During his recent appearance at BookCon, John Cena answered a wide variety of questions from fans. Cena was asked who he thinks is going to be the next top star in WWE.
Cena ended up explaining why he doesn’t think that WWE will ever have just one top star again.
Here is what he said (h/t to Cageside Seats for the quotes below):
“This is some real inside baseball, anyone who is here for WWE is going to love this answer, but I’ll keep it short. I think the dynamic of the program is changing. For the longest time, I think, if you consider WWE a band, there’s been one front-person of the band. I think that dynamic is changing and it’s because the audience is too diverse. I think older males are watching it, younger kids are watching it, females are watching it. The audience is so diverse so with a diverse audience, it’s tough to universally please someone.
In the ’80s, you had a family-oriented program and Hulk Hogan was the front man. In the ’90s, you had 18 to 35-year-old males. In comes Steve Austin and Dwayne Johnson, because they hit right down that wheelhouse. And then there was me, but even myself as you know, went through a polarizing stage where half the audience likes you and half the audience doesn’t.
So I don’t think there’s a universal figure that will lead the company forward. I think as the company grows and especially expands globally, you’re gonna have, like a Super-Friends of the WWE which is like, people who are essentially fighting for equal share of popularity. I think the band essentially will now have ten lead singers of every different race, creed, color, sex, ethnicity. So, I believe that I was kind of the last of that, and I think the landscape has changed so much that’s more of group effort rather than an individual effort. And that was inside baseball for WWE by John Cena.”
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