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**The CyNick** · 12-09-2003, 07:17 PM

Yeah I think Rock needs to go back to Smackdown and fued with someone there, likely Cena.

The way I see it the WWE is stacking RAW, and leaving Smackdown out in the cold. Now, I understand that with both Foley and Rock making suprise returns they had to be on RAW in order to keep the element of suprise. However, in the long run I think Rock should go to SD. Smackdown has lost Kurt due to injury and Taker with the whole Deadman angle. In the meantime RAW has Foley, HHH, Goldberg, Austin (in the next couple of weeks or so) Flair and Kane. If you add Rock to that list, it becomes very unbalanced. And at this point they need to get eyeballs on both shows, not just RAW.

Now, they could always keep Rock on RAW and then have Cena challenge him to an brand vs brand match, but I think it would be more effective to stick Rock over on SD and have him put over someone from that crew (ie Cena).

As for some of the propsed ideas, Rock-HHH isn't bad for nostalgia, but I think they are going back to the idea of HHH vs Orton (which is a better idea provided its done right). Rock n Sock as a team is a cool idea, but then who do they face? I dont think there's a team out there that would make a good enough match (Jericho/Christian is the only thing I can come up with). Austin/Rock/HHH in a 3 way doesn't really appeal to me, I just dont see the point of that match. Plus I dont think Austin is going to do a serious match at Mania anyway.

12-09-2003, 07:17 PM	#5
The CyNick Make the IWC Great Again Posts: 8,922	Yeah I think Rock needs to go back to Smackdown and fued with someone there, likely Cena. The way I see it the WWE is stacking RAW, and leaving Smackdown out in the cold. Now, I understand that with both Foley and Rock making suprise returns they had to be on RAW in order to keep the element of suprise. However, in the long run I think Rock should go to SD. Smackdown has lost Kurt due to injury and Taker with the whole Deadman angle. In the meantime RAW has Foley, HHH, Goldberg, Austin (in the next couple of weeks or so) Flair and Kane. If you add Rock to that list, it becomes very unbalanced. And at this point they need to get eyeballs on both shows, not just RAW. Now, they could always keep Rock on RAW and then have Cena challenge him to an brand vs brand match, but I think it would be more effective to stick Rock over on SD and have him put over someone from that crew (ie Cena). As for some of the propsed ideas, Rock-HHH isn't bad for nostalgia, but I think they are going back to the idea of HHH vs Orton (which is a better idea provided its done right). Rock n Sock as a team is a cool idea, but then who do they face? I dont think there's a team out there that would make a good enough match (Jericho/Christian is the only thing I can come up with). Austin/Rock/HHH in a 3 way doesn't really appeal to me, I just dont see the point of that match. Plus I dont think Austin is going to do a serious match at Mania anyway.