With each year passing by, WWE Universe’s wait to see The Rock in a match, probably his last one, gets extended. The wait is continuing since 2020 as that’s the year when his cousin, Roman Reigns turned heel in the WWE and claimed the top spot in their family. The two are certainly destined to clash with each other at one point and that could go down next year.
The Great One was the latest guest on actor Kevin Hart’s talk show “Hart to Heart” on Peacock, where the latter revealed that he made arrangements for WrestleMania to go down in Philadelphia, next year. WWE CEO Nick Khan called him at midnight and asked for his help. So, he made a call and got a stadium booked for WWE.
Per Kevin’s statement, Nick Khan also told him that The Rock would potentially be coming back to WWE for WrestleMania 40, next year,
“What he (Nick Khan) did… he called me at 2 am. The first thing I did ‘Who the f**k is this?’ You know how I am. You call my house. And I heard it was him, and I said ‘Okay, breathe’ because he was panicking. I said ‘I’ll connect the dots, make it happen’ and Philadelphia. So I had to shut down the city for it ’cause you guys are gonna be there for two days?”
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The Rock didn’t wrestle in a full-length match in almost a decade
The Rock never really responded about his intentions of returning to the WWE at Wrestlemania 40. He only wanted to call Nick Khan but Kevin told him not to do so as he wanted their conversation on the talk show to remain a secret.
The Rock has not wrestled in the WWE since being part of a six-second match against Erick Rowan at WrestleMania 32. It was just a special arrangement for the former WWE Champion so that he could set a new record on the so-called Biggest Mania of All-time. Since then, more than seven years have passed by and we haven’t seen him make an appearance at the Show of Shows.
The last “proper” match for The Rock took place in 2013, where he was defeated by John Cena in a WWE Championship main event match at WrestleMania 29. For the past several years, speculations are available that he will be back for WrestleMania. With Roman Reigns’ ongoing “Tribal Chief” storyline, fans want him to face The Great One as they could be battling for this top spot in the Samoan Dynasty.
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