He's been the lead actor of the several mainstream movies that have grossed over 1 BILLION dollars. I rest my case.
Fast Five accounts for nearly three quarters of that money, the 5th film in an already established and successful franchise where he was not the lead. I rest my case.
Foley - The Rock dropped the title to him and made him a credible champion during their excellent feud.
Foley made The Rock credible by taking stacks of abuse and carrying him through hardcore fights that made people buy him as more than a pretty boy pretender. Foley was already way over when he won the belt and Austin screwed The Rock out of the belt, he didn't put Foley over.
Angle - The original plan was to keep the title on The Rock until Wrestlemania, but he felt it is better to drop the title to someone (Kurt Angle in this case, which was his first huge main event program) who will benefit from it while he is involved in Who ran over Austin storyline so he dropped the title to Kurt.
Vince books WWE not The Rock.
Benoit - Worked a main event program with him then lost to him via submission 2 years later. IIRC Austin never lost to Benoit and while HHH did put over Benoit clean, it wasn't one on one, and made the champion look like an afterthought afterwards as Hunter was still the focus of RAW (Kind of like what Cena is doing now to Punk)
The Benoit job was on the way out the door to his $5M a movie deal.
Jericho - He lost to him on THREE PPVs (two of which were dropping the WCW Championship). Would Austin or Helmsley have done that? Hell no!
Triple H lost clean to Batista on 3 PPV's so yes he would, and Rock only put Jericho over clean once.
Lesnar - He made Brock Lesnar look like a million bucks at SummerSlam by making him the youngest WWE Champion ever as Stone Cold walked out and Triple H was ducking him and had Brock moved to SD.
Goldberg - The Rock was a major reason why Goldberg got signed to WWE to begin with (he talked him into it) and it was his idea to lose to Goldberg. Bill got his first huge win in WWE because of The Rock and it established him as a major player. Again, Austin avoided him while Triple H went on to kill his momentum afterwards.
Nice try but again, he was on the way out the door to a $5M per movie deal, it's easy to do jobs when you no longer care about the business, and Goldberg failed because he sucked and in WWE where you have to be able to go 20 minutes in a main event he was exposed. Triple H lost clean to Goldberg on two PPV's so yeah, really killed his momentum.
Seriously, Rock is one of the most unselfish guys in WWE history who helped build stars and only refused to job once (to Booker in 2003) and yet when Vince decides to throw an old dog a bone that he tends to do with his veterans, Rock is lambasted as the worst compared to the other main event guys. Some of you guys are unbelievable.
He's a phony with a **** eating grin that came back to stroke his own ego and add this generations star to his list of Austin and Hogan and pop ratings and a buyrate that never materialized so he could toot his horn.
Poor show this week, in fact judging by the switch in the ring girls dress and the commentators I am guessing they are stitching these eps together from various shows they taped.
Rollins needs to drop that finisher and I stand by my take that Steamboat wont be a big star. I did think Cesaro and Kruger came off really well though.
I wish they would get round to putting Paige and Sofia on.
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NEW TNA DESTINATION X MATCHES CONFIRMED
by Mike Johnson @ 1:33 PM on 6/28/2012
Officially added to the TNA Destination X PPV:
*Ultimate X to crown a new X-Division champion.
*TNA Tag Team champion AJ Styles vs. Christopher Daniels - Last Man Standing.
*Samoa Joe vs. Kurt Angle in a Bound for Glory series match.
VIDEO: TNA DESTINATION X BEFORE THE BELL
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I could do without AJ vs Daniels part 3509840 and is Joe vs Angle just a ten minute points match?
Hope they have some interesting contestants in the Ultimate X match.
While it wasn't clean, I thought the way it was booked was solid and Angle looked good. The run-ins by Rikishi and HHH both led to attacks on Angle, and in the end, Angle was smart enough to dodge one of Rikishi's sidekicks, which struck the Rock. Then he Angle Slammed Rikishi, then Angle Slammed Rock for the win.
I admit by face standards in WWE it wasn't a bad job if not clean, but this notion that Rock booked it?
Anyways, I have no problem with Cena losing, I want him to lose. It's just a matter who he's losing to. Losing to the Rock did nothing. Let him take a loss against someone who's on the roster, the guys that are there all year long. Let him help make a new star, the way they boosted Punk a year ago with their great feud.
Losing to Lesnar instead of Rock would've made sense since it would've re-established a returning star who could've gone on a tear the entire year. But they've jacked up Lesnar's booking.
I feel the same way, I am bored of the endless Cenafest that WWE has become, even when he isn't champion, but what you say here sums up EVERYTHING wrong with the WWE and Vince.
Rock comes back and Vince feels he must rim him, so he's put over the star of the company and promptly leaves and may not even be able to work next years Mania.
Brock comes back with the openess that he will do jobs even though he is a legit badass figther. WWE's response is that they must try to embarass and dick him around to put him in his place, even though they have him on a year contract with him willing to put over guys that could use it.
Their next stroke of genius? feed him to the nose of noses ego.
The Roode/Aries segment was good stuff and it was great to see Sonjay Dutt back. That moonsault into the footstomp was sick!
