Rock & Rhodes WWE SmackDown Segment on 21/02/2025 by AverageMansReviews

Rock & Rhodes WWE SmackDown Segment on 21/02/2025 by AverageMansReviews

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What are we going with here?: So clearly I have many questions so let's begin: so are we going with a Babyface, Tweener or Heel? Because even so early on from the outset at one point or another we can say all three are applicable, but the transition between one another is jarring and considering who I am talking about here Dwayne "The Rock"/"The Final Boss" Johnson has one of the best promos/mic workers ever in wrestling when he puts in less or has issues on the microphone it is highly noticeable and with that being said we are now getting a fourth personality which Johnson has to deal with also now and for let's call him Business Johnson which this does include anything to do with WWE [which we also got here when he made the announcement for New Orleans: is the place that will be hosting WrestleMania 2026/42 or/and his projects outside of the WWE, which we also got here: Moana 2 2024 crossing the $1 Billion mark.]

So as you can probably tell I found this entire segment to be quite messy and I will even go one more step to say that I have no proof of this, but if someone was to tell me with evidence that this was a very last-minute segment, I wouldn't have any problems believing that, because roughly speaking this segment was 26 minutes long and boy howdy apart from speeding up their entrances, I found this quite boring.

The uncomfortable truth is the fact that the WWE had done this to themselves from the perspective of on the debut of Raw on Netflix Monday 06/01/2025 Johnson essentially buried the hatchet with Cody Rhodes so the story ends or so we thought maybe? [I have to be honest I don't care about this.] But moving on to Friday 21/02/2025 on SmackDown, we have this re-opening/continuation development storyline.

A mixture of someone that watches many films, TV programs and has equally been around wrestling long enough; the WWE are essentially asking their fan base to get re-engaged with a storyline that originally opens the gates again to a controversial situation where instead of getting something that some of us wanted to see Rock vs. Reigns for the Undisputed WWE Championship we got what we got instead [yes Johnson made reference to this on SmackDown as well.]

The reason why I made reference to watching many films and TV programmes is because; in my opinion this is going to be an extremely tough ask for broadly speaking anyone to get engaged with; be it in a storyline capacity for simultaneously a character development capacity because the whole situation has gone cold and as I have already referenced there may be some people out there already that I like myself that are not interested in this whatsoever.

I mean they could have left the door open to revisit this storyline, but because of what happened on Raw, they really well and truly shish kebab the bed on this one. So consequently in more recent times as of Friday; when Johnson tells in a nutshell Rhodes I can make all your dreams come true, but I want your soul in return.

For me I am not surprised that this got people talking and criticising it, because without repeating myself because they put a full-stop in this feud just some time ago, it is absolutely no wonder why this development fell as flat as a cow turd, the deliverance by Johnson as it relates to Rhodes' soul was an just terrible; I believe it's intended deliverance was meant to be more of a mixture between "The Million Dollar Man" Ted Dibiase [I can offer you lucrative and secure options; just come and work beside me as my Fixit Guy] mixed with Jake "The Snake" Roberts [with the deliverance of the wrestling industry is a hard place and his mind games to match.] But in reality the deliverance came off with a mixture between Fifty Shades of Grey 2015 and Shang Tsung Mortal Kombat II video game 1993/Mortal Kombat film 1995 [I should very quickly point out I am not criticising this video game or film because individually they are both legendary, I am just referencing them for source material] and yes wrestler record someone has already put together a computer sequence where Johnson performs Shang Tsung's Soul Stealer fatality on Rhodes: I know this to be true because I have already seen it: fantastic work who ever made this.

Hypothetically if we get Johnson vs. Champ Rhodes for the Championship at WrestleMania 41/2025, as things are I am very much like; meh, but we will have to wait and see what happens between now and then, but one thing is for sure they will have to go some to get me re-engaged in this feud. But to finish else's content even though I have explored this segment as I have already shown I can see what they were trying to do but because on one thing or another, this is far from a brilliant start to this potential feud/continuation.

 

Wasted: Braun Strowman vs. The New Bloodline's: Jacob Fatu; Singles Match at WWE Saturday Night's Main Event XXXVIII 2025 by AverageMansReviews - Spoiler Alarm!

Wasted: Braun Strowman vs. The New Bloodline's: Jacob Fatu; Singles Match at WWE Saturday Night's Main Event XXXVIII 2025 by AverageMansReviews - Spoiler Alarm!

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Well that was a waste of time wasn't it: I really did think we were going to get a breakout performance from Fatu, you know something more than what we had seen up to this point, which I have to be honest it is getting really fudgin' old. For those younger generations out there in the wrestling community and/or the Internet landscape; okay, it is okay to present someone as a monster type of persona, but what makes a monster type of character like such as names like; The Undertaker, Kane, Vader, Mankind or even Sid had the common sense to generally speaking pick up the W and then decimate their opponent if it requires, you see I don't even have a problem with the decimation in this match slot or after a match.

I know they are trying to tell me that he doesn't care about winning, but if this is the case they shouldn't be giving him the time on the mic to develop his character then, basically what I'm saying is even give him the time to develop as a fully rounded character that has the intelligence to pick up the W or just have him as muscle, choose one way or the other. You can't have both, because you will have someone like me pointing out okay on one hand he is showing signs of intelligence, but then again he doesn't have enough intelligence to pick up the W which in turn makes them look stupid.

Yes I am aware of someone else's content of their thumbnail indicating that he is going to get a minimum a strong push and I have also seen Strowman online apparently indicate that this is not over. Which for me is a massive shame, because they had my interest even though it was just a case of putting over Fatu and don't get me wrong this we had a clean result here I would've been more interested in continuing this feud, but as we have this absolute bull-manure I have very little to no interest in seeing this feud continued, I mean if they even wanted to do a Strowman passing out cold, that would have been something to build upon.

But I can't tell you how stupid, how fudgin' stupid I found this match outlay to be, we are still at square two with Fatu's all-round presentation as a commodity, in hindsight after everything is said and done this match slot is and was fudgin' pointless, I mean even at this point I would have even taking Strowman retreating and then Fatu picking up the W via count out, at least we could have built something positive on top of it. So if I haven't made myself crystal clear yet, there are a number of ways they could have done anything better than what they did here, because we have already seen this kind of shtick from Fatu and it is just getting fudgin' boring now hence why I gave this match/match slot a 3/10.

 

Wasted: Kevin Owens vs. Randy Orton; Singles Match at WWE Crown Jewel 2024 by AverageMansReviews - Spoiler Alarm!

Wasted: Kevin Owens vs. Randy Orton; Singles Match at WWE Crown Jewel 2024 by AverageMansReviews - Spoiler Alarm!

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The problems are as follows: well it should be fudgin' obvious, after the previous match slot they serve up this. For the people that will say, but this match never officially took place. So you're defence is on one hand they do what they did in the previous match slot and then straight after that, they spend time in one way or another building up a match that never officially took place? Hasn't the penny dropped yet? Whatever way you want to see it; it is just bad, like I referenced in the related content in is; basically they progressed the feud and that was it. I mean hypothetically they actually promoted a match that they had no intention of it taking place here and this shouldn't have happened unless of medical grounds, so this is why this match/match slot received 2/10.

 

Wasted: Raw brand; the WWE World Women's Champion The Judgement Day's: Liv Morgan vs. SmackDown brand; WWE Women's Champion Queen Nia Jax; Singles Match for the inaugural WWE Women's Crown Jewel Championship: at WWE Crown Jewel 2024 by AverageMansReviews - Spoiler Alarm!

Wasted: Raw brand; the WWE World Women's Champion The Judgement Day's: Liv Morgan vs. SmackDown brand; WWE Women's Champion Queen Nia Jax; Singles Match for the inaugural WWE Women's Crown Jewel Championship: at WWE Crown Jewel 2024 by AverageMansReviews - Spoiler Alarm!

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Well that was a bunch of shish kebab wasn't it: I mean I wasn't for these Championships in the first place, but as we have them let's try and give them some prestige from their inception? Okay, let's not and say we did. I mean they could have done this absolute horse manure at any other time, just not here and now. Basically we had Dominik Mysterio and Raquel Rodriguez ensuring that Liv Morgan wins this inaugural WWE Women's Crown Jewel Championship. So my question is very simply this; if the WWE hierarchy don't take this championship seriously by taking this course of action, then as a WWE consumer why should I? Because in essence Morgan should have just taken this championship and put it in the bin, because that is how much it has of worth and prestige it has; in essence this version of this championship and its history is already dead on arrival. I mean even the WWE 24/7 Championship had a better run before it got stale and that is saying something and let's be honest even if Morgan cheated on her own to overcome Jax that would have been much better, because that would show as a heel she is able to stand on her own two feet and be resourceful. But let's be completely honest and let's just call it as it is; these Championships female or male are just a publicity stunt to make sure that the WWE's biggest financial partner can say that they have their own champions, so that is why I gave this match/match slot a 3/10.

 

 

Wasted: O.T.M's: Jaida Parker vs. Champ Roxanne Perez; Singles Match for the NXT Women's Championship at NXT No Mercy 2024 by AverageMansReviews - Spoiler Alarm!

Wasted: O.T.M's: Jaida Parker vs. Champ Roxanne Perez; Singles Match for the NXT Women's Championship at NXT No Mercy 2024 by AverageMansReviews - Spoiler Alarm!

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Yes even though I gave this match/match slot 5/10, it still deserves to be here: I have gotten fed up with Perez as a complete package and on top of that very much Booker T. and his biased comments, because she comes out of his wrestling school. Like I said in the related content; either put them together as an on-screen pairing of wrestler and manager with T. still on commentary full-time as it relates to NXT or remove him whenever his protégé has a match, because to be brutally honest it does very much give me go away heat and likewise like I said in the connecting content I have seen enough of Perez to know she isn't really a prodigy, she isn't progressing and in the related content I have been very open about my dislike for essentially what we have here is a woman's roster in NXT being fed to both of its women's champions [the NXT Women's North American Championship Kelani Jordan] as a sacrifice some talented wrestlers to try and make two stars, it has just dawned on me that with the inclusion of the incoming talent of Giulia, Stephanie Vaquer and Zaria that over time this changes, because I am of the belief that it champion is only as good as its competitive division and just for the record I am not saying that the previous contenders of the NXT Women's North American Championship Wendy Choo wasn't strong enough; but at this point she was out there to make Jordan look better and keep the match presented as organised/you know a ring general that keeps everything together and for the NXT Women's Championship Parker was basically fed to the champion even though Parker held her own really well, you know there is a wrestler in her she just needs seasoning, but for Perez I no longer see what is all the hype about with her, I say this with no disrespect to Parker, but if Parker looks much more of a prospect than Perez at the moment considering Parker made her debut in the back end of 2022 and Perez made her debut sometime in 2018 then there is a fudgin' problem isn't there; As I have made it clear also in the connected content, if she was to make her jump to the main roster they would run rings around her.

 

Wasted: Queen Jax vs. Bayley; Singles Match for the WWE Women's Championship at SummerSlam 2024 by AverageMansReviews - Spoiler Alarm!

Wasted: Queen Jax vs. Bayley; Singles Match for the WWE Women's Championship at SummerSlam 2024 by AverageMansReviews - Spoiler Alarm!

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Yes even though I gave this match/match slot 5/10, it still deserves to be here: I mean let's start off with I get it; I get it the WWE where trying to build a feud between these two wrestlers, but I don't know about everyone else but I really wouldn't have lent in too hard on the fact that Jax is basically a calamity in the ring, be it in the feud building or/and reference it on commentary.

I mean if the truth was known I don't particularly like watching Jax wrestling, I have come to the conclusion that this is it for her as it relates to her skills in the ring and let's be honest they haven't really improved, so with that being said consequently she does always give off the impression that she is one step from making a mistake.

I really don't like her version of a bonsai drop a.k.a. the Annihilator, but as you can see from my linked in content that isn't exactly news, because I have not liked it seems her comeback in 2003. I hope this doesn't or anything doesn't go wrong, but mark my words if or when something goes wrong with this move I don't want to hear it, in fact if or when something else goes wrong I don't want to hear it, because I am getting fed up with this shish kebab, because everyone knows what she is like.

Yet again it is down to someone reliable and can actually wrestler to make sure that Jax looks good and takes a possibility for being the ring general [for those people that don't know what this means in this case; it basically means the dancing  equivalent of lead position] and for Bayley I can give no higher praise than she is the equivalent of Arn Anderson regardless of the booking decision, she will do her very best to make sure or try to make sure that whomever she is working with they will hopefully look better or there is progress in some way or another after their encounter and on average I have to say that the crowd were noticeably let's just go with in different to this match/match slot.

 

 

Wasted: Damage CTRL's: Iyo Sky vs. Chelsea Green vs. Lyra Valkyria vs. Tiffany Stratton vs. Naomi vs. Zoey Stark; Money in the Bank Ladder Match for a Women's Championship Match Contract at WWE Money In The Bank 2024 by AverageMansReviews - Spoiler Alarm!

Wasted: Damage CTRL's: Iyo Sky vs. Chelsea Green vs. Lyra Valkyria vs. Tiffany Stratton vs. Naomi vs. Zoey Stark; Money in the Bank Ladder Match for a Women's Championship Match Contract at WWE Money In The Bank 2024 by AverageMansReviews - Spoiler Alarm!

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Let's get down to business: this match/match slot ended up receiving 5/10, on the whole though where some botches like Valkyria slipping whilst attempting a tornado DDT and Sky fixing it so that Valkyria can go again, then shortly after these these two trying a back body drop/suplex into a ladder, then Starks performing this samoan drop with Valkyria on to a letter, but Starks misses a little, then following up with Starks catapulting herself onto Valkyria whilst she is laying on a ladder with Stark’s hitting her head on the ladder and from many the commentary team of Cole and Graves with comments of car wreck and other bits eventually high praise in one way or another slightly irritated me. But what really fudged me off and yes I am care if it went as smoothly as it could I really hate this spot and just to cover my back I don't care if you are male or female or other I just don't want to see it end of story.

Sky performs from the top of a ladder onto another horizontal ladder an inverted piledriver; I don't like this move, because it is a big risk for a small payoff on the basic version forgetting the ladder element for a second, I mean just go and ask Steve Austin what this move is like when it goes wrong? I know for those older wrestling fans it was a botch when he faced Owen Hart at WWF/WWE SummerSlam 1997 [WWF/WWE Intercontinental Championship vs. Kiss my posterior Match.] I should point out before this spot this match out laying head really pulled itself together and was heading towards a positive mark of 6/10, but it was down to this spot, I really didn't like it so I took a mark off, even though it went as well as it could have, I really don't see the point of doing it when it could have so easily gone south, I am not scaremongering but as I have all been shown at WWF/WWE SummerSlam 1997 when it goes south, it goes south quickly.