WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.279 Hey, guys, Solo Monster here and I'm not doing a 2 00:00:03.319 --> 00:00:05.960 podcast this weekend because I am not going to be here, 3 00:00:06.320 --> 00:00:10.000 but I could not let this whole Rock fiasco go 4 00:00:10.160 --> 00:00:13.720 by without at least putting up a video for you 5 00:00:13.759 --> 00:00:16.120 guys here on the YouTube chatnel talking about all of 6 00:00:16.120 --> 00:00:18.760 this non sense. There's been a lot of talk and 7 00:00:18.879 --> 00:00:22.280 chatter about the WrestleMania finish to Cody Rhodes and John 8 00:00:22.359 --> 00:00:27.839 Sena WrestleMania Sunday being just almost universally panned, and deservedly 9 00:00:27.920 --> 00:00:31.120 so because it sucked. Not that sena one number seventeen, 10 00:00:31.199 --> 00:00:33.759 I had no issue with that at all, but the 11 00:00:33.759 --> 00:00:36.200 match itself just not being very good. And then on 12 00:00:36.240 --> 00:00:38.000 top of that, the way that everything played out for 13 00:00:38.039 --> 00:00:41.759 the finish and Travis Scott Rock not being around just 14 00:00:42.719 --> 00:00:46.320 really most everything since the elimination Chamber because of the 15 00:00:46.359 --> 00:00:49.920 absence of The Rock, who became the focal point of 16 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:53.079 this entire thing, it just made for a very lame 17 00:00:53.119 --> 00:00:56.719 finish a WrestleMania him not being there. So then late 18 00:00:56.759 --> 00:01:01.640 on Monday came the sudden announcement that The Rock was 19 00:01:01.679 --> 00:01:03.880 going to be appearing on the Pat McAfee show the 20 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:08.439 next day. Clean up on Aisle five. That's exactly what 21 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:11.959 this felt like. Damage control is not just the name 22 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:15.799 of a faction in WWE. It was on full display Tuesday. 23 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:19.719 So finally The Rock broke his silence as to why 24 00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:22.560 he was not part of the build to John Cena 25 00:01:22.760 --> 00:01:26.120 against Cody Rhodes at WrestleMania and why he did not 26 00:01:26.200 --> 00:01:29.239 appear at all on the biggest show of the year. 27 00:01:29.799 --> 00:01:32.799 This man did more to promote New Japan Pro Wrestling 28 00:01:32.879 --> 00:01:36.920 and Rubik's Cube sales than he did wrestle media and 29 00:01:37.040 --> 00:01:40.840 his answer it didn't make sense for the final Boss. 30 00:01:42.200 --> 00:01:47.000 That don't work for me, brother. Nearly forty minutes he 31 00:01:47.079 --> 00:01:50.799 spent talking about everything from Roman reigns and the Night 32 00:01:50.840 --> 00:01:53.920 one main event, to Cody and Sina on Night two 33 00:01:54.719 --> 00:01:58.840 and Travis Scott and his movies and his Papa Tuey 34 00:01:58.920 --> 00:02:02.200 skincare line. You should have seen the people in the 35 00:02:02.239 --> 00:02:05.480 live chat, because I was watching the Pat McAfee stream 36 00:02:05.599 --> 00:02:08.000 on YouTube when Rock was on. You should have seen 37 00:02:08.039 --> 00:02:10.240 these people in the live chat who are not wrestling 38 00:02:10.280 --> 00:02:13.000 fans and they don't give two shits about wrestling. Like 39 00:02:13.319 --> 00:02:16.479 thirty minutes into this, Rock is talking about his grooming 40 00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:20.000 products and they are just begging for Pat to please 41 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:22.919 move on and talk actual sports. And you know, of 42 00:02:22.919 --> 00:02:25.479 all the things that Rock talked about, the one thing 43 00:02:25.520 --> 00:02:29.039 he did not talk about was the UFL, which he 44 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:31.919 is part owner of and would at least fit into 45 00:02:31.960 --> 00:02:34.879 that sports discussion. That didn't come up. But all this 46 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:37.400 other stuff came up. But among the things that he 47 00:02:37.479 --> 00:02:41.280 revealed is that he watched WrestleMania forty one from home 48 00:02:41.639 --> 00:02:44.319 because he wanted the spotlight to be on John Cena. 49 00:02:45.199 --> 00:02:47.599 And he also claimed that he only appeared at Elimination 50 00:02:47.759 --> 00:02:53.039 Chamber because Ari Emmanuel called him due to ticket sales 51 00:02:53.080 --> 00:02:56.199 being soft for the show in Toronto, so he came 52 00:02:56.280 --> 00:02:59.479 to The Rock basically to beg The Rock to be 53 00:02:59.560 --> 00:03:01.520 on the show to save ticket sales. As if as 54 00:03:01.520 --> 00:03:04.039 if the ticket sales were horrendous. I mean, they may 55 00:03:04.039 --> 00:03:05.960 have been soft, but you know, it's not like they 56 00:03:05.960 --> 00:03:08.560 weren't selling tickets. But this is what led to The 57 00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:12.680 Rock coming up with the idea for Cody's Soul, and 58 00:03:12.840 --> 00:03:17.879 those conversations led to the idea from Triple H suggesting, hey, 59 00:03:17.919 --> 00:03:21.800 why don't we turn John Cena heel? But really, if 60 00:03:21.800 --> 00:03:24.120 you think about what Rock said on the Pat McAfee show. 61 00:03:25.080 --> 00:03:27.560 Really what he did, I think it's fair to infer 62 00:03:27.639 --> 00:03:31.280 this from the comments that he made. He revealed that 63 00:03:31.319 --> 00:03:34.719 they had no real big creative direction for their key 64 00:03:34.759 --> 00:03:38.560 match for WrestleMania, and what it boiled down to was 65 00:03:38.599 --> 00:03:41.639 Ari Emmanuel wanting Rock to come into to goose ticket 66 00:03:41.680 --> 00:03:47.080 sales for the pl e before WrestleMania, which is crazy, Like, 67 00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:52.120 weeks before the Chamber Triple h just randomly comes up with, Hey, 68 00:03:52.120 --> 00:03:54.439 why don't we turn John cita Heel, one of the 69 00:03:54.479 --> 00:03:56.560 biggest stars in the history of our company who's in 70 00:03:56.599 --> 00:03:59.240 his retirement year. You know, we hadn't thought about this, 71 00:03:59.319 --> 00:04:02.680 so hey, why don't we turned John Cenaheel? Like, isn't 72 00:04:02.680 --> 00:04:04.680 that the sort of thing they should already have thought 73 00:04:04.719 --> 00:04:07.159 about two months before their biggest show of the year. 74 00:04:09.560 --> 00:04:11.719 So let me go through what he said here, because 75 00:04:11.759 --> 00:04:16.879 it's a lot too unpack here in rock speak, said, 76 00:04:16.920 --> 00:04:20.199 speaking as DJ as Rock director of the Board and 77 00:04:20.199 --> 00:04:22.680 not the final Boss, I got to tell you that 78 00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:25.800 let's start with that ending and start with John becoming 79 00:04:25.839 --> 00:04:30.399 the seventeen time heavyweight champion and becoming legitimizing himself. He 80 00:04:30.439 --> 00:04:33.560 says as being without question the goat he is on 81 00:04:33.639 --> 00:04:36.480 Mount Rushmore. Now got to kick a guy off to 82 00:04:36.560 --> 00:04:39.279 put him on. I think now Dusty goes to the back. 83 00:04:39.959 --> 00:04:42.680 He was always on my Mount Rushmore. He goes on 84 00:04:42.759 --> 00:04:45.560 the back there with me. I'll be raising my eyebrows 85 00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:48.720 back there in the back of Mount Rushmore. But I 86 00:04:48.759 --> 00:04:50.439 think that the way John at the end of the 87 00:04:50.560 --> 00:04:53.800 night raising the title, that was the bottom line, that 88 00:04:53.920 --> 00:04:54.839 was the north Star. 89 00:04:55.319 --> 00:04:57.480 And I loved it. I love that moment. 90 00:04:57.839 --> 00:04:59.399 I think he's going to go on to have this 91 00:04:59.480 --> 00:05:02.600 insane run as a heel. And what I love about 92 00:05:02.600 --> 00:05:04.839 this and what I love about John is I like 93 00:05:04.879 --> 00:05:06.759 to think that I keep not only my finger on 94 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:09.399 the pulse of things. You and I have talked about this. 95 00:05:09.480 --> 00:05:11.839 Don't keep your finger on the pulse of put your 96 00:05:11.879 --> 00:05:15.959 whole hand on the pulse of things. And that way things. 97 00:05:16.519 --> 00:05:18.639 And that means what is he saying here, meaning the 98 00:05:18.680 --> 00:05:20.879 fans in their sentiment. And I love that the fans 99 00:05:20.879 --> 00:05:24.000 are so engaged, they're so connected to John's heel turn. 100 00:05:25.079 --> 00:05:27.120 Now I see a few fans saying that, oh, I 101 00:05:27.199 --> 00:05:29.639 really don't believe he's a bad guy. So he's playing 102 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:32.759 a bad guy. But here's the thing, you don't have 103 00:05:32.839 --> 00:05:35.279 to believe that he's a bad guy. You know why, 104 00:05:35.560 --> 00:05:38.199 because he's not a bad guy. He's a good guy. 105 00:05:38.959 --> 00:05:41.560 I've known the guy for twenty years. We've gone up 106 00:05:41.560 --> 00:05:44.000 and down to Helen back. We talk all the time, 107 00:05:44.040 --> 00:05:46.439 we text all the time. He's not a bad guy. 108 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:49.000 He's telling the truth now and you could feel that 109 00:05:49.040 --> 00:05:52.199 in his delivery because he's telling the truth. This is 110 00:05:52.240 --> 00:05:55.600 twenty five years of Imagine going out every single night 111 00:05:55.639 --> 00:05:59.079 for twenty five years, regardless of where you're at and 112 00:05:59.160 --> 00:06:01.920 knowing that you're gonna get cheered and know that you're 113 00:06:01.959 --> 00:06:04.920 going to get booed, and in some places it's even harder, 114 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:07.240 you're going to get booed out of the building. That's 115 00:06:07.279 --> 00:06:09.839 a hard psychological place to be. I give John so 116 00:06:09.959 --> 00:06:12.759 much credit, and he goes on from there and he's 117 00:06:12.839 --> 00:06:16.000 he's giving scene of more praise for taking a risk 118 00:06:16.040 --> 00:06:18.040 and going heal. But then he gets into the real 119 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:21.120 meat and potatoes of this. He goes I got a 120 00:06:21.160 --> 00:06:24.959 call about a month before the elimination chamber from Ari Emanuel, 121 00:06:24.959 --> 00:06:29.120 who we know owns TKO. TKO owns WWE. He's been 122 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:31.720 my longtime business partner and one of my best friends 123 00:06:31.759 --> 00:06:35.079 for over twenty years. He said, we need help at 124 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:38.959 Elimination Chamber. Ticket sales are a little slow. But beyond that, 125 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:41.720 he goes, what we're finding is with Elimination Chamber, it's 126 00:06:41.720 --> 00:06:44.680 become the pay per view that's been interesting. You know, 127 00:06:44.759 --> 00:06:47.680 fans have fun, but it's also a conduit to WrestleMania. 128 00:06:48.040 --> 00:06:50.600 And how do we create an elimination chamber that people 129 00:06:50.680 --> 00:06:52.439 have to tune in to see? 130 00:06:52.480 --> 00:06:53.439 How do we create that? 131 00:06:54.120 --> 00:06:56.319 And he goes, right now, we don't have that, and 132 00:06:56.360 --> 00:06:58.199 he said, let's have the Final Boss show up. What 133 00:06:58.519 --> 00:07:01.680 if the Final Boss appear years and the Elimination Chamber? 134 00:07:01.720 --> 00:07:03.800 I said, well, let me give it some thought and 135 00:07:03.920 --> 00:07:05.920 let me get back to you on that. And so 136 00:07:06.040 --> 00:07:07.720 I did, and I got back to Ari, and I 137 00:07:07.800 --> 00:07:10.240 got back to Triple H and Nick Cohn and we 138 00:07:10.279 --> 00:07:12.199 had a call and I said, I have an idea. 139 00:07:13.160 --> 00:07:17.279 What's most important to the Final Boss. It's not titles, 140 00:07:17.399 --> 00:07:21.199 it's not money, it's not fame, been there, done that, 141 00:07:21.399 --> 00:07:26.240 grateful for that. Final Boss wants your soul. So then 142 00:07:26.279 --> 00:07:29.600 he gets into this discussion about how it was a 143 00:07:29.639 --> 00:07:33.399 litmus test. They were taking a temperature check to see 144 00:07:33.439 --> 00:07:36.959 how the fans would respond to Cody possibly going heel 145 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:39.519 and selling his soul to the Rock, and he basically 146 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:42.199 he believes that Cody's got this great heel run in him. 147 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:44.720 He's not wrong when he says that, I think Cody 148 00:07:44.759 --> 00:07:46.759 has it within him to have a great heel run 149 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:47.839 down the line. 150 00:07:47.879 --> 00:07:49.720 And Rock was saying all the right things here in 151 00:07:49.720 --> 00:07:50.279 this interview. 152 00:07:50.319 --> 00:07:53.439 I'm not talking about turning Cody heel now, I'm talking 153 00:07:53.480 --> 00:07:56.759 about doing it down the road. What I believe is 154 00:07:56.800 --> 00:07:58.639 that Rock probably wanted Cody to go heel. 155 00:07:58.680 --> 00:07:59.000 Now. 156 00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:01.040 I think the idea it was for Cody Rose to 157 00:08:01.040 --> 00:08:04.120 sell his soul to the Rock, And there were people there, 158 00:08:04.120 --> 00:08:06.279 whether it was Cody himself or Triple H, who had 159 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:08.439 enough sense to say no and push back and say 160 00:08:08.439 --> 00:08:10.959 that's a fucking dumb idea, which it would have been. 161 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:14.759 It would have been a fucking stupid idea for Cody Roads, 162 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:17.920 their number one babyface right now who up until recently, 163 00:08:18.040 --> 00:08:21.120 it wasn't until this program with John Cena that we 164 00:08:21.240 --> 00:08:25.319 first started seeing fans booing Cody in some places, his 165 00:08:25.439 --> 00:08:29.120 reactions were still rock solid, right one of their top 166 00:08:29.120 --> 00:08:33.639 merch movers, Like people bought into Cody Rhoads. The American 167 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:38.480 Nightmare WWE champion. As he was coming upon his first 168 00:08:38.559 --> 00:08:41.639 year as champion, he was getting good reactions from the crowd. 169 00:08:41.720 --> 00:08:43.679 Now all of a sudden, and this was always going 170 00:08:43.759 --> 00:08:45.759 to be a risk, you know, putting him in there 171 00:08:45.759 --> 00:08:48.039 with John Cena. Whether Sena was a babyface or a 172 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:51.000 heel in some places, and I don't know if it 173 00:08:51.080 --> 00:08:54.159 was just the veguest thing for WrestleMania. We saw it 174 00:08:54.200 --> 00:08:56.120 a few weeks ago on TV. There now are at 175 00:08:56.200 --> 00:08:59.600 least pockets of people who have taken to booing Cody, 176 00:09:00.200 --> 00:09:05.799 not happening before this. So yes, Rock absolutely Cody down 177 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:08.360 the road great heel. I don't believe for a second 178 00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:12.039 that he's looking at this and going, oh, I don't 179 00:09:12.080 --> 00:09:14.039 want Cody to go heill now, but like you know, 180 00:09:14.600 --> 00:09:16.399 later on down the road. No, I think he did 181 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:18.200 want Cody to go heill now. And I think John 182 00:09:18.200 --> 00:09:21.480 Cena was the second choice. And Triple H is the 183 00:09:21.519 --> 00:09:22.919 one who kind of threw it out there and said 184 00:09:22.960 --> 00:09:26.120 what if John won heel, which Rock in this interview said, oh, 185 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:28.799 I think that's a great idea. I said, I love it, 186 00:09:29.799 --> 00:09:31.399 But now you got to ask John how he feels 187 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:33.320 about it, And of course John seen is gonna say 188 00:09:33.399 --> 00:09:36.879 yes because John Cena has said before like he shows 189 00:09:36.960 --> 00:09:38.799 up to work and this is how he was with Vince, 190 00:09:40.039 --> 00:09:44.039 where he doesn't politic he doesn't lobby for matches. He 191 00:09:44.080 --> 00:09:47.120 has said, I've never in my entire career lobbied for 192 00:09:47.200 --> 00:09:49.360 a match. I want to work with this guy, gotta 193 00:09:49.399 --> 00:09:52.879 work with this person. And I get the sense that 194 00:09:52.919 --> 00:09:56.000 he shows up and maybe he'll have some creative input 195 00:09:56.080 --> 00:09:59.159 into certain things, but he largely just kind of goes 196 00:09:59.200 --> 00:10:01.120 with the flow. Whatever they want me to do, Okay, 197 00:10:01.200 --> 00:10:04.159 you're the boss, I'll do it. I mean, it seems 198 00:10:04.519 --> 00:10:06.600 pretty apparent, even based on what they've had him do 199 00:10:06.639 --> 00:10:07.679 here during this program. 200 00:10:07.720 --> 00:10:09.879 It's like, hey, John, what do you think about this? Okay? Sure? 201 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:12.759 And of course, because John Cena he's got one foot 202 00:10:12.759 --> 00:10:16.440 out the door, he's got one foot out the door already, 203 00:10:16.440 --> 00:10:19.200 he doesn't care and he's probably thinking, okay, yeah, I 204 00:10:19.200 --> 00:10:21.639 never had the chance to do this before, you know, 205 00:10:21.759 --> 00:10:24.360 after I had been you know, turned baby face. I 206 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:28.440 wanted to go heel. We didn't do it. So yeah, okay, sure, fine, whatever, 207 00:10:29.960 --> 00:10:33.600 he's practically already done. He doesn't give a shit you 208 00:10:33.639 --> 00:10:37.399 want me to turn heel I'll turn heel, sure, But 209 00:10:37.440 --> 00:10:40.000 the whole thing with Rock, you know, and Cody and everything, 210 00:10:40.039 --> 00:10:44.279 it was Meltzer. It was actually Meltzer many many months ago, 211 00:10:44.080 --> 00:10:46.360 who I think was the one who reported that Rock 212 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:48.960 wanted Cody to go heal and there was pushback and 213 00:10:49.000 --> 00:10:51.240 Sena was the second choice. And you know, a lot 214 00:10:51.240 --> 00:10:55.080 of people have mocked Dave for his reports on this 215 00:10:55.200 --> 00:10:57.960 and other things that he has gotten wrong, but you 216 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:00.919 know what, he has owed an apology not only by 217 00:11:00.960 --> 00:11:04.320 myself and other content creators, but honestly by the Rock. 218 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:08.159 Because after that report came out months and months ago 219 00:11:08.200 --> 00:11:11.159 that Rock was not going to be at WrestleMania, Rock 220 00:11:11.240 --> 00:11:14.919 himself applied to someone's comment on Instagram and said, in 221 00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:17.279 so many words that that's bullshit or don't buy into 222 00:11:17.320 --> 00:11:21.480 that bullshit. So if anybody owes Meltzer, honestly, the biggest 223 00:11:21.519 --> 00:11:24.320 apology should be coming from the Rock, because as it 224 00:11:24.360 --> 00:11:27.039 turned out, he was right, and the Rock was sitting 225 00:11:27.039 --> 00:11:29.759 on his ass at home watching WrestleMania just like everybody else. 226 00:11:31.879 --> 00:11:34.080 But he went on and on about how smart Cody 227 00:11:34.240 --> 00:11:37.679 is and what an intelligent guy he is, and oh, 228 00:11:37.720 --> 00:11:39.320 you know, Triple H is great. You know, I've been 229 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:42.399 kicking around ideas with this guy for twenty years, and 230 00:11:42.679 --> 00:11:45.039 you know, all this stuff and blah blah blah. He's 231 00:11:45.399 --> 00:11:49.399 letting us into the creative process here and how this all, 232 00:11:49.639 --> 00:11:52.919 you know, this all came together. And then he said, 233 00:11:52.960 --> 00:11:55.399 we had this great thing at Elimination Chamber. This is 234 00:11:55.440 --> 00:11:59.720 you know, very successful segment with him and John Cena 235 00:11:59.799 --> 00:12:05.639 and Travis Scott. And he called John after the Elimination Chamber. 236 00:12:05.679 --> 00:12:07.840 I talked to him, I talked to Cody, and I said, 237 00:12:08.720 --> 00:12:12.720 I think the Final Boss's work here is done. Like 238 00:12:12.879 --> 00:12:16.360 we've established it. We've pulled off the greatest angle in 239 00:12:16.399 --> 00:12:19.720 the history of professional wrestling other than Hulk Hogan turning 240 00:12:19.759 --> 00:12:20.480 heel back. 241 00:12:20.279 --> 00:12:20.919 In the nineties. 242 00:12:20.919 --> 00:12:22.480 I'm glad he said that, by the way, because that's 243 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:25.559 still number one. He said, I think this is amazing. 244 00:12:25.639 --> 00:12:28.799 We have six weeks now, let's build you now, go 245 00:12:28.879 --> 00:12:32.279 out there and build to it, go crush it, and 246 00:12:32.360 --> 00:12:34.200 I'll be right there with you, and I'm always here 247 00:12:34.240 --> 00:12:35.799 if you need me. But I think it's best for 248 00:12:35.840 --> 00:12:38.279 the Final Boss to not be involved in that finish. 249 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:41.399 You guys go, You've got six weeks to plan for that, 250 00:12:42.799 --> 00:12:45.200 which again is crazy to me that they were that 251 00:12:45.360 --> 00:12:49.440 close to WrestleMania, their biggest event of the year, and 252 00:12:49.559 --> 00:12:53.879 seemingly had no other grand plan, or maybe they did, 253 00:12:53.879 --> 00:12:56.240 and they were very easy to just sort of cast 254 00:12:56.320 --> 00:12:59.399 it aside and have six weeks to try to build 255 00:12:59.399 --> 00:13:01.720 something with a guy who wasn't even going to be 256 00:13:01.799 --> 00:13:04.159 there every single week. I mean they did that turn 257 00:13:04.200 --> 00:13:06.840 at Elimination Chamber. We didn't see seen it for two weeks. 258 00:13:08.399 --> 00:13:12.080 Two weeks later, he showed up, never even addressed Cody. 259 00:13:12.159 --> 00:13:16.679 Roads showed up the following week in Glasgow, didn't really 260 00:13:16.759 --> 00:13:20.399 address Cody Rhads. Cody addressed him, but he had nothing 261 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:22.320 really to say about Cody. It wasn't until they got 262 00:13:22.360 --> 00:13:25.320 to London at the very end, almost a month. It 263 00:13:25.399 --> 00:13:29.080 was basically a month after the Elimination Chamber, and we 264 00:13:29.120 --> 00:13:31.519 got a great back and forth between Cody and Sina. 265 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:35.960 Finally it took a fucking month to get it. And 266 00:13:36.039 --> 00:13:37.759 that was basically all we got on until the night 267 00:13:37.799 --> 00:13:40.720 before Madio and they were on SmackDown together, So Sina 268 00:13:40.799 --> 00:13:44.559 wasn't even there every single week Rock. It actually would 269 00:13:44.559 --> 00:13:46.480 have been helpful. I think for Rock you can plug 270 00:13:46.559 --> 00:13:48.320 him into a spot here and there, maybe on a 271 00:13:48.320 --> 00:13:51.320 week where Sina wasn't going to be there. But again, 272 00:13:51.399 --> 00:13:53.559 you know in this bill to WrestleMania, what was missing 273 00:13:53.639 --> 00:13:55.960 is they decided to tell this story or Sina did. 274 00:13:55.960 --> 00:13:58.200 This is his take on it, where, yeah, I'm not 275 00:13:58.240 --> 00:14:00.480 going to give the fans what they want. You want gear, 276 00:14:00.519 --> 00:14:03.039 you want new music. I'm not doing this because I 277 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:05.840 know you want it. You get nothing from me, right, 278 00:14:05.919 --> 00:14:09.120 That's the story they've decided to go with. The problem 279 00:14:09.200 --> 00:14:10.759 is a year ago, you think back to that build 280 00:14:10.799 --> 00:14:15.000 to WrestleMania forty, which ended up being great, but it 281 00:14:15.039 --> 00:14:18.840 was a complete just clusterfuck how we got there. I mean, 282 00:14:18.840 --> 00:14:20.440 I look back on that and it's like, I can't 283 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:22.879 believe that we had Cody Rhodes win the Royal Rumble 284 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:25.080 and then the idea was for The Rock to just 285 00:14:25.120 --> 00:14:27.200 show up and take his spot the way that he did, 286 00:14:27.200 --> 00:14:29.200 and that somebody thought that that was a great idea. 287 00:14:29.240 --> 00:14:31.080 I don't even know the Triple h honestly thought that 288 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:33.039 was a great idea. But you know, this is what 289 00:14:33.080 --> 00:14:34.799 the Rock wants to do. When The Rock wants his 290 00:14:34.840 --> 00:14:37.600 match with Roman Reigns, which he ended up not getting 291 00:14:37.639 --> 00:14:39.440 because he saw the blowback, and this is the thing 292 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:43.559 about The Rock. He's very, very cognizant of the online 293 00:14:43.600 --> 00:14:48.440 reaction because he saw the reaction and he had a pivot. 294 00:14:48.919 --> 00:14:50.879 He talked about this in the making of wrestle Batia 295 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:53.399 forty documentary. That's where the meme photo comes from. He's 296 00:14:53.440 --> 00:14:56.480 sitting there and he's he's waving his arms around. He's 297 00:14:56.480 --> 00:14:58.879 talking about how this happened and how that happened, and 298 00:14:59.360 --> 00:15:01.799 got to listen to the people. Sometimes he was getting 299 00:15:02.000 --> 00:15:07.360 just destroyed by people on social media. So they pivoted 300 00:15:07.399 --> 00:15:09.000 and we ended up with the Final Boss and in 301 00:15:09.039 --> 00:15:11.679 the end it all worked out. But even the weeks 302 00:15:11.720 --> 00:15:13.960 where Rock wasn't on the show, he would record these 303 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:17.440 social media videos and these Instagram videos and I look 304 00:15:17.480 --> 00:15:19.200 forward to him every Friday there was going to be 305 00:15:19.240 --> 00:15:21.159 a new ig drop from the Rock and he'd be 306 00:15:21.200 --> 00:15:24.519 cutting a promo on Cody and Mama Rhodes, and you know, 307 00:15:24.559 --> 00:15:28.600 it was entertaining and it got people excited for WrestleMania, 308 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:31.720 and of course it helped having that big storyline payoff 309 00:15:31.759 --> 00:15:35.840 where Cody's got to finish the story. Roman finally loses, 310 00:15:36.320 --> 00:15:39.200 like you weren't going to have that this year, and 311 00:15:39.279 --> 00:15:41.759 so there is that recognition that whatever they were going 312 00:15:41.799 --> 00:15:43.639 to come up with for Wrestle Media this year probably 313 00:15:43.720 --> 00:15:46.559 wasn't going to be able to match that moment because 314 00:15:46.639 --> 00:15:50.000 last year was like the big payoff to everything, but 315 00:15:50.039 --> 00:15:52.960 we didn't have any of that this year. They shot 316 00:15:52.960 --> 00:15:55.720 an angle with Rock and Seena standing side by side 317 00:15:55.759 --> 00:15:58.879 together at the end of the elimination chamber. What did 318 00:15:58.879 --> 00:16:01.000 they think the fans were going to thing? This is 319 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:04.039 what aggravates the shit out of me. There are times 320 00:16:04.080 --> 00:16:06.840 where you will have these wrestlers or you know, people 321 00:16:06.840 --> 00:16:09.600 who work for the company that will go well, just 322 00:16:09.679 --> 00:16:12.519 you gotta let it play out. You can't just fantasy 323 00:16:12.559 --> 00:16:14.559 book everything and you're gonna You're gonna come up with 324 00:16:14.600 --> 00:16:17.720 all these grand ideas and when they don't happen, well, 325 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:20.879 you have nobody to blame for it but yourself. Sometimes 326 00:16:20.919 --> 00:16:25.480 that's true. I'm guilty of that. Sometimes your mind is racing, 327 00:16:25.559 --> 00:16:27.120 oh my god, this could go this way and this 328 00:16:27.200 --> 00:16:28.960 way and this way, and then when it goes that way, 329 00:16:29.039 --> 00:16:31.799 it's like, ah, fuck, that sucks. Yea, this idea was better. 330 00:16:32.279 --> 00:16:34.440 Well yeah, but you're the one who, you know, decided 331 00:16:34.480 --> 00:16:36.159 to try to come up with all these ideas and 332 00:16:36.200 --> 00:16:39.679 you set yourself up for disappointment. But in this case, 333 00:16:39.879 --> 00:16:43.240 you cannot tell me that they expected most people to 334 00:16:43.279 --> 00:16:45.480 look at what they did in Toronto on that show 335 00:16:46.039 --> 00:16:49.039 and not assume that there was now an alliance of 336 00:16:49.080 --> 00:16:51.559 some sort between The Rock and John Cena and that 337 00:16:51.600 --> 00:16:53.519 we wouldn't see them at some point at least once 338 00:16:53.639 --> 00:16:57.200 or twice together standing in the ring on TV like 339 00:16:57.240 --> 00:17:00.360 we had Rock and Romans standing together united the ring 340 00:17:00.399 --> 00:17:02.879 on TV. In the build up to last year's show, 341 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:07.880 we got nothing. John Cena wasn't on social media cutting promos, 342 00:17:07.960 --> 00:17:10.799 dropping him every week when he wasn't there. John Cena 343 00:17:10.799 --> 00:17:13.599 didn't do shit outside of what we saw him doing 344 00:17:13.640 --> 00:17:16.759 on TV. He posts his motivational quotes on X like 345 00:17:16.799 --> 00:17:20.240 he always does, and that's it. And we only got 346 00:17:20.319 --> 00:17:22.319 him when we got him, which wasn't every week. We 347 00:17:22.359 --> 00:17:24.839 didn't have that same level of engagement. We didn't have 348 00:17:24.920 --> 00:17:27.599 the same kind of fun leading up to this match 349 00:17:27.599 --> 00:17:30.240 at WrestleMania, and then we had last year. Oh, but 350 00:17:30.279 --> 00:17:32.200 that's what John Cena wants. He doesn't want you to 351 00:17:32.240 --> 00:17:34.640 have fun. That's the whole point, Solomon, So you're missing 352 00:17:34.640 --> 00:17:36.400 the whole point of the story. This is not supposed 353 00:17:36.440 --> 00:17:39.599 to be fun This is not supposed to be fun Boy. 354 00:17:39.720 --> 00:17:43.079 Is that a shitty build to WrestleMania. I hope that's 355 00:17:43.079 --> 00:17:44.359 not gonna be the way it is for the rest 356 00:17:44.359 --> 00:17:45.960 of the year. I hope we didn't get a shitty 357 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:48.680 main event at WrestleMania because it was supposed to be 358 00:17:48.799 --> 00:17:51.839 that way, because we got John Cena for the rest 359 00:17:51.839 --> 00:17:55.519 of the fucking year. The way people will try to 360 00:17:55.599 --> 00:17:59.119 rationalize these things is ridiculous to me. I cannot hold 361 00:17:59.160 --> 00:18:02.400 anybody respond who saw what they did at Elimination Chamber 362 00:18:02.440 --> 00:18:04.640 and got excited, assuming that we were going to get 363 00:18:04.720 --> 00:18:07.640 Rock and Seena together on TV in some way, or 364 00:18:07.720 --> 00:18:10.000 certainly we would see some kind of follow up or 365 00:18:10.039 --> 00:18:12.119 pay off to this WrestleMania with the two of them, 366 00:18:12.480 --> 00:18:14.960 and they gave us nothing. People have a right to 367 00:18:14.960 --> 00:18:18.000 be disappointed. People have a right to be upset about that, 368 00:18:19.440 --> 00:18:21.240 and they don't need it thrown back in their face 369 00:18:21.359 --> 00:18:24.559 like they're wrong for not enjoying what they're being given. 370 00:18:24.920 --> 00:18:27.279 Triple h was making comments like that leading up to 371 00:18:27.319 --> 00:18:30.519 WrestleMania the interview he did with Peter Rosenberg Man, I 372 00:18:30.559 --> 00:18:33.960 wish the critics would just fuck off, just be a fan, 373 00:18:35.160 --> 00:18:35.799 just shut up. 374 00:18:35.839 --> 00:18:38.240 And enjoy the ride. 375 00:18:38.400 --> 00:18:41.759 Remember when Rock showed up on NXT back in January. 376 00:18:42.480 --> 00:18:44.960 First we had him on the Netflix premiere and he 377 00:18:45.079 --> 00:18:48.519 was board member Dwayne pointing out Cody in the front row. 378 00:18:48.880 --> 00:18:49.680 He's my boy. 379 00:18:49.880 --> 00:18:52.400 Me and Cody were going to share some teremana later, 380 00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:56.160 and people like they were aghast, like this is how 381 00:18:56.160 --> 00:18:58.319 you follow up to all the Rock and Cody stuff 382 00:18:58.319 --> 00:19:02.559 from last year. Now they're like best friends. It's ridiculous 383 00:19:02.599 --> 00:19:03.559 that that's the follow up. 384 00:19:03.559 --> 00:19:04.240 To everything here. 385 00:19:04.559 --> 00:19:07.119 But then he showed up on NXT and he said, 386 00:19:07.160 --> 00:19:09.359 I didn't plan any comments. I have no idea what 387 00:19:09.359 --> 00:19:10.880 I'm going to say. I'm just going to go out there, 388 00:19:10.880 --> 00:19:13.319 And it was very apparent that he had not given 389 00:19:13.319 --> 00:19:15.240 any thought to what he was going to say, and 390 00:19:15.279 --> 00:19:17.680 maybe he had a little Teremana before he went out there. 391 00:19:17.720 --> 00:19:21.000 Because that promo, that whole segment to close out that 392 00:19:21.039 --> 00:19:22.839 episode of nxtm me, I know why they did it, 393 00:19:22.880 --> 00:19:24.759 because they popped a huge number. I think they did 394 00:19:24.759 --> 00:19:27.960 like nine hundred and fifty thousand people on CW that night. 395 00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:32.000 But it was fucking terrible. But you remember what Rock 396 00:19:32.039 --> 00:19:34.319 said during that promo. Basically it was like shut your 397 00:19:34.359 --> 00:19:37.079 mouth and enjoy the ride the Rock is going to 398 00:19:37.160 --> 00:19:39.640 take you on. The Rock is thinking twenty steps ahead. 399 00:19:39.720 --> 00:19:40.160 No, he's not. 400 00:19:40.519 --> 00:19:43.319 He was full of shit when he said that, literally, 401 00:19:43.480 --> 00:19:45.680 just trying to come up with shit to say before 402 00:19:45.720 --> 00:19:48.319 they went off the air. They just wanted to rock 403 00:19:48.359 --> 00:19:50.480 on the show to pop a number, which they did great. 404 00:19:51.200 --> 00:19:53.559 It didn't mean anything, There was nothing. There was no 405 00:19:53.599 --> 00:19:56.680 substance to what he was saying. 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My thoughts are always 472 00:23:21.400 --> 00:23:23.799 to Cody because of what we've established with him and 473 00:23:23.880 --> 00:23:26.200 his story and the kind of babyface that he is. 474 00:23:27.319 --> 00:23:29.599 So if done right, and I think if it was 475 00:23:29.680 --> 00:23:34.000 finessed right and if nuanced right down the road, that 476 00:23:34.079 --> 00:23:36.279 could work, that guy can have an incredible not only 477 00:23:36.319 --> 00:23:39.119 babyface run again his champion, but also an unheard of 478 00:23:39.240 --> 00:23:43.680 run as a heel down the road. And then I'm 479 00:23:43.680 --> 00:23:46.480 not being involved in the finish of the match, he said. 480 00:23:47.400 --> 00:23:49.720 They know when I come to them and them meeting 481 00:23:49.759 --> 00:23:52.400 Triple H and Nick and Ari and I lay this 482 00:23:52.519 --> 00:23:54.759 out and I say, hey, here's how I really feel 483 00:23:54.799 --> 00:23:57.319 it should go. We can insert the final boss in 484 00:23:57.400 --> 00:23:59.200 the end of this finish, but then where do we go? 485 00:24:00.000 --> 00:24:02.960 There are other commitments that I have, and I want 486 00:24:03.000 --> 00:24:06.079 to also be careful that we're not overstepping and leaning 487 00:24:06.119 --> 00:24:08.880 over our skis too much here to get involved with 488 00:24:09.079 --> 00:24:11.680 the finish, And I said, why get involved when the 489 00:24:11.680 --> 00:24:16.200 spotlight should just be on John seventeen time heel Champion. 490 00:24:17.279 --> 00:24:19.599 What does twenty twenty five look like. If this man 491 00:24:19.680 --> 00:24:23.240 is saying he's going to ruin professional wrestling, that to 492 00:24:23.279 --> 00:24:27.519 me is the anchoring storyline. It's not the soul right now. 493 00:24:29.079 --> 00:24:30.559 And he's like, oh, but we'll go back to it 494 00:24:30.599 --> 00:24:33.720 at some point. We'll get back to the soul stuff, 495 00:24:33.960 --> 00:24:38.200 you know, down the road, and he's, you know, again, 496 00:24:38.680 --> 00:24:40.960 blathering on and on and on, and he admits that 497 00:24:41.000 --> 00:24:44.519 when Travis Scott came out at WrestleMania that most people 498 00:24:44.519 --> 00:24:46.720 would have expected that Rock was coming out next, and 499 00:24:46.720 --> 00:24:49.079 that's where he made the comment about how he was 500 00:24:49.079 --> 00:24:51.880 trying to be diplomatic about it. Well, I would have 501 00:24:51.960 --> 00:24:54.359 done this a little bit differently. I would have finessed 502 00:24:54.400 --> 00:24:58.359 this or adjusted that. That was basically his way of 503 00:24:58.400 --> 00:25:00.279 saying that, you know, Triple h and the career of 504 00:25:00.279 --> 00:25:03.000 minds who put that finish together. They either didn't run 505 00:25:03.039 --> 00:25:06.680 it by Rock and so he's basically throwing him under 506 00:25:06.720 --> 00:25:10.559 the bus, or he maybe was aware of what they 507 00:25:10.559 --> 00:25:13.039 were gonna do, but he's like, I better come out 508 00:25:13.039 --> 00:25:14.599 here and say, well, you know, I would have done 509 00:25:14.640 --> 00:25:17.559 this maybe a little bit differently, because people are shitting 510 00:25:17.559 --> 00:25:20.440 all over it because it was fucking stupid, Like it 511 00:25:20.480 --> 00:25:24.319 was very, very dumb. The minute that Travis Scott came out. 512 00:25:24.400 --> 00:25:28.640 You heard Fien Fien fifty thousand times that weekend. But 513 00:25:28.680 --> 00:25:32.279 here comes Travis Scott. You have to assume just based 514 00:25:32.319 --> 00:25:34.599 on how the elimination cham pranded, which, by the way, 515 00:25:34.640 --> 00:25:37.599 is the last time we saw Travis Scott. We also 516 00:25:37.680 --> 00:25:41.599 saw Rock Rock literally walked to the ring with Travis Scott. 517 00:25:41.680 --> 00:25:45.640 What do you think people were expecting? And that's what 518 00:25:45.759 --> 00:25:47.839 just blows me away about this entire thing, that there 519 00:25:47.839 --> 00:25:52.400 were people who actually thought this was a good idea. Yeah, 520 00:25:52.480 --> 00:25:54.759 let's do the finish this way. We'll have Travis Scott 521 00:25:54.799 --> 00:25:56.799 come out, and then we'll have Sena do all the 522 00:25:56.839 --> 00:25:59.000 heel things that he'll Sena would do, and then he'll 523 00:25:59.039 --> 00:26:00.680 just pin Cody and that'll be the end of it. 524 00:26:01.119 --> 00:26:03.880 But you know, in a way, even though it might 525 00:26:03.920 --> 00:26:07.119 not have affected the direct finish of the match, Travis 526 00:26:07.160 --> 00:26:10.400 Scott was still out there affecting the outcome of the match. Right, 527 00:26:10.400 --> 00:26:13.079 he took Cody's attention briefly away from John Cena. He 528 00:26:13.119 --> 00:26:15.039 did play a role in the finish of this match, 529 00:26:15.079 --> 00:26:19.279 and the Rock never showed his face. Would it have 530 00:26:19.319 --> 00:26:21.160 made that much of a difference if Rock just showed 531 00:26:21.240 --> 00:26:23.400 up and stood in the eye away and clapped for 532 00:26:23.519 --> 00:26:27.119 John Cena, maybe at least it would have made sense 533 00:26:27.160 --> 00:26:31.119 of things. You know, there are some people who I 534 00:26:31.160 --> 00:26:34.640 saw trying to make the argument, well, Sena never really 535 00:26:34.680 --> 00:26:39.480 sold his soul. He just went heel, Right, he just 536 00:26:39.599 --> 00:26:43.079 kicked Cody in the balls, and he's articulated since then 537 00:26:43.200 --> 00:26:46.480 why he did that. He resents Cody and so that's 538 00:26:46.480 --> 00:26:48.319 why he did what he did. None of it makes 539 00:26:48.319 --> 00:26:51.359 any sense, and anybody trying to make sense of it, honestly, 540 00:26:51.519 --> 00:26:55.440 I mean, is just embarrassing themselves. It doesn't make any sense. 541 00:26:55.759 --> 00:26:58.880 John Cena had already won the elimination chamber the night 542 00:26:58.920 --> 00:27:01.880 that he turned heel. He won the elimination chamber. He 543 00:27:01.880 --> 00:27:07.880 had a guaranteed WWE Championship match of WrestleMania. And so 544 00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:09.680 you look at it now and you say to yourself, 545 00:27:10.039 --> 00:27:14.240 why didn't they just save the sceni heel turn for WrestleMania. 546 00:27:14.279 --> 00:27:16.359 Why did Rock even have to be involved in this 547 00:27:16.400 --> 00:27:17.119 in the first place. 548 00:27:17.160 --> 00:27:17.480 I get it. 549 00:27:17.559 --> 00:27:19.680 Let's take him at his word that Ari Emmanuel came 550 00:27:19.720 --> 00:27:22.799 to him practically begging and saying, Rock, can we get 551 00:27:22.839 --> 00:27:26.039 you on the Elimination Chamber. Tickets are a little soft, 552 00:27:26.839 --> 00:27:29.319 Tickets are a little egy. I wonder why. I wonder 553 00:27:29.400 --> 00:27:33.160 how much those fucking tickets were. Tickets are a little soft. 554 00:27:33.160 --> 00:27:36.960 We need the final boss on the show. Ari Emmanuel 555 00:27:37.000 --> 00:27:38.640 didn't come to The Rock and say, we need you 556 00:27:38.720 --> 00:27:42.160 involved with Cody Rhodes and John Cena, we need you 557 00:27:42.160 --> 00:27:44.119 involved in the top story on the show. He just said, 558 00:27:44.119 --> 00:27:46.319 I need you in Toronto for the Elimination Chamber so 559 00:27:46.359 --> 00:27:47.880 we can move more tickets, so we could put your 560 00:27:47.960 --> 00:27:50.400 name on the poster. Remember when they updated the poster 561 00:27:50.480 --> 00:27:54.400 for the Elimination Chamber, they took everybody off except The Rock. Literally, 562 00:27:54.440 --> 00:27:56.680 the Rock was the only one on the updated poster. 563 00:27:57.440 --> 00:27:59.759 They made it all about him. Nobody said that he 564 00:27:59.799 --> 00:28:03.720 had to be involved with Cody in this He could 565 00:28:03.720 --> 00:28:05.279 have done anything on the show. He could have had 566 00:28:05.319 --> 00:28:08.000 a throwaway comedy segment with somebody in the mid card 567 00:28:08.000 --> 00:28:09.920 that he could have given a fucking rock bottom to. 568 00:28:10.640 --> 00:28:12.799 It wouldn't have mattered if all they were interested in 569 00:28:12.920 --> 00:28:15.720 was selling tickets. The tickets were already bought and paid for. 570 00:28:16.039 --> 00:28:19.160 You get your Rock appearance. And truly, if he's not 571 00:28:19.200 --> 00:28:21.160 going to be involved in the bill to WrestleMania, he 572 00:28:21.200 --> 00:28:24.440 goes home mission accomplished. You moved a few thousand extra tickets. 573 00:28:24.480 --> 00:28:24.720 Good. 574 00:28:25.839 --> 00:28:28.279 But he came up with this whole elaborate idea about 575 00:28:28.279 --> 00:28:31.799 Cody's soul and everything else. As soon as he inserted 576 00:28:31.880 --> 00:28:34.680 himself into this main event storyline, he had an obligation 577 00:28:34.799 --> 00:28:38.240 to follow through with what people would have expected out 578 00:28:38.240 --> 00:28:39.559 of it, which is that the Rock is going to 579 00:28:39.599 --> 00:28:42.319 be involved. Otherwise, I have no fucking idea why he 580 00:28:42.440 --> 00:28:44.799 came up with that idea in the first place. He said, 581 00:28:45.079 --> 00:28:46.519 let me get back to you, I'll come up with 582 00:28:46.559 --> 00:28:49.559 an idea. This is all on him. This is all 583 00:28:49.599 --> 00:28:52.559 on him. This was his idea, and I can only 584 00:28:52.599 --> 00:28:55.000 imagine somebody like Triple You know, a lot of people 585 00:28:55.000 --> 00:28:57.480 talk about the relationship between Rock and Triple H. And 586 00:28:57.519 --> 00:28:59.559 there are a lot of conspiracy theorists out there. I 587 00:28:59.559 --> 00:29:02.000 don't really think it's all that big of a conspiracy theory. 588 00:29:02.079 --> 00:29:05.359 There has always been, always been, going back to when 589 00:29:05.359 --> 00:29:07.200 they were still young guys trying to make their way 590 00:29:07.200 --> 00:29:11.640 in this company, a professional tension and jealousy between the two. 591 00:29:11.680 --> 00:29:13.680 And I think the jealousy part was probably more from 592 00:29:13.720 --> 00:29:16.240 Triple H's side because Rock came in and he got 593 00:29:17.319 --> 00:29:21.160 he got a lot, a lot quicker than Triple H did. 594 00:29:21.200 --> 00:29:23.920 Because Triple H came in ninety five. Rock came in 595 00:29:23.920 --> 00:29:26.519 at the end of ninety six and it wasn't all 596 00:29:26.599 --> 00:29:29.240 rainbows for him initially with the Rocky mai Via stuff, 597 00:29:29.279 --> 00:29:31.200 but within a year he was already on his way. 598 00:29:32.240 --> 00:29:34.720 And I'm sure there was a jealousy there, and they 599 00:29:34.799 --> 00:29:38.039 came up right neck and neck, right they were coming 600 00:29:38.119 --> 00:29:39.680 up at the same time. That's why I say I 601 00:29:39.720 --> 00:29:43.319 think Triple H and Rock like Rock is his greatest rival. 602 00:29:43.559 --> 00:29:46.079 Very telling that he didn't mention Rock, by the way, 603 00:29:46.799 --> 00:29:49.640 in his Hall of Fame speech mentioned a lot of 604 00:29:49.640 --> 00:29:53.480 people but not Rock, but there was I think there 605 00:29:53.519 --> 00:29:56.440 was always that tension there between them. I don't want 606 00:29:56.480 --> 00:29:58.960 to say they hate each other. Maybe at one time 607 00:29:59.000 --> 00:30:02.240 they did, but you can't tell me that there are 608 00:30:02.279 --> 00:30:05.759 not a lot of games being played behind the scenes, 609 00:30:05.799 --> 00:30:07.839 a lot of tit for tat. There's a lot of 610 00:30:07.880 --> 00:30:11.480 shit going on behind the scenes that we could talk 611 00:30:11.480 --> 00:30:13.480 about what we think is going on, but we probably 612 00:30:13.519 --> 00:30:16.960 don't even know the half of it. And I'll get 613 00:30:17.000 --> 00:30:19.759 to another aspect that is here in a moment. But 614 00:30:19.799 --> 00:30:22.240 if you're Triple H and you're the head of creative 615 00:30:22.279 --> 00:30:25.160 right you're the chief content officer, it's got to be 616 00:30:25.200 --> 00:30:28.440 frustrating when the Rock just shows up, whether Ari told 617 00:30:28.480 --> 00:30:31.400 him to or the Rock decided he wanted to and 618 00:30:31.519 --> 00:30:35.400 blows everything up, Like what the original plan for WrestleMania 619 00:30:35.440 --> 00:30:37.240 was going to be before the soul stuff. I would 620 00:30:37.279 --> 00:30:39.960 love to know, like what they had, what they had 621 00:30:39.960 --> 00:30:42.200 set in stone here two months before their biggest show 622 00:30:42.240 --> 00:30:45.000 of the year. I go all the way back to 623 00:30:45.079 --> 00:30:50.000 Bad Blood. Everybody was trying to like, oh, connect the dots. 624 00:30:50.519 --> 00:30:53.480 This was all mapped out from a year earlier. This 625 00:30:53.519 --> 00:30:57.079 is long term storytelling, This is long term booking. This 626 00:30:57.240 --> 00:31:00.319 is cinema. They're cooking all these fucking dumb one words 627 00:31:00.359 --> 00:31:04.039 people come up with the describe as shit. Rock showing 628 00:31:04.160 --> 00:31:06.920 up at Bad Blood was nothing but Rock just wanting 629 00:31:06.960 --> 00:31:09.319 to show up. He had his belt, He had his 630 00:31:09.400 --> 00:31:12.480 Brahma bull belt that was given to him by Muhammad 631 00:31:12.480 --> 00:31:14.599 Ali's widow. He walks all over the place with it. 632 00:31:14.680 --> 00:31:17.680 He shows up at Bad Blood and then we don't 633 00:31:17.680 --> 00:31:22.160 see him again for months until the Netflix premiere, and 634 00:31:22.200 --> 00:31:24.759 then that's not the Rock, that's a Dwayne the board member. 635 00:31:25.920 --> 00:31:27.319 So tell me what was the point of the Bad 636 00:31:27.319 --> 00:31:27.799 Blood thing? 637 00:31:27.799 --> 00:31:27.920 Then? 638 00:31:27.960 --> 00:31:30.000 If this was all part of long term booking and 639 00:31:30.039 --> 00:31:33.599 long term storytelling, what the hell was the purpose of 640 00:31:33.599 --> 00:31:36.279 his appearance in Atlanta at Bad Blood? There was none. 641 00:31:37.279 --> 00:31:40.480 He got people talking, but it didn't lead to anything. 642 00:31:40.480 --> 00:31:44.359 It went nowhere. So this is the kind of nonsense. 643 00:31:44.359 --> 00:31:46.240 I'm sure Triple H looks at this and goes, ah, 644 00:31:46.279 --> 00:31:49.319 fuck you, He's he's gonna. 645 00:31:49.039 --> 00:31:49.599 Be on the show. 646 00:31:49.640 --> 00:31:51.799 All right, we got we gotta upend everything and come 647 00:31:51.880 --> 00:31:55.039 up with you know what we're gonna do here. I'm 648 00:31:55.039 --> 00:31:57.960 sure there's a lot of that going on. Look at 649 00:31:57.960 --> 00:32:01.519 the Dave Lagrecis stuff. Okay took to his Instagram this 650 00:32:01.640 --> 00:32:06.640 morning to respond to Dave Logreca criticizing the Rocks comments 651 00:32:06.920 --> 00:32:10.240 on Pat McAfee's show now logreca I'm busted Open. He 652 00:32:10.799 --> 00:32:13.839 went on a huge rant coming out of the WrestleMania 653 00:32:13.880 --> 00:32:16.640 Made event on Sunday, to the point where I was 654 00:32:17.000 --> 00:32:19.720 a little worried for the man's health. But he was 655 00:32:19.720 --> 00:32:21.599 not happy about that finish either. But then there was 656 00:32:21.599 --> 00:32:24.279 a whole other rant on Busted Open about some of 657 00:32:24.319 --> 00:32:28.400 the comments that Rock made on McAfee's show, and in 658 00:32:28.440 --> 00:32:30.960 particular the comments he made about how well, you know, 659 00:32:31.000 --> 00:32:35.119 I would I would have finessed or adjusted the creative 660 00:32:35.160 --> 00:32:37.359 a little bit on how they did things at WrestleMania. 661 00:32:37.400 --> 00:32:38.359 But you know, that's just me. 662 00:32:38.759 --> 00:32:40.880 And basically he said the same thing that I said before, 663 00:32:40.920 --> 00:32:42.960 and I agree with him one hundred percent. He effectively 664 00:32:43.079 --> 00:32:46.039 threw Triple H and his team under the bus with 665 00:32:46.079 --> 00:32:48.039 those comments because what he was saying you don't have 666 00:32:48.079 --> 00:32:50.039 to read, you know, too hard between the lines to 667 00:32:50.079 --> 00:32:53.160 see what he was saying. He may have enjoyed, you know, 668 00:32:53.279 --> 00:32:56.759 John winning number seventeen and the way that happened, but 669 00:32:56.960 --> 00:32:58.880 if the Rock had full control the way that he 670 00:32:58.880 --> 00:33:01.960 would have liked to, then that finish would not have 671 00:33:01.960 --> 00:33:04.319 gone down the way it did. Maybe Travis Scott wouldn't 672 00:33:04.319 --> 00:33:06.839 have been there because now he's taken a ton of 673 00:33:06.920 --> 00:33:10.640 flack for not being there because Travis Scott was there 674 00:33:10.640 --> 00:33:12.559 and led everybody to believe that he would be there. 675 00:33:14.759 --> 00:33:18.480 So anyway, he responded to Lagreca, is what he said, Hi, Dave, 676 00:33:19.039 --> 00:33:22.640 the business is a complete work, always has been, always 677 00:33:22.680 --> 00:33:26.240 will be, every aspect of it, every match, every interview. 678 00:33:26.720 --> 00:33:31.440 Please join me, Cody, Cina, Brian talking about Brian Gowertz 679 00:33:32.160 --> 00:33:35.640 and the rest of us for our creative discussions so 680 00:33:35.720 --> 00:33:39.759 you can expand your perspective. Until then, stop ranting. It's 681 00:33:39.799 --> 00:33:43.839 not healthy, my friend, enjoy the show. PS tell Bubbaret 682 00:33:43.880 --> 00:33:47.279 that I have Grand Marnier and hushpuppies for all of us. 683 00:33:49.000 --> 00:33:52.359 So evidently Paul Leveck falls under the category of the 684 00:33:52.400 --> 00:33:56.400 rest of us. That's certainly not going to quiet the 685 00:33:56.440 --> 00:33:59.240 people who think that there is a lot of underlying 686 00:33:59.279 --> 00:34:02.960 tension here behind the scenes between the Rock and Triple H. 687 00:34:03.359 --> 00:34:05.880 And again, I don't think that's some grand conspiracy theory. 688 00:34:06.200 --> 00:34:09.760 I think that absolutely is something that is a real 689 00:34:09.880 --> 00:34:12.320 thing that is happening, and that may be the most 690 00:34:12.320 --> 00:34:15.400 interesting story of all that plays out in these next 691 00:34:15.440 --> 00:34:19.960 few years in WWE, because Can I envision a WWE 692 00:34:20.000 --> 00:34:24.239 one day where it's Rock and Gowertz is sort of 693 00:34:24.280 --> 00:34:27.519 his chief of staff, his right hand man, basically what 694 00:34:27.599 --> 00:34:30.679 Patterson was to Vince. Can I envision a power structure 695 00:34:30.719 --> 00:34:33.599 creatively in this company one day, and I don't know 696 00:34:33.639 --> 00:34:36.800 when that would be, but one day where Rock is 697 00:34:36.800 --> 00:34:39.239 the guy in charge, calling the shots and coming up 698 00:34:39.239 --> 00:34:42.519 with the ideas, and Gowertz is his head writer or 699 00:34:42.559 --> 00:34:45.599 his right hand man. Absolutely, and I think Triple H 700 00:34:45.679 --> 00:34:49.599 knows this. So the minute that you see the WWE 701 00:34:49.679 --> 00:34:52.039 business begins to take a dip and the numbers begin 702 00:34:52.119 --> 00:34:55.400 to dip because business may be booming right now, but 703 00:34:55.719 --> 00:34:58.800 it don't boom forever. What goes up must come down. 704 00:34:58.840 --> 00:35:02.239 When that happens and things start to soften and come 705 00:35:02.280 --> 00:35:05.800 back down to earth, that's when things get very interesting. 706 00:35:07.119 --> 00:35:10.039 And Triple H, I'm sure one hundred percent understands this, 707 00:35:12.159 --> 00:35:15.119 but you know him saying, you know, just just enjoy 708 00:35:15.159 --> 00:35:18.280 it and stop ranting again, very similar to what we 709 00:35:18.280 --> 00:35:21.159 heard Triple H saying in the lead up to WrestleMania. 710 00:35:21.159 --> 00:35:23.920 And I just think it's completely insulting, you know, to 711 00:35:24.000 --> 00:35:26.360 the fans when you just basically tell them shut up. 712 00:35:26.960 --> 00:35:28.880 And just enjoy the show. We know what we're doing, 713 00:35:28.920 --> 00:35:33.360 you don't, and just enjoy what we feed you, enjoy 714 00:35:33.400 --> 00:35:35.519 what we give you. That was basically the Vince McMahon 715 00:35:35.519 --> 00:35:39.199 mentality for so many years, and it almost feels like 716 00:35:39.599 --> 00:35:42.079 we're right back to that, or maybe it never really changed, 717 00:35:42.440 --> 00:35:44.840 but this is how they really feel, and the mask 718 00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:47.800 is sort of slipping a little bit. And I think 719 00:35:47.840 --> 00:35:50.079 the reason Triple H made the comments that he did 720 00:35:50.280 --> 00:35:54.280 and sounded very defensive, which he was. I said, you know, 721 00:35:54.480 --> 00:35:57.000 I think I mentioned this on on TNT the other day. 722 00:35:57.039 --> 00:36:00.559 I said, when when your Triple H and you open 723 00:36:00.639 --> 00:36:03.440 your little rant as he did by saying this is 724 00:36:03.440 --> 00:36:07.280 going to sound defensive, it's because it sounds defensive. And 725 00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:09.440 the reason I think he was so defensive is because 726 00:36:09.480 --> 00:36:12.400 this is really the first time since he has fully 727 00:36:12.480 --> 00:36:15.159 taken over as the head of creative where he was 728 00:36:15.199 --> 00:36:18.280 really getting it, you know, as far as the criticisms 729 00:36:18.320 --> 00:36:20.440 for the Road to WrestleMania, he was really getting hit 730 00:36:20.760 --> 00:36:22.440 hard and taking it on the chin in a way 731 00:36:22.440 --> 00:36:25.320 that he didn't last year or even the year before. 732 00:36:26.719 --> 00:36:30.039 And he's not used to that. Right, He's the Savior, 733 00:36:30.199 --> 00:36:32.800 thank God, the evil bad man is gone, and we 734 00:36:32.840 --> 00:36:35.960 have Triple H now running creative and I do think 735 00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:39.159 we've gotten more good than bad. I'm certainly not like 736 00:36:39.199 --> 00:36:41.440 one of these fucking idiots who's like, oh, we need 737 00:36:41.519 --> 00:36:44.079 Vince back. We got to have Vince back now, Like 738 00:36:44.360 --> 00:36:49.079 sit the fuck down. But he hasn't taken criticism like this, 739 00:36:49.519 --> 00:36:51.480 and I think he's getting very defensive about it, and 740 00:36:51.519 --> 00:36:53.280 that's why you see him lashing out because we didn't 741 00:36:53.280 --> 00:36:55.000 hear any of this in the lead up to WrestleMania 742 00:36:55.079 --> 00:36:59.199 last year, but we got it this year. So the 743 00:36:59.239 --> 00:37:01.880 whole situation and just to me, it's a mess. Rock 744 00:37:01.920 --> 00:37:04.840 even coming out and making the comments he made, like 745 00:37:04.920 --> 00:37:06.960 the fact that this was announced so late in the 746 00:37:07.039 --> 00:37:09.719 day on Monday, he realized he had to do some 747 00:37:09.800 --> 00:37:11.920 damage control here. He had to try to clean this up. 748 00:37:11.960 --> 00:37:13.519 He had to try to clean up his image because 749 00:37:13.519 --> 00:37:16.119 he cares very deeply about his image. He's had some 750 00:37:16.159 --> 00:37:20.800 PR disasters before, and so he wants to make sure that, 751 00:37:20.920 --> 00:37:23.039 you know, he can kind of deflect some of the 752 00:37:23.079 --> 00:37:25.000 heat away from him. Well, you know, I only got 753 00:37:25.039 --> 00:37:28.199 called in Kazari needed me to sell some tickets, and 754 00:37:28.280 --> 00:37:30.320 I didn't want the spotlight to be on me. I 755 00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:32.519 wanted to take a step back, which I mean that 756 00:37:32.960 --> 00:37:36.000 the whole idea there is just very rich. But this 757 00:37:36.079 --> 00:37:38.360 is where we are now. The Rock is not involved. 758 00:37:38.800 --> 00:37:41.159 The Rock was never supposed to be involved, and it 759 00:37:41.199 --> 00:37:44.320 makes what they did that much worse. And you can 760 00:37:44.360 --> 00:37:46.039 look back on it and go, boy, you know, this 761 00:37:46.079 --> 00:37:47.840 would have worked out so much better if they would 762 00:37:47.880 --> 00:37:50.280 have saved that John Ceny Healter very much like what 763 00:37:50.320 --> 00:37:52.159 they did with Austin in two thousand and one, which 764 00:37:52.239 --> 00:37:54.559 ended up being a terrible idea. You know, for business, 765 00:37:55.119 --> 00:37:56.840 this is a little bit different. Scene is on his 766 00:37:56.920 --> 00:37:59.360 way out. You know, he's not the top guy anymore 767 00:37:59.400 --> 00:38:03.159 like Austin was at the time. It's not an apples 768 00:38:03.159 --> 00:38:06.519 and apples thing. But working it that way would have 769 00:38:06.559 --> 00:38:10.519 been so much better. Like forget Travis Scott, forget the Rock. 770 00:38:11.000 --> 00:38:12.440 If the Rock wasn't going to be a part of 771 00:38:12.440 --> 00:38:13.920 this thing, he never should have been involved in the 772 00:38:13.920 --> 00:38:16.119 first place. The soul stuff never should have happened. This 773 00:38:16.119 --> 00:38:18.239 should never have been about the Rock, which is all 774 00:38:18.280 --> 00:38:20.920 it turned into after that. It should have been Johnsena 775 00:38:20.920 --> 00:38:23.400 wins the elimination Chamber because he didn't win the Royal 776 00:38:23.480 --> 00:38:26.920 Rumble and the Chamber may have been his last shot 777 00:38:27.320 --> 00:38:30.840 to go right into a championship match. It's his final WrestleMania, 778 00:38:30.920 --> 00:38:33.000 and if they really wanted him to win that title 779 00:38:33.039 --> 00:38:35.800 at WrestleMania and not push it off until Summer Slammer 780 00:38:35.920 --> 00:38:38.760 sometime later in the year, then you do the match 781 00:38:39.000 --> 00:38:42.679 John Cena going for Number seventeen, feeling the desperation to 782 00:38:43.519 --> 00:38:47.119 break the record, and during the match he does the unthinkable, 783 00:38:48.320 --> 00:38:51.039 him kicking Cody and the nuts at WrestleMania in the 784 00:38:51.039 --> 00:38:55.639 way he did that would have been an amazing moment 785 00:38:55.880 --> 00:38:58.960 that then led into a finish that nobody would have expected. 786 00:39:00.079 --> 00:39:02.239 You get the combination the one two punch here of 787 00:39:02.320 --> 00:39:05.119 Sina goes heel and he wins Number seventeen. But this 788 00:39:05.280 --> 00:39:07.320 is not the way we thought it was going to happen. 789 00:39:07.840 --> 00:39:09.639 And then he goes on from there to have this 790 00:39:09.719 --> 00:39:12.480 heel run where he's counting down the number of dates 791 00:39:12.480 --> 00:39:16.000 he's got left and he's very stoic, and I'm here 792 00:39:16.000 --> 00:39:18.199 to ruin wrestling, and this is why I did what 793 00:39:18.280 --> 00:39:22.280 I did, Like, there were so many other ways, better 794 00:39:22.320 --> 00:39:25.559 ways to tell this story, but they just seemingly didn't 795 00:39:25.559 --> 00:39:28.519 give it enough foresight, and they just came up with this. 796 00:39:28.599 --> 00:39:30.800 It was almost very haphazard, just if you believe what 797 00:39:30.840 --> 00:39:34.119 The Rock says, and that, to me is the most 798 00:39:34.400 --> 00:39:37.800 stunning part of this entire thing. What little forethought they 799 00:39:37.840 --> 00:39:40.159 put into what they ended up doing and the way 800 00:39:40.199 --> 00:39:42.480 that they did it. If you made a list of 801 00:39:42.480 --> 00:39:44.360 the five ways they could have gotten from point A 802 00:39:44.440 --> 00:39:47.280 to point B, they went with the absolute worst possible plan, 803 00:39:47.440 --> 00:39:49.800 and that's how they closed that WrestleMania this year. And 804 00:39:49.840 --> 00:39:52.599 it sucks and it'll go down. I don't want to 805 00:39:52.599 --> 00:39:54.239 say it was the worst. It will go down as 806 00:39:54.280 --> 00:39:57.119 one of the worst finishes to a WrestleMania that they've 807 00:39:57.119 --> 00:40:00.039 ever done in terms of how they got there. It 808 00:40:00.079 --> 00:40:02.599 didn't have to be that way. Rock never should have 809 00:40:02.599 --> 00:40:04.679 been involved in this in the first place. It was 810 00:40:04.719 --> 00:40:08.559 one big tease for something they never intended on delivering on. 811 00:40:08.679 --> 00:40:10.639 They had an obligation, i think, to the fans to 812 00:40:10.679 --> 00:40:12.159 really give them a heads up and let them know 813 00:40:12.199 --> 00:40:13.800 The Rock wouldn't be there, and it would have been 814 00:40:13.880 --> 00:40:16.519 very simple. It would have been very very simple. Instead 815 00:40:16.519 --> 00:40:19.920 of ignoring the Rock and pretending like he didn't exist 816 00:40:20.800 --> 00:40:24.519 in those initial weeks coming out of elimination Chamber, it 817 00:40:24.559 --> 00:40:26.639 could have been a very simple statement from The Rock 818 00:40:26.880 --> 00:40:29.039 or even Sena on behalf of The Rock, mentioning that 819 00:40:29.079 --> 00:40:32.079 the Rock basically said, Okay, you know, my job here 820 00:40:32.119 --> 00:40:35.119 is done. The rest is up to you. But let's 821 00:40:35.239 --> 00:40:37.840 be honest here. They wanted people to think that Rock 822 00:40:37.960 --> 00:40:39.800 was going to be there because that just added to 823 00:40:39.800 --> 00:40:40.559 the interest. 824 00:40:40.280 --> 00:40:40.719 In the show. 825 00:40:40.760 --> 00:40:42.440 They probably didn't want to come out and say Rock 826 00:40:42.519 --> 00:40:44.960 wasn't going to be there. I think they were very 827 00:40:45.039 --> 00:40:47.400 duplicitous about the entire thing. They knew exactly what they 828 00:40:47.400 --> 00:40:50.519 were doing. You know, even those Rock t shirts everybody 829 00:40:50.639 --> 00:40:53.119 was showing pictures of. Even though those Rock has finally 830 00:40:53.119 --> 00:40:56.000 come back to Las Vegas shirts were made last year. 831 00:40:56.639 --> 00:40:58.719 They were made over a year ago for the Wrestle Maydia, 832 00:40:58.760 --> 00:41:02.320 a kickoff to for I think people think they were 833 00:41:02.320 --> 00:41:05.480 made brand new for this year. They weren't, but evidently 834 00:41:05.519 --> 00:41:08.039 they were spotted in Vegas. If they were on sale, 835 00:41:08.039 --> 00:41:09.920 that's even worse. I mean, if they took those old 836 00:41:09.960 --> 00:41:11.719 shirts and had them on sale and they're in their 837 00:41:11.760 --> 00:41:14.280 shop in Vegas. I wasn't there, so I can't confirm 838 00:41:14.320 --> 00:41:16.280 that they were on sale in Vegas. But if they were, 839 00:41:16.360 --> 00:41:19.639 that makes it even worse. But maybe that's why. Maybe 840 00:41:19.639 --> 00:41:21.480 they were like, oh, okay, let's keep people thinking the 841 00:41:21.519 --> 00:41:24.280 Rock will be there. Maybe he'll change his mind, maybe 842 00:41:24.320 --> 00:41:26.519 he will show up. Rock never should have been involved 843 00:41:26.519 --> 00:41:28.800 in this though in the first place, and the fact 844 00:41:28.840 --> 00:41:32.760 that Travis Scott and The Rock not being there is 845 00:41:32.800 --> 00:41:35.320 what a lot of people will now forever associate with 846 00:41:35.440 --> 00:41:37.960 John Cena breaking the record or winning number seventeen in 847 00:41:38.000 --> 00:41:41.599 his final WrestleMania match is an embarrassment and had they 848 00:41:41.639 --> 00:41:43.840 worked things just a little bit differently, this could have 849 00:41:43.840 --> 00:41:46.519 been an all timer as far as finishes to a 850 00:41:46.559 --> 00:41:49.920 WrestleMania and the way it worked it wasn't all timer, 851 00:41:50.039 --> 00:41:53.239 but for all the wrong reasons. And there's no amount 852 00:41:53.280 --> 00:41:56.079 of spin or damage control that The Rock can do 853 00:41:56.760 --> 00:41:57.800 that is going to fix that.