Rock is being booed (rightly and viciously) by wrestling fans at the moment. Rock has been appointed to the board that owns/oversees/has stake in WWE. The biggest good guy in the company right now is Cody Rhodes, who returned to the company after a long hiatus to “finish his story”…a story many fans are into because he is trying to become the top draw his father never was allowed to be.
Enter the recent and ever-quickening mounting evidence that longtime owner/chairman Vince McMahon has been a sleazy old man at best and an abusive sex trafficker at worst. The fans are paying attention, as McMahon’s aging brain has made countless selfish and idiotic decisions and spent most of his time in recent years as an onscreen authority figure. So, he’s fresh in the mind of the old and casual fan, and these allegations could ruin the company.
Aaaand here comes the recently appointed Rock, whose new authority and pull with the board has allowed him to wiggle himself into the main event at their biggest stage, Wrestlemania, ousting Cody Rhodes and preventing him from achieving a satisfying conclusion to a two year long journey. The fans are rightfully pissed, and it pulls back the curtain more on backstage bullshit.
They thought everyone would focus on Rock and forget McMahon. But, wrestling fans can be rabid and loyal and cruel…so all this did was highlight the corrupt bureaucracy and the predictable pivot away from the McMahon trial. So now fans are chanting anti-McMahon chants, booing the Rock, and highlighting his apparent artificiality.
The funny thing is, the backlash has been so severe that they changed the match back to Cody being in the main event, yet the fans haven’t quieted down. Unfortunately for the pretentious TKO board, they underestimated the ability of wrestling fans to focus on the product as well as the nefarious dealings behind it.
For context:
Rock is being booed (rightly and viciously) by wrestling fans at the moment. Rock has been appointed to the board that owns/oversees/has stake in WWE. The biggest good guy in the company right now is Cody Rhodes, who returned to the company after a long hiatus to “finish his story”…a story many fans are into because he is trying to become the top draw his father never was allowed to be.
Enter the recent and ever-quickening mounting evidence that longtime owner/chairman Vince McMahon has been a sleazy old man at best and an abusive sex trafficker at worst. The fans are paying attention, as McMahon’s aging brain has made countless selfish and idiotic decisions and spent most of his time in recent years as an onscreen authority figure. So, he’s fresh in the mind of the old and casual fan, and these allegations could ruin the company.
Aaaand here comes the recently appointed Rock, whose new authority and pull with the board has allowed him to wiggle himself into the main event at their biggest stage, Wrestlemania, ousting Cody Rhodes and preventing him from achieving a satisfying conclusion to a two year long journey. The fans are rightfully pissed, and it pulls back the curtain more on backstage bullshit.
They thought everyone would focus on Rock and forget McMahon. But, wrestling fans can be rabid and loyal and cruel…so all this did was highlight the corrupt bureaucracy and the predictable pivot away from the McMahon trial. So now fans are chanting anti-McMahon chants, booing the Rock, and highlighting his apparent artificiality.
The funny thing is, the backlash has been so severe that they changed the match back to Cody being in the main event, yet the fans haven’t quieted down. Unfortunately for the pretentious TKO board, they underestimated the ability of wrestling fans to focus on the product as well as the nefarious dealings behind it.