You mean the Survivor Series that drew more PPV buys than least year's Survivor Series? One of the few PPVs that actually did better in terms of buyrates compared to the previous year?
Yes, it wasn't as successful as people hoped, but then again it was still better than the previous year. And part of me wonders how much worse the buyrates would be without The Rock (maybe sub 200,000?). Like someone pointed out, the only PPVs to improve were The Rock, The Rock's leftovers, CM Punk, and The Rock.
I definitely don't see why you'd interpret Rock saying "he's never leaving again" to mean... whatever the heck TheRock1525 is saying it means, without going meta and saying to yourself "well Rock is doing a movie right now so he's obviously being metaphorical or something." Which to me is sorta like taking John Cena kissing Eve to be meaningless in kayfabe because he has a wife, and thusly say "hey Zack shouldn't be mad at Cena because Cena obviously has a wife so he clearly wasn't out to betray him" or to say "Jericho isn't actually a dick look at him on Dancing With The Stars." Rock seems like an exception there for the way people typically think, for whatever reason.
Because the WWE is full of hyperbole. The Rock says he's never leaving, Jericho says the world is going to end, Kane is going to drag people to Hell, Undertaker is undead, the Cobra is a legit finisher, etc.
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TheRock ~ Slow dramatic zoom-pan. Doesn't phase the hooded man.
"You have issues." - MWC. Pot. Kettle.