10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About The Bloodline
1. It Was Out Of Steam Before The Return Of The Rock
"This right here...is BULL...SH*T"
The now-famous line uttered by Cody Rhodes as he confidently marched on to the stage during the Las Vegas WrestleMania Kickoff was designed to put 'The American Nightmare' over as a sick-of-it-all face acting in defiance of The Bloodline and The Rock, but it cut closer to the bone for those sick of the top-line act.
It was part of a larger work by this point, but Dwayne Johnson's inclusion in the family business was a massive shot in the arm the stable desperately needed going into WrestleMania XL.
Segments with the Samoans were gripping all over again, having bordered on irrelevance in the weeks leading up to Roman's successful Royal Rumble title defence against Randy Orton, AJ Styles and LA Knight. Roman and Rock's elements especially, particularly when Reigns insisted that 'The Great One' acknowledge him as the Tribal Chief to ensure he understood exactly where the power lay.
Bloodline 2.0's had a mixed start to life following Cody Finishing The Story, but that's as much to do with just how high Version 1.0 was able to fly ahead of 'The Show Of Shows'.