The Rock was interviewed by MuscleAndFitness.com and had some interesting things to say. He outlined what it would take to get him back to the ring, and said it’d have to be a big match up, basically waiting for another huge superstar to emerge that he could take on.
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Though I don’t think anyone would be upset with a Brock Lesnar vs The Rock match up at WrestleMania 31. The last time The Rock wrestled in the ring, he took on John Cena in back to back WrestleManias, the latter as WWE Champion. Apparently their was some truth to their feud and as The Rock dived into the relationship, said they almost came to blows backstage.
On having tension with John Cena: “It got really uncomfortable for a lot of people. And it gets uncomfortable for the fans–that they sense something. But then when it gets uncomfortable for the wrestlers and to the executives and the company, then it’s something special. I’d say ‘John, here’s what I’m going to say tonight: Go f— yourself.’ He’d say, ‘Well, here’s going to be my response: F— you too.’ I mean, it was like that. And it was palpable for the fans, and it was palpable backstage. And I would never be like that under any other circumstance. I’m collaborative with everyone I work with. And I take a lot of pride in that, and you know something? So is John.”
On nearly coming to blows with Cena backstage: “He’s a great guy. He’s one of the best guys out there, but here’s what we realized: If we wanted to build the two biggest matchups back-to-back and create something special in Miami and in New York, we’re going to do it this way. And we might fail miserably at it. People might think it’s not real or you run into the challenge of the potential for people to go, ‘It’s so real that it’s not real.’ But in this case it worked out very well and through all that edge and attitude and bite that we had and nearly coming to blows backstage and one night in the ring—literally we were nose-to-nose, it was any second. And through that in a crazy, weird completely unexplained way, we became great buds.”