Thread: WWE: Survivor Series 2021
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Old 11-26-2021, 08:40 PM   #243
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The thing with this Rock/Reigns deal is that the story writes itself; “The Head of the Table”, “The Tribal Chief”, the man that puts the food on the table for the whole family, confronted by his own cousin who’s the actual trailblazer, the biggest star on the planet. Cousin vs Cousin.

And when a story writes itself so easily and you don’t plan to deliver it you should be doing everything to go in the opposite direction - if you don’t want to disappoint your fan base that is.

At Survivor Series they clearly leaned into it. They might not have expressly advertised it but they hinted at it. They laid the table, pardon the pun. Which makes me think the plan is for it to happen at some point. Not in 2022 though.

You can’t blame the fans for anticipating on the night.
I agree that the story writes itself, but I don’t think avoiding your public relationship with The Rock just because people want to see a match that can’t happen is the answer. And I’m not sure how many casual fans have actually expected these two to have a match, or The Rock to even come back. It may just be this pocket of hardcore fans who want to fantasy book because their interest in this goes just far enough without realizing The Rock is too big a star to work matches now.

I don’t think “Hey, 25 years ago the biggest star on the planet made his debut with us, we’re going to talk about that” necessarily sends the promotional message the IWC is claiming it does.
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