Are We Finishing the Story? The Cody/Rock/Roman Megathread

[Smart Marx]

Lots of ppl have stopped watching the product for close to a decade now, rock could've brought them back in

Rock wasn’t going to bring anyone back in with the excepting of maybe just watching wrestlemania.

Unless rock for some reason decided to appear every week his one-time appearance wouldn’t have changed anything long term.

And even that one time pop is worthless without the old school PPV model.

Building cody into the next ace however would have lasting implications.

 

[Jacob Fox]

I have no dog in this race one way or another, really. However, I do enjoy pointing out irony. It's a bit of a hobby of mine.

 

[Smart Marx]

Na I'm posting in a wrestling forum, not sending death threats on twitter

Like 5 people on Twitter did that and I can can guarantee you that triple h probably receives some every year but we never hear about it because he doesn’t let it bother him and Ava wasn’t used to seeing such toxic mess.

Those fans however should be ashamed of themselves.

 

[Dustin001]

Rock wasn’t going to bring anyone back in with the excepting of maybe just watching wrestlemania.

Unless rock for some reason decided to appear every week his one-time appearance wouldn’t have changed anything long term.

And even that one time pop is worthless without the old school PPV model.

Building cody into the next ace however would have lasting implications.

I doubt it, super babyfaces don't stay over for long, see john cena

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

I suggest just putting him on ignore, it's clear he's got some fucking braindead takes if he thinks The Rock in 2024 is going to make old wrestling fans who stopped watching when WCW died come back and regularly watch the product again.

 

[Storm Trooper]

Rock coming back won't bring people back long-term.

UNLESS he puts over Cody ASAP.

I doubt it, super babyfaces don't stay over for long, see john cena

he only stayed over for 15 years and arguably was more over in 2022 than he was in 2005.

 

[Smart Marx]

I doubt it, super babyfaces don't stay over for long, see john cena

John Cena was the top guy for like 15 years lol and I don’t even like John Cena.

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

And the fans who stopped watching WWE in the last decade have either A.) stopped watching entirely and don't care about The Rock, or B.) moved on to other companies like... AEW.

 

[Storm Trooper]

John Cena was the top guy for like 15 years lol and I don’t even like John Cena.

like seriously that dude was over for like twice as long as Rock was. (by virtue of simply being there since Rock left after 8 years).

 

[Dustin001]

John Cena was the top guy for like 15 years lol and I don’t even like John Cena.

He was on top sure but most of the fans hated him

 

[Chris]

Lots of ppl have stopped watching the product for close to a decade now, rock could've brought them back in

This one made me think RLStern came back

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

I wonder if Dustin thinks The Rock or Steve Austin was the bigger star in the Attitude Era.

 

[Dustin001]

Rock coming back won't bring people back long-term.

UNLESS he puts over Cody ASAP.

he only stayed over for 15 years and arguably was more over in 2022 than he was in 2005.

Lol wow we doing revionist history now, he was booed by everyone above the age of 10 from 2007 on

Just because he was force fed down our throats doesn't mean he was loved by fans lol

 

[Smart Marx]

He was on top sure but most of the fans hated him

I’d agree that maybe 50 to 60% of the audience near the beginning absolutely despised him as a babyface but that doesn’t mean what you think it does. He was still selling areas he was still selling merch he was still selling buys.

Now if you wanna argue that he should’ve been turned heel I’d be 100% on your side. I 1000% think by 2007 Cena should’ve turned heel and that probably would’ve made him an even bigger babyface by 2010 when he turned back again, but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t their biggest draw and Cody is not getting the negative reactions that John Cena is getting.

 

[Dustin001]

This one made me think RLStern came back

Who the fuck is rl stine?