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Post by Finish Uncle Muffin’s Story on Feb 6, 2024 8:23:56 GMT -5
I don't know why Rock wants to face Roman anyway. Did they have some kayfabe falling out? Nope! WWE's booking a match using fan canon as a story and ignoring the actual story they've been telling on TV for the last two years.
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Post by chronocross on Feb 6, 2024 8:40:19 GMT -5
I don't know why Rock wants to face Roman anyway. Did they have some kayfabe falling out? Not that I know of, it was mentioned a bit as this dream match but they did not have any interaction on TV until last Friday on SD. If Rock was younger, I probably would be more open to the idea but I don't think it would be that good of a match given their styles.
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Post by thecrusherwi on Feb 6, 2024 8:41:52 GMT -5
Okay the way ESPN and the Independent are suddenly framing this as what the fans want, even if they don't know it yet, and blaming the backlash on a vocal toxic minority, while also a few WWE wrestlers and people like Meltzer are suddenly doing vague whataboutery about "There's more important things where's this energy for XYZ" on Twitter as if people can't care about multiple things, has me blinking. They wouldn't have actual mainstream outlets talking about toxic fans being the only critics, and bigging up Rock/Roman if there was any plan for Cody, or indeed any consideration of changing course. Thanks Rock. To think how good a prospective card looked just two weeks ago, holy shit. I'll give a bit of room to the "whatabout-ists" on this issue: I'm guessing that people like Meltzer, who definitely spends too much time on twitter, are seeing tweet after tweet and message after message of people saying they'll sell their Mania tickets, cancel Peacock, just outright walk away from WWE...but they're seeing it in response to this instead of the Vince story, or at least they're seeing it in a much higher volume compared with the Vince story. In that regard, yeah, I'm a bit dumbfounded, too; I don't begrudge anyone having room in their heads to be angry about both stories, albeit in different ways given their vastly different levels of severity and real-life damage, but the sheer outcry of rage from a lot of voices being about a storyline instead of the horrors of abuse and the likelihood that the wider company played a role in either enabling it or turned a blind eye to it can be something that further dampens a lot of people's views on humanity. Now, if it's "whatabout-ism" for the purpose to get people to shut up entirely about this dumb story decision that deserves criticism and discussion? Different situation, of course. Dave definitely spends way too much time on Twitter and his practice of replying and getting in day-long discussions with people who are not exactly engaging in the highest quality discourse has an effect where his mentions must be flooded with the stupid possible wrestling takes, thus giving him a pretty poor sampling of actual opinion. And I think there has been more public outcry about Rock/Cody than the Vince stuff is for a couple of reasons. One- the fan experience is much more affected by Rock/Cody because that’s what they see play out. It’s a TV show first and foremost and what appears on the screen effects them much more than anything behind the scenes. Second, and I find myself falling in this category, there isn’t much outcry over the Vince allegations because it was 0% surprising to find out that the most powerful man in the history of one of the most carny low down industries was up to no good. Maybe a bit worse than expected, but I think nearly everyone thought Vince’s time in wrestling would either end in death or scandal (or both). And the fact that his ring of influence was likely involved is also not surprising. Maybe it’s a character flaw of myself, but if scandal and outright awful behind the scenes behavior bothered me that much, I would’ve stopped watching a long long time ago.
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Post by stephen90 on Feb 6, 2024 15:18:26 GMT -5
I don't know why Rock wants to face Roman anyway. Did they have some kayfabe falling out? He's upset that Roman's been calling himself "The Head of the Table". Now why has he waited two years to confront Roman...well he's been busy. Shame on all us for not going to see Black Adam.
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Post by Lance Uppercut on Feb 6, 2024 16:59:14 GMT -5
Bro, they passing out "we want cody" flyers in the arena, they totally playing it up on TV, loving the hashtags and Cody being no. 1 trend. Cody hasn't said anything until recently and it was just "trust me". Neither Rock of Cody officially announced a match until thursday for a special live event. They're clearly just messing with us.
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Post by stoptheclocks on Feb 8, 2024 21:22:03 GMT -5
A night to remember for the non-flinchers.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Feb 8, 2024 21:37:43 GMT -5
In the end, The Rock was the one who flinched Rock Types aren't immune to flinching
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Feb 8, 2024 21:50:11 GMT -5
For those who never flinched.
This Bud's for you.
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Post by ChitownKnight on Feb 8, 2024 21:53:44 GMT -5
We aren’t out of the woods yet. Cody still has to beat Roman at mania.
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Post by Jindrak Mark on Feb 8, 2024 21:55:52 GMT -5
Still the main reason that I didn't flinch is the fact that they didn't immediately have the Seth/Cody match graphics up on Friday night. No one else seemed to really care about that shit but I'm used to if a match is official the official twitter and website immediately posts that stuff. They did it within minutes for IYO/Bayley for instance and for Roman/Cody tonight.
If it was as simple as Cody had chosen Seth then it would have been official that night but everything was worded in a way that he didn't actually say he was facing Seth.
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