5 negatives from John Cena's WWE run in 2017

#2 His pointless contribution at Survivor Series

Blink and you missed it.

One of Cena's many 2017 'returns' came just before the Survivor Series PPV last month. And from a business standpoint, this made a lot of sense. Why wouldn't you bring in one of your most popular names in order to help make the PPV sell?

From a wrestling storyline perspective, however, Cena might not even have bothered involving himself in this one. His inclusion came essentially from nowhere, wedged in by GM Daniel Bryan in an attempt to counter the fact that RAW would be lining up both Triple H and Kurt Angle.

And to make matters worse, he didn't even use his Survivor Series cameo appearance to help get anybody over. In a match that included the likes of Finn Balor and Braun Strowman, Cena was instead eliminated by Kurt Angle in rather unceremonious fashion.

How much more would it have meant if Cena had become eliminated by the hands of the Monster Amongst Men? How much more effective would the Survivor Series main event have been if a new star like Balor was given the limelight, vanquishing the biggest threat that the Smackdown team posed?

Sadly we will never know, as Cena's half-hearted involvement was over before we even noticed he was there.