When I first saw Cena on an early 05 Smackdown, I thought it was kinda cool that he was wearing regular clothes instead of wrestling gear because it fit his character. Like he was a guy from the streets, sort of an outsider with more in common with the fans in attendance than his fellow superstars. It made sense then that he wouldn't have traditional wrestling attire because WE don't have traditional wrestling attire and he was supposed to be more like one of us. It's like the difference between what guys wear playing street basketball vs regulation NBA uniforms (or more like NBA uniforms from the 70s before street styles started influencing them). It made him seem more authentic because it was a part of his character.
But now that's not part of his character. Now his character is all about the wrestling establishment and how working for WWE is all that there is in his life and how much respect he has for "this business". That's a character who SHOULD be wearing traditional gear. If it were the norm to dress in regular clothes, that would be the one character who SHOULD wear traditional gear. So yeah, it doesn't fit him anymore and I'd like it better if he wore something more tradition. In Devon's case it's not as bad because it doesn't directly contradict his character, but track pants make him look a little TOO casual. I mean how hard would it be to come to the ring in track pants and then take them off and have trunks underneath for the match? Guys like Kofi and Elijah Burke and Funkasaurus did it, why can't Devon? And if it's something like he wants to wear pants because he's got chunky thighs or something, he could just wear pants that are still wrestling attire, like Rey does.
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SuperNiceDog didn't have to reconcile his name...
But Dauntless Hunter is now MrGreenonion