{"id":49844,"date":"2024-03-16T22:45:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T03:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49844"},"modified":"2024-03-22T22:45:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T03:45:46","slug":"the-power-of-the-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49844","title":{"rendered":"The Power of The Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By now, everyone knows that The Rock is back in the WWE, presumably just for Wrestlemania<\/em> SZN, but the reality is that he\u2019s still back on television, making appearances here and there to hype up the event.<\/span><\/p>\n

His return has sparked a lot of debate among the general wrestling community, and there are some pretty concrete sides on the field: those fans who dislike when guest stars pop up during Mania SZN, just to hype up the event, and ultimately vanish into thin air once Mania is over, and then there are fans who love it when part-timers like The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin, or the Undertaker show up for Wrestlemania, because they\u2019re legends, they\u2019re icons from their era, or whatever reason.<\/span><\/p>\n

Typically, I\u2019m often times in the camp of not really preferring when guests show up for Wrestlemania, because I\u2019m of the mindset that the people who carry the company week in and week out, should be the ones to get the biggest billings at the biggest show of the year.\u00a0 And in lots of cases, I don\u2019t want to see some older performer who\u2019s rusty, out of shape, and incapable of putting on a good show any more, having the opportunity to do so, and denying one of the aforementioned week in and week out guys in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stone Cold Steve Austin had a respectable program two years ago, but I\u2019d still maintain that it had largely to do with the fact that a very respectful and capable Kevin Owens was carrying him, and let\u2019s not forget all the times in history we\u2019ve seen the Undertaker, Mick Foley, Hulk Hogan and even Triple H gear up for Wrestlemania, only to be one of the least impressive contributors on the card.<\/span><\/p>\n

But The Rock, I have to say that he\u2019s just on another level when it comes to drumming up excitement and hyping up a program.\u00a0 For starters, mythical wife, who actually did watch a little bit of Attitude-era wrestling when she was a wee lass, heard completely independently, that The Rock was back, and put forth her own independent effort to check out his first promos.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since then, The Rock set an incendiary blaze on the internet wrestling community, diving up the fanbase entirely, and even forcing me to soften my stance on Cody Rhodes, and then adjusted based on the crowd feedback, and has gone full-ass heel mode, and has returned to his Attitude-era roots and is once again doing the lord\u2019s work when it comes to cutting promos and building up hype for a show.<\/span><\/p>\n

Obviously, I look forward to Wrestlemania just about every year, but I have to say that I\u2019m really<\/em> looking forward to Wrestlemania this year.\u00a0 Even if it\u2019s going to be in a cesspool like Philadelphia, I know the crowd will be hot, because Philly fans get hot for wrestling, and The Rock, being the mutant athlete he is, is sure to still be capable of putting on a decent match.<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite the fact that when The Rock came back, I was just kind of like oh cool, I have to say that the way he just so effortlessly creates excitement and drums up anticipation for the event, is truly why he is the most electrifying man in sports entertainment.\u00a0 It\u2019s just so easy and organic for him, and now I\u2019m looking more forward to this year\u2019s Wrestlemania than I have in prior ones.\u00a0 The card seems wildly predictable in what\u2019s going to happen, but it doesn\u2019t change the fact that I\u2019m looking forward to it this far out, and that, really is the power of The Rock.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By now, everyone knows that The Rock is back in the WWE, presumably just for Wrestlemania SZN, but the reality is that he\u2019s still back on television, making appearances here and there to hype up the event. His return has sparked a lot of debate among the general wrestling community, and there are some pretty … Continue reading The Power of The Rock<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[100,83,99,69,54,55],"class_list":["post-49844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-comparison","tag-observations","tag-reminiscing","tag-television","tag-wrestling","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49847,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49844\/revisions\/49847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}