If The Rock and Brian Gewirtz had their way, the road to WWE WrestleMania 41 would have looked very differently. The highly anticipated documentary series WWE: Unreal released today on Netflix. Giving fans unprecedented access to the behind-the-scenes workings of the company. While discussing the WrestleMania 41 match between Cody Rhodes and John Cena, Brian […] The post The Rock & Brian Gewirtz Pitched Cody Rhodes Dropping The WWE Title Before WrestleMania 41 appeared first on Wrestlezone.
If The Rock and Brian Gewirtz had their way, the road to WWE WrestleMania 41 would have looked very differently.
The highly anticipated documentary series WWE: Unreal released today on Netflix. Giving fans unprecedented access to the behind-the-scenes workings of the company. While discussing the WrestleMania 41 match between Cody Rhodes and John Cena, Brian Gewirtz detailed the original plans for Elimination Chamber that he and The Rock wanted to see happen, which would have seen Kevin Owens defeating Rhodes for the Undisputed WWE Championship at Elimination Chamber.
“The prospect of babyface John and babyface Cody felt a little dry to us,” Brian Gewirtz said. “But just looking at it from the outside, like, let’s throw some controlled chaos into this. So myself and Rock, we got together and we pitched something that was two-fold.
“I had the idea of Cody needing to be Rock’s champion. We had that as the hook, then we proposed Elimination Chamber. Cody turning down The Final Boss, and that was going to lead to the Final Boss making an impromptu title match right then and there, that resulted in Kevin Owens, who had been in a storyline with Cody during that time, leaving with the championship.
“Kevin Owens winning the title wasn’t the end goal. The takeaway was whatever it is we do needs to be seismic. That’s the big question: what is Cody going to say? What is he gonna do? How are you going to pay this off at Chamber?”
Obviously, WWE went a different way, and Owens eventually needed to be written off television following Elimination Chamber due to a serious neck injury. However, in a different world, it would have been very interesting to see how this would have played out.
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