Details Behind The Rock's Wrist Notes On Raw

WZ has learned that John Cena referencing The Rock having notes on his
wrist, which were visible on RAW, was not a planned part of the show.

There
was much speculation that it was scripted for Cena to call out The
Rock's notes, but that appears to be incorrect. The Rock legitimately
had the notes to refer to if needed for his lengthy live promo. As WZ
columnist Mark Madden wrote, it is something The Rock has done for
years.

I spoke to a source close to the situation who reminded
me of last year when John Cena responded to one of the taped promos The
Rock did where Cena made mention of being able to the see the
teleprompter The Rock was reading off of in the reflection.

It
seems that the improvised comments revealing some of the tricks The Rock
uses to perform his promos is one of the best public examples of the
genuine animosity between The Rock and John Cena. The source says there
are other comments they make on-air about one another that are “just as
surprising” as Cena making mention of the notes, the difference being
the notes on the wrist comment is unusual for fans to hear in a
wrestling promo.

In addition to this knowledge, WWE's official
YouTube account does not have any video of that segment on RAW posted
anymore. This is surprising because they typically post most segments of
each episode of RAW. This was the big promoted return of The Rock to
RAW and the first time the two had been face to face since Survivor
Series so you would think that would be a video archived on WWE's
YouTube. In addition, WWE has all of the other segments recently or from
earlier in 2011 that the two appeared in together.

There are
other videos of that segment on RAW uploaded by people not affiliated
with WWE. These copies of the show are taken from different television
feeds around the world and posted without the authorization of WWE.
There are several videos that are uploaded courtesy of certain
international television networks where it appears the notes on The
Rock's wrist are blocked out via a block that is the matching color of
The Rock's arm. WWE RAW does air or repeat at a later time in some
markets around the world which seems to indicate they edited the segment
for airing after it happen live.

This seems to be another
example and story furthering the many reports about the true dislike and
competitiveness The Rock and John Cena seem to have for one another.

I think Cena is probably being a little immature about The Rock. He's meant to be building to the biggest match of the decade and instead he's burying his opponent, a legend, by calling him out as a fraud.

Lose-Lose situation for Cena. He wins, he beats a fraud. He loses, he loses to a fraud.

Basically, if Cena wants to come out in a good light after Wrestlemania, they either need to put on the best wrestling match in history, or start building The Rock up a little.

theyre both insulting each other...lets not pin this all on Cena

That's very true. The reason I focussed on Cena is because pointing out that The Rock uses a telecaster and had notes on his wrist seems like a cheap way to attempt to devalue a legend.

Well, how many wrestlers use notes, or make them as obvious as Rock did? It really questions if Rock is just doing this for the check. Certainly Rock is a legend, but if I wanted to see legends working strictly for a check at the end of the night, I'd watch TNA.

That opinion annoys me. I work in hospitality, I enjoy the people but the whole point of working there is for the paycheck. Should customers hate on me because I am working there for the money and not for the people that come in?

Although they have both insulted eachother, Rock's insults have been directed to the kid friendly direction WWE has with Cena- calling him kiddy personalised names and having lady parts, etc based on his wwe character. Cena however has attacked Rock's movies, lines on his hands, his intentions of returning, etc which are out of character things.

Well obviously they do it for a check, but that isn't their sole reason. I'm sure if it came down to it, Cena would main event WM for free if he had to. While I'm not a fan of Cena, I do realize that he loves what he does, and wouldn't want to do anything else in the world, other than wrestle. John isn't much of an actor, so he doesn't have too many alternatives. Rock on the other hand, has that much less dangerous alternative option in Hollywood. Yet, he signed up to work WM, which is obviously an important aspect of WWE. As far as attacks, I don't believe what Cena has said is out of line. Cena got torn to shreds for how bad 12 Rounds was, and someone should say something about the lines on the hands, because that's just laziness on Rocky's part.

You work in hospitality, just like I teach, and we both do it for the check. However, at this point in our lives, there aren't better alternatives, I assume. I don't want to teach for a living, just like I'm sure you don't want to work where you work for the rest of your life. However, there are people out there who want to teach for a living, or maybe do what you do for a living. They have that passion. Cena has that passion for wrestling, and unlike us, Rocky has better alternatives (and doesn't need to work WM.) Yet, he signed up but is totally lacking in quality. When you sign up for a job, you know what happens when you don't work hard (especially in high pay jobs), you get released.