The Rock Opinions.
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Indeed can't blame him for being put on the same feud for too long, but it ends up being one of the things that make him worse to watch, even though it's not his fault at all as you said.
First of all, I hate the notion of any part-timer coming back and winning the WWE Championship (or any belt really, but that one particularly). It just really rubs me the wrong way. To me the WWE Champion should be someone who commits everything to the business, works every week including house shows (though I can be more lenient on that) or at the very least, appear on every Raw during the build of the biggest show of the year. And this isn't a shot against The Rock, this is a shot against that concept in general which is only made a thousand times worse when the person who is benefitting from it is the last person on the roster who needs another feather in his cap, John Cena (though had WWE actually done the story they were going for properly I would've been fine with it). Now, people can argue business for me, and I have a few counters to that but the only one worth delving into here is that my problem isn't the business, it's principle. It's honor over reason essentially.
However as I stated in that little rant that none of this really applies to my opinion of The Rock. So then, what is my actual opinion of the Rock (specifically his most recent run)? Meh. His schtick just doesn't do it for me I guess. I liked a few of his promos during the build of XXVIII, but I felt Cena more often than not won those (I recall liking Rock better two weeks, one of them was during the Rock concert, Cena's rap sucked big time) and Cena had the best promo out of the entire feud (the one before Rock started showing up for the build, it's my personal favorite Cena promo). With the Punk feud I always felt like Punk was better than Rock, but honestly only the first promo and like one after that I even really enjoyed. I avoided most of the build to the rematch with Cena but from what I saw both were boring and weren't able to entertain me in the slightest, though in fairness my thoughts on the match and how they went about with Cena's fall may have negatively affected my opinion there. I don't think that's the case but it's certainly possible.
As for his matches, haha . . . they suck. Okay, not all of them. His first match with Cena I can't hate on too much because it was exactly what I expected. An average match with a lot of false finishes. If I had to rate it, probably a 5/10. His first match with Punk was poor, with an atrocious finish, inconsistent selling, and some noteable botches but at least had snippets of good/great actions (loved Punk countering the Rock Bottom into a crucifix pin). I rated it a 3.5/10 (I rated all his other matches on here in the past, so I'm just bringing them up and basically restating myself from then, who I am to question myself?) however I believe I took off some points due to the implications of the result (The Shield being aligned with Heyman, something I was vehemently against from the get-go) so right now I'll change it to a 4/10. His match was Punk at Chamber was solid. I thought it dragged a lot in the middle and I really disliked that the second ref stopped to check on the first ref (on the basis that this is the only time I've ever seen that happened and this scenario wasn't new to me), but the rest was solid and had like the best conclusion to the Rock/Punk feud, I ended up giving it an 8/10 (making it my second favorite PPV match of the year, with The Shield's Chamber bout ranking it at number one). As for his last match with Cena, I gave it a 3/10, and if you want to know why, I'm just going to copy and paste my reasonings from the Rate Mania thread . . .
Man, the search bar came in handy today. Anyway, the point being match-wise he doesn't really do anything for me on a whole either. So there, those are my thoughts on The Rock since returning.
However as I stated in that little rant that none of this really applies to my opinion of The Rock. So then, what is my actual opinion of the Rock (specifically his most recent run)? Meh. His schtick just doesn't do it for me I guess. I liked a few of his promos during the build of XXVIII, but I felt Cena more often than not won those (I recall liking Rock better two weeks, one of them was during the Rock concert, Cena's rap sucked big time) and Cena had the best promo out of the entire feud (the one before Rock started showing up for the build, it's my personal favorite Cena promo). With the Punk feud I always felt like Punk was better than Rock, but honestly only the first promo and like one after that I even really enjoyed. I avoided most of the build to the rematch with Cena but from what I saw both were boring and weren't able to entertain me in the slightest, though in fairness my thoughts on the match and how they went about with Cena's fall may have negatively affected my opinion there. I don't think that's the case but it's certainly possible.
As for his matches, haha . . . they suck. Okay, not all of them. His first match with Cena I can't hate on too much because it was exactly what I expected. An average match with a lot of false finishes. If I had to rate it, probably a 5/10. His first match with Punk was poor, with an atrocious finish, inconsistent selling, and some noteable botches but at least had snippets of good/great actions (loved Punk countering the Rock Bottom into a crucifix pin). I rated it a 3.5/10 (I rated all his other matches on here in the past, so I'm just bringing them up and basically restating myself from then, who I am to question myself?) however I believe I took off some points due to the implications of the result (The Shield being aligned with Heyman, something I was vehemently against from the get-go) so right now I'll change it to a 4/10. His match was Punk at Chamber was solid. I thought it dragged a lot in the middle and I really disliked that the second ref stopped to check on the first ref (on the basis that this is the only time I've ever seen that happened and this scenario wasn't new to me), but the rest was solid and had like the best conclusion to the Rock/Punk feud, I ended up giving it an 8/10 (making it my second favorite PPV match of the year, with The Shield's Chamber bout ranking it at number one). As for his last match with Cena, I gave it a 3/10, and if you want to know why, I'm just going to copy and paste my reasonings from the Rate Mania thread . . .
This was also really, really bad. It was also really boring. Now, unlike every other match on this card essentially, they did attempt to have a build, a progression here. I think they failed but kudos to them for actually trying. The reason I think it failed is because after the initial few minutes it just became about rest holds for like five or seven solid minutes. When you do that, and don't intersperse enough in between, it just feels like pointless padding. Much like the Lesnar/Trips match, they did spots ad nauseum and I'm not just talking about the finishers. They did the blow-for-blow spot three freakin' times in the match, like they really couldn't come up with anything else. As for the mass finisher-fest, yeah to me this felt more like a self-parody than a legitimate wrestling bout, which isn't a good thing.
Unlike the last atrocious bout, lack of botches isn't the only thing I can praise about this match. It was pretty energized once it got going, which was nice and I really liked the callback to their previous match. This doesn't higher the score much but it does higher the score.
Unlike the last atrocious bout, lack of botches isn't the only thing I can praise about this match. It was pretty energized once it got going, which was nice and I really liked the callback to their previous match. This doesn't higher the score much but it does higher the score.
Man, the search bar came in handy today. Anyway, the point being match-wise he doesn't really do anything for me on a whole either. So there, those are my thoughts on The Rock since returning.
