The Rock is without a doubt one of the biggest WWE stars of all time, and it’s usually safe to say that he’s going to get cheered when he makes an appearance on WWE progrmaming.
However, when The Rock celebrated with Roman Reigns after Reigns won the 2015 Royal Rumble, the Philadelphia crowd decided to boo The Big Dog, and The Rock also felt the weight of the backlash.
During a recent appearance on The Masked Man Show former WWE writer Brian Gewirtz was asked about The Rock’s reaction to getting booed at the Royal Rumble in 2015, and he noted that Rock didn’t ignore the reaction.
“It was sort of the same unspoken but spoken moment that I had with John Cena when the two of us watched ‘Marine’ privately in the offices of WWE,” Gewirtz recalled. “At the time, we watched it, and we just sort of gave each other a look. And then John’s like, ‘Let’s go get something to drink.’ It was kind of similar, a little bit, with the Royal Rumble that year, and if you notice, Dwayne, DJ, The Rock, he’s expert at reading the crowd. His connection to the audience is what he’s most proud of and why he comes back and why we’re doing our NBC show too. If you look at his facial expression, he will never be one to, like if the crowd is going one way, he won’t just ignore it. He kind of had the same look on his face if you noticed.
“It’s in all the stills too where he’s kind of listening to the audience reaction similar to his match with [Hulk] Hogan in Toronto at WrestleMania 18 where he’s like, ‘Hmm, interesting.’ We didn’t talk about it extensively afterwards, but it was obviously there. You’re not blind. We’re not going to sugarcoat it and go like, ‘Yeah, that Philly crowd. What are you going to do? Anyways, the audience really loves him.’ We heard it.”
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