 What's good Josh Boros back again with another video so we got to check out Jim Cornet's review of the Rock slapping the dog piss out of Cody Rose at the WWE WrestleMania 40 kickoff. I've been looking forward to seeing what Jim Cornet has to say about this whole entire situation so when I saw that this video had just dropped I was like you know what I definitely wanted to check this out because I'm really interested to see how he feels about how things transpired during the kickoff show should be a good one. Appreciate all the love and support you guys have shown on the channel. You guys have been running it up on the likes, running it up on the comments and the subscriptions so thank y'all so much for everyone that's just newly subscribed and let's get right into this one. Not even gonna waste no more time this should definitely be a pretty good one we'll see what he has to say. We got to what we had all been waiting for the main event of the main event the main event of the press conference to determine the main event even though there was no press conferring. Yeah Seth comes out and he calls out Cody to make his decision that he's been demanding and he gets Roman instead and there's Seth and Roman go face to face and I was thinking at this point plumber moxley must be ready to jump off the bridge between Kentucky and Ohio. No way I'm going face to face with Hatchechero. He was in the group with these two guys and now these two guys are the two standard bearers of the biggest company in the world and the plumber is having bad matches with fucking outlaw talent on the B show. Here's the crazy thing we you can tell John loves what he's doing John moxley that that the WWE system it didn't really fit for him. Maybe if Triple H was probably booking the shows maybe John would have stayed a little bit longer but because Triple H wasn't really booking the shows and you know he was kind of frustrated with creative which understandably what they were doing to him on the way out when he didn't want to resign was they were trying to bury this guy but he's he's enjoying what he's doing in AEW. I may not be the biggest fan of his matches you know he has some solid matches in AEW I may not be the biggest fan of you know what he does in the majority of his matches but I can respect the fact that he's happy. You can tell he's happy doing whatever he's doing in AEW having the type of matches that he's having he's okay with it and at the end of the day that's really all that matters in the grand scheme of things. If you're happy then you're gonna you're gonna do whatever you want to do and you're gonna continue to keep doing that. I don't think him going back to WWE brings him that type of joy may have had when he initially got there. I don't know you never know things can happen but I think he'll probably end up retiring in AEW most likely. I get to sit next to my wife on the plane. In fact she doesn't take her eyes off me the whole time. Bope. I mean that's dope that he gets to do that. I'm not talking about that's what she might be looking for. I don't want anyone to misconstrue that. No one was construing that. Well. Oh my god. Anyway so. Where did that come from? Roman. Where did that come from? Yeah. Yeah mother. All right. Anyway so then Roman says you know what Cody Rhodes like a lot of people when they hesitate the moment passes it's my decision now and I choose the rock and the fans boo. Of course they took more time than this but I'm getting to the meat of the matter. Roman again cuts a great promo and he seems so natural but he's they've already sloughed off Cody and now it's he I choose the rock I'm gonna fight the rock and the fans boo and the rock music plays and the fans boo the rock. But you could tell in this one is it here's the thing the reason why that we believe that this was not their original plan besides the fact that it's pretty obvious it wasn't their original plan before punk got hurt before Brock became a goddamn pariah before the rock to say he was going to get this 30 million dollars and decided hey I can save the day whatever they were going to go with rock and or with Roman and Cody and then and sat in CM Punk. Yes and the reason why that you can point back to they have done a masterful pivot the pivoting is about to begin here but the only thing that they couldn't wipe out completely they may have even left the wiggle room on purpose I don't know but the only thing they can't wipe out completely that was set on live TV was when Cody said I am going to finish the story but not at WrestleMania and you know now they can I think they're ignoring that completely or if they don't they might try to close that loophole up was saying well it's not going to be completely finished or whatever the fuck but it looks pretty obvious that's what they were going to do until the backlash made them rethink their strategy and then I think the rock with some egg on his face tried to turn as the person whose name were not allowed to speak anymore used to say turn a negative into a positive and figure out a way where he can again say well because you know he had heavy input in this so he's probably tried to figure out the way well we can do it like this and it's like we meant to do it all along and I'll be a heel because now he gets a chance to I mean every great star actor wrestling star whatever at one point wants to be the villain yeah it's fun to do that but it wasn't what they were originally expect to find no and and this is kind of to expound on this point and reason why I still believe this is more or less an audible that they're gonna try to angle as a work because like Jim said they left a little bit of wiggle room the only problem is Cody did say on live TV that he wasn't gonna finish the story at WrestleMania unless there's something that comes out a bigger truth that we start to see being planted that's the only way you can kind of make that work where it makes sense as best as you possibly can and still in the grand scheme of things doesn't make sense even if you have Cody secretly in line with the rock undercover to try to infiltrate the blood line still it's one of those things where they could possibly find a way to turn it into this makeshift work we will see but overall I do still believe firmly this was an audible they switched things up when they realized the backlash was it was too overwhelming and the match was gonna be DOA as soon as they had this at WrestleMania the crowd was gonna shit on it we'll go into the different theories later on but they did hear what the smartest thing to do for professional wrestling is lean into what's working there we go despite and this is something that wwe traditionally has not done well nope they've ignored fan reaction because they have a story they want to get to their way lean into it they leaned into what was I mean as hot a wrestling chatter online as there was I mean the interest in this stuff blew up so they could have screwed it up instead they made everything better yeah on this event this WrestleMania kickoff I mean I'll let you go back to reviewing it but they leaned into it they pivoted and they did everything right yep what you could tell that rock was coming out with a completely different objective because of the expression on his face and the way he walked out on this one as opposed to the previous what as he as he appeared twice now surprise pops the two surprise pops he got yeah but also and this wasn't even a real I won't say a real crowd but this wasn't a ticket purchasing crowd at a house show or a tv taping this was the last minute thing put together there and there were a lot of rock chants more than there were when the ticket purchasing patrons were involved so you couldn't get a you can't do a you know fair comparison but just his as Howard Finkel bless him you say his demeanor the expression on his face his body language the way he walked a mood from the start when he came out and the way he was reacting to the booze yeah you could tell that he was out there his objective was to he knew he was going to slap Cody in the face he wanted him to boo but he wanted to show that he was getting more and more ticked off by this disrespect that he was getting not only from the people but then when it came from Cody is his motivation if he's done the acting lessons right that was his motivation for his character but it he did a great job of it because last week he came out and showed his arm on the camera on on the handheld where he had goose bumps from the cheers of all the people yeah and now they're booing him and he's getting surly about it so this was when they had between last friday night and what and the stuff that happened over the weekend then Monday's reactions they had put this together and now this he knew this is what he had to fucking do and wherever they're going from here as you said a lot better fucking than we thought we were going to get we probably were going to get and here's the crazy thing i'm going to stand by this statement if vince remains in control still at the time if vince was in control when this was happening i'm guaranteeing you this the match would have stayed the same most likely the match would have stayed the same rock versus rome he wouldn't have changed it no matter how many how many times have we seen that no matter how many booze and people didn't want to see it he kept the match the same and overall it you can say it kind of messed up matches and WrestleMania main events that main event with um i want to say brock versus roman i think that was it was right around the time when they were trying to push roman as this super babyface and they i think they called an audible because i think a lot of us expected uh roman to win at that WrestleMania but they booed the crap out of that match because no one cared it was the main event even brought i mean brock busted open roman reigns and still no one cared i think that was the WrestleMania where brock ended up throwing the title at vince uh behind the curtain because the match was just no one cared no one wanted to see it so they shit on the match people booed no one was cheering it was a waste of everybody's time and i think this is a situation where vince was in control you probably would have did the same thing so and the people were chanting you know uh we want kodi and then there but there'd be a smaller you know response we want kodi kodi sucks we want kodi and one guy in the back rocky rocky some fucking drunk but it went at a snail's pace for a while because rock was letting the people react and just milking it and you know he asked if the people will rock versus roman reigns be the biggest match ever and they booed or rock loves the passion and he tried to talk again they start saying we want kodi and that's when he introduces everybody to the kodi cry babies because there is a some segment of the audience right that that likes kodi he introduced that phrase on pat mackaffey's show where he kind of went heel and was laughing out a little bit somewhat in character at the fans he calls them the kodi cry babies maybe not the most creative thing but he's an anabolic asshole what do you expect but he had go works there with him he had nick con with him and he pointed them out so they're leaning into the idea that here's the rock they're leaning into reality here's the rock and all of his influence and all of his fluffers and stooges all getting hooked up they're leaning into it and that's smart it's good and well and boy by the time we get to smack down but uh and then that's when he popped the family tree up on the screen and the crowd started whatting the rock and i'm like this is fucking great who would have ever thought yeah but he worked with it and that's the crazy thing and uh i don't know i'm sure people noticed that but when's the last time you've ever seen the rock i mean the past 10 plus years since he's been making his appearances on the shelf sporadically when's the last time you've seen him get what it before like after he went hollywood and you know he came back as a healer with what him then but i'm talking about when he was gone for a while he came back and everyone loved to see him once the last time you've seen him get what it on they can like throughout the entire promo that he's given that should let you know when fans start doing that and sometimes fans just do that because they're bored with a particular segment or they don't really care or whatever but this is different they're actively whatting this guy because they don't give a shit what he has to say and i thought that was very interesting and they're really playing up until he's healed like persona and i'm all for it i'm all for it man because the the quick ones do and the tree pops up on the screen and he said there's only one royal family in professional wrestling and they showed the lineage where his and roman's grandfather were blood brothers yeah when did when did we ever hear that before have you ever heard that beginning of the story i always heard alpha and see there were fans of peter my via that went to the cow palace yes did you ever hear that their grandfathers made a blood oath no but i didn't even notice was neph myava on there he's really the person who should be at the top right because he was the one who influenced peter my via to become peter my via neph was not invited for the people now we've gone for the younger listeners we we're just speaking gibberish now and taking it one at a time alpha and seika anewahi were two samoan fans in the cow palace days san francisco in the mid 60s or late say whenever it was that were so not only bad ass but also such huge fans of chief peter my via that they would try to beat the shit and succeed in beating the shit out of the heels on the way back from the fucking matches after hot finishes and so finally they had to smarten them up and and break them into the business alpha and seika to keep them from killing the fucking boys can you imagine your wrestling peter my via and as soon as you leave the ring it's just giant samoan fans punching you as you try to get to the locker room and somebody look at a picture of what alpha and seika looked like in 1972 or whatever instead of today and figure out what that would have been like and peter my via whose real name was on the family tree was uh funny and uh anderson correct correct and but when he got into wrestling there had only been one really a samoan wrestler of any kind of fame who had been neph my va spelled slightly differently but the people who named peter my via peter my via didn't know how to spell it and it became my via and he got much more over anyway and then that was when you thought of a samoan in wrestling from the early 60s on you thought of peter my via and apparently now maybe as a condition of it maybe my via went to alpha and seika's father and said hey i'll train these fucking kids of yours and make a money in the wrestling business if they won't kill all of our heels and you and i could be blood brothers yeah maybe they also left off like 20 of soul man's kids from the lineage up there yeah well there was there was the many many illegitimate children of rocky johnson all over the play and legitimate there there was there was never any complete proof of that was there other than dna and no nothing no well you know but uh but they didn't have room on the giant titan tron but nevertheless it's a good concept why he getting away from my via branches yeah getting away from the reality of it it was a good for the way things went and kind of the rock leaning into the will smith thing of don't say anything about my family or i'll slap you yeah yeah it made sense because you had to get from the rock and roman being at each other to them being on the same side and it worked yep and that that introducing that family tree it just lets you know okay they're they're leaning into the fact of they feel like they're they're the only wrestling family that matters is a clear dig at kody and his family lineage and they're saying hey this is the match that matters this is damn what y'all feel like damn what the fans feel like the kody crybabies or whatever you want to say this is the match that matters the most this is the match that's gonna make us the most money this is the biggest match we can put on kody you had your time now it's my time i like that i like that he's trying to assert himself and the reasons why that match needs to happen because of his family and he feels like his family is the only family that really matters in wrestling talking about the and and that's the thing is there were so many names there and you you saw enough of them if you freeze framed it and i'm sure a bunch of the video technicians out there did and tried to read it was legitimate in terms of not only a lot of the are all of the wrestlers or wrestling connected family members but just the rest of the family members not including everybody as you mentioned but the acknowledged the official ones and down at the bottom was jacob fatu that was interesting that they included his name because there were names that were not on there not everyone's name who has been in wrestling from that family i don't think was on there i couldn't find a i didn't get a shot of everything so i couldn't see everything i didn't look for manu my favorite of uh all the obscure ones popped up i did that i thought i saw i gotta check but jacob fatu was pretty prominent because it was towards the bottom so it was almost close to the uh where the the head of the person talking in front of it would be he's a free agent i guess booker t's helping him out and they're saying that he wants to sign somewhere and he can work oh boy howdy but anyway so very interesting new ownership may not care about legal issues the way fence did i mean ufc has plenty of reprobates on their roster don't they yes well including the dana white you know hey honey come here power slap there's no problem hey honey come here we all listen to that gear bro what the fuck if it would be he's a free agent i guess booker t's helping him out and they're saying that he wants to sign somewhere and he can work oh boy howdy but anyway so new ownership may not care about legal issues the way fence did i mean ufc has plenty of reprobates on their roster don't they yes well including the dana white you know hey honey come here power slap there's no problem there so anyway but the rock versus roman reigns is the biggest wrestle mania match ever that's what the rock is saying if you don't think that it doesn't matter what you think yeah blah blah blah and the rock and roman reigns do the handshake and and a slight hug and then suddenly cody with no music and no introduction cody just comes out on the stages and no no no this is bullshit this is bullshit and gets a huge fucking pop yeah i love that love that love that and now suddenly that cody has come out and is addressing them rock switches over and is standing on the side with roman reigns and paul heyman and cody fires up and said hey the choice is mine i won the royal rumble and my decision is that wrestle mania 40 i choose roman reigns and that got a big pop and here now here comes all this and pierce and triple h you're running out and roman has said your old news go to the loser bracket nobody cares right blah blah blah roland's hanging in the back the whole time paying attention seriously and i thought that added a lot to this and he's technically even though he's hanging back he's on cody's side over there and as as roman is knocking dusty then cody fires back and says hey your family all your family are yes men and goons and if your grandfather or peter my via were be here they would be here now they'd be ashamed of you and then the rock steps up to cody oh no when you talk about his family you're talking about mine you talk about his blood you're talking about my blood so now we have a problem and rock calls off and slaps cody slaps him right in his that's will smith i think that's where he got that from where he goes he might be the closest rock comes to the oscar ceremony again these days but i'm a bad influence on you well you are but i mean you know i don't know he's going to get nominated for this work but it's going to draw some money backs but so that he slaps cody and everybody reacts and hayman was fucking they got freeze frames on twitter of hayman's face it was incredible oh my god so now then they're trying to hold cody back and he's taken out and sith leaves you know with him and rock stays out on the stage with roman and paul and they go to the announcers to try to make sense of this and did you notice that big he said i don't what what are we trying to set up here a tag all of a sudden you see on his face somebody told him in his ear shut the fuck up or you're fucking fired because they didn't want to lead him down that road yet so there is no more mention of that but i love it when he because he hasn't any experience with what are we trying to build here big he was kind of really good on this because he was reacting almost as if there was no headset for everything the whole time they asked him he was giving real reactions or real thoughts or at least they seemed like it so yeah in this case he really was confused you know what the fuck was going on and triple h set up the tag match at the very beginning when he was going over the history of the first wrestle mania and how it was a tag match there and the other thing about the desk mac if he was fine michael cold did really well at the very end especially c m punk stole the show because of two things one so good c m punk talking about how someone slapped you i would punch him right in the face and the rock is in the background on the stage but out of microphone and you see his reaction it's silly when he hears what pug says and then you just see him mouthing things at punk it was amazing it was so good i went back to that because i'm i was like it looked like the rock heard what he said so it was and it's funny because he was like man that couldn't have been me pretty much like you know who wants to see cody a bunch of rock in the face like and you can you know it sound like you can kind of hear it a little bit more audible like a little bit louder in the arena because they probably had it hooked up to some type of system but you can see the rock looking at him when he announced that or said that and i thought that was a very good touch he didn't have a microphone but you can you know c m punk is really just addressing what he would have done so i did like that touch and you know they obviously have history as well with rock coming in and kind of pretty much uh dethroning c m punk at uh i think at that years uh i think it was at that years royal rumble to set up a match between uh i think it was set up a match a rematch between the rock and um john sena so you know they have history too as well so but this was this was definitely good talking about his theories of punching people in the face well yeah because because now they're said well hey you know the rocks on the board of directors you know he is technically he's you know the boss of and and punk says well i don't care if it's me as somebody it slaps me if it's my boss i'm whipping everybody's ass bats oh my god so again so good for the for the fans and for those who know they know yeah they know punk is really good i thought the panel was really good and it worked well the way they used it but that wasn't the end because then we get triple h in the back yep well and that's the thing is the panel is killing time and you think they're wrapping up and then they do go to triple h in the back the ramp leading to you know the parking area whatever and right as he's starting to talk well you know you've got these guys are just they've lost lost control here comes rock and roman and heyman walking together well heyman toadieing in the back and they pass triple h and the rock says fix it fix this or we will and there was some he said some fucking guy used the f word and they bleep that and you know and they walk off together so now it's rock and roman in some kind of super tribal summit jeez and he has slapped cody roads in the face we have been promised cody versus roman at wrestlemania mm-hmm and as we'll talk about we get to smack down the they're now teasing the fact that the rock has pulled but that there there's triple triple h is gonna push back on the pull mm-hmm and then you got see him punk out there saying this was a quote personal issues can be solved when men fight facts and that's what everybody wants to see is all these fuckers fighting each other yeah this was a fantastic event great let's be wanting more wanting to see what's gonna happen i will say i hope they don't go too heavy into bad authority figure versus good authority figure mm-hmm you know i don't know how they're gonna thread the needle to get to wrestle mania but this is incredibly promising heal rock you also have to be carefully doesn't overshadow roman yeah because how's roman the leader of the bloodline if the rock is right next to him unless rock says you're the leader mm-hmm but this is great stuff well they may have to still settle that later on but in the meantime their family has been disrespected so could there be and the rock in a tag match less likely to get hurt than in a singles match there you go but when would that tag team match be yeah one of the nights of wrestle mania you would think well maybe maybe not we don't know what the fuck's going on here do we for once they're not booked for elimination chamber and that's in a couple weeks they're not going to rush something like that you wouldn't think we'll see i mean we still don't know what any of the main events for a mania are it's a fluid situation well we know that coge gets roman that's right but this is a fluid situation yeah whatever yes whatever we just said but this is a fluid situation because they're still making it up as they go along based on the last shit not working but so far it's fucking great yeah they they got something and and that's one of the things where it's like you can appreciate they actually pivoted call called an audible leaned into the backlash leaned into people not liking you know what you know what they saw happened in the cody they're playing it up they're playing it up as the rock being part of the board of directors being one of those individuals he can do whatever he wants because he he feels like his family can do that he feels like since he's been placed at one of the board as one of the board members he deserves to be there so he's going to do whatever it is that's best for his family because he feels like whatever's best for the family it's best for wwe loved it um this was great comment down below let me know what do you guys think this story is heading man there's so much speculation going on and this is what makes WrestleMania season so great because you can speculate and get excited about the potential possibilities and I'm all for it man but I appreciate all the love support you guys shown on channel roto and 50k and I'm still young speedy you to the rest of the world appreciate y'all me see our next piece