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Official The Rock vs. CM Punk Discussion Thread

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wwe.com said:
Perhaps the parade was premature. Perhaps the celebrating, the humble tweets to The People and the legions of Team Bring It, and the proclamation that FINALLY, The Rock was WWE Champion once again jumped the gun by just a bit. Maybe, just maybe, The Rock put the horse before the cart when he celebrated his latest triumph on Raw Roulette, because CM Punk is not done with The Great One by a long shot.


How could he be, either? When a Superstar holds the WWE Title — Punk’s “life’s work,” in his own words — for 434 days spread across three calendar years, he does not just simply throw up his hands and call it a good run when the prize is taken from his clutches. So it was of no surprise when, during The Rock’s celebratory address to the WWE Universe as its new champion, The Straight Edge Superstar himself declared would be evoking his rematch clause – “granting” Rock a rematch was how he earned it – at Elimination Chamber. It was also of no surprise that The Rock gladly accepted.

But once again, maybe Rock is counting his proverbial chickens too early, because for all CM Punk’s feverish boasting in his final days as champion, he was right about one thing after the Royal Rumble: Hedidpin The Rock. It was one-two-three in the middle of the ring, although it took a sneak attack by who we can only assume was The Shield to weaken The Brahma Bull enough for Punk to make the pin. And it was only after Mr. McMahon restarted the bout that The Great One found enough of a second wind to silence CM Punk and put The Straight Edge Superstar to sleep, claiming his eighth WWE Championship in the process.

So at Elimination Chamber, the most brutal pit stop on The Road to WrestleMania, The Rock will face his own personal demon yet again. And The People’s Champion will have to be very, very careful, because CM Punk does not make the same mistake twice, and he is very, very angry. The very real opinion exists — depending whom you ask — that Punk should still be WWE Champion. And with it, the very real possibility exists — should The Rock think one victory equals winning the war — that The Brahma Bull’s parade could end as soon as it began and that CM Punk will be champion again, with history in his hands for the third time.


Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson said:
Over 100 years of Heavyweight Champions.

3 generations in my blood.

New WWE Champion.

My honor. TEAM BRING IT.


wwe.com said:
Attitude Era original Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson will compete in his first World Title match in more than a decade when he challenges WWE Champion CM Punk, the longest-reigning WWE Title holder of the past quarter-century, at Royal Rumble on Jan. 27.

The WWE Universe has anxiously awaited The Great One’s return to the WWE Title picture since he announced his championship opportunity on Raw 1,000 last July. Though there was no guarantee at the time whom The Rock’s opponent would be, the always-confident Punk fired an opening salvo that night, cutting down The Rock with a clothesline before knocking him out with a picture-perfect Go to Sleep. The following week, The Voice of the Voiceless defended his actions by suggesting The Great One, having been “gifted” a WWE Title match, viewed victory at the Royal Rumble as a foregone conclusion.

Whether a real or perceived slight, the implication that The Rock places himself on a higher plane than the current WWE Champion was seemingly all the motivation Punk needed to make sure he would still have the title on Jan. 27.

In the half-year since Raw 1,000, The Second City Saint stunned WWE fans by aligning with Paul Heyman and ratcheting up the vitriol of his speech. More important than either of those details, he has — by hook or by crook — maintained possession of the championship gold. Having turned back challenges by John Cena and Ryback in recent months, The Best in the World now looks ahead to testing himself against the seven-time former WWE Champion who vowed in 2012 to regain the title.

For The Rock, an A-list Hollywood action star and third-generation Superstar who has sports-entertainment coursing through his veins, the Royal Rumble title match represents the start of a potential career renaissance inside the ring. Since March 2004, The Most Electrifying Man in All of Entertainment has competed in only two sanctioned WWE matches, teaming with John Cena to shred The Awesome Truth (The Miz & R-Truth) at Survivor Series 2011 and overcoming the Cenation leader at WrestleMania XXVIII.

But by vying for the most treasured prize in sports-entertainment, The Rock is committing to more than another appearance as a “special attraction.” Rather, he is setting his eyes on again becoming WWE’s gold standard.

Hell-bent though The Rock may be on introducing a new generation of WWE fans to The People’s Champion, there is no discounting Punk’s deftness once the bell rings. Controversial endings to several high-profile title defenses may have tarnished The Second City Saint’s reputation in the eyes of some critics, but they have done nothing to change the fact the WWE Championship still sits around his waist. Before his seedier side came into focus in late summer, Punk spent much of 2012 disposing of WWE’s best and brightest, ranging from Chris Jericho and Daniel Bryan to Dolph Ziggler and Kane. How will the WWE Champion match up against one of the pillars of The Attitude Era?

As the WWE Universe excitedly counts down the days until Jan. 27, the back-and-forth between two of WWE’s most compelling talkers is bound to pick up steam. It will not be until the Royal Rumble, however, that the trash talk gives way to the gravity of a game-changing WWE Championship bout, the likes of which hasn’t seen in years. Will Royal Rumble mark the rebirth of a championship Brahma Bull, or will it only underscore what Punk has claimed all along, that he is untouchable and in a class by himself?
The Rock explains why he wants WWE Title

WWE part-time star The Rock revealed why re-capturing the WWE Title is important to him in a new interview with WWE Magazine. It's a statement that has been missing from WWE television leading up to the Royal Rumble PPV.

"It starts with recognizing what the WWE Championship represents to me," Rock said in the February 2013 issue. "Every time I hold that title over my head in victory, it not only signifies the fact that I have delivered the absolute best entertainment that I could to the WWE Universe, but that I'm taking a moment to live an experience that all the generations of wrestlers in my family strived to achieve.

Rock continued, "There is no other award that I could receive that's as deeply ingrained in my blood and history as the WWE Championship - and that's why it means so much to me."

At the same time, Rock said that after his first WWE Title reign - which came in 1998 - he decided that he would never allow his possession of or lack of the WWE Title define his career.

"After my first WWE Championship run came to an end, I made a conscious decision that night that I would work harder than any other Superstar in the locker room to become the type of WWE entertainer who, if I never had another championship run again, it would not define my career. I never wanted to rely on a title run for success."

Rock's next statement reflects his recent approach to mixing "entertainment" with "seriousness." Rock concluded, "My goal was to get to a place where I relied only on what I could bring to the table in terms of being entertaining and having a one-of-a-kind - and electrifying - connection with all of the WWE Universe."

[ FYI: Rock's interview is part of a cover-feature on Rock in the latest WWE Magazine. ]

Link - http://pwtorch.com/artman2/publish/WWE_News_3/article_68014.shtml














 
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#3,256 ·
John Cena vs The Rock in a Championship Unification match at Wrestlemania 29?

Ever since the feud with Ziggler I've had this thought in my mind. What if John Cena does indeed win the money in the bank briefcase from Ziggler and since it's the world title briefcase he then cashes it in against the same guy that cost him his money in the bank title shot in the first place big show at TLC or the Rumble (So both him and Rock win their titles the same night) to win the world heavyweight championship. The Rock would then win the WWE championship at the Rumble and John Cena could challenge him to a championship unification match at Wrestlemania 29 where both titles are on the line.

I even made a video simulation of this exact scenario with commentary over it Commentary starts at 2:30


Now personally I don't want to see Cena take the briefcase off Zigler at all lol but this just crossed my mind for some reason as soon as the Aj angle stared and Dolph started getting involved with Cena and maybe there is a slight chance of this happening. Do you guys think this could happen? Would you like a scenario like this or not? Honestly I think it'll most likely be the rock winning the championship and Cena winning an elimination chamber number 1 contendership match to get his shot at the Rock at WM.
 
#3,289 · (Edited)
Re: Official The Rock WWE Championship Discussion

Worried? LOL. Punk has no credibility saying anything while standing in Rock's presence, it will look like some bitter fan trying to get noticed like the ones in the crowd putting their signs in front of the camera. What people don't understand is the reason they're even doing it is to protect their current inferior performers because they would look so out of place in the borders of a wrestling program that they're probably afraid about long term damage to their credibility in the eyes of the weekly viewer. This is the only reason they did it with Cena, to protect his image while attacking a real life person, most funny thing about all of it is that the crowd no-sold him every time, nobody cared. While Rock created memorable moments and making millions worldwide with everything he chooses to say. From Fruity Pebbles which created a campaign, to Boots To Asses which created sets of items and is chanted in sports games. That's where mediocrity exposed in front of greatness.




The G must stand for GOAT

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Looks awesome. But still waiting more for "Pain and Gain".
 
#3,270 ·
Re: Official The Rock WWE Championship Discussion

Rock is not turning heel no time in the near future. Punk was only turned heel and given the long title run to drop it to the GOAT, thats it. I know everyone is hyped for RR but im not even though im by far the biggest Rocky mark. Punk has openly admitted hes going to trash Rock a lot worse than Cena. I wanted to smash my tv everytime Cena would take low blows and attack Dwayne personally to try to get cheap cheers or respect now Punks going to do the same bc neither have the talent to make an interesting feud w/o trying to make fans resent Rock for going to HWood every promo. If Rock was like Cena/Orton/Punk he couldve easily said to Hogan in there WM feud he sold out to WCW for the money and only came back bc WCW closed but he didnt bc he knows how to conduct himself in a professional manner. Even when he got booed at WM 18 and the night after he conducted himself with such a class that WWE will never see again.

Its unbelievably disgraceful how disrespectful Cena/Punk/Orton have been to the GOAT, as if there paychecks havent increased dramatically bc he decided to grace WWE with his presence. Its so funny to me bc Orton/Punk/Cena at one point have all called Rock the GOAT yet once hes competition they all trash him out of jealousy. I still find it astonishing just how naive and clueless PG fans are. People cry that its "not fair" Rock headlined WM and gets a title shot ahahahah cant be serious. WWE sole purpose is to generate revenue and a massively watered down/far past his prime Rock is still 10000 bigger star/draw than everyone else on the roster. That is why WWE kisses the GOATs ass, they should be thanking him every day for even showing up bc the product and stars post AE have been horrendous.
 
#3,271 ·
Re: John Cena vs The Rock in a Championship Unification match at Wrestlemania 29?

1. So what does the winner of the Royal Rumble do?

2. If this does happen. Punk needs to win the Rumble later in the night and take the titles off both of them in the Main Event!
 
#3,272 ·
Re: John Cena vs The Rock in a Championship Unification match at Wrestlemania 29?

If they HAVE to have Cena and Rock again, I wouldn't mind that at all. The only problem with that is the Rumble winner would be pretty much useless, unless it was a triple threat with the Rumble winner where the winner takes all. I seriously doubt Ziggler will lose, even it if is Cena.
 
#3,273 ·
Re: Official The Rock WWE Championship Discussion

^ Orton stopped trashing The Rock a long time ago and came to his senses. And to be honest, he never said anything about it being "unfair" that he main events over full-timers. He just said Cena is better than The Rock and that The Rock went to Vince and claimed that Orton trashed Triple H just to get him into trouble. But then after WM27, he changed his mind and gave The Rock credit for raising his paycheck. Punk, on the other hand, is an arrogant, shit talking jerk that had the nerve to claim that his match with Orton sold out the arena and drew the 1 million buyrate and constantly complains about not getting main events even though it's been well established that he can't draw if his life depended on it. And Cena didn't complain about "unfairness" either. He was a bit unprofessional in their feud with some of the stuff he said, but he never whined about "Dwayne main eventing Wrestlemania". Orton or Cena shouldn't be put in the same sentence as that disrespectful prick, Phil. Phil is mad because his time at the top comes at a point when no one cares enough to watch his boring ass hold the title for an entire year so it bothers him that part-timers have to come and help the company's bank account because vanilla hacks like him drive away fans faster than you can say "What happened?". Orton and Cena have been there, done that. They are both veterans in the business and there's nothing left for either to do other than participate in dream matches with legends that return to temporary help the business. They have no reason to be bitter about anything.

I just hope Rock stops kissing Phil's ass in the build-up and legit buries him. That "The Rock main events Wrestlemania because he draws more money in one night than you will in a lifetime" tweet is a good start.
 
#3,275 ·
Re: Official The Rock WWE Championship Discussion

^ Orton stopped trashing The Rock a long time ago and came to his senses. And to be honest, he never said anything about it being "unfair" that he main events over full-timers. He just said Cena is better than The Rock and that The Rock went to Vince and claimed that Orton trashed Triple H just to get him into trouble. But then after WM27, he changed his mind and gave The Rock credit for raising his paycheck. Punk, on the other hand, is an arrogant, shit talking jerk that had the nerve to claim that his match with Orton sold out the arena and drew the 1 million buyrate and constantly complains about not getting main events even though it's been well established that he can't draw if his life depended on it. And Cena didn't complain about "unfairness" either. He was a bit unprofessional in their feud with some of the stuff he said, but he never whined about "Dwayne main eventing Wrestlemania". Orton or Cena shouldn't be put in the same sentence as that disrespectful prick, Phil. Phil is mad because his time at the top comes at a point when no one cares enough to watch his boring ass hold the title for an entire year so it bothers him that part-timers have to come and help the company's bank account because vanilla hacks like him drive away fans faster than you can say "What happened?". Orton and Cena have been there, done that. They are both veterans in the business and there's nothing left for either to do other than participate in dream matches with legends that return to temporary help the business. They have no reason to be bitter about anything.

I just hope Rock stops kissing Phil's ass in the build-up and legit buries him. That "The Rock main events Wrestlemania because he draws more money in one night than you will in a lifetime" tweet is a good start.
But why SHOULD he bury Phil? Phil is better than Randal. Rock unlike some marks here realizes that. Which is why he won't work a program with Randal.

You jelly?
 
#3,280 ·
Re: Official The Rock WWE Championship Discussion

All that shooting stuff Punk does is so toe curling. When Punk and Miz were doing it, I just thought I hope Rock/Punk feud isn't like this.

But it will likely. Dwayne, Rock, Dwayne, Rock. He was doing it on this past RAW. :D He was calling him him Rock then Dwayne. :D Oh god.
 
#3,292 ·
Re: Official The Rock WWE Championship Discussion

Rock marks be worried that Punk is going to shoot on the Rock as they know Punk will destroy Rock if they do shoot style promos and not do lame, out of date catchphrase duels and crowd pandering promo's.
Typical Rock mark thinking. Cant come up with a compelling, thought out reply against a Punk mark's argument, DERP HE' DOEZNT DRAW!
You guys better stop shooting and calling me by my real name. It doesn't interest the casuals and doesn't draw ratings.


:cool:
 
#3,294 ·
Re: Official The Rock WWE Championship Discussion

^ 100% agree.

The lead up to Rock/Cena was by FAR the worse buildup for a *Mega Match I've ever witnessed because of that crap.

*Brock/Goldberg don't count just for the fact I knew it was gonna be shit with either guy not willing to job.

Don't help when both were about to fuck off from the company anyway. :brock
 
#3,295 ·
Re: Official The Rock WWE Championship Discussion

I actually liked the Brock/Goldberg build-up. They teased it all the way from Survivor Series then they cost each other matches which led to them officially getting physical. Then Austin's involvement was the icing on the cake since he was the one with good mic skills to make it interesting. Plus some very memorable moments like Brock F5ing Austin on Raw (with JR going all "WHAT'S BROCK LESNAR DOING ON RAW????") and Brock also stealing Austin's ATV and taking it to Smackdown. Goldberg was pretty much absent for the build-up, though. Now if we talk about the match... it stunk but that's stating the obvious.
 
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