So Rock basically wants control of WWE.

[LinuxJon]

The backstage talk and dirt sheet stuff is crazy.

Basically Rock gets appointed to the TKO board, then has his own writer (Gewirtz) appointed to creative.

Within a week, you go from Cody pointing at Roman yelling "you, you!" after his Rumble win to him stepping aside for Rock.

Everyone says this call was made above HHH's head. So you've got two years of build for one match, and Rock steps in and rips up the whole thing just to feed his ego.

Half the people say this is paving the way for Gewirtz to replace HHH in the wake of the Vince scandal.

Hope everyone is prepared for Samoans to hold every belt in WWE for the next five years.

[BrickEX]

Don’t care who faces who, but man is that tough having Cody go out there to bend over and neuter himself, while offering a contradictory explanation void of any weight given everything he’s portrayed.

It’s either lazy writing and going that actual direction, or intentionally leaving doubt to get people talking. If it’s the former, at least have things make sense.

Either way, for years have known Rock is one of the biggest POS narcissistic egoistical bag of dicks, so never underestimate what he is capable of doing for his own benefit. The proof has been in the pudding countless times when you look at how that snake operates his schtick and day to day life. There is no goodwill from him for the sake of goodwill. If he fuking goes out of the way to hold the door for someone walking into a store, you are damn sure to hear about it from him.

[NMS3]

I wonder if Cody will somehow get involved in Roman vs Rock at mania.

[LinuxJon]

Either way, for years have known Rock is one of the biggest POS narcissistic egoistical bag of dicks, so never underestimate what he is capable of doing for his own benefit.

I never had an opinion on him until the Joe Rogan interview a couple of months ago. It was mind blowing how fake he came across. It was clearly all just media training. Felt like someone who has been a politician for 30 years. Dude doesn't even have a personality.

[ChristmasFnatic]

I wonder if Cody will somehow get involved in Roman vs Rock at mania.

He will screw the Rock and the fans will go nuts!

[andyray]

I think they did cody dirty. They basically cucked him. Having him win the rumble to literally step aside to the rock was retarded.


But holy fuk at the iwc losing their absolute chit over this. What a bunch of bishes.


I'd love for rock to go full hollywood heel and roast them.

[wings_unhinged]

There is no more Rock. TKO Group Holdings Inc. Board Member Dwayne Johnson wants control.

[ChunkBuster]

Cody is getting punked.

Maybe Rock will allow Cody carry the belt to the ring at WM.

[Superplex]

I told you guys months ago..

this is The Rock now

[latverian41]

Rocks Hollywood career tailspinned out and he's pretty much an after thought there now.

I don't watch today's wrestling but I'm guessing any son of dusty Rhoads is probably more qualified than the rock when it comes to trying to save that sinking ship or more like raise a ship that has already sank.

[Mountaineer92]

only way this situation is saved is if the rock turns into hollywood rock again and its a triple threat match i guess with cody winning.


just rly dumb. they did brock/roman at 3 WMs, couldve used dwayne then.

[yieldtonothing]

reaction to this has been very bad.

there is plenty of time to pivot.

[wings_unhinged]

reaction to this has been very bad.

there is plenty of time to pivot.

#1 trend on X is Cody Rhodes and apparently Rock is deleting comments to his tweets now. Lmao

[Dave22reborn]

I mean, he's 51 years old, and gonna headline WrestleMania???

Last time he suffered a triple hernia.

[squat_blaster]

Yeah kind of ridiculous. No reason why it can't be Rock vs Roman for a "head of the table" Bloodline family feud that doesn't involve the title.

Rock in Cody's corner for WM, blocks Solo and Jimmy from interfering, helps Cody beat Roman for the title and voila. Not rocket science.

Cody winning the RR is completely undermined by stepping aside for the Rock. Cody actually looked like Rock's biotch. No way is WWE this dumb. There has to be more to this.

[ChunkBuster]

Call me a cynic 🤔…but doesn’t Dwayne headlining WM take some of the heat away from Vinnie Mac 🤔

[LargePeter]

The backstage talk and dirt sheet stuff is crazy.

Basically Rock gets appointed to the TKO board, then has his own writer (Gewirtz) appointed to creative.

Within a week, you go from Cody pointing at Roman yelling "you, you!" after his Rumble win to him stepping aside for Rock.

Everyone says this call was made above HHH's head. So you've got two years of build for one match, and Rock steps in and rips up the whole thing just to feed his ego.

Half the people say this is paving the way for Gewirtz to replace HHH in the wake of the Vince scandal.

Hope everyone is prepared for Samoans to hold every belt in WWE for the next five years.

I'm not that invested in this but if Cody doesn't have a major title I'm very happy

[andyray]

Call me a cynic 🤔…but doesn’t Dwayne headlining WM take some of the heat away from Vinnie Mac 🤔

That was the intention allegedly


Rocks daughter is now getting death threats all because some man child kissless virgin's didn't get want they wanted in a scripted storyline.

[redwine91]

People are such pussies

If you get the chance to put the Rock in a main event of WrestleMania, you do it.

Rock/Reigns is 10x the marquee of Rhodes/Reigns.

Let the Rock get beat clean by Reigns. Give him another fkn year as champ.

And then let Cody beat him.

[BrickEX]

Call me a cynic 🤔…but doesn’t Dwayne headlining WM take some of the heat away from Vinnie Mac 🤔

If by that you mean take the heat away from the guys currently working backstage who have kept hush on their knowledge of Vince’s behavior for years and years, and in some cases decades.

[yieldtonothing]

audible rocky sucks chants and wwe posted the footage on youtube with "rocky sucks" in the title.

[ChunkBuster]

Rocky Maivia has come full circle.

Die Rocky Die chants at WM will raise more than 1 eyebrow.

[mrdot]

Last year - everyone complaining how we got Cody/Roman instead of the Rock
This year - everyone complaining how it's The Rock instead of cody



IWC is wild

[andyray]

Last year - everyone complaining how we got Cody/Roman instead of the Rock
This year - everyone complaining how it's The Rock instead of cody



IWC is wild

herd mentality of nerds that like to complain

[Superplex]

it's all about how it's done

that's my point of view

& they're just not doing it right

[Bwallace189]

People are such pussies

If you get the chance to put the Rock in a main event of WrestleMania, you do it.

Rock/Reigns is 10x the marquee of Rhodes/Reigns.

Let the Rock get beat clean by Reigns. Give him another fkn year as champ.

And then let Cody beat him.

Absolutely retarded. Nobody is going to care about Cody a year from now. They biffed it last year and miraculously kept Cody over for another year only to not do it again. Most people think this is a work like Daniel Bryan yes movement. Get everyone behind Cody by thinking they ****ed him and then he will either be in the match ala triple threat or it will just be him and Roman anyways and the Rock doesn't wrestle. I highly doubt the rock can go more than 10 mins at this point.

[Superplex]

it's a business

it's like with Brock

his career is over now

you never know what could happen

& The Rock is a headliner

it's just what people see & that's typical

[redwine91]

Absolutely retarded. Nobody is going to care about Cody a year from now. They biffed it last year and miraculously kept Cody over for another year only to not do it again. Most people think this is a work like Daniel Bryan yes movement. Get everyone behind Cody by thinking they ****ed him and then he will either be in the match ala triple threat or it will just be him and Roman anyways and the Rock doesn't wrestle. I highly doubt the rock can go more than 10 mins at this point.

Retarded?

Cody is more over now than he was when he lost last year to Reigns.

This is what I’m talking about with whiny fans. OH NO! 12 MORE MONTHS!

The GODDAMN ROCK vs Roman Reigns should not pivot because of backlash. Cody/Reigns pivots due to Rock. Fans want to ignore that this match has been anticipated and talked about for years. The Rock is more inherently tied into the Bloodline story than Cody ever was - which bolstered Reign’s run for years now well before Cody came back.

The ultimate goal is to get Cody his win over Reigns. And that will fkn happen. But you’ve got the green light on Rock/Roman at WrestleMania. You do that first, you feed the Rock to Reigns, and Cody has another hurdle added to his story.

But goddamn guys. Think long term.

[ChunkBuster]

The Rock is Sunday night WM main event level.

Cody is Saturday night.

[BigElephant]

I have no problem with Rock/Roman; in fact I wanted that match to happen. However if that was going to happen it makes no sense having Cody win the Rumble and then choose not to go after Roman. I can think of a number of better scenarios.

Scenario 1: Rock shows up at Rumble and screw Roman over. Randy wins the title. Rock fights Roman at WM. Cody beats Randy at WM to finish the story. Finishing the story isn't beating Roman anyways, it's winning the title that his father never got to win.

Scenario 2: Roman keeps the title and fights Rock at WM for the title. This might be preferable because Roman's Tribal Chief/Head of the Table gimmick depends on him holding the title. Then have anyone else but Cody win the Rumble. Could be Drew. He wins, challenges Seth, and maybe have Damien cash in mid match and pin Drew to win. Kind of a full circle moment there as Seth loses the title the way he won his first title. Then Roman beats Rock, and Cody can go over Roman at Summerslam or if they want Roman to beat Hogan's reign then next year's WM.


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The problem is, external circumstances forced us into the current situation. Punk got injured, and the plan was him vs Seth for that title. On top of that, in the days before the Rumble, all the Vince/Brock sex scandal stuff came out, which likely rules out Brock for WM. So that's 2 big stars, 2 big draws out of WM. The Brock thing happened before Rumble, and I don't know that they had any big plans for him for WM anyway, but they could have slid him in there in some way in order to make up for the loss of Punk. But Punk got injured during the Rumble after the call to have Cody win was made.

From everything I've read, Rock is stepping in because he feels like he has to, in order to "save" the event. There's no way to take the Rumble win away from Cody at this point, other than a kayfabe injury, but that does no good as Cody is also one of the biggest stars in the company and with the other guys missing they need him on WM.

In kayfabe, Cody's decision to fight Rollins makes no sense (assuming that's what they decide to do). I get they're in a bind and hopefully fans can understand that and give them some leeway, but it doesn't look like that's the case. Rock and his daughter are getting death threats. Rocky definitely seems like a narcissistic douchebag, but there's no need for bullschit like that.

IMO if they're going to stick to this, have Cody fight Seth, have Damien cash in mid match and win the title there. Roman has to go over Rock at WM. Then have Cody win MITB, and pull a Cena and announce his cash-in on Roman ahead of time and make it at Summerslam. Or if they say fukk it at that point Roman will be so close to Hogan's reign they decide to give it to him, have Cody win an Elimination Chamber next year and take the title from Roman at WM 41.

The problem with waiting that long is people are starting to get sick of Roman being such a sparse champion. It would be fine if he only wrestled once a month in title defenses (and IMO that should be the case for all world champs), or maybe give him 1-2 PPVs off a year. Then have him on Smackdown 2-3 times a month in promos or backstage segments. I think people would be a lot less sick of him if they did that. On top of that they could filter in some lesser guys for title matches. Those guys could get the rub from being in a match with Roman, and Roman could get some clean wins off them. I mean IMO he should beat guys like Riddle, Rey Mysterio, Sami Zayn, and Kevin Owens clean anyways. But yeah he should have a couple clean wins filtered in there to maintain credibility and keep people from getting sick of his matches always ending the same way. In years 1 and 2 of the Bloodline story yeah Paul and Usos would help him but he also went out there and took care of business himself sometimes.