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The Rock returned to WWE last Friday to face Roman Reigns for the title he has held for more than three years .
The Rock hasn’t wrestled in over a decade , and Roman has done an excellent job portraying the exact kind of smug, narcissistic villain you desperately want to see taken down a peg.
But this is most certainly not the story WWE was trying to tell, and made Cody Rhodes look like a chump.
The hashtag #WeWantCody was the No. 1 trend in the U.S. on Twitter this week .
The Rock joined the board of directors at TKO , the sports conglomerate that owns WWE and UFC .
It's hard to say where we're going from here, but WWE is trying to clean up their own mess.
The last time he was in WWE , he made a whole thing out of nicknaming John Cena “Fruity Pebbles” The WWE has pivoted before, and they’ll pivot again.
Maybe Cody will finish his story at WrestleMania , kicking the ass of Roman and the Rock at the same time, before riding off into the sunset with his legacy secure.
Or, perhaps, the Rock will totally emasculate him in front of a jampacked stadium, making everyone even angrier than they are right now.
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