How can they possibly screw up giving Rhodes the title clean ROFL good lord WCW level fail

The Finger Poke of Doom has entered the chat.

If Trips goes then Michaels probably goes as well. I doubt Shawn was involved in any of it or even knew about it. Michaels would be a coup if WWE lets him go and Khan hires him. Dudes booking in NXT has been excellent.

Meltzer had a comment on it that someone that knows people who worked there basically said "everyone knew" and he was baffled that people are acting like this was a secret.

I'm sure WWE/TKO were content to play it off that way, but Vince went full reerun and stiffed Grant on her NDA payment. Now it's public with Federal Prosecutors investigating and they may well have to raze the entire organization to the ground.

This isn't just contained to WWE either. TKO can't be too pleased their "investigation" was outed as a complete sham and they did next to no actual due diligence.

LMAO Yeesh.

LMAO They were not ready for the Rocky Sucks. Both of them looked completely lost for a bit.

What happened?

Rhodes and Rollins started off RAW. Crowd booed pretty heavily when they started the promo off teasing Rhodes challenging Rollins for his title then the crowd got a full fledged Rocky Sucks chant. Both their reactions were hilarious. They're either both incredible actors or they weren't ready for that level of vitriol LMAO

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Might be the best timeline. McIntyre has been excellent recently and Egomaniac Heel Rock is almost certainly going to be incredibly entertaining.

The fact that WWE is acknowledging the chants on their social media makes me wonder if we have all been worked.

McIntyre burying the WM Sunday Night match. HHH seems pissed and is letting Rock have it full blast.

Doubt it. Thus far tonight they've at least done an admirable effort back tracking but from most accounts this was Rocky and TKO executives coming in from the top rope and throwing a huge monkey wrench into things. Could you imagine the meltdown if Punk hadn't gotten injured and they switched from Punk/Rollins and Rhodes/Reigns to Rhodes/Rollins and Rock/Reigns? LMAO Punk would've gone full nuclear.

And end result they want to work towards currently is Rhodes/Rollins and Rock/Reigns. That shit got booed out of the building in ****ing St Louis. Ain't no way this is how they want it to go, and it's going to require Rock actually ceding that he's not wanted and further shattering his apparently fragile ego to fully rehab this.

Any news on Janel Grant as special guest referee?!

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Technically could be a way for them to save face.

Roman signs the contract not fully being aware of what’s in it. It’s against Cody with Rock as the referee.

Cody wins the title. That builds up Roman vs Rock for the next year.

Apparently it's in the contract Rock signed. He's main eventing Wrestlemania 40 against Reigns. Period. Dunno why they did that without consulting first with literally everyone else in the company so they could avoid this disaster but it is what it is.

Cause the WWE is owned by a company that thinks Rock is worth more money than anyone else..that's it.

Rock is literally staging a coup.

Well, that was rather dumb of them, then. Don't know if they're unaware or just don't think it matters, but Rocky really hasn't been all that popular a guy for quite a bit, and if they're really intent on push on as scheduled for 2 months they're going to erode what good will he has left with this audience too.

The part that is being missed here, is they aren't owned by a wrestling person anymore. They are owned by a profit driven company above all else, there are going to be a a lot of baffling decisions based on nothing other than what they view as proven draws and proven profit etc.

Proven draws and profits is what always drove WWE.

To a degree...now they don't see the payoff in building a star when they can just bring in the rock.

What they just did would have been like if Stone Cold after winning the Rumble in 97 was on his way to face HBK at Mania as he had gotten extremely hot...and Bob Backlund just appeared to take his spot cause you know this guy was the champ 20 years ago and proven draw and then we sent Stone Cold to wrestle for the IC title.

See Hulk Hogan in WrestleMania 9 for other reference material as well.

Accurate, that also got shit on pretty hard.

Comparing Bob to the Rock? Hogan or Warrior maybe a better example

Huh? This has happened plenty of times before and was incredibly prevalent under Vince.

Remember when Kofi actually got over big for a bit. Ended in a 7 second squash just so Lesnar could have a shitty match with Velasquez in Saudi

Ah yes it happened a lot once there was no competition and they struggled like mad to make any kind of stars.

They have 100% gone to a part timers save us, attitude in the last decade or so.

Since Wrestlemania 28 only 2 Wrestlemania Sunday main events have not featured a part timer, and of those two both matches featured a participant who left the company shortly thereafter. The reason I specifically say Wrestlemania Sunday, is that I think we'll all agree that's generally the REAL main event.

28: The Rock Def. John Cena
29: John Cena Def. The Rock
30: Daniel Bryan Def. Randy Orton and Batista (left about 2 months later)
31: Seth Rollins Def. Roman Reigns and Brock Lesnar
32: Roman Reigns Def. Triple H
33: Roman Reigns Def. Undertaker
34: Brock Lesnar Def. Roman Reigns
35: Becky Lynch Def. Charlotte Flair and Ronda Rousey (Left immediately after)
36: Drew McIntyre Def. Brock Lesnar
37: Roman Reigns Def. Edge and Daniel Bryan
38: Roman Reigns (went part time following this match) Def. Brock Lesnar
39: Roman Reigns Def. Cody Rhodes

Imagine how much of a slap in the face it is to be a full timer in company busting your ass year-round and constantly be told that people who only show up a few times a year or people that aren't going to be there tomorrow, are more important than you are, and that your contributions to the company aren't important enough to be part of the most important match of the year.

And come this year it'll be another main event featuring TWO part timers.

Right. This mini Renaissance WWE has been having is precisely because they got away from that shit and Roman demanding Heyman and Hayes be solely responsible for his creative.

And you can see, they still don't care, Immediately opting for part timers again.

Even if WWE pivots to Cody/Roman (and I'm not at all convinced they will), they'll have still ****ed the story and made Cody look like a huge idiot.

I hate that WWE's method of creating drama often boils down to "This match you really wanna see? It's not happening...or maybe it is? Guess you gotta tune in!"

It's the booking equivalent of pretending to throw a ball for a dog before actually throwing it. They did it for Bryan, they did it for Kofi, and if they pivot here they'll be doing it for Cody. If you just book a ****ing match people wanna see then half the promotion is taken care of for you, since "See So-and-So take on Such-and-Such" has generally been what draws in pro wrestling.

The whole "the company is the biggest heel" thing Vince ran with for so many years. Way too often the drama wasn't "will so and so overcome the dastardly such and such to win?", instead it'd be "will Triple H FINALLY job?", or "are they gonna put Cena/Roman/etc. over again?", or in this case "will they actually do the right thing and put Bryan/Cody in the biggest spot?"

Basically, the meta story of "WWE's decisions will annoy you" was treated as more significant than any actual on-screen story or character progression.

Eh, this is also a pretty special set of circumstances. For one, they pretty much had to give Rocky what he wanted to get him on the board. And the part timers they would have relied on are all aged out to where they literally cannot work anymore.

Why is it needed for Rock to be on the board? He's literally only back because Hollywood isn't calling him at the moment because his ego got to big and he delivered a couple of bombs. When Rocks movies are doing great he has no interest in wrestling, things don't go right and magically he's back.

I wonder if it hurts him that Batista has managed to get better roles than him.

Once they knew Vince stiffed Grant on the NDA payment and it all became public, they were pretty obviously desperate for anything that would divert. Hell, they gave him ownership rights to "The Rock". That's ****ing insane.

Jesus Christ, Laurinitis isn't ****ing around. Already having his lawyer float the story that management knew about Massaro getting raped before her suicide and lied and turned a blind eye to it.

Ugly look

That's an understatement. It also seems like Massaros lawyer has more corroborating info as well. This could be an even nastier look for WWE than the Vince allegations if they have to relitigate that whole disaster.

Her lawyer also said she was fired for turning down Vince's sexual advances.

I thought that was an accepted but unspoken truth for years?

Yeah, think everybody more or less knew that was the case. But having it brought back to the public eye and relitigating exactly who knew what could be devastating to WWE.

In other wrasslin news apparently TNA decided to go full reerun and fire Scott D'Amore for seemingly no reason today. He's pretty much the sole reason that company isn't already dead

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LMAO This press conference is more intriguing than most PPVs. CM Punk and Big E hosting

I was trying to give you a thumb up hit the wrong button

And Rock is leaning really heavily into his old heel persona.

LMAO This is awesome.

**** yes. Heel Rock and Roman

HHH vs Rock and Cody vs Roman for control of the WWE? I have no idea, but I love that there are so many possibilities now. Lol.

LMAO Yoo, if they're going to create the second coming of evil boss McMahon with the Rock that's ****ing genius.

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The way they focused so hard on the WM1 Main Event looked to me like Roman/Rock vs Cody/Seth. Maybe even winner take all.

This Is total bullshit!

Is Seth going to be be able to even wrestle?

It would be hilarious if it becomes:

The Part Timers vs. The Full Timers.

LMAO

Even better.

Just do Roman vs. Cody and have Rock turn on Roman to finally cost him the title. Rock takes his place as the Head of the Table and Cody finishes his story. Roman can go take a ****ing break while Solo and Jimmy follow the Rock around.

Oh, I'm sure he'll be able to work. Injured his knee pretty much the same damn way before his match with HHH and right around the same time too.

I don't know if Rock is legit pissed at the way it went or he's just that far above the rest of the roster acting chops wise, but dude even made ****ing Reigns look like a lil bro when he was menacing around after the event.

HHH looked like he was ready to throw on his gear and wrestle one more match.

I just don't see him risking it after his heart scares. I'm guessing that's why Seth has been awkwardly shoehorned in.

I don't think it will be a tag match. The Rock and Seth will probably be in the respective corners.

What I love about this is that I genuinely can't tell what is or isn't a work. You could tell me that all of this was a work and I'd believe it. You could tell me that they changed direction and the rock is actually pissed and I'd believe it.

Love it either way.

They almost have to, unless Cody is pulling double duty against them both on back to back nights. Rock really took the piss out of Cody and his fans numerous times tonight, then finished it with that bitch slap.

Yep. Rousing round of applause for the way it's been handled so far. They still have time to **** it up before the finish line but for the first time in a long, long, long time I think they've earned the benefit of the doubt.

What are they going to do with the title though?

Winner takes all match. That's why Seth is in.

OR you do tag match night one, then Roman/Rhodes and Seth/EC Winner night two.

So if Cody and Seth lose then Rock is the new HWC? ROFL That would be the ultimate swerve. It won't happen...but still.

LMAO Reading around at all the folks bitching that Seth got 'buried'. Dude just got thrown into the mix of the most intriguing storyline in literal years. If anyone got buried it was Roman. He looked completely subservient to the Rock.

I love that Roman talks shit about Dusty Rhodes and then gets pissed when his family is brought up.

Highly recommended for anyone that didn't catch it live.

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Saw a theory on Reddit.

Rock/Roman vs Cody/Seth at Elimination chamber. They could do winner gets the match. Also gives them an opportunity to do Rock vs Seth at WM.

LMAO Anyone else see Rock glaring daggers at Punk while he's talking about how Cody should've punched him in the face? It's kind of hilarious and horrifying at the same time.

Yeah you don't talk shit about Dusty!

The Lethal Weapon Steve Blackman

That's Steve Blackman to you pal.

They're definitely setting up a Rock turn on Roman at WM.

This whole idea is just getting to be more of a cluster....

Damn

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He got diagnosed with dementia some years back, being diagnosed with that in your 50s is not good.

Fail to not post the meme

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