I don't think anyone on earth can explain The Rock's appearance on Feb. 21 Smackdown.

It's pretty obvious the original plan was for Rock to announce the Wrestlemania 42 location. But for the rest of the segment, and the press conference after the show? 

Let's try to stay in chronological order. It was The Rock that came out and gave us the goosebumps entrance. It was The Rock that announced WM42. 

But then The Final Boss started peeking through.

Let's be clear: The Final Boss and The Rock may reside in the same Dwayne Johnson, but they are not the same character. The Final Boss is Heel Rock. But for some reason, both characters are occupying the same airspace, which gives you disjointed segments where The Rock curries favor with the crowd and The Final Boss taunts them. 

So now you've got the biggest star in the WWE universe being cheered one second, and in the next, dropping F-bombs in front of a family-friendly audience. This is the Director of the company? Didn't that manic get removed a few years ago?

Then The Final Boss calls Cody Rhodes out to the ring, mainly to say over and over, using basically the same words over and over, that he wants Cody to be even bigger, and that it will only cost him his soul, and that TFB needs an answer at next week's Elimination Chamber.

Do what?

So now we need to incorporate the presser into the discussion. I'm going to say DJ the person showed up, working on at least his third tequila in the last hour (if it were much longer, then DJ and Cody were knocking back drinks BEFORE their in-ring segment), and we're informed that the storyline involving Cody's soul doesn't need to play out in the ring.

This is where I really got incredulous. "The Final Boss" is terminology in gaming that means you have a battle coming. An appropriately large, challenging battle. But we're being told that this doesn't need to play out in the ring, the way wrestling stories do. 

So, what could this be? Are we somehow rehashing DJ's career beyond wrestling, using Cody as the main character? Does DJ have a drinking problem? Or an ego problem? 

But DJ's presence at WM 40 was unnecessary and distracting. And in one appearance, has accomplished the same thing this year.