Not having a great deal of luck finding references to counter rotation of the outer core, but this one provides a slightly different perspective.

http://www.pnas.org/content/110/40/15914

“Seismic probing of the earth’s deep interior has shown that the inner core, the solid core of our planet, rotates slightly faster (i.e., eastward) than the rest of the earth. Quite independently, observations of the geomagnetic field provide evidence of westward-drifting features at the edge of the liquid outer core.”

There never was nothing.