Now that the rumors are swirling that Rock might have wrestled his last match it got me thinking about the "bigger picture" that Rock alluded to in interviews.
What was it really? Was it to simply "pass the torch" to Cena (one that many argue wasn't Rock's to pass anyway)? Or was it to boost business short term under the guise that it would reap benefits for the long term?
Lastly do you think that this last run soured people on The Rock because as you put it "people saw through what he was doing?"
Is this like gang up on the Rock day or something?
I think the bigger picture was supposed to be boosting business by, as you noted, passing the torch to Cena, which is like Andre "passing the torch" to Hogan three years into his World title reign. The torch was already taken long ago. If anything, Rock passed the torch to Brock Lesnar in 2002, and then Brock pawned it to fund his lawsuit against WWE. Credit to Rock for wanting to do the right thing, but if guys like him and Brock are just there to wrestle the Cenas and HHHs of the world, they probably shouldn't have bothered.