WWE: Why The Rock Will Once Again Become WWE Champion

When The Rock faced John Cena at WrestleMania 28, many fans expected the match to be a “passing of the torch” of sorts, with The Rock putting Cena over in arguably the biggest match in wrestling history. 

But the WWE obviously had different plans. 

Instead of “The Champ” emerging victorious, it was The Rock who picked up the huge victory in front of a raucous Miami crowd and millions of fans around the world. 

The next night on Raw, The Rock followed up his big victory by revealing that he had a dream that he would once again become WWE Champion. 

That was the last we’d see of The Rock until the historic 1,000th episode of Raw when he showed up and let the world know that he would face the WWE Champion—whoever that may be—at the 2013 Royal Rumble. 

Right then and there, The Rock’s dream became a vow. A promise. A guarantee. 

The Rock was no longer envisioning himself becoming WWE Champion. He was telling us all that he would win the WWE Championship on the first pay-per-view of 2013. 

I believe him. 

While The Rock has taken a lot of criticism for “stealing the spotlight” and thrusting himself into main events and title matches, this isn’t happening just for the hell of it. 

The Rock will be challenging for the WWE Championship at the 2013 Royal Rumble PPV because The Rock draws. 

And The Rock will win the WWE title because the only thing that draws more than The Rock is The Rock as the WWE Champion. 

When he let the world know on the post-Mania episode of Raw that he’d envisioned himself winning the WWE Championship down the road, it was essentially his way of saying: “Hey, the creative team plans for me to win the WWE title.” 

When he showed up on Raw 1000 and revealed that he’d received a WWE Championship match at the Royal Rumble without technically “earning” it, those plans were only confirmed. 

The Rock didn’t say that he would become the WWE Champion only to disappoint “the millions” when he failed to live up to that promise. 

No, he said that because he knows that that’s exactly what is going to happen.

After all, every indication we’ve gotten is that—somehow, some way—The Rock is going to win the most prestigious title in the WWE at some point in 2013. 

The two most popular rumored creative plans for The Rock tell us so. 

According to F4WOnline.com (via PWMania.com), one scenario that could play out is that The Rock faces Cena for the WWE Championship at the Royal Rumble, beats him and goes on to defend the title against CM Punk at WrestleMania 29. 

The other rumored scenario? 

According to F4WOnline.com (via WrestlingInc.com), The Rock would face John Cena for the WWE title in a WrestleMania rematch at WrestleMania 29.

Either way, The Rock seems destined to get not one, but two opportunities to win the WWE Championship in the early portion of 2013 and is reportedly going to win it. 

Logic says that The Rock shouldn’t win the title because he’s a part-timer, and instead, he should be putting someone over—like Punk or Cena—at the Royal Rumble and/or at WrestleMania 29 as well. 

But if the WWE always booked logically, then The Rock would not have beat Cena at WrestleMania 28. Cena would have beat The Rock, and the torch would have been passed. 

So when it comes to logic in the WWE, you can take that logic and throw it out of the window because the WWE is going to do what draws. 

And what draws? The Rock as WWE Champion.

Drake Oz is a WWE Featured Columnist for Bleacher Report. Follow him on Twitter!