They can't be.....I just watched again and Cody HAS TO be challenging him for it at Elimination Chamber.
Nothing else makes sense.
As damaging as having yet another screw job finish in the main event of wrestlemania last year was after 2 years of nothing but screw job finishes while your champ becomes a part timer who almost exclusively worked with part timers, tossing your top face in the bushes to just give the main event and the title match to a guy who hasn’t wrestled in 11 years and leaving your top face with nothing to do that has any real heat would be even worse. That’s some 2014 or 2015 royal rumble quality booking.
I’ve been saying for years that Roman vs Rock for the belt is an awful idea and it’s a worse idea than ever now. If rock wins a guy in his 50’s wins the belt after 3.5 years of Roman holding it and that hurts the rest of the roster. If Roman wins, there’s nobody credible to face Roman, there’s nothing interesting for him to do after it, and he likely goes on vacation for another 3-4 months which leaves the show once again with no main event scene. If he doesn’t defend the belt in Australia he’s gonna go into wrestlemania with 3 title defenses over the previous 11 months. Enough of this shyt.