PhenomTheMac
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You sure you can trust this guy?
You sure you can trust this guy?
femto696
Rain Maker
But everyone reported this. Triple H himself said it was a closely guarded secret until the day it happened.
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No one trusts Dave. They’re pointing out how ridiculous he is for acting like he’s reporting new news while everyone already knew.
Also, bc of dumb things like this:
PhenomTheMac
OG
A closely guarded secret that no one knew about. But those same people know every detail about The Rock's booking.
femto696
Rain Maker
Only Hunter and Nick Khan did. Gorilla was even cleared out when Punk arrived. It was a shock to literally everyone.
Rock's booking is something all of creative are privy to. Not exactly the same lol.
PhenomTheMac
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Meltzer thought Rock and Triple Hs segment from 2014 was filmed last week!
Meltzer reported that Tommy Dreamer was the new head booker for TNA. Tommy immediately came out and refuted this.
Meltzer said that no Mexican wrestler was allowed to appear on AEW TV that CMLL workers also appear on. That was also proven wrong.
That's just shit he's been wrong about today. Three different companies and he was wrong about the dealing of all three. But this, *this* he is right about? Yeah, sure.
femto696
Rain Maker
I mean Fightful did an extensive report on the initial plans, re: Rock. And they're very much accurate.
Details And Reactions Behind The Rock, Roman Reigns, Cody Rhodes And WWE WrestleMania | Fightful News
whats CAUSIN all this?
Dave isn't as credible as he once was but the greater details have been pretty much reported consistently across the board.
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Report: The Rock made the call to turn heel, give WrestleMania main event back to Cody
The most detailed report yet about how WWE changed their plans for Roman Reigns, Dwayne Johnson & Cody Rhodes after fans revolted against a Rock/Reigns match in Philadelphia. But we still have lots of questions...www.cagesideseats.com
From the outside, it seemed pretty clear that WWE changed their plans for Roman Reigns, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and Cody Rhodes in response to backlash from fans after Royal Rumble winner Rhodes seemingly gave The Rock the WrestleMania main event he’d earned with Reigns on the Feb. 2 SmackDown.
Reporting since they officially course-corrected at last week’s WrestleMania XL Kickoff confirms that notion, and the latest Wrestling Observer Newsletter has the most detailed account of what happened yet.
Dave Meltzer writes that after the negative response to the end of the Feb. 2 show, it was The Rock who said he should be out of the Reigns match so Rhodes could be slotted back in. It sounds like everyone else had already figured that out, but it still probably took Johnson — who just days before had been named to the Board of Directors of WWE’s parent company, TKO Group — officially agreeing to drop the match he’d come back for.
Johnson also pitched his own heel turn, and the idea of a Roman & Rock vs. Rhodes & Seth Rollins tag match for night one, although it’s still not clear if that match will happen or if future twists & turns in the story will take that idea off the table.
The big question that remains is why WWE booked Cody to win the Rumble in the first place if they knew Johnson was doing the Reigns match at WrestleMania this year. We’d previously heard that Rhodes warned company official they wouldn’t get a positive reaction to his scene with The Rock on SmackDown. Now the Observer Newsletter makes it seem like head of creative Paul “Triple H” Levesque knew that too.
Meltzer’s heard that Triple H “scrambled behind the scenes” to keep Rhodes involved. At one point he wanted to shoot an angle for the Feb. 2 show that would see The Bloodline injure Cody to set-up The Rock being announced as his replacement at the press conference in Vegas. In that scenario, Rhodes would return later to finish his story and win the belt from Roman after WrestleMania.
Perhaps that’s something we’ll get more insight into in the future. Meltzer writes that “there is said to be far more behind the scenes that hasn’t come out but given the timing can’t be talked about now”, which is pretty cryptic even for a wrestling rumor report. Another possibility is that WWE is being extra tight-lipped about future story developments, like whatever Roman is teasing for SmackDown tonight (Feb. 16).
Guess we’ll just have to see what the “long gamers” have planned, and what the dirt sheets tell us about it afterwards.
At this point I could care less. And I think everyone should do the same. Just sit back and enjoy the ride. Stop worrying about it it was a work...or not. Was it planned...or did they pivot? Did Rock truly plan to go heel all along? Or did he chan...*sighs*. The shyt is exhausting.
At this point WWE can put out anything. And guess what... NO ONE outside that creative/meeting room will know the actual truth. Just deal wit it
StringerBell
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He’s not doing releases he is going let the contracts of wrestlers he doesn’t want anymore just run out instead of releasing them…
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OGDirtyD
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Like Stringer said Khan said from day 1 he will honor contracts all the way through and just not resign to counter Vince/WWE mass cuts out of nowhere.
There already was a hand full of people that didnt get resigned in the past 2 years.
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unSCENE
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I don’t think it’s a net positive to roster more talent than you can utilize and leave them trapped through the completion of their contract.
But I’m sure the talent don’t mind getting paid to do nothing or just get dark matches.
While people complain about certain wrestlers not being used regularly I bet many of them are happy to at least get a check and to know when their contracts end to plan for the future
OGDirtyD
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What Ro said. Family still getting fed if they are bored with the talent or have no use. No negative here IMO.
Not sure what you mean by "trapped". Khan has let folks go who asked for their release. Difference being they not getting a suprise firing out of nowhere which im sure the talent appreciate.
StringerBell
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