There are 7 Weeks between EC and WM29...

[BigJerichool222]

That's more than 30 days, and assuming Rock doesn't work house shows or defend it on TV, would it be perfectly legal to strip him of the title for not defending it or does the scheduled match with Cena somehow void that?

David Otunga being a legal aid to Vickie and getting The Rock stripped of the title randomly during the buildup would be amazing.

[Cronant]

Punk went over 30, so as long as the Rock's WM match is set up, they'll ignore it.

[Herman The Tosser]

It's pretty much a rule they only enforce if it suits them to. Rock won't be stripped, unless he breaks a limb or something.

[Jimmy]

Seems to me WWE shot their wad too soon. Should have held off on Rock winning the WWE Title until Elimination Chamber so you have less days/weeks of an absent champion. Of course, their way gets them two buyrates worth of Punk vs. Rock, but you could have had Punk retain at the Rumble and then drop it at the Chamber.

[Sparkybob]

Feb 3, 2013 16:57:26 GMT -5 Jimmy said:

Seems to me WWE shot their wad too soon. Should have held off on Rock winning the WWE Title until Elimination Chamber so you have less days/weeks of an absent champion. Of course, their way gets them two buyrates worth of Punk vs. Rock, but you could have had Punk retain at the Rumble and then drop it at the Chamber.

But then Punk has a rematch clause for his title and there will be no ideal for him to use it for if it's not mania. So with the way they are doing it now, allows punk to get out of the title picture by Mania and set up Rock/Cena twice in a lifetime.

[Cronant]

Either the Rock wins it the first time or not at all. The rematch would take so much steam off of it. They built the Rumble match as big so thats the match the switch happens.