The Rock Now John Cena’s Boss
Last weekend saw three former and part-time WWE wrestlers chart their own movies in the US box office – with Rock ‘The Dwayne’ Johnson’s Rampage at fourth, John Cena’s Blockers in 8th and Batista’s Avengers: Infinity War debuting at No. 1.
Thanks to Braun Strowman’s dad, Thanos, Batista easily won that particular triple threat. So how can The Dwayne and Cena possibly compete? By doing the old comic book trick of Su-Su-Su-Su-Super Team Up! of course.
After battling each other at consecutive WrestleManias in 2012 and 2013, and then memorably teaming together to defeat the evil Erick Rowan, Rock has now announced they’ll work together once more in the realm of motion pictures:
Found my star! Been a long time coming and congrats to my good bud @JohnCena on landing the lead role for our film, THE JANSON DIRECTIVE. And if you screw up, I’m layin’ the smackdown on ya 😉💪🏾 Lets work hard and make a good one. @SevenBucksProd https://t.co/pfYKbBGHAa
— Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) April 30, 2018
It’s just the latest example of Rock trying to prise wrestlers away from WWE… if that’s even a thing.
Real Reason Nia Jax Off WWE Raw
Last October, The Dwayne’s real-life cousin Nia Jax disappeared from WWE for a few weeks – not appearing on either house shows or TV.
Various sites quickly began to give their explanations for why Nia was nowhere to be seen, with reasons ranging from she just asked for a holiday, all the way to her being unhappy with the creative direction of her character.
The latter report came from Sports Illustrated – who haven’t had the best track record in recent… forever – which claimed Nia being related to The Rock provided “her with leverage that many others would simply not have in this situation”.
Nia herself has now refuted that report to Pop Culture:
“That was the craziest thing I’ve ever heard! The fact that people would think that Dwayne would ever tell me to not do something for the WWE, a place that’s actually given him his start and the reason he is on top of the world, it’s completely false and hilarious.”
Jax even went so far to say accusing Rock of working against WWE and Vince McMahon is “blasphemous”, and then revealed the real reason why she missed those several weeks of Raw dates last year:
“I had actually had an injury that happened to me personally on a flight—an overhead bag fell directly on top of my head while I was on a plane. I was out of it, I was completely out of it. I’m not kidding you.”
While this is directly from Nia herself, it should be noted that isn’t what she told The Mirror late last year, saying it was just because she “wasn’t in anything storyline-wise.”
With all that in mind, this next report should really be taken with a pinch of salt, as it yet again comes from the patchy-track record of Justin Barrasso’s Sports Illustrated…
WWE Backlash 2018 Result Leaked?
According to the site, “WWE is planning a Joe-Styles feud for the WWE title”, which implies Shinsuke Nakamura will not be winning the championship from AJ at this Sunday’s Backlash.
This fits in with Samoa Joe’s promo on this week’s SmackDown, warning Styles that once he’s done with Roman Reigns, he’ll be coming right after AJ’s WWE title. All we need is Christopher Daniels in there, and we’ve got TNA from 13 years ago.
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