Over the past 24 hours, numerous reports from reputable sources have surfaced that can offer some much needed insight into what on earth WWE are thinking.

The decision to go with The Rock vs. Reigns seemingly came out of nowhere. Rhodes won the Royal Rumble last weekend, and he even pointed at Reigns to close out the show. As expected, The Rock vs. Reigns was indeed a last-minute call on WWE’s part, as PWInsider reports:

“Numerous WWE sources have concurred that the decision to go with The Rock vs. Roman Reigns Mania weekend, expected to be officially announced this Thursday in Las Vegas for the Philly event, was a push by The Rock to move into the Mania main event, backed by top TKO Group Holding execs.

“While WWE had been expertly building to a Cody Rhodes vs. Roman Reigns rematch, some sources believe it was done by Johnson to, as one source stated, “save Wrestlemania” after CM Punk and Brock Lesnar, for very different reasons, were taken off the board from the biggest weekend of the year…”

In a crazy revelation, it has been reported now by TWO reputable sources that it was The Rock who pushed for the match, as PWInsider adds:

“Others believe that Rock pushed for the move and likely would have no matter what, given his massive $30 million stock payday is, in part, contingent on him hitting certain milestones.  Sources familiar with the situation believe one of those milestones was Johnson returning to the ring this year and that Johnson pushed for the match to happen sooner than later with the idea he felt Reigns vs. The Rock was the far bigger attraction for the company…”

“But, in WWE, there isn’t going to be anyone that’s not going to at least consider Dwayne Johnson’s ideas.  PWInsider.com is told this wasn’t done to target and politic Cody out of his main event out of malice, but out of the belief that Johnson was the best idea to make money now and respect his new position with the company’s parent company.  This was a strategic move to give Johnson more political power overall and to show Endeavor’s faith in his involvement and that even Paul Levesque, who has done an admirable job as the Chief Creative Officer, would "lose that power struggle with Johnson at this point", as one source surmised…”

Fightful Select have gone one step further with their report, and they have even suggested that The Rock could push for himself to win the featured matchup, which would certainly add fuel to the fire.