Solomonster Reviews WWE WrestleMania 40: Behind the Curtain Documentary
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 8. 07. 2024
- Solomonster reviews the WWE WrestleMania XL: Behind the Curtain documentary documenting the drama around Roman Reigns, The Rock, Cody Rhodes, Seth Rollins and Paul Levesque as creative changed on the road to Mania.
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The Rock saying: âWell the GLOBAL audience wanted to see me versus Reigns but the smaller and more vocal segment of the WWE audience wanted Cody and I didnât want to upset them.â was the most glaring example of someone trying to rationalize a situation to protect their own ego. He just doesnât want to admit that the people rejected what he was initially offering them.
I donât think he said that lol
@@reddragon0624I love that He made it seem like it was only like 10% of the audience. When in reality lots of polls were done, that suggested over 70% of the audience wanted Cody to face Roman.
@@ashleydominiak9059 He actually did. He's slightly paraphrasing, but this is essentially what the rock meant.
â@@ashleydominiak9059That is exactly what he said. 'A segment of the audience', is the phrase I think. It really stuck to those who listened without the bias of Rock the hero.
@@ashleydominiak9059yes he did, in the documentary the timestamps are from 23:50 to 25:20 Rock says exactly what reddragon says he does
The reason Rock didn't know fan backlash would be so bad is because he doesn't watch the show. Business was big with what was going on, and it's like he didn't know that and thought he needed to save the company from where it was before
Which just goes to show how self-absorbed the rock really is. He really thought that he could just walk into the main event of Wrestlemania regardless of what was going on.
He probably thought the product was still in its ice cold 2018-2020 era
@@philly_sports1558crazy, he was brought on as a board director and he doesnt even know the current business
He probably really didnât know about Cody either
The problem here is that when it came to Hollywood over the last few years Dwayne has gotten it handed to him. He kept running up to the higher ups over Black Adam and he basically got tossed aside. The thing he did with Ari Emanual and Nick Kahn he did with the executives with the Black Adam thing and it might've worked had the fans not revolted against the idea of basically, "Screw Cody! We want The Rock." Dwayne assumed the fans would be fine with that. He was wrong on both counts.
Rock: "So, the year is 2007. I meet this kid. Not the best looking kid... sorta reminded me of a mid-carder from a different wrestling promotion. But, his voice. THAT was the money. I told this kid 'you may look like a monster, but you've got a perfect face for the radio' ... you gotta sound off. Then it clicked. I told him to call it Solomonster Sounds Off."
And then Rock said, "Jason should cover the WM 40: Behind the Curtain Documentary"
And he did I love this meme
"I was the one to tell Bret to spit in McMahons face in Montreal" đ
âI was the one that told Vince to screw Bretâ
When The Rock talked about his âdecisionâ to let Cody finish his story, you can tell it still bothers the fuck out of him
He should stop being fake and try to be a better actor
He had no choice. He already had heat with the Maui situation, he knew he had to give away this time. And still the mf got a W in Night One đ
I think he honestly thought that the fans would change their minds and that they would've been fine if Cody went on to face Seth Rollins and he went onto face Roman. I honestly think he thought that the fans loved him more and would be fine with him hijacking a match two years in the making. He was attempting to hijack Wrestlemainia the same way the fans hijacked his social media after this nonsense happened.
The man who had the most charisma of all time has become such a boring and manufactured PR bot. The pivot and Final Boss character let him show the first bit of actual personality weâve seen from him in years, but offscreen heâs still a total robot. He came off as so sanitized and not genuine in his talking head bits. You can tell that even though it worked out amazingly in the end that it was very tough for his ego to not waltz in and get the king treatment from the fans.
I'm glad things worked out the way they did but I really love The Rock & Brian Gewartz delusion in all this đ đ
1.) The fact that Cody was told he was winning the Royal Rumble and that he would get his main event taken from him (which is the equivalent to telling a kid you're getting a gift you always wanted but it was destroyed upon delivery) & somehow Gewartz thought that Cody should be happy about that somehow đ đ
2.) They really thought that taking a story that had been built up for over 2 years and just blowing it 2 months before the payoff would have been a good idea đđđđ
He wasn't the only delusional person involved here. I think the king of deluded thinking in of all this was Dwayne Johnson. On what planet did this seem like such a great idea? I guess after getting dropped on his ass, in the metaphorical power struggle between him and the DC,or Marvel, Universe the dumb frick thought,"Gee, let me run back to the one place where everyone likes me and will give me my way." We all saw how well that nonsense turned out.
After watching this documentary and listening to this, I can safely say that Brian Gewirtz is the new Kevin Dunn.
Brian is just a script writer, he doesnât know shit about cameras đ€Ł Kevin Dunn was the guy running the cameras for Vince.. but anyway they are all asholes
Kevin Dunn never booked anything he just did the cameras
ââ@@BLGClipsx
And Kevin Dunn served as an executive producer and he became Vince's right hand man.
The same goes with Brian Gewirtz when the Rock made him his no. 2 at Seven Bucks.
Yup. Heâs Kevin Dunn with slightly better teeth and the dress sense of a hobo in a tent city.
Does he have Bucky beaver fucking teeth as well?
Triple H obviously out-politicked Dwyane. He booked Cody to win the Rumble because he knew what the fan reaction would be to him not getting his deserved shot. He did the opposite of what Vince did for years and leveraged negative fan reaction to his advantage.
HHH is a moron
Ahhh...that's not nessicarily true. I honestly think that it came down to the fact that the fans were fping pissed at Dwayne. Go look at his social media around the time that this was happening. Hell,his daughter to delete her social media account because people were torching her dad. It was not pretty! It was not about the politicking. It was about the fans being pissed at Dwayne for thinking he had a right to demand this when he didn't do a fricking thing to earn it. This was a move the Dwayne had made before. He tried th crap with Black Adam and didn't work. He tried it with Ari Emanual and Nick Kahn and while it might've worked it wasn't ever going to. The fans basically hijacked it and would've hijacked the main event and booed Dwayne out of the building.
@@dawnclark4635 No, he has a point. The Rockâs head writer, a goof named Brian Gewirtz, went on Busted Open Radio last month and said he didnât originally want Cody to win the Rumble because it would have put Cody in play to main event Mania instead of Rock. He actually pitched Punk winning the Rumble, but Hunter overruled him and booked Cody to win instead because he felt that if Cody didnât win the Rumble, it would damage Cody in the fansâ eyes. By winning the Rumble, it gave Cody legitimacy to challenge Roman at Mania. Which led to fans getting angry when Rock just came out the streets and tried to shove Cody aside to take the main event himself.
So Hunter outplayed Rockâs team on the chess board. âïž
@@Jeff_Pryce I still don't see it that way. How did he outpolitick him when Rock was going over his head to Arie Emanual and Nick Kahn? It didn't matter what Triple H wanted. He would've had to deal with it if the fans had been ignored and they went through with that flippin' travesty of an idea. I really think that what moved this in a different direction was the fact that the fans picked up on Cody's reaction to the situation, the utter lack of basic common sense,and the way things were being done. It seemingly hardly had anything with Triple H outpoliticking Rock and more to do with the fans reaction to the utter stupidity on display by Rock and Braindead Bryan.
@@dawnclark4635Cody still needed an advocate in the board room. Triple H was that advocate. The fans pushed the direction, but without Triple H making the strategic moves he made to put Cody in a position of legitimacy and strength, it would have been disastrous for Cody. Having Cody win the Rumble gave fans hope that Cody would finish his story; when Rock took it away, fans were furious because it wasnât fair that Cody WON the Royal Rumble, legitimately earned his main event title match at Mania, yet was being cast aside while Rock, who didnât even enter the Rumble, suddenly got top billing in the main event of Mania.
Triple H recreated the backlash fans felt in 2018 when Becky Lynch worked from scratch for her title shot only to lose it to Charlotte, who was basically gifted the same title shot because âsheâs Charlotte Flair.â Thus making Cody seem like the plucky underdog hero while casting Rock as a privileged douche. And the fans did the rest.
Black Adam and the DCCU failing the way it did probably did a lot to get to the Rocks ego and he didn't want to be associated with another failure with Mania.
It's literally the same situation with the same result. Only in this case it wasn't the executives saying,"No,Dwayne you're not in charge of this." It was literally the fans revolting against him. It was the fans saying,"You out of touch moron! We don't want you. We're fine with you facing Roman but not at the expense of Cody." and it's a shame that a guy who grew up in this is this ignorant to how the fans and is acting a sanctimonious jerk.
The Rock memes are hilarious đ
CM Punk directly caused the 2 best main events in the history of WrestleMania. If he doesn't walk out, Daniel Bryan doesn't go on to win. If Punk doesn't get injured, WWE uses a fake injury storyline for Cody and the negative crowd reaction would lessen significantly and things wouldn't have gotten changed. Crazy.
I love that, but I wouldnât put either main event over the mania 20 triple threat, Taker/Michaels 26, Rock/Austin 2, or (and I know Iâm in the minority here) the iron man at mania 12.
Still Punk has had a surprising level of influence over huge matches heâs not even in.
*"It boggles my mind that you never had Daniel Bryan in your plans to be in the main event of WrestleMania because (2014) is his fucking year... and he deserves it. And you want to give it to Batista and Randy?"*
Punk already KNOW how massively over Bryan was ever since that feud with the Authority in 2013 and WWE tried to distance themselves from that storyline when Batista returned, making Bryan feuding with the Wyatt Family, and trying to set up CM Punk vs Triple H in that December.
And the original plans for WrestleMania 30 are beyond insulting. You got that Batista vs Randy Orton main event but it's laughable to think that Daniel Bryan, the hottest thing in wrestling in 2013, would face Sheamus is such a good idea.
For that and many other reasons, I hold Punk in such high regard. Twice in ten years in huge milestone Wrestlemanias, he altered the landscape and helped deliver a moment that fans REALLY wanted as opposed to what blind suits and ties wanted.
The first one was intentional, as he was actively telling Vince the night he walked out that if Punk wasnât going to get the main event of Wrestlemania, they should have at least given it to Bryan, who was WHITE HOT the last year, and that it was BS that they werenât even CONSIDERING Bryan for the main event.
The second one was more tragic; Punk was back, Vince was gone, his star had become bigger than ever, he was finally recognized as the megastar he is, all the stars had FINALLY aligned for him to achieve his dream of main eventing Wrestlemania, he was right at the 5 yard lineâŠand then one DDT from Drew McIntyre, of all people, ruined everything. It took him out of action as of today until SummerSlam. Yet his injury caused HUGE ripple effects. Aside from giving us the Punk vs Drew feud, the hottest feud in wrestling, it opened the door for Cody to complete one of the most important storylines in many years: FINISHING HIS STORY. Instead of Rock and his goofy writerâs convoluted booking, Cody has now taken his place as the face of the WWE. Rock-Roman will have a BETTER and BIGGER storyline. And Punk will still get the chance to main event Wrestlemania in Las Vegas next April-the site of the Pipebomb, the promo that made him famous-if we avoid any more stupid disasters. đ€ It would be a beautiful full circle moment.
CM Punk: the hero we needed, and deserved. đ«Ą
That is indirectly, not directly lol
@@TheSHIELDCap What gave me respect for Punk was that it would have been very easy for him to just shut up, take the Triple H match and he would have had a HUGE Wrestlemania payday from it since it would have been the second biggest match on the card.
But instead, he not only turned the match down, but he advocated for Bryan to get the main event. And he walked away from a multimillion dollar contract to prove his point, forcing them to change their plans. Some greedier wrestlers, like Kevin Nash, would have laughed it off and taken the money. But not Punk.He basically sacrificed his career so that we could see Daniel Bryan get the moment he deserved. And it was one of the best Wrestlemania moments of all time.
Thankfully, through a series of small miracles, we got Punk back; and fate may still reward Punk with a Wrestlemania main event of his own next year.đ
We should all thank the rock for putting out the fire that HE started. What a hero.
The Rock being THAT tone deaf just shows how much that he should NOT take over creative....ever
I just cannot wrap my brain around the level of disrespect he's seemingly showing to Triple H. I mean his second greatest rivalry and the guy who helped him reach the next level and he treats the man like crap. You would think after all these years Rock would show Triple H the respect he deserves and sit down with the man and discuss it. This stuff is booked out for months and there's absolutely no way Dwayne doesn't know that but it just shows how much of an egotist Rock is. He wasn't talking to Triple H and trying to further this. He was going to Ari Emnaual and Nick Kahn. They don't care about creative! They want money and the mainstream attention that Dwayne would bring. Forget that Triple H is there trying to run creative and keep things movin At the end of the day none of this really matters to Dwayne. He'll go make his movies,promote his partnerships, and shill his shitty tequilla.
I don't believe for a second that HHH had Cody win and point at Roman after winning the RR cause he thought it would hurt Cody to lose đ. HHH banked on crowd backlash would being strong enough with Rock taking Cody's spot. That it would put Cody in the title match.
This is my conspiracy as well. Especially because Triple H saw a similar situation play out 10 years prior with Daniel Bryan
ââ@@reddragon0624Rock may have more money, but Triple H is a mastermind when it comes to backstage politics.
âThat-uhhh donât work-ahhhh for me-uhhhh, Dwayne.â
Completely agree here, The Cerebral Assassin knew exactly what he was doing .I think Triple H did everything he could to get his guy back in the Main Event, and have the match he needed to have happen.
@@kevinh5780 Triple H has some pretty damn badass nicknames. The Cerebral Assassin perfectly sums up how he played the Rock for a fiddle.
What made me angry was that Rock and his goofy writer were so caught up in their own agenda that they truly didnât look at Cody as a star.
Gewirtz has even said that âto me, Codyâs story was the title and not Wrestlemania, so that could be completed at any other time.â NO, Brian, you clown, Wrestlemania was a HUGE part of Codyâs story. Having someone that out of touch with the product near the pencil is Vince McMahon levels of dangerous.
For me it's a list of things that Rock did that were just so disrespectful to the five men who were at the center of this. He disrespected Cody by not thinking he was important enough to warrent just going along with what had been done, he went over Triple H's head to get what he wanted regardless of the work that had been done, he made Seth Rollins look like a frickin' joke and he even reduced Roman Reigns to a lesser by making himself the center of the fued. It became less about the titles, Cody's quest for the title,Seth's match with Drew Mcintyre and more about Rock. I didn't get Peacock to watch Dwayne Johnson. I couldn't care less and considering what a whooping egotistical douche he seems to be I care even less now.
â@@dawnclark4635the Rock's gone since WM 20 and nowdays he is Dwayne Johnson that only gives a shit about his own ego.
I do not believe for a second that rock was as selfless like he claims he was.
He wants you to believe that, he also has a legion of equally fake pr people to curate his public image
Of course he wasn't. Rock has to consider his bottomline. Think about it like this. WWE is not Rock's top priority. Putting him on the board was a way of drawing attention to it but he's got his production company,he's got his movies,he's got his tequilla and if he wants to market those things to us,The fans,he can't expect them to buy his stuff if we're all collectively pissed at him and thinking,"F*ck him! I'm not buying his crap." Besides, the fans pay for Peacock,the fans buy tickets and who would've bought tickets to watch that trash he was spewing? He was damned if he kept going with that!
Oh god the return of âtheyâŠputâŠtheirâŠpencilsâŠdownđ€šâ đ
I just canât get over how Rock all of a sudden decided that NOW was the best time for him to come back. Not in the doldrums of 2017-2021 where he actually would have been needed. Now when the product is as hot as itâs been in over 20 years with multiple credible top stars that the people care about. The timing was immaculately bad.
What product was hot? You are delusional as most WWE fans. The product was far from hot. The Bloodline was the most interesting thing WWE had going. Everything else was par at best.
@@abc...7407reading is not your best I see.
@@abc...7407Thatâs why they are even selling out house shows? Maybe you got confused with Rampage
2017-2021 his movies were successful so he didnât need to come back to WWE. He only came back because Black Adam flopped and there was a Hollywood strike.
Some of the stuff that came out was that he decided that WrestleMania needed this after the Vince stuff came out. He wanted to take the focus off of it. I don't think the US government gives a damn if The Rock faces Roman Reigns. For the first time in a really long time the WWE has a person on their roster that the fans genuinely like and wanted to see reach their goal but instead that damn near got blown apart by one guy thinking his crap didn't stink and the rest of us would be fine with inhaling the fumes.
It feels like nobody outside of Rock wanted this documentary to come out. Roman is the main consistent person in that build and he is talking the same way he does in his Instagram videos while working out and being completely in character.
What I really wanted to see was the interaction between the boys. Excluding Dwayne of course, he is not one of them.
I wanted to see backstage with Cody and Seth because that dynamic is so intriguing to me since it always seems like they are fighting for the same spot almost.
I got nothing of that. Instead I got Dwayne and his Samoan cousin, who is not his actual cousin, blowing each other off.
Rock came off as a giant douche in this documentary đ you can tell they way he was talking about his final boss character Rock is never losing clean in wwe probably has that fast and furious contract in place he thinks highly of himself which is bad because he essentially has the book so itâs only a matter of time before rock gets the belt đ
Now we know why Tyrese and Vin hated him so much.
I think what happened was HHH was playing both sides. He was gonna go along with what Rock wanted to do(Rock vs Roman)but would book Cody in a way that might generate fan backlash ie winning the Rumble and pointing at Roman. That way if the fans revolted he'd have the chance to push for what he really wanted to do(Roman vs Cody) in an organic way, therefore making Rock more willing to listen. Once again Triple H proved why he is the game.
A cerebral assassin if you will
đ€Łđ€Łđ€Ł wrestling fans now making up narratives to please themselves.
How much of a choice did he really have? His father in law is not the boss anymore. TKO is. Ari Emanual and Nick Kahn are the ones Dwayne was running to and they were probably pushing for this despite what the fans wanted. I honestly think what saved this was Cody going out and looking like a kid who popped out to the catcher during their world champion little league game. When he went out he could not fake it and it's actually a good thing he didn't! I will give Dwayne credit for one thing and that is he leaned into the final boss and allowed them to go back to Cody. If it wasn't for that it would've been The Rock vs Roman and Cody would've been relegated to the match with Rollins or pulled completely. Honestly,with The Rock running up to Ari Emanual and Nick Kahn without talking to Triple H about any of it just strikes me as so disrespectful. All the years,all the matches those two had and you're going to go clear over the head of the guy you had one of your best rivalries with and Dwayne doesn't seem to respect the man enough to say,"Hey. Paul,let's work this together." It's a total dick move.
@@dawnclark4635 It wasnât just one thing that allowed Cody to finish his story. It was many things. A perfect storm had to come together to allow for him to overcome the political maneuvers backstage to become WWE Champion at Mania;
-Punkâs injury
-Triple H booking Cody to win the Rumble against pressure not to
-Cody looking defeated after Rock took his spot on Smackdown
-the fan backlash
All of these things had to happen for Cody to finish his story, much like a lot of parts had to move for Daniel Bryan to get his moment 10 years ago.
Waiting for Rock to claim that this review was his idea.
He'll just ignore it but come back when it conveniences him to mention it
Cody drinking Wheatleyâs Vodka made me đ you could tell that was put together make sure you drinking Wheatleyâs there are sponsor
It really makes you start to lean into the idea that all of these issues that people have had with Rock in Hollywood - both in front of and behind the camera - are absolutely true. Rock's ego is beyond a problem...and it's only going to get worse with him being on the board of directors.
Here's the thing. Dwayne has tried to run to executives and try to take charge of things and it's such crap. He did it with Black Adam and it went over the like a fart in an elevator and he tried it here. I think the only thing that saved Cody in this was the expression on his face when he was leaving the ring that night and the fact that the fans literally laid into Dwayne. I find this whole situation with Triple H to be pretty crappy of Rock as well. If you look back Triple H was probably his second greatest rival and rather than showing respect for the man who you had some great matches with, who reached the next level with you you go over his head to push this idea? I mean Triple H has made the WWE his career. He's working to give the fans something to entertain them and he's been doing that for a while now. The Rock goes and makes movies,he has a production company,he's got a tequilla company. Triple H made the WWE a priority and Dwayne seems to view it as an afterthought.
The man who had the most charisma of all time has become such a boring and manufactured PR bot. The pivot and Final Boss character let him show the first bit of actual personality weâve seen from him in years, but offscreen heâs still a total robot. He came off as so sanitized and not genuine in his talking head bits. You can tell that even though it worked out amazingly in the end that it was very tough for his ego to not waltz in and get the king treatment from the fans.
And Rock was like "Dude, I know you are hungry, but do NOT eat that Wuhanese bat"
The rock said he used to wrestle 400 days a year.
Truly Hoganesque
...Brother
I beat scissors but I put paper over brother
I think the Rock thought the fans wouldn't be upset with him because he's the Rock and they love him and was too big to get boo'ed and was surprised when they did.
Exactly! He thought,"Well, the fans have wanted this for years and they love me so let's do this." For the first time in a long time WWE has a roster the fans are invested in and the fans bought into Cody. Imagine if they had made him wait another year! It would've been a disaster.
This aint the rock though, this is dwayne johnson pretending to be the rock, and DJ DEEPLY cares about his public image, which has taken a hit due to his diva-ness in hollywood, and his political shilling
He wonât admit it but Triple H knew what he was doing by booking Cody to win the Rumble. Cody was allegedly told not to point at Roman after he won, he did anyway & then the promo he cut the following Monday. Triple H didnât want his plans ruined & he was giving Cody multiple opportunities to prove he was super over.
Edit: I was unaware of the Logan Paul podcast appearance, Triple H & Cody executed their roles brilliantly
I love that Cody pointed at Roman.
On Twitter, they released the audio of that moment.
Cody was standing triumphantly on the turnbuckle after winning the Rumble, pointed at Roman with determination blazing in his eyes and declared his intentions, yelling âYOU! YOU! ROMAN REIGNS! *_YOU_* !â
And a worried Roman looked at Paul Heyman, who swallowed, whispered âShow himâ, and then handed Roman the title. Roman finds his bravado, holds up the title, and shouts back at Cody, âYou ainât _EVER_ going to get this!â
Pure. Cinema.
anyone else think Hunter & Cody were playing 3D chess w Rock & Ari?
"I told Jason "you should start a wrestling podcast, people will love it" and he did"
So, Cody was supposed to act like some happy little mark to just step aside for the all mighty rock...just....smh.
If they wanted Rock vs Roman then making Cody win the Rumble made no sense. They should've just had Cody explain why he would pick Seth.
The Rock once took credit for achieving peace in the Middle East.
13:40 - 13:51 I swear if they just dug in their heels and went along with their plans and ignored the crowd this literally would've made this shit show of the 2014 Road to WrestleMania with D-Bry look like a mere irritantance đ
In an alternate universe it would have been Cody Rhodes facing Sheamus in the 4th match on Night 1 of Mania this year.
The Rock was also going to play bass for Metallica brother.
This sounds like The Rock was trying to "Black Adam" the company and he got so much backlash for it.
That's exactly it and in both instances he didn't work! It would've worked here but the fans weren't having it.
This documentary should have been called âHow The Rock Became The Final Bossâ with cameos from Cody & Roman.
They clearly tried to put perfume on Bullshit, starring DWAYNE.
If you smelalalalalalala the bullshit.
The rock is trying to take hogans crown as the biggest and most hilarious liar to ever walk this earth
Canât wait for Solomonster to cover the latest Hulk hogan controversy
Bro, you just set up the perfect set up for Rock vs Roman. Id eat all that up if Rock returned for wargames and turned on Roman
Only Bray Wyatt should have beat Roman Reigns for the Universal Championship that he was never pinned for. Cody's story was with the WWE Championship, and Roman's thing was with the Universal Championship. It's a tragedy that Bray wasn't able to do it because of his tragic passing.
That sports analogy at around the 13:30 mark is spot on.
I wish they cover the rest of the mania card and see how it affected their current plans going into this year like where would drew Cody Sami be on the card if they did go with rock vs roman and if cm punk didnât get injured
Drew would've faced Sami. Because Drew took Sami out for 6 weeks and that was the angle, I guess.
@@anthonyrivera2306 we knew Gunther was going to face Brock before the whole janelle grant thing happened and if Sami beat Gunther the question is does that mean Brock was going to beat Gunther then
@@sophiedophie I don't think so, I think Gunther wouldn't have won KOTR while he was IC champion, but I think Bron would've taken the title off him, so basically what Bron is doing now with Sami, but with Gunther.
@@anthonyrivera2306 I wondered if Seth vs cm punk was going to happen does that mean Cody wrestles both nights
@@sophiedophie At first, there were rumors of Cody wrestling both nights, night 1 vs Rock (if Rock wins, triple threat) and Night 2 title match.
Great work, Solo! (Monster)
Delusional was definitely the right word you used.
Cody almost certainly was about to experience the âRoad to WrestleMania CM Punk Experienceâ as laid out by Punk months ago. What a crazy situation. Thank god it worked out for Cody.
I wonder if they would of had Cody be like the guest referee in the Roman and rock match
I'm thinking the same thing.
That somehow would've seemed worse. You would've had him in the ring,staring at the title he earned a shot at,handing that shot off to Rock and then acting like it didn't bother him while he refreed the match that might've saw him place that title into the hands of the Hollywood pinhead who took it from him.
And that's when Dwayne turned around and said hey Vin Diesel I want to get you a part of my new movie call The fast and the furious all about family
The Rock= Hulk Hogan 2.0
"Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth" - The Rock
Im glad WWE somehow someway didnt pull a disney star wars and piss away the hardcore audience in exchange for casuals
Rock and Gerwartz taking over will be like Vince and Dunn 2.0. WWE would be a DISASTER.
Could be worse even. Vince was willing to look the fool and do jobs and wasn't as egregious with the nepotism.
â@@Majere3 Vince wasn't egregious with nepotism? Have you seen the attitude era? The authority? Wrestlemania 2000. Not to mention most of the Samoan nepotism is due to vince too.
This was a bad look on their part but I wouldn't go that far just yet
I think it would be more like Russo and Ferrara, or even Hogan and Bischoff
@@Majere3 if you thought Vince didn't believe in nepotism then you clearly missed 2003 when the mcmahons were all over the product
Hey guys im a huge fan of Solomonster......i hope you can do a review of Moose's potential.....if he changes promotion to AEW or WWE
Big guy with big presence. I think he would do well.
The Rock suggested to Nelson Mandela to run for President of South Africa
The rock ones ended racism
Cocky is already running it
You know, listening to this and drawing pictures on my head, I really hope Cody gets done with Rock and his little family soon. It's a political swamp. Let him and his cousin have their childhood fantasy.
Rickâs cousin Roman is levels ahead of Cody so you talking bullshit. Even right now by every social media metric, solo and his bloodline are outdrawing Cody on smackdown
Rickâs cousin Roman is levels ahead of Cody so you talking bullshit. Even right now by every social media metric, solo and his bloodline are outdrawing Cody on Smackdown
Jey uso is more over than Cody. So donât disrespect the goat wresting family
@@cashmontoks Cody has been selling out shows and merchandise all year, tf you talking about? đ
@@cashmontoks okay but what does that have to do with the situation the Rock put everyone in? He was going over Triple H's head,Triple H said he had booked everything out for months, he made Cody and Seth look like second tier talent and he even made his cousin seem less then in his presence. If Roman is further ahead of Cody wouldn't it be better to have him wrestle the guy whose been working his way back to main event rather then wrestling the guy who hijacked it and basically had him standing next to him in the ring as an afterthought? Whenever Rock was on Smackdown in the ring with Roman, Roman may have been the head of the table but in those moments he seemed like less of the champion,less of the head of the table and more of the guy standing next to the bigger talent.
Didn't the Grant case start around 39?
Why would Rock want to have his name attached to the company at a time like that?
Maybe I have my time table wrong and admittedly too lazy to care and look her up. But it would make sense when you think about it if the timing is right
The small clip shown during MITB was so cringe. Painfully obvious Rock was doing damage/PR control
I crack up at the idea that Rock was upset that a small majority of the fans weren't happy. If that was the case then he could've sat down with Triple H,pitched the idea,had it rejected and he wouldn't be doing damage control or PR as a result of this idiotic,travesty of an idea.
I learned from this documentary how the rock was responsible for the moon landing. Wild, I didnât even think he was alive for that but apparently he was the brains behind the whole operation
The rock once said that Hulk Hogan was his hero. Yeah we can see where the ego stuff comes from. But overall Iâm glad we got the ending at Wrestlemania 40 as watching it at legends was one of the greatest experiences Iâve witnessed
The Rock told Howard Stern it would be a great idea to goad Biden into an early debate.
While I enjoyed the documentary on one level, on another I thought the Rock came across as quite disingenuous and a bit of an egomaniac. This whole narrative that everything that happened was a result of his own doing, like it was all his own idea.
A bit? Yeah. The guy who has it in his contract on how many punches he has to take in a fight, can't lose a fight fight in a movie while he's in character, and thought that pulling the main event from the most over guy in the company he's on the board of directors of is only a bit of an egomaniac. You're too kind. He's an egotistical jerk.
@@dawnclark4635It took me a long time to forgive Rock since I believe to this day that he stole what should have been my fave CM Punkâs main event against John Cena at WrestleMania 29, which was a big factor in why Punk left for a decade.
But if he had gone through with this, he would have been dead to me. Codyâs story was a LOT more important. We had followed that story for 2 years and wanted to see it concluded. Him rolling up in his limo out of nowhere and inserting himself into a party he was not invited to was disrespectful to Cody and to fans who had waited for Cody to finish his story. Iâll give him a little credit for doing the right thing, but it never should have happened the way it did.
I just find the whole thing galling in that Triple H gave him so much in the ring during the years he was there and instead of him respecting the man for his sacrifices and the fact that he's still there working his tail off to entertain the fans and all he just went over his head and yes,I get it. It's business but what the frick? If Rock really cares about making money and entertaining the fans the travesty of an idea wouldn't have even been something he considered. He claims he cared about the fans? He was ready to screw over his own cousin to line his wallet. He can stop pretending he cares because you can see it. He doesn't.
â@@Jeff_Prycethe Rock's gone since WM 20 and nowdays he is Dwayne Johnson that only gives a shit about his own ego.
Rock already doing the same thing he did at dc instead of going to director he went to the studio executives at Warner bros to get his ideas in the movie so basically hhh is the director and nick khan and ari are the studio executives I can see why people hate working with rock
Edit : well actually rock is kind of hhhs boss so if he really wanted to screw the plans he doesnât have to ask hhh anything
Good point đ, rock was trying his best to go above triple h and sideline the long term story he was telling with cody so he could walk in and take the wrestlemania main event
@@l.s1103 exactly and Iâm glad the fans gave him and his idiot writer no brain giwartz a quick reality check
Lmao what a load of piss đ u haters can't face fact the iconic legendary people's champion the Rock made wm40 so good and btw Rock v Roman was planned since 2015 thats years before a blond jibroni returned but today's fans are Fickle and obviously racist
@@l.s1103why would rock not go about hhh? His hhhâs boss
@@cashmontoks because in all likelyhood had he pitched the idea to Triple H,Triple H would've probably laughed him out of the room. No. In all seriousness he didn't go to Triple H because he wanted to get his way and if Triple H was left to pitch this bogus idea he probably would've argued the point that A.) He had storylines booked out really far in advance and B.) He probably would've been able to show Nick Kahn and Ari Enanual how outright stupid the idea was.
I think the idea was for Cody to fight nakamura if you remember they kept fighting and he kept having these dark back stage promos talking how heâs gonna take everything this person ever dreamed of away but never did anyrhing
To me, itâs seems the rock underestimated the fan love for Cody and thought âoh the fans will be okâ the wrestling world has changed around the rock while heâs been gone and it was a bad move that turned good
good review
I think Rock wanted to go over Roman at 39 and Vince wasnt having itn
Who cares about Vince
@@holdmyweight3597 if you were listening to the video jabroni you would know why I brought Vince up
In hindsight, Iâm glad how everything went down. We got one of the best road to Wrestlemania ever.
The Rock is seriously delusional if he couldnât see how taking Codyâs spot would piss off the entire wrestling community.
Well,then he's hella delusional then.
At the end of WM 50...It'll be the Rock standing tall đ
I still like the Rock as a heel character but I have lost a ton of respect for the man Dwayne Johnson.
Same I like the rock. I love the character but I don't really like Dwayne Johnson, the walking advertisement.
Thankfully they did not go through with Rock VS Roman and it all worked up. We get a year long build-up between Roman and The Rock (who is really in charge of the new Bloodline).
If they went the other direction, I canât believe they couldnât come up with some decent for Cody as a back-up. He would have been stuck in a filler match.
The rock just can't accept the fact he is wrong
Or that the fans basically let him know that his idea sucked.
the Rock's gone since WM 20 and nowdays he is Dwayne Johnson that only gives a shit about his own ego.
Thatâs just goes to show how powerful a fanbase could be. This was about to be another screwjob if they did not speak up. I would not have been hyped at all for a match between two part timers that most knew after WM40 would not be around (WM30 Brock and Goldberg vibes) . The Rock probably hasnât kept up with WWE in years. His ego got bruised. Not gonna lie Iâve kinda lost a bit of respect for him
Honestly, I lost some respect for him, too. Heâs changed. The old Rock was a great guy, a megastar who was not above sharing his light with even lowly midcarders like The Hurricane and Lance Storm.
This new Rock shoves aside deserving stars like Cody and CM Punk to get what he wants.
Iâm so proud of how the fans spoke out. Twice in 10 years, we flexed our power. 10 years ago, when Vince tried to shove Daniel Bryan aside for his bogus main event of Batista vs Randy Orton, we spoke out and said âNO! DANIEL BRYAN IS OUR GUY. And you WILL give him the moment he deserves!â
10 years later when the Rock and his team tried to shove Cody aside to get their dream match, we spoke out: âNO!! F*CK THAT! Cody has earned the right to finish his story! WE WANT CODY!â
Fans united can be a beautiful thing. â€
I can go in on Rock, and rant about how he came off as an egotistical, self diluted prick on this documentary. All I will say is, Cody "finishing the story" was the right decision at the end of the day. I dont care if The Rock is low key mad at this. Just because Black Adam bombed at the box office, doesn't mean you should take your ego out on WWE and try to insert yourself into Roman's orbit, despite the fact you had 9 Wrestlemania's (Especially the one in "Hollywood") to do it, and have a match with him.
Just remember that the more money Mania made,the more Rock did the more money he'd get for the TKO board and himself. He didn't care what the fans wanted. It was blatantly obvious. He wanted to do this because he thought the card would be genuinely better and garner more casual fan cash. He was fine with bending Cody,Roman,Triple H,Seth and the fans over a collective barrel as long as he got paid to do it. He jeopardized the whole thing and pissed off a lot of people for the sake of his own ego and wallet
I think that HHH has more power than people think. The Rock was brought back for two reasons. One Endeavor thinks they can partner with him in projects in the future and in return he gets his intellectual property to use and have a one year talent contract. Two they're trying to bring back fans that were fans of the Rock Cena etc. years ago. That's the main reason for Cena coming back to due one last run in 2025 to keep the product hot and bring back fans to WWE. The title the Rock has as a member of the board of directors is in name only. After his contract expires in a year or two whatever time frame it is the Rock will go back to Hollywood and maybe come back from time to time.
I don't see it. If he had more power than when Rock was running to Arie Emanual and Nick Kahn they could've just turned to him and said,"Go talk to Paul." or "Did you bring this up with Paul?" I'm not saying Triple H had no power but he doesn't have the level of power that Dwayne has in this situation. He was told,"Well,we're gonna pull apart everything you've done and give Rock the shot at Roman." when he had worked for about a year to fix everything Vince mucked up you have to think that it had to piss him off because there was really nothing he could do. The soul saving grace in all of this was the look on Cody's face as he left the ring that night and the fans reaction to it. If not for that Triple H would've had very few options left to fix the mess that Dwayne tried to make.
@@dawnclark4635 I see your point. I also think Dwayne went running crying to his friends Nick and Ari to get his way. He was playing politician.
In my opinion. i donât really wanna see rock v roman . I wanna see cody v rock or rock v randy . Or even a rock v punk again .
10 years from now who do i see closing out Wrestlemania? I think it'll be Bron Breaker.
It worked out in the end but.. Still what a clusterfuck.
I'll write it out as if you were telling somebody what happened and see how ridiculous this sounds. it was a spectacle yes but such a overbooked mess
Ref gets knocked down, Jimmy attacks Cody, Jey attacks Jimmy, Solo attacks Cody, Cena attacks Solo, Rock attacks Cena, Undertaker attacks Rock, Rollins tries to attack Roman and eats a chair to his back for his effort. Cody hits x3 finishers and wins.
I think they skipped over what caused the plans for 39 to fall through because Vince was involved
I bet the idea was bringing Stardust back.
Rock really puts the I in History
Rock is becoming Hogan...Hogan ego at Bash At The Beach time..But regardless the Rock has reason to be full of himself...Cause every time he was on the shows..he overshadowed everyone.
My problem is this: yes, he overshadowed everyone.
But the way he did it was by taking up time for his long winded promos and photobombing almost everything about the main event.
Cody and Roman barely could get a moment together to build just THEIR match without Dwayne popping up and saying his catchphrases and doing his tired shtick grandstanding and hotdogging and stealing all the attention for himself.
It got to the point where I honestly thought the main event should be Cody vs Rock instead of Cody vs Roman since Rock had spent more time building up heat with a match that wasnât booked. đ
Rock running creative in any kind of way? Yeah thats a huge pass for me, mostly because of what he said in this documentary and his views on the whole thing. From what he said he made it sound like he'd get the big match with roman and and cody could wait until after mania or next years WrestleMania to face roman and cody would be ok until then as if no damage could be done in the meantime. Im glad things went the way they did, the right way. Rock vs Roman could've been done already if rock really wanted it, i think rock likes the idea of a match but doesnt really want to commit to having one. Maybe instead of teasing or doing a match with Cody he should just move on and do his match with roman cuz you never know if he'll get another chance.
Honestly, it just shows how out of touch and entitled he really is.
@@dawnclark4635 yep that's exactly how he came across to me as well
This documentary did The Rock no favors. He didnât come off great in this
No. He came off as a selfish,self cented,egotistical a-hole.
If Triple H ever starts his own wrestling business I will definitely support him! He just gets it!
Strange because if CM Punk hadn't got injured. He lost at Royal Rumble but I thought he was going to go on to win at Elimination Chamber to face Seth.
That was the plan. Cody wins the Rumble, Punk wins the Chamber.
@@Jeff_Pryce So basically The Rock (and his ego) disrupted those plans. Just like I thought
Rock has turned into modern day hogan man! The final boss run was great but yeah i just dont like how big his ego is! đŻđŻđŻ
Why not have the bloodline take him out and then the Rock takes the match.
It was embarrassing the way the rock made it seem like he called triple h and said lets pivot and I'll go heel đ No he was torn apart by majority of the wwe audience when he announced the rock vs roman match because it was not what anyone wanted at the time, but if the backlash wasn't so loud rock wouldn't have cared about stepping all over Cody's story and hijacking Cody's main event
It's more embarassing that it ever got to that in the first place. The lack of the ability to read the room here,on the Rock's part is mindblowing. He didn't go to Triple H to talk about it prior to the idea being presented. He went over the man's head and then after literally getting the tequilla booed out of him,his social media starting to look like a dumpster fire and the fans booing him more then he's heard since his Hollywood Rock days he wasn't left with a lot of good options. It was either lean into this or let the fans tear him to shreads.
What if how the way everything played out was how it was written and everything we talk about the pivot and the documentary is the kayfabe? lol. Just a thought
Rollins looks like PAC in this thumbnail lol.
Essentially everyone went into business for themselves.
HHH wanted his original plans (Cody) & to secretly undermine The Rock.
Cody wanted to be overly emotional and get fan support.
Rockâs massive ego wanted everything to be all about him.
Yall still believe this BS pivot story, idk this doc made no sense to me.
The Rock has zero self awareness.
Man Iâm sorry but the Rock is so Damn phony. Thereâs a reason Hollywood is sick of him
Imagine how desperate you have to be to feel validated that after you fail to get executives to go along with an idea you have you pull the same b.s. idea out of your behind one more time to see if it'll work. Let's all hope that Dwayne's done with this idea of going over peoples heads to get his way because that's twice now he hasn't gotten what he wanted.