The Rock isn’t selling the internet backlash against promoting WrestleMania main event

The February 2nd episode is smack down The match ends with Royal Rumble winner Cody Rhodes changing his clothes. wrestlemania 40 The plan is to pass up one more chance to defeat Roman Reigns to win the WWE Universal Championship and end the story so that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson can challenge Reigns for the position of Tribal Chief in his place. .

Since then, pro wrestling fans have taken to the internet to air their dissatisfaction.

Rose, Reigns & Rock video smack down The main event segment on WWE’s YouTube channel receives 500,000 dislikes. According to the report, it’s on the record and I won’t confirm the facts, but it sounds like a reasonable claim.

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This situation has been a hot topic on X (formerly Twitter) for the past 36 hours. #wewantcody It has been trending most of the time.

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WWE United States Champion Logan Paul* is also joining #TeamCody.

Despite reports that Johnson used his power as a director of WWE’s parent company, TKO Group, to “earn a spot in the main event of Mania, further angering Rose.” It tried to continue business as usual on social media. Proponents and critics of this angle. The Rock posted a pretty standard Rock Tweet promoting the fighters on yesterday’s UFC (also TKO branded) card.

Their replies were so flooded with negative reactions about WrestleMania that several different versions of it were “rated.” This post in particular received thousands more likes than Johnson’s tweet in response.

To make matters worse, mainstream media outlets like USA Today and TMZ were covering the story.

But The Rock doesn’t seem fazed. Johnson ignored the obvious joke opening line, “I don’t care what you think,” and instead stole a line from Cody, pointing out Cody’s positive test. smack down The scene with Rose & Raines was taken from a live audience in Birmingham, Alabama. In one version, he gave a shoutout to Cody and his own legendary wrestling fathers, and ended with a message to Roman.

There’s a word for this explosive and insane reaction, and it’s undeniable.

No matter the era, age or city, the energy and connection between The People’s Champ and the people never breaks, making it a thrilling and truly moving experience every time.

Thank you, Birmingham, Alabama, we made magical history in the “Magical City.” Thank you WWE and Cody for giving me love and a home (a dream and a soul man).

Roman, there’s only one person at the top of the table. See you in Vegas… Uso.

And on Instagram, she sent an afterthought wink to the backlash.

Feel the mana ✨ I was really amazed by this crazy energy of people. There’s no denying it – and it was one of the loudest applause I’ve ever experienced in my career. Thank you Birmingham, Alabama, thank you WWE, thank you Cody Rhodes himself – and most importantly, thank you the people.

Our connection is unbreakable and our bond is electric.

~People’s Champion

ps, strong skin, love passion

It’s going to be an interesting few months…

* Paul and DJ have a rocky relationship (half-jokingly, half-intentionally). The two produced some content together in the mid-2010s, but Johnson cut ties with Paul. Japan’s 2017 “Suicide Forest” video was widely criticized.Paul recently talked to john cena Although he talked about repairing his relationship with The Rock on his podcast, this tweet is probably not what Cena encouraged him to send.