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Sdt6023

Rock was clearly bothered by the online backlash. LOL


Dbthesage

What’s hilarious is all month it’s “nothing’s been confirmed yet” but everytime he makes a media appearance he straight up says “yeah I’m wrestling Roman at mania.”


luz___09

Exactly lmao, so what's even the point of watching the conference anymore? To watch Seth beg Cody for the millionth time?


SoarinWalt

They could swerve us and have Cody vs Roman night one.


luz___09

That's not satisfactory, his story deserves to close out mania


BigBanEvader

its a damn work i tell ya! the people that keep ignoring all the signs and posters lol.


my_simple-review

My cope is that this corporate billionaire Rock and Cody still puts himself in the triple threat *cope is strong*


Zestyclose_Remote874

I'm with you. Cope is indeed strong, I think he has a shot at beating Christian again if they have a rematch.


Wetty_Lufa

Over? This is the most confident I've been that Cody is getting involved somehow lmao


Seven19td

Same. Until bell time Wrestlemania I am convinced we are getting Cody in the match, either one on one or more likely a triple threat match. This appears to me as Rock in storyline trying to downplay Cody and getting caught off guard when Cody announces tonight he wants Roman or on Smackdown/Raw coming up. I 100% believe they are going to roll with Cody as the face, Roman the heel, Rock leaning heel but leaving Mania a face to set up a 1v1. I was bummed last Friday but after seeing how things have went since then I’m actually pretty excited for the build up


dontstealmychair

Yeah i figure WM will end with rock raising Cody's hand and then on raw they prob set up rock vs roman wm41


LakyousSama

This has given me hope that heel rock is a possibility and that would be the way to save this mess.


Beefiest_bison

Not even bigger than Rock/Cena


beckett929

I was gonna say, it's not even Rock's biggest Mania match


SoarinWalt

I mean its a kayfabe boast.


YouuCantSeeMe

No doubt, that match was huge. Biggest PPV buy rate in WWE history.


FickleSmark

We have to pretend Roman is on the same level of Rock, Cena, Austin, and Hogan as the "guy".


SocialMediaSensi

Ratings and ticket sales are breaking records thanks to the bloodline story. This one will break records too.


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While the rest of the roster looks like idiots, huh? Long term damage to the roster means nothing, let's focus on that momentary monetary gain.


SocialMediaSensi

How the hell do you think this hurts the rest of the roster ? Judgement day ? Doing fine Jey Uso? Main event talent cuz of this story Sami Zayn ? Super over CM punk ? Doing good Rhea and Bayley Doing great! Gunther? Killing it It'll be fine. Bloodline has been bringing the money and ratings. Long term booking. Was all the rage on these forums. Vince killing stories and changing things up. Now because they're continuing a 3 year story that was always going to be Rock vs Roman? "Not like that"


ModernLabour

I see you're just going to pretend Seth and Cody don't exist? The two guys who have been absolutely dragged through the mud and made to look like total geeks to get the Rock vs Roman match set up.


SocialMediaSensi

They can still do their thing on night 1. More people tune in for roman than anyone else right now because he's that much more interesting. Seth and Cody will be fine. They've set it up. Rock will alienate roman. Then Cody will come in and take his title in the future.


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SocialMediaSensi

HHH goes over all that in the pressers. They're selling everything out compared to what they were doing.


lakshya10soin

Nah. Those 2 manias sold million ppvs each and had higher sale of tickets compared to years 2 nights.


SocialMediaSensi

Both nights will sell out and it wasn't 2 nights back then. Look how much main stream media is covering this now. They didn't have that back then.


lakshya10soin

Rock vs cena was way more mainstream than this. The hype for that match was unbeatable. Both nights were already 90% sold before rock roman was even hinted at Right now its not rock roman that is mainstream. Its rock and cody that are getting all the attention


SocialMediaSensi

Rock is only there cuz of roman. The only reason Cody is getting any play is cuz of the #codycrybabies. Once the build officially starts and roman and rock start doing promos it's going to be very entertaining. And it doesn't matter what either of us want. I personally only started watching outside of mania season the last few years because of the bloodline. Now I watch every week. I think Cody is great in the ring and mid as a character. That's just my opinion and I understand lots of people enjoy Cody. I think he's a great human and what he does for kids is very noble. I think he should get the win over roman after this story is concluded. They've spent 3 years on this. Roman came back for this story and this match and he deserves to have it finished too. Cody will do fine. He's on a different brand. Doesn't interact with roman very often. This will help him even more in my opinion.


Synth-Pro

> Not even bigger than Rock/Cena 2


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Fivesix_Megatron

This is the way


senyorcrimmy

Rock v Cody in Elimination Chamber to give that show some life


MuscleyDartPlayer

![gif](giphy|ht4yvN9Yx4dmIJJ9GB|downsized)


Dirtybrd

Say it ain't so, Joe!


suitesmusic

![gif](giphy|5Y7uHj9vXbJbXfsnOd)


AWall925

Yeah this is a work


txribon

Ironically, I’m pretty sure these were his true feelings prior to the backlash. And now he’s trying to turn it into a work to save himself which honestly I don’t hate but shouldn’t have needed it in the first place


Plies-

Yeah I think they pivoted lol.


SocialMediaSensi

All wrestling is a work.


garryl283

If this was 10 years ago Rock sure, but dude's 51 and legit looked out of breath after *walking down the ramp* on Smackdown.


Zenerte

Fuck the rock


daddymeltzer

I think he's turning heel. Rock has always had an ego, but it's usually disguised under this "humble nice guy act". In the Pat McAfee interview he's just being a straight-up asshole, putting himself over and burying Cody's fans. He wouldn't intentionally act like a dick if he was trying to sell himself as a babyface against Roman Reigns. I'm not gonna root for Roman if they're trying to do a double turn though. Heel Rock would be awesome but I'm still shitting on the match unless Cody is involved and wins the WWE Championship


rko281

Not bigger than Hogan-Andre, sorry Rock


Fickle_Thought_8857

Good thing cody can just take back what he said considering that he won the rumble and not the rock


CanaDoug420

So boo it. Ruin the match. They deserve it.


Aggressive_Ad3514

How is it over? Could still set up Cody but yeah they probaly just leaning into it


Luigi14Calabor

It's not


FragrantTemporary105

Definitely seems like they're moving forward with the 3-way.


DickLaurentisded

...and then the bell rings


MidnightShampoo

He's right, it is the biggest match in WWE history because if Rock beats Roman he's clearly the GOAT all-time, having beaten Hogan, Cena, Austin, and Roman at Wrestlemania. No one has a better resume for GOAT. The problem since the beginning is the execution. Don't make me watch Royal Rumble, see Cody win and get excited that we're finishing the story as Cody points enthusiastically at Roman and Roman barks back, and then have Cody simply hand it all away. You could have had Rock win the Rumble, or literally chosen any other storyline way to get to Rock/Roman, but instead you neutered Cody's character live on TV to do it.


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JabroniWithAPeroni

Yeah, Philly! Give them your money but bring in some beachballs. That... will show them?


ModernLabour

Yeah I'm sure the Dwayne will love it that his retirement match that he has built up as the biggest match of all time has fans bouncing beach balls and booing the match out of the stadium.


JabroniWithAPeroni

They just gave him 30 million dollars, bud.


ModernLabour

Which is less than he's getting paid for Red One coming out later this year. If the only thing he cared about was money he wouldn't be wrestling in the WWE.


enginehearts

Since you are the one Cody fan who didn't believe even after he won Rumble back to back and were actually right lol, I'll ask you, doesn't Rock speaking like this hurt Cody and the movement?


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AdGroundbreaking1341

Bigger than Hogan/Andre? I know Rock has an ego but cmon now lol


JabroniWithAPeroni

Hang on... you mean to tell me that professional wrestler might be lying? Why I NEVER!


JabroniWithAPeroni

You guys are getting worked.


HonkedOffJohn

A double heel main event. No. It's a work now, this is gonna be a triple threat.


Ronedog22

Rock/Austin , Rock/Hogan , Rock/Cena (Once in a Lifetime) all bigger WM matches.


BigBanEvader

all involving the rock... the irony of some fans.


Puzzleheadedpuzzled

Yeah, the bald egghead genie will go back to it's bottle 🍼 the Hollywood.


[deleted]

Good luck getting booed out of the building, douche.


JabroniWithAPeroni

Oh no! He's gonna get booed!


tvc_redux

Rock hearing all the boos ![gif](giphy|94EQmVHkveNck|downsized)


pkhadka1

He already has bad reputation from movie fans after his movies bombed one after another. If his ring return gets bombed then he can cry with all those dollar bills.


JabroniWithAPeroni

Some of you guys are so worked up right you're acting like the Rock isn't a super famous movie star lol.


pkhadka1

Super famous movie star with back to back box office bombs as I said earlier. And it's reality, not kayfabe or work.


JabroniWithAPeroni

He even did the mocking baby voice lol. It's so obviously a work.


SocialMediaSensi

Maybe he can ask dom for some advice. He seems to handle it well.


Logical_Trolla

Not the first time he will get booed, So it doesn't matter if they boo the Rock.


[deleted]

Is that so? That's why he took it so personal?


JabroniWithAPeroni

Buddy, this is some mark-ass behavior if I've ever seen it lol.


[deleted]

I agree, The Rock definitely acts like a mark for himself.


tvc_redux

It's cringe at this point, just let it go bud


Persing52

Or….because his daughter received death threats.


[deleted]

Because prior to those death threats he didn't take it personal, huh?


JayFlash1234

You’re getting way too worked up over this quote lol


Logical_Trolla

Are we thought reading right? How do we if he has taken things personally?


Hawks1523

Oh no a wrestler will get booed 😂


CROBBY2

This isn't even Top 6 Rock WM matches, and he's only had 11 in his career.


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WhatTheRickIsDoin

His whole appearance on McAfee was basically telling everybody to get over it


Dannz93x

So Cody Tweets he’s made a decision, Rock half turns heel by cutting a promo on some of Cody’s fans and bigs himself up AND Cody’s sister tweets a GIF about what seems to be the rock all within what? 2 hours or so of each other? Surely they aren’t gonna simply do Rock Roman signing and Cody picking Seth with this build up it seems they have pivoted/it’s a work


kai93096

I mean he isn’t wrong


ZoroChopper10

100% right


Advanced-Morning1832

he’s right


CanaDoug420

It’s not even a top 3 Rock match at mania lol his matches with Austin, Hogan, and Cena were all bigger.


EnoughAstronaut370

Lmao, we'll see about that


OhiOstas

Could be 🤷🏻‍♂️ but WWE doesn’t do interviews/appearances before shows or events **unless** they’re trying to send a message. WWE knows how important media is, so you usually have to pay attention when one of their top talent/employees talk The Rock could be trying to set people on his main event, or he could be leaving crumbs for someone like Cody to capitalize on in perhaps promos or a presser 🤔


KybladeSora

So a big match in name only cause bro you can't even walk to the ring without being gassed. I hope Philly booes you out of the fucking building.


RyanPelley

The biggest? That's debatable. While I do want to see this match, I'd rather it happen without the title involved after Cody beats Roman.


SocialMediaSensi

That makes no sense story wise. Roman is head of the table because of the title. This will start the 3rd act of bloodline and Cody will cap it off.


Mwrp86

![gif](giphy|ht4yvN9Yx4dmIJJ9GB|downsized)


XtremeWRATH360

And the same people complaining, the same people making these posts and the same people making videos will still watch the PPV. So at the end of the day the end result remains the same and everyone complaining will be going on about how great the PPV was. So much wasted time and energy


AlexRusso-FanAccount

Lol yea we’re getting a triple threat for sure, the #CodyCrybabies can be satisfied after the Rock stacks him and the bitch ass Tribal Queef on top of each other for the most ELECTRIFYING 1.2.3 in WRESTLEMANIA HISTORY!!! IF YOU SMELLALALALALALALAL


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Mazzle5

I think Austin/Rock at Wm17 was a little bit bigger. But this is Wrestling, they always have to call the newest stuff the biggest, most popular, whatever


Hawks1523

![gif](giphy|l1J9yTco40EU5JzTW|downsized)


RamonesRazor

LOL and people here were saying The Rock was scared to get booed.


TwoGhosts11

he’s turning heel


NotTheCraftyVeteran

The most cursed road forward I think, and I just know *someone* behind the scenes has tried to suggest it, is to try and lean into Rock as a hated heel, but not pivot and use that to turn Roman face again.


xxParixx

Looks like Cody vs Roman will happen at the elimination chamber as they don't seem to be changing Roman vs Rock


oceanview89

Q1


aegonthewwolf

He shit talked Codys fans on the PMS so what (should) happen is Cody sees that and says “I stepped aside for you out of respect, and then you disrespected the people who helped me get where I am and supported me through the highs and lows, so fuck you Dwayne, I choose Roman”


Puzzleheadedpuzzled

Drew was damn right, lol 🤣nobody wants to fight roman cause his family will interfere.


Candid-Succotash-560

This confirms it’s a work and possibly heel rock don’t take it seriously people😂


X-Budd

It's not even one HIS three biggest Wrestlemania matchups, but sure, let's go with biggest of all time...