These last few days have been a rough one for the IWC. 2024 Royal Rumble winner Cody Rhodes came to Friday Night SmackDown to make his decision on who he will challenge for WrestleMania… or so we thought.

In Rhodes’ promo, he mentioned how he still intends to go after not only the universal championship but everything. His family, his tribal chief status, and even his wiseman. But not at WrestleMania. Rhodes then mentioned taking council from someone he knows very well.

“If ya smell…” The Rock’s music hits and the Birmingham crowd goes bonkers. Rocky comes into the ring, what seems to be a sad and deeply affected Rhodes, shakes his hand, and Cody walks to guerrilla, with his WrestleMania main event seemingly slipping from his hands.

The Rock stared down reigns laying the seeds for the most electrifying WrestleMania main event of all time.

After SmackDown went off the air, the IWC erupted in outrage on social media. The story had just been hijacked and the fans were furious.

The Rock had made his 3rd appearance in 5 years. His latest is WrestleMania 32 as the host. Joining the TKO board of directors, it was assumed that he used his political power to get the match, even with WWE’s creative team set on Rhodes winning the Rumble and further finishing the story at the showcase of the immortals.

In the heat of the rage, we forget one thing. The power of the fans.

Flashback to 2014. WrestleMania 30.

Randy Orton was the unified champion in all of WWE and Batista had just won the Royal Rumble with the intention of challenging Orton for his title. The fans were having none of that.

2014 was the heat of the ‘Yes’ Movement. Daniel Bryan had been on a rocket ship to the moon and was more over with the fans than arguably anyone else in the company. More than the champion, more than the challenger.

On a March 20th episode of Raw, the movement came to a head. WWE Crew Members dressed as Daniel Bryan fans stormed the ring and refused to leave. This forced the hand of Triple H granting Bryan’s wish to be in the WrestleMania world title match. Under one stipulation… Bryan would have to defeat Triple H to open the show.

Bryan not only won the match vs Triple H, but he would go on to submit Batista to capture the title in the main event.

The power of the people was so great and vast that it literally reversed the decision of WrestleMania. Imagine what people can do with social media being a decade more advanced.

Either this is the greatest swerve of all time or the Rock is going to hijack Cody’s WrestleMania moment

WrestleMania is the most viewed event of the year. If the WWE wants to take the money route, Rocky will get his wish.

If Nick Khan and Co. see this backlash and learn their lesson and revert the change, we get the conclusion to probably the greatest story of this generation.

The ball is in the court of the WWE.