The Rock was allegedly “mad” about the reports of him not having a match at WWE Wrestlemania 41
At the conclusion of the 2024 WWE Bad Blood PLE, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson made a surprise appearance on the stage as Roman Reigns and Cody Rhodes were in the ring. Following the event, it was reported that there weren’t plans for Rock to have a match at Wrestlemania 41 as his “schedule got too heavy.” However, The Rock publicly stated “don’t believe any of that bullshit“ to a fan on Instagram.
Rock did not appear at the 2025 Royal Rumble PLE and while speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer of F4WOnline.com discussed the situation…
“The chronology….if you remember, at Bad Blood, he came out at the end of the show. And I was pretty much told right, like, right after Bad Blood. And it’s like, you know, someone brought up to me. It’s like, you know, in a very negative term, what he did. And they go, ‘Why negative?’ You know? It’s like, he’s gonna wrestle Cody at WrestleMania. And it’s like, well, guess what? He ain’t gonna wrestle Cody at WrestleMania. He ain’t gonna wrestle at WrestleMania, and they go, what? And it’s like Brad Slater and Dwayne both told the company that he ain’t gonna be able to do WrestleMania. So why do you do this run-in and it was basically, the people who know this are not happy that you know he went in there and stole the end of the show just to do that when you know those people that ended the show and on the Atlanta show should have been the final thing, but Dwayne gets to do what Dwayne wants to do, and everyone has to live with that. So that was the deal at the time. Now, of course, he always had the chance to change his mind. The story was that he was too busy. But yet, afterward, you know, the same people were just like, ‘Yeah, of course, he could change his mind.’ And it was kind of like, if is he going to, you know, he better decide if he’s going to do it by January, because they got to do a Royal Rumble. And, you know, if Dwayne is going to be in the main event of one of the shows, and they have to know that by at least the setup of the Royal Rumble, but that’s come and gone. I don’t want to say it’s not going to happen, but it certainly doesn’t look like it’s going to happen.
So it would have been, I’m trying to remember when, November, December, when all of a sudden everybody started reporting it. And I kind of heard, ‘Oh my god, Dwayne’s mad that everyone’s reporting it. He doesn’t want this out.’ One person said, ‘I bet he does the show now, just because he’s so. Mad that everyone’s reporting it.’ If he’s too busy, if he’s got other projects, you know, I mean, he’s not gonna be able to do it. I mean, my gut on him is, is that if he didn’t have other projects, do it, the guy loves pro wrestling. I mean, it’s like, no matter what you may think, I can tell you for sure that the guy loves pro wrestling. If he has the time to do it, he sure as hell wants to be part of this period of pro wrestling, when pro wrestling is the most lucrative it’s ever been.” (quote courtesy of WrestlingNews.co)