Roman Reigns has been the man to beat in WWE for some time now, and it’s no big secret that WWE has been hoping to book The Rock vs. Roman Reigns. Ahead of WrestleMania 39 it was rumored that we would be seeing Rock vs. Reigns on the Grandest Stage of Them All, but ultimately it didn’t happen.
The Tribal Chief ended up successfully defending his Undisputed WWE Universal Championship against Cody Rhodes at WrestleMania 39 after Cody won the Royal Rumble. However, The Rock confirmed during an appearance on the Pat McAfee Show that he was at one point locked in for a match with Roman Reigns at WrestleMania.
“The Rock headlining WrestleMania with Roman Reigns, SoFi Stadium, that was locked. We were doing it. In the beginning of 2022, (WWE CEO) Nick Khan was very instrumental in bringing Vince and I together. We all flew to LA. We met. We sat. We broke out the Teremana, and about an hour later we started talking about the potential of what this match could be. Myself and Roman Reigns headlining WrestleMania at SoFi. We shook hands and we hugged right there and said, ‘Let’s do this.'”
“The north star thought was let’s not do something good, let’s not do something great, let’s do something unprecedented. A match? Great. Roman’s an incredible athlete. He’s going to be on Mount Rushmore. The bigger thought was what can we do for the fans where WrestleMania isn’t the end of something, it’s actually the beginning of something bigger. We got really, really close but we couldn’t actually nail what that thing was.”
Unfortunately the Rock vs. Reigns dream match didn’t happen at WrestleMania 39, but The Rock did confirm that he’s open to the idea of possibly facing Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 40 next year.
