The Rock's Injury Proves Why WWE Internet Fans Can't Have Nice Things

[Alexander The Great]

WWE Raw: The Rock's Injury Proves Why WWE Internet Fans Can't Have Nice Things | Bleacher Report

The Rock and the people used to be tighter than Brad Maddox's vest. But as one friend (The Rock) became more successful and famous, the other (the people) just languished, looking for something to complain about.

The rise of the internet gave the people a means to broadcast their endless gripes. They became angrier and more fickle. Jaded and more anti-establishment. Thankfully, they also became smaller, yet still very vocal.

Misery has always needed company, which would explain why The Rock left the WWE for seven years.

Yet its most frenetic fans persisted.

They complained that CM Punk was being under utilized. Then he won the WWE Championship.

CM Punk will leave the WWE sooner than later, likely before his prime is over. Admittedly, he gets bored very easily. Hopefully he doesn't become too successful because he'll certainly lose his core fanbase, much of which resides in chat rooms.

Quicker than a Big Show heel turn, internet fanatics were on to their next grievance:
Daniel Bryan was getting a raw deal. The electronic tantrums were especially popular when Bryan lost to Sheamus in 18 seconds.

Most settled down on that front after Bryan received a WWE Championship program against CM Punk. A successful tag team run alongside Kane followed. Now he’s palling around with The Undertaker.

The latest topic of concern pertains to Dolph Ziggler, who has been a hero of the internet wrestling community for quite some time. Just look at some of the the comments that surface when his immortality is called into question. Or just wait.

Ziggler finally scored a legitimate world title win with a Money in the Bank victory over Alberto Del Rio on Raw. He won't have to worry about his thousands eventually turning on him.

He’ll never be that successful.

Ziggler's victory drew the loudest pop of the night from a crowd that was historically hot. That same crowd inexplicably booed The Rock, who was unable to appear on Raw due to a serious abdominal injury that will require rehab.

And that's the mother-flipping thanks he gets?

As united as the boo birds were on Raw, they are hardly representative of the less myopic casual fanbase.

The sentiments of that rare, post-WrestleMania crowd are closer to what one would find on a message board.

Case in point, Dolph Ziggler was the most over wrestler in the building. Main eventing a grand total of zero WrestleManias in almost 10 years with the company, Dolph has yet to draw a doodle let alone a dime.

After saving franchises such as Fast and Furious, Journey, and G.I. Joe, The Rock followed suit with WrestleMania.

The WWE's chief brand was struggling, failing to draw over one million buys in the two years following WrestleMania XXIV. Desperate measures by the WWE led to the charitable return of The Rock.

Since returning, he has appeared on WrestleManias XXVII to XXIX. Two of the three most attended WrestleManias in history have occurred in the three years since The Rock came back. WrestleMania XXIX drew the second-highest attendance figures in WWE history, second only to a widely-disputed WrestelMania III number.

Pending WrestleMania XXIX figures, WrestleMania has drawn over one million buys in each year since The Rock’s recent run.

Despite Dwayne's Midas touch, there has been a palpable tone of pettiness throughout the WWE's product. Far be it of the WWE to have its flaws exposed by needing an Attitude Era star to come to the rescue.

Clueless wrestlers quipped that he's taking their spot. In 2012, WWE booked John Cena to remind its easily-influenced fanbase that Rock is a visitor who has gone Hollywood.

Then there are the hardcore fans, defined by tunnel vision.

Always appalled by success, hardcore fans did anything but waste the first opportunity they had to turn on The Rock.

Rock and WWE's quid-quo-pro romance should end now. The Rock does not need the WWE, and the WWE doesn't deserve The Rock. The promotion has already made its millions on the dead bodies of your favorite wrestlers. So The Rock made a wise choice by “going Hollywood.”

Now, maybe Dolph Ziggler can headline next year's WrestleMania after all.

All 500,00 buys of it.

If that happened, there’s no question whose phone would be ringing once the WWE’s weak star-making process fails them yet again.

If Dwayne Johnson knows any better, that call will go straight to the people's voicemail.

 

[BeefWellingtonThe2nd]

Bleacher report is a terrible trash site, and this is an obvious troll attempt.

 

[Nintendough]

Hi Layla, Bye Layla



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[spoiled]

The Rock is A hero. Not the hero we deserved but the hero we needed. Nothing less than a knight. Shining.

 

[AquaCityBoy]

Bleacher Report.

I can't respect any site that honestly thinks Wade Barrett is World Champion material.

 

[PopOnCloud9]

Everyone appreciated Rock for Survivor Series 2011, Wrestlemania 28 and the 2013 Royal Rumble. Nobody wanted to see that twice in a lifetime shyt this year. They should have just did Rock and Brock and let him keep it moving.

 

[seanjohn21276]

 

[The Antagonist]

Everyone appreciated Rock for Survivor Series 2011, Wrestlemania 28 and the 2013 Royal Rumble. Nobody wanted to see that twice in a lifetime shyt this year. They should have just did Rock and Brock and let him keep it moving.

Yup, shouldve done Rock/Brock for the belt.. Cena vs Taker, then have like a Cena/Rock rematch at extreme rules or something

 

[PopOnCloud9]

Yup, shouldve done Rock/Brock for the belt.. Cena vs Taker, then have like a Cena/Rock rematch at extreme rules or something

Sounds legit to me. Every time I hear Cena vs. Taker it scares me because Vince & Pals just may co-sign Cena ending the streak.

 

[R=G]

Bleacher has been bashing the Rock main event choice for awhile pretty much talking Last Emp around here everyday with the Taker/Punk should main event situation. Big change of heart on that front when it seemed likes a huge down period is coming and without the Rock, that period is well on it's way.

 

[PopOnCloud9]

Bleacher has been bashing the Rock main event choice for awhile pretty much talking Last Emp around here everyday with the Taker/Punk should main event situation. Big change of heart on that front when it seemed likes a huge down period is coming and without the Rock, that period is well on it's way.

That period isn't coming because the Rock left, that down period is coming due to the fact we are gonna watch a year of Cena main events were he triumphs the same guys he's beaten already. As well as witnessing the real talents job to the lame.

 

[El Cocodrilo]

Yeah why do fans complain so much on the internet?! How do we have the balls to complain about the WWE when it's just so mother fukking good. fukk me.

 

[R=G]

That period isn't coming because the Rock left, that down period is coming due to the fact we are gonna watch a year of Cena main events were he triumphs the same guys he's beaten already. As well as witnessing the real talents job to the lame.

Whatever sugarcoat excuses they can think of...when Rock had the title? Nothing but sell outs. Energy of the shows were up and ratings were hitting new highs for the 3 hour era. Things will level out and go back to mediocrity post Mania season. Ryback vs Cena? LOL. The guy who can't win on PPV and got SONNED to no end by Shield is gonna be a thread to Cena all of a sudden? Another predictable PPV.

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

LOL @ rock saving fast and the furious. The fourth one ws a huge success,rock had zero to do with that. In fact rock movies are generally flops.

 

[DANJ!]

Bleacher has been bashing the Rock main event choice for awhile pretty much talking Last Emp around here everyday with the Taker/Punk should main event situation. Big change of heart on that front when it seemed likes a huge down period is coming and without the Rock, that period is well on it's way.

Pretty sure the writer of this article could possibly not be the same writer that bashed your precious Rocky. Which means there was no change of heart at all... just a thought.

That said, this article is very much on point, especially regarding the "fans". I mean it took all of about two weeks after he came back for people to change their minds about the same dude they spent like 8 years wanting to come back. And all because he cut promos that they would've died laughing at when they were 13 but aren't as funny now that they're in their 20s. Now everybody wants him to roll out... until he's gone, then it'll be something else.