The Rock is preparing for his in-ring return.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was a guest on the Pat McAfee Show on Thursday where he discussed his plans for WrestleMania. It’s been widely speculated that he will be facing Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 40. Johnson confirmed that he is currently training for his in-ring return.
McAfee asked about the reasoning behind his return to WWE. The Rock said that football players know this too, but it’s very hard to come back to a sport and the training once you leave it.
“In the world of pro wrestling, I haven’t done that in a very long time. So, when I do go back to the ring at WrestleMania, the most important thing is the training camp, which I have already started. I have multiple rings set up over in Hawaii, I have a ring set up on the west coast and we’re full on in camp.”
“I was born in this business.”
Pat McAfee then asked how he’s feeling now that he’s training again.
“I’m hurtin’”, he joked. “The body’s hurting because it’s hard to adjust. In a way it’s like riding a bike. I was very lucky in my career in that I was somewhat of a ring general and knowing the ring and where to go and where to be at certain times. But the training camp part of it is hard. You could work out on the weights, all the stuff that you want to do, but until you go back in the ring and you take those falls, those slams, those suplexes, stuff like that, there’s nothing like it.”
“To answer your question on why… Why? Because I love it,” he said about his return. “And that’s why. I don’t have to go back, I’m lucky enough to get to this point in my career. But I love what I do, I love getting in there and I love pro wrestling. It’s who I am, it’s what I was born to do and I was born in this business.
“But also, from the second that Roman Reigns said years ago, ‘I’m the head of the table’ and ‘I’m the head of this Bloodline’ — that’s when our story began. It’s converging now, it’s converging to WrestleMania.”
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