WWE President Nick Khan told Sports Business Journal on April 15 that the WrestleMania 40 plan never changed, despite widespread reports at the time that fan backlash forced a rewrite of the Cody Rhodes and Rock storyline. "The plan was always how it ended up in Philly two years ago. Sometimes it's a predetermined outcome in wrestling. You want to throw the fans off, you want to let things bake, and then boom, it ends up the way we wanted it to end up. It never changed. That was just online rumors and gossip that we were changing." On The Rock: "We convinced Dwayne Johnson to come back. He was obviously in phenomenal shape. He did everything that we asked of him, and then some, but that was always the result we were looking for." On whether WWE responds to social media pressure: "We will never respond to social media criticism again. If ratings are down, if revenue is down, if relevancy is down, it's up to us. That is a vocal minority. We don't adjust based on complaint, we adjust b...