How On Earth Can The Rock Have a Match Longer Than 15 Min???

[LiamMcDuggle]

Just a non-Cody angle to this:

The Rock's nearly 52, and he gassed out within 5 min of his last real match 10 years ago. He also tore his peck 2 minutes into the match and Cena was left to carry him for 20+ min (which I don't really believe now, as Triple H had the same injury and their reactions are insanely different)

Here is what has happened to guys The Rock's current age who have wrestled recently. All these guys were within two years of 52

-Triple H, blew his peck, had the worst matches of his career
-Shawn Michaels, came back, had the worst match of his career
-Kane See above
-Undertaker vs Roman, Taker was out of shape and it's regarded as the worst Main Event in WM history
-Sting, broke his ribs against Seth
-Goldberg, concussed himself, dropped Taker on his head 



The odds of this match sucking are fairly high. Ric Flair and Jericho are literally the only example of someone that age having a good match, but their matches were always against younger talent, who were also known as "workers" (Omega, Randy, Shawn, etc). 

[Lizuka #BLM]

The Mania 36 main event was 4 minutes long. That's what they'll do.

[LiamMcDuggle]

Feb 3, 2024 3:39:56 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

The Mania 36 main event was 4 minutes long. That's what they'll do.

With a crowd, that'll be much harder to get away with

[Lizuka #BLM]

Feb 3, 2024 3:43:59 GMT -5 LiamMcDuggle said:

Feb 3, 2024 3:39:56 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

The Mania 36 main event was 4 minutes long. That's what they'll do.

With a crowd, that'll be much harder to get away with

There's always the old, "F*** you, we already got your money."

[hitman777]

It'll be all smoke and mirrors........

Lots of gaga, brawling in the crowd, Solo & Jimmy helping Roman, Jey helping Rock.

Boy will it suck.

[UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm]

I’d say go back to what they did during the pandemic with a movie styled match but with it involving the rock that would just guarantee nobody watches it.

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

Feb 3, 2024 3:49:55 GMT -5 hitman777 said:

It'll be all smoke and mirrors........

But Cody is no longer involved!!

[Fade]

The probability of him getting injured is so high it’s unintentionally kind of hilarious.

When rock came back i thought they’d do a tribal warfare nodq match to cover up for rocks state ala Austin/KO. Now? Pfft f***. I dunno. A lot of stalling? It’s not even taking into consideration that Roman ain’t exactly bulletproof either.

Roman could go Shawn-in-Hogan/HBK.

[Chiral]

-staredown for 5 min
-Side headlock, Roman talks to the camera about Black Adam and the Tooth Fairy or some shit
-Roman gets up and walks around and soliloquies around for a while
-Rock kinda halfway gets a comeback and slams Roman through an announce table
-Ref gets knocked down
-Rock hits finishers and counts but the ref is knocked down!!!!!!
-Jimmy and Solo interfere
-Spear, Roman wins
-Heel world champion retains through 4th straight Wrestlemania main event

[Chuck Conry]

Imagine if he just beats down Rock like Brock did Cena?

[LiamMcDuggle]

Feb 3, 2024 3:54:15 GMT -5 Chiral said:

-staredown for 5 min
-Side headlock, Roman talks to the camera about Black Adam and the Tooth Fairy or some shit
-Roman gets up and walks around and soliloquies around for a while
-Rock kinda halfway gets a comeback and slams Roman through an announce table
-Ref gets knocked down
-Rock hits finishers and counts but the ref is knocked down!!!!!!
-Jimmy and Solo interfere
-Spear, Roman wins
-Heel world champion retains through 4th straight Wrestlemania main event

This is probably fairly accurate 

[stoptheclocks]

I don't know if it'll be a mat classic, but Steve Austin had a perfectly enjoyable match that was 14 minutes just two years ago.

There's no real reason why, with plenty of time to prepare, they can't choreograph a serviceable match that is elevated by the occasion.

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

I'm glad they've also decided to do this in Philly which is without a doubt the highest chance that this will be booed to shit with how our wrestling crowds can be lol

[David-Arquette was in WCW 2000]

Feb 3, 2024 4:15:41 GMT -5 Chuck Conry said:

Imagine if he just beats down Rock like Brock did Cena?

That could work, to be honest. Have an opening few minutes of 'test of strength, headlock, drop down, shoulder tackle', Rocky gets the upper hand causing Roman to retreat. Ref distraction leading to interference, maybe a chair to the leg or something to injure Rocky.

Then give it 8-10 minutes of Rocky being beaten down, with hot dogging, grandstanding. Give Rocky a hope spot on there somewhere.

Then Rocky is able to cut Roman off, make his comeback and get his shit in. Rock Bottom, Rock Bottom! Rocky goes for the elbow but Roman hops up and Superman punches Rocky. Spear, spear, 1, 2, 3.

[cornettesracket]

Never mind a match. When he interrupted jinder, he was sucking wind so hard, the front rows nearly passed out from oxygen deprivation.

[LiamMcDuggle]

Feb 3, 2024 4:23:26 GMT -5 stoptheclocks said:

I don't know if it'll be a mat classic, but Steve Austin had a perfectly enjoyable match that was 14 minutes just two years ago.

There's no real reason why, with plenty of time to prepare, they can't choreograph a serviceable match that is elevated by the occasion.

I suppose they could do it again, but usually the true WM main event is a more typical wrestling match, but the brawling option may be the only one for someone who is 52

[XIII]

The Rock *should* be able to do a brawl with a few signature spots thrown in but after all the years of PEDs there’s also a very real chance that he rips every tendon that he has doing basic stuff.

[Lizuka #BLM]

Feb 3, 2024 4:35:03 GMT -5 XIII said:

The Rock *should* be able to do a brawl with a few signature spots thrown in but after all the years of PEDs there’s also a very real chance that he rips every tendon that he has doing basic stuff.

Yeah, the fact that the dude's like three times the size when he was 30 years younger is probably going to leave him barely able to do much of anything without exploding.

[ben:friendship frog]

He's gonna be gassed from walking down the giant ramp. This is gonna be f***ing miserable.

I'm actually real down about it, been struggling mentally anyway this past week and I dunno, wrestling is supposed to be an escape and it felt like after years of misery booking it was all gonna be worth it with that old rapist gone. With this and Punk out my Mania hype is at an all time low, feels like we're straight back to the apathy of face Roman being forced down our throats.

Maybe I need to take a break.

[Ryushinku]

I'm also taking the over/under on 30 minutes for the promo packages and walking to the ring.