>>14955815If you can believe it, the original plan post Rock taking Cody's spot, supposedly Cody would've been written off TV through an injury with Shinsuke, which is... so mind boggingly, horrendously, terribly, horrifically, awfully, and many other negative words ending in -ly BAD that I am GENUINELY stumped on how they thought that it was okay. They were absolutely catering to Rock. I don't know what kinda pull Rock really has, maybe they were being paid by him personally, but that shit is DISGUSTING. But thankfully the fans were so fucking loud that even Vince of all people would be forced to acknowledge it. And that whole debacle, along with Rock's promo after Mania makes me think it really did bother him deep down.
>"rock vs roman" was very much something that they had in the pipeline for a very long time and by the time they could finally make it happen was at the worst possible time with everyone behind cody.They could've very well done it at Summerslam, it never had to be Mania. Mania was Rock's choice. He has a fucking greedy ego, and anyone familiar with him will shoot on that. It NEVER had to be Mania. He was just trying to get one last injection in.
>at the end of the day cody should've won the first time around so they could've had rock vs roman at WM40 like they wanted. not having it be a title match would make things less predictable and the idea of the rock stepping for control of the bloodline after roman lost would've made more sense than whatever they were originally trying to do.Far be it from WWE to do long term storytelling. They should've given him the belt after that Hell in a Cell match with Rollins, but they're fucking stupid. Ironically, the only reason the fed is whitehot right now is because of their huge fuck up, and fans seeing their efforts born fruit.
