let it sink in. Because, as much as you WANT to think I'm wrong, you must remember that Cena has NEVER been pinned clean. Previously, you needed interference to beat Cena. Now, you need to blow him up. So, why do the heels both challenging him? They won't win. He's Super Cena. Even then, it won't fully work, because he'll come out the next night. You might as well bring a knife to the ring and slice his throat and wait till he stops moving until you try to pin him.

The whole ending ruined an otherwise solid PPV. But the actions at the end made this writer LAUGH at the whole scenario, instead of thinking I witnessed something great. Normally last man standings have good endings, like the double chair shot by Foley/Rock or Patera/Backlund or Flair/Funk (all LMS rules). I can understand that they wanted to take it to another level, but this was absurd, asinine and from here on out, impossible to believe or care for anything John Cena does.