The Rock recently cut a 15-minute promo on Twitter/X towards Cody Rhodes ahead of tonight’s appearance on WWE SmackDown. In the video that he deleted and later reuploaded, he also played a clip of WWE superfan Dave Lagreca from Busted Open Radio saying that he hates The Rock for using his power to take an opportunity from Cody.
Rock also went on to show some behind-the-scenes footage of him and Cody backstage at the media event in Las Vegas and Cody pulling back on their agreement to let Rock step in to face Roman Reigns.
Dwayne Johnson took to social media this morning to further establish the storyline between himself, Cody Rhodes, Seth Rollins, and Roman Reigns heading into WrestleMania 40.
During the promo, The Rock not only revealed the conversation he had with Cody Rhodes prior to the SmackDown in Birmingham, but what he whispered in his ear as well.
“The world exploded because they knew after all these years that we were finally getting The Rock vs. Roman Reigns, the biggest WrestleMania of all time. Then what happens? Cody Rhodes, he wins the Royal Rumble, fair and square, works his ass off, and he wins that Royal Rumble, baby. Yeah, he’s going to WrestleMania.
“Yeah, good for him. Good for him, The Rock was happy. But what happened? Rock called Cody Rhodes and had a conversation. But it was a conversation that few have had with Cody Rhodes before because Cody knew the biggest match of all time was looming.
“The Rock talked to Cody and said, ‘Cody, you know you love this business. The Rock loves this business. You were born into this business. The Rock was born into this business. Roman Reigns was born into this business. The three of us were born into this business. You know Cody, you got the biggest WrestleMania main event of all time right here. You have an opportunity to bring this business up to places it’s never been before, you can always, with all due respect, finish your story another time.’
“And you agreed! ‘Rock, it stings, but I agree. It stings, but I’m a team player. It stings, but I want what’s best for the business.’ Good man. And then what happened? In Birmingham, Alabama, the city we selected because of its rich history, and we knew we were going to make history. It was your job Cody to introduce The Rock, thus setting up the biggest main event of all time, and what did you do? You did exactly what we agreed on.
“Let’s do it for The American Dream. Let’s do it for The Soul Man.”
“Brother, you introduced The Rock, and that place went crazy. And The Rock came out, and he dabbed you up, he pulled you in and gave you a big hug, and I whispered something in your ear, ‘Let’s put on the biggest WrestleMania of all time. Let’s do it for The American Dream. Let’s do it for the Soul Man.’
“I gave you a hug, and you hugged The Rock back, and what you do, Cody? You walked out of that ring on live TV and you turned back, and you looked at The Rock, and instead of looking at The Rock saying, ‘Yeah, go get him. Let’s make history.’
“Instead of that, what do you do? You gave The Rock a look, and that’s the same look he gave the world like The Rock went out and ran over your goofy ass dog! That’s the look you gave like The Rock ran over your goofy ass dog.”
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— Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) March 1, 2024
