Final week’s episode of “WWE SmackDown” noticed Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson obtain a heat greeting from the stay viewers in Birmingham. Nonetheless, the circumstances surrounding Johnson’s look emerged lower than favorable on-line, as many followers had been beneath the impression that Johnson was changing Cody Rhodes as Roman Reigns’ challenger at WrestleMania 40. This backlash finally made its solution to Johnson’s real-life daughter, “WWE NXT” Common Supervisor Ava (actual identify Simone Johnson), who revealed that she had obtained an abundance of demise threats from offended WWE followers. In consequence, Ava selected to deactivate her X (previously Twitter) account.
On a latest episode of “The Pat McAfee Present,” Dwayne Johnson addressed the pushback that adopted his daughter. “She’s feeling [the backlash] too. ‘Oh yeah, Cody’s gotta end his story.’ By the way in which, she’s additionally bought demise threats. It is loopy. Like come on guys, we’re all on this factor. And by the way in which, what occurs in the midst of the ring and on these storylines, remember that, once more, inside baseball – outdoors the ring, all of us speak. All of us can determine this factor out whereas working collectively.”
Following final week’s rollercoaster of occasions, Cody Rhodes has supplied some clarification to his WrestleMania 40 standing, declaring that he’ll certainly be difficult Roman Reigns for the Undisputed WWE Common Championship on the Philadelphia-based premium stay occasion. It stays to be seen how Johnson could now be factored into WrestleMania plans. Though, WWE has confirmed that Chief Content material Officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque is ready to deal with to fallout of yesterday’s WrestleMania 40 Kickoff media occasion, which included Cody Rhodes’ aforementioned announcement, on tonight’s episode of “SmackDown.”
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