5 negatives from John Cena's WWE run in 2017

#1 Everything about his feud with Roman Reigns

Not what we expected.

It might not strike all of us as particularly special or important, but from the WWE's perspective, Roman Reigns vs. John Cena is this generation's Rock vs. Hogan or Michaels vs. Austin. It signals the issuing in of a brand new era for the company, as one poster boy hands over the torch to another.

This is why, despite the inevitable reluctance from a certain section of the fanbase, Cena and Reigns simply had to meet on the biggest stage possible. We should have been given a situation that younger fans will be able to look back on in the future, at the time when their former hero gave way to their new one.

Instead, Cena vs. Reigns from 2017 proved to be one of the most underwhelming story angles of all time. The promos, while they occasionally cut deeper than the majority, still came across as scripted and formulaic. Cena pretty much used them as a way to massage his own ego while Reigns struggled to put one coherent put-down together.

The whole thing just felt off, which is a shame considering what it could have been.

And to make matters worse, we didn't even get that good of a match at the end of it. Perhaps the two men just don't have decent chemistry together, but the fact that it was held at a throwaway PPV that it didn't even main event did not help matters.

Who knows whether these two will meet again, but if they ever do, it needs to be 1000 times better than what we saw earlier this year.