{"id":8917,"date":"2011-08-29T14:52:44","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T18:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/?p=729"},"modified":"2011-08-29T14:52:44","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T18:52:44","slug":"wwe-starts-promoting-rock-vs-cena-several-months-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wwe-starts-promoting-rock-vs-cena-several-months-early\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE Starts Promoting Rock vs. Cena Several Months Early"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It’s never too early to start talking about the next Wrestlemania<\/a>, particularly when it’s sure to be one of the biggest headlines of the last ten years!\u00a0 Wrestlemania 28 is set and it’s going to be John Cena vs. The Rock, part time movie star, part time wrestler, full time entertainer.<\/p>\n

The Rock started in WWE<\/a> pro wrestling<\/a> entertainment in the “Attitude” era of the 1990s.\u00a0 Back then, it was cool to be bawdy, aggressive and downright evil.\u00a0 However, since the 2000s have emerged, the WWE has shifted their focus to more family-oriented entertainment.\u00a0 Enter John Cena, the guy kids love to love and rebellious teens love to hate.\u00a0 Cena is the proverbial “face”, a nice guy with a clean cut “white rapper” image.\u00a0 He’s a kiddy favorite (which is the #1 WWE demographic) but the anti-thesis of what WWE Attitude era was all about.<\/p>\n

Hence, the stage is set for the returning Dwayne Johnson, The Rock, who has a bone to pick with Cena.\u00a0 The two most recently met at Wrestlemania 27, when The Rock cost Cena the WWE Championship against The Miz.\u00a0 Since then, both Cena and The Rock have been quite vocal about their inevitable encounter, now set for March\/April 2012.<\/p>\n

Cena has had his hands full lately with CM Punk, not to mention a whole locker room full of heels who are aiming for his head.\u00a0 Meanwhile, Dwayne Johnson has had his hands full with movie sets, autograph sessions, pretty ladies and working out at a leisurely pace inside fitness centers all over the world.<\/p>\n

The Rock recently paid Twitter a visit, and informed his fans that he wasn’t coming back to the WWE for a belt or for an extended run.\u00a0 He was only coming to “Give the millions what they want…which is to kick John Cena’s f’n ass.”\u00a0 That’s hard talk coming from Johnson, who of course, is an “actor” and more than capable of delivering action-packed dialog like that.\u00a0 However, will he really be ready to take out Cena when the time comes?\u00a0 How intensely is he training in the meantime?<\/p>\n

What do you think?\u00a0 Is The Rock too Hollywood and too out of shape to compete against the WWE’s most active competitor?\u00a0 Will Cena finally earn street-credibility by defeating The Rock in the middle of the ring?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s never too early to start talking about the next Wrestlemania, particularly when it’s sure to be one of the biggest headlines of the last ten years!\u00a0 Wrestlemania 28 is set and it’s going to be John Cena vs. The Rock, part time movie star, part time wrestler, full time entertainer. The Rock started in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[325],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrestling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}