Is John Cena the new Arnold?

[rockyfortune]

As long as Cena keeps pumping the chemicals into his ass his only future is the WWE garbage...and he must be pumping a lot of it in himself because the dude is ripped and huge 365 days a year.

[efirkey]

The wwE likes having it's stars do well at the box office, because when Cena or the Rock come back to wrestling for one of the PPVs they bring a whole new audience with them.  The  WWE gets a bigger market this way.  And there is plenty of room in hollywood for more than one action star, so I expect to see Cena and the Rock do well for quite some time.

[legbreaker]

it sort of looks like they were thinking Arnold when figuring out his costum...Looks EXACTLY like Arnold from Commando many years earlier...and the script is similiar in that they both have kidnapped family members and are retired soldiers.

If the Rock keeps getting those teeth bleeched and tweezing those eye brows he may as well change his name to roxanne because he looks so ridiculous....definitly not like the roles he playes of C.O. football coach or tough guy.

[gordiano]

The wwE likes having it's stars do well at the box office, because when Cena or the Rock come back to wrestling for one of the PPVs they bring a whole new audience with them.  The  WWE gets a bigger market this way.  And there is plenty of room in hollywood for more than one action star, so I expect to see Cena and the Rock do well for quite some time.

In theory, yes. But it really hasn't happened that way, yet.

If anything, their ratings, sales, attendance, et cetera, are down since around 2001/2002, about the time The Rock became a Movie Star.

[Scimowser]

Cena will be as successful in acting as Levrone is - stick to the wrestling "champ". His punches are as bad in the film as they are in his matches

Rock is the ONLY wrestler with longevity in Hollywood

[legbreaker]

In theory, yes. But it really hasn't happened that way, yet.

If anything, their ratings, sales, attendance, et cetera, are down since around 2001/2002, about the time The Rock became a Movie Star.

They also had Stone Cold (the number 1 merchandise seller in the business) and MUCH better writing and matches that made more sense.

[buffbodz]

He's the only one who made a good transition from wrestler to actor.

I don't know about that.  Seems like they all put on a nice acting job each week   The transition to putting on the big screen shouldn't be that much different.

[WiseGuy]

[efirkey]

In theory, yes. But it really hasn't happened that way, yet.

If anything, their ratings, sales, attendance, et cetera, are down since around 2001/2002, about the time The Rock became a Movie Star.

Everything plummeted when Stone Cold left and soon after the Rock.  Also, the demise of the WCW had a lot to do with sales going down.  I personally know that when the WWE had a suck match on I could turn to WCW and vica-versa, but once the WCW vanished I turned to completely DIFFERENT programming and never went back.

[Dball]

cena doesnt have the same level of appeal that the rock has.  i will go see a movie that bombed (like doom) just because the rock was in it.  cena cant say that.  gridiron gang should be pretty good.  think about it... what movie has denzel been in that wouldnt have been just as good with the rock in it?

[alexxx]

John Cena is too small to replace Arnold. I am going to be the leading action star pfff the rock and cena will be following me!