Ego is still bruised from last year with the fans picking Cody over him. Dwayne is my goat but he’s a huge fakkit sometimes
And that part keeps getting skirted over, it's not just that his plans vs Roman was ruined, the people outright choose Cody over him. People really underestimate the ego's highly successful people have.
. The reality is that Rock shatters the delusion that this average stuff is actually good, because whenever he shows up everything feels a thousand times more energetic. You sat through this horrible build hoping that Rock would reward you with a payoff, instead it was just him doing a friend a favor and the rest was up to the guy that gets credit for everything including the shyt he isn't responsible for.
), they didn't go with his idea so he left it to HHH to fukk it up and he did. Leaving that man the rope to hang himself with for nearly 30 years now. The self aggressive effusive praise for Punk/Roman/Seth vs saying he'd have finessed a few things for Cody/Cena 