5 negatives from John Cena's WWE run in 2017

#3 Doing everything he used to criticise The Rock for

The hypocrite is here.

Back in 2011/12 when The Rock was busy throwing insult after insult at Cena in the run-up to their Wrestlemania 28 match, the leader of the Cenation actually started to win a few of the fans around. Rather than attack the Rock personally, he decided to point out the hypocrisy that he felt the People's Champ was demonstrating.

Cena picked up on the fact that despite promising the fans that he had returned home, Rock rarely made a physical appearance on either RAW or Smackdown, instead choosing to pre-record promo segments and broadcasting them via satellite during the show.

This was an effective move on Cena's part and almost made him appear like a worthy opponent to one of the best talkers the industry has ever seen.

Fast forward to 2017 and Cena finds himself in a very familiar position. Rather than learn from the hypocrisy that he once accused the Rock of, John is doing the exact same thing, making sporadic appearances yet promising on each of his returns that he still loves the business and considers it his number one priority.

There are, of course, many benefits to John Cena taking a backseat from the WWE, and nobody would actually criticise him for trying to pursue other avenues. But this doesn't mean he has to constantly lie to fans and pretend that he is still the face that runs the place. If only he would acknowledge that times are changing and his in-ring tenure is coming to an end like we all know it is.