FINALLY, THE ROCK HAS COME BACK...but for how long? Ever since The Rock came back to the WWE in 2011, we can count the amount of appearances he's made on WWE programming on two hands. Since he's been back, he's hosted Wrestlemania, had three singles matches and one tag team match, challenged the WWE Champion to a match....8 months down the line, and has pushed other superstars away from main eventing the big shows. Remember when Hulk Hogan won the WWF title back in 1993 from Yokozuna at Wrestlemania IX (I was there), and didn't appear on TV until June at the King of the Ring? That's what this is! As far as I'm concerned, the only thing The Rock has done productive is update the WWE Championship belt.
CM Punk held the WWE Championship for 400 plus days, a feat that hasn't happened since Hulk Hogan held the title for the first time. In the 90's and 2000's, the WWE title has been more like musical chairs. Austin would hold it for a few months, Triple H would win it and hold for a month, then The Rock would regain it, then Kurt Angle would enter the mix and win it, then Kane would hold it for a day, and so on and so on.... Then we entered the John Cena era and while having him represent the company as champion, he drew more in chasing the title, as long as either Randy Orton, Batista, Alberto Del Rio, or Rey Mysterio held the title. CM Punk brought legitimacy to the title. Then, with The Rock's challenge at the Royal Rumble, which was put in place the day after Wrestlemania the year before, it was only a matter of time before we knew the belt was coming off him.
This does set the stage for Cena winning the belt back at Wrestlemania against The Rock, and winning his rematch on top of that, but the damage has already been done. The World Heavyweight title is a non-factor (probably should of been retired when WCW went under, in my opinion), Dolph Ziggler's Money in the Bank title shot has been pushed back, CM Punk now faces The Undertaker at Wrestlemania instead of attempting to reclaim the title, and Randy Orton, Sheamus, and The Big Show are no longer in the title picture. The company can't revolve around a guy who is a part time contributor. The sooner the title comes off The Rock, the quicker "wrestling fans" will come back to the WWE.
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