WrestleMania 27 in 2011 at the Georgia Dome had possibly the strangest build-up to a modern WrestleMania, as the actual main event was downplayed heavily. While The Miz was defending his WWE Championship (that sounds insane in 2014, by the way) against John Cena in the official main event, Cena's interaction with guest host The Rock and angles for the Triple H vs. The Undertaker match got more attention. See, WWE planned out the next two years for Cena and The Rock way in advance to tell one long story. To heat up the issue, Cena brought back his rapping promos, unleashing some very specific rhymes on The Rock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OEzQNGLSlk
And I'm so glad this thing is over so I can cross it off my checklist. Rock didn't win, but it's okay, I'll give him a pearl necklace. [...] It was because I wasn't talking trash Rock, I was talking truth. You left us hanging high and dry to play a fairy with a tooth? And then you walk into this ring and say that I'm lame man? He wore lipstick in Get Shorty and rocked a skirt for the Game Plan. This Fruity Pebble that you are dealing with ... I'm not the average Jabroni I'm like a big purple pinwheel so go ahead and blow me. [...] Cena says that's Rock material, you can have the joke back Just don't go racing to Witch Mountain because your mountain is Brokeback. The Rock's new movie well, it's nothing like Walking Tall, He spends all movie in a bowling alley polishing my balls.
WWE had just started working with GLAAD on anti-bullying programs like Be a STAR, so they were not happy to see the top good guy cutting such homophobic promos. WWE apologized, and that was pretty much the end of that type of language on their shows.
Formerly the site manager of Cageside Seats and the WWE Team Leader at Bleacher Report, David Bixenspan has been writing professionally about WWE, UFC, and other pop culture since 2009. He's currently WhatCulture's U.S. Editor and also serves as the lead writer of Figure Four Weekly and a monthly contributor to Fighting Spirit Magazine.
