Shawn Michaels comments on a rumor about him and The Rock that has been “way blown out of proportion”
While speaking to 7PM in Brooklyn with Carmelo Anthony, Shawn Michaels commented on why he never had a match against Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in WWE. Michaels addressed a rumor that he had backstage heat with Rock…
“There’s a big kerfuffle in the wrestling business about me and Hunter [Triple H] doing stuff to him and being mean and things like that. All of it is way blown out of proportion—none of it even accurate. Some of the things from when he was younger got fed a lot.
But again, later on, and even to this day, we get along and we talk about stuff. That’s one I think everybody would have liked to have seen. But by the time I came back, he was already well into his Hollywood career and everything like that.
So, look—even when it comes to me, I pick him because, again, what are you going to say? The guy came in, and I can remember seeing him on Saturday Night Live for the first time and just thinking, ‘Holy cow.’” I can’t remember the exact bit, but when he was with the other guy and doing that, and he could laugh at himself and everything else—you could see right there that this guy was going to be a huge star.
So, I don’t know. What he’s done has been pretty damn impressive.”