Rock: *starts talking*

[Gus Richlen Was Wrong]

Roman's face: "pls halp"

The segment wasn't the utter worst but Rock's refusal to keep his shtick short is what helped me start REALLY hating him in 2011. For all the complaints about Roman's segments he gets to the point in less than half the time that Dwayne does. And Roman and Solo looked legit done with Dwayne's shit this time.

Kinda reinforces how much the rematch feud DIDN'T need Dwayne.

[Lizuka #BLM]

Being fair the first 15 minutes of it was eaten up entirely by Roman's slow ass entrance. Still though, yeah, that sucked and spent 40 minutes on a tweet's worth of story progression.

Also not really sure leaning into Roman feeling irrelevant next to Rock is actually helping how irrelevant he is to this story.

[XIII]

Rock was looking gassed from the long assed promo. This dude is going to explode at Wrestlemania. lol

[Gus Richlen Was Wrong]

Mar 1, 2024 22:14:10 GMT -5 XIII said:

Rock was looking gassed from the long assed promo. This dude is going to explode at Wrestlemania. lol

Oh yeah, that match is going to be PISS.

[Lizuka #BLM]

Mar 1, 2024 22:16:14 GMT -5 Gus Richlen Was Wrong said:

Mar 1, 2024 22:14:10 GMT -5 XIII said:

Rock was looking gassed from the long assed promo. This dude is going to explode at Wrestlemania. lol

Oh yeah, that match is going to be PISS.

I'm guessing it's almost entirely going to be Seth vs. Roman.

[BRV]

The one thing I’ve noticed is that whenever someone got sucked into Roman Reigns’ orbit, they felt more important — think Riddle, The Brawling Brutes, LA Knight.

But when someone gets sucked into The Rock’s orbit, they feel less important. Roman Reigns has been champion for nearly 1,300 days and he feels like The Miz during the build to WrestleMania XXVII, just begging people to look at him or pay attention to him.

[mo]

It’s nuts how Roman has basically negative presence compared to The Rock. If the plan is to make him seem irrelevant next to Rock then they’re doing a hell of a job, he’s basically Mania 27 Miz right now when I see him and think “why’s this dude even here?”

[Lizuka #BLM]

Mar 1, 2024 22:29:39 GMT -5 mo said:

It’s nuts how Roman has basically negative presence compared to The Rock. If the plan is to make him seem irrelevant next to Rock then they’re doing a hell of a job, he’s basically Mania 27 Miz right now when I see him and think “why’s this dude even here?”

A big part of the problem is even Cody doesn't seem to care about Roman. He's angry about Rock smacking him, Roman's just the dude he has to beat to get his revenge on Rock.

[The Rick Jericho]

[bearned]

Mar 1, 2024 22:33:13 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

Mar 1, 2024 22:29:39 GMT -5 mo said:

It’s nuts how Roman has basically negative presence compared to The Rock. If the plan is to make him seem irrelevant next to Rock then they’re doing a hell of a job, he’s basically Mania 27 Miz right now when I see him and think “why’s this dude even here?”

A big part of the problem is even Cody doesn't seem to care about Roman. He's angry about Rock smacking him, Roman's just the dude he has to beat to get his revenge on Rock.

Even Seth is making his own title even more irrelevant because he wants to help Cody and not focus on beating DM Hunk.

[Gus Richlen Was Wrong]

Mar 1, 2024 22:37:05 GMT -5 The Rick Jericho said:

*blacks post out*

[The Rick Jericho]

Mar 1, 2024 22:38:44 GMT -5 Gus Richlen Was Wrong said:

Mar 1, 2024 22:37:05 GMT -5 The Rick Jericho said:

*blacks post out*

[Hobby Drifter]

Mar 1, 2024 22:38:44 GMT -5 Gus Richlen Was Wrong said:

Mar 1, 2024 22:37:05 GMT -5 The Rick Jericho said:

*blacks post out*

The universe is healing

[Jonathan Michaels]

Mar 1, 2024 22:26:22 GMT -5 BRV said:

The one thing I’ve noticed is that whenever someone got sucked into Roman Reigns’ orbit, they felt more important — think Riddle, The Brawling Brutes, LA Knight.

But when someone gets sucked into The Rock’s orbit, they feel less important. Roman Reigns has been champion for nearly 1,300 days and he feels like The Miz during the build to WrestleMania XXVII, just begging people to look at him or pay attention to him.

Miz and Jericho about to invite Roman to the “Wrestlemainia third wheel” chat.

[Cyno]

Mar 1, 2024 22:40:26 GMT -5 The Rick Jericho said:

Mar 1, 2024 22:38:44 GMT -5 Gus Richlen Was Wrong said:

*blacks post out*

I don't know why they fix this. It was a German fan with a sign that says "The Rocky The."

["Cane Dewey" Johnson]

Mar 2, 2024 12:31:54 GMT -5 Cyno said:

Mar 1, 2024 22:40:26 GMT -5 The Rick Jericho said:

I don't know why they fix this. It was a German fan with a sign that says "The Rocky The."

[This Player Hating Mothman]

Mar 1, 2024 22:26:22 GMT -5 BRV said:

The one thing I’ve noticed is that whenever someone got sucked into Roman Reigns’ orbit, they felt more important — think Riddle, The Brawling Brutes, LA Knight.

But when someone gets sucked into The Rock’s orbit, they feel less important. Roman Reigns has been champion for nearly 1,300 days and he feels like The Miz during the build to WrestleMania XXVII, just begging people to look at him or pay attention to him.

It's an area of wrestling Rock has f***in' never been good at. He knows how to do his style of promos and it's a style that leaves little room for anyone to feel important beside him or get put over because it's all very much by design centered on him. It might be the nature of his character, but not being a full time guy and the company's top star makes it so much more blatant and abysmal. Paul Heyman will cut promos that make whoever is in the ring with them look like crap, but you'll at least know they're there. Rock all but renders them invisible. It's a very selfish character he never grew out of or developed any further, so him just playing the hits as someone who's allegedly there to bring more to this story (read: take the spotlight) just makes Roman seem like an afterthought to his own record-setting title. He should have taken the hint and bowed out after all the controversy when they put Cody back into the match, and him hanging on to it trying to salvage shit is just highlighting that he should have stayed away entirely. He won't make anyone look good, and if you glory days are over twenty years ago, it's inexcusable for you to be on-screen if your goal isn't to make someone else look good.

[TOK Hehe'd Around & Found Out]

Mar 2, 2024 12:49:24 GMT -5 This Player Hating Mothman said:

Mar 1, 2024 22:26:22 GMT -5 BRV said:

The one thing I’ve noticed is that whenever someone got sucked into Roman Reigns’ orbit, they felt more important — think Riddle, The Brawling Brutes, LA Knight.

But when someone gets sucked into The Rock’s orbit, they feel less important. Roman Reigns has been champion for nearly 1,300 days and he feels like The Miz during the build to WrestleMania XXVII, just begging people to look at him or pay attention to him.

It's an area of wrestling Rock has f***in' never been good at. He knows how to do his style of promos and it's a style that leaves little room for anyone to feel important beside him or get put over because it's all very much by design centered on him. It might be the nature of his character, but not being a full time guy and the company's top star makes it so much more blatant and abysmal. Paul Heyman will cut promos that make whoever is in the ring with them look like crap, but you'll at least know they're there. Rock all but renders them invisible. It's a very selfish character he never grew out of or developed any further, so him just playing the hits as someone who's allegedly there to bring more to this story (read: take the spotlight) just makes Roman seem like an afterthought to his own record-setting title. He should have taken the hint and bowed out after all the controversy when they put Cody back into the match, and him hanging on to it trying to salvage shit is just highlighting that he should have stayed away entirely. He won't make anyone look good, and if you glory days are over twenty years ago, it's inexcusable for you to be on-screen if your goal isn't to make someone else look good.

But it isn't how he always was, that's the crazy part. He was always more than capable of completely stalling someone from being viewed as a threat with one promo (Dear God, it's me Billy) but he was also able to get guys way over as a heel. He got the Hurricane gimmick over for like 3 years after a 3-week feud that was only on Raw. He's rusty and so used to having to try to put himself over because that's what his whole persona is, but also it's the story they're trying to tell and so far they're moving it along either way too slowly or simply. Let's see if they can actually get Roman his juice back.

[schma]

I'm not watching a 40 minute promo. Hell I can't be arsed to watch the 15 minute version they put on the wwe website. I watched about 3 minutes, that was good enough. I kinda feel like Cody with that instagram rant he did a couple days ago.

[ChitownKnight]

I’ve enjoyed Heel Rocky, but he shouldn’t be overshadowing Roman. I hope Roman and Cody have a couple one on one promo at some point