Triple H has wrestled some big names on the Grandest Stage of Them All, and a few years ago it seemed that a Rock vs. Triple H match was being teased for WrestleMania 32.
Ultimately Triple H ended up facing Roman Reigns in the main event of the pay-per-view, and The Rock defeated Erick Rowan in a very quick match that lasted only a few seconds.
The Game recently spoke to Alex McCarthy of talkSPORT, and he revealed that The Rock’s movie schedule prevented the match from happening.
“I don’t remember the details of it, but it was one of those things that Rock and I talked about to the point where we did the backstage promo. ‘Let’s throw a scene out there and see what happens.’ It blew up, so we talked about it some more. Then scheduling just got in the way. At that point, we were over a year away from that WrestleMania. It wasn’t until, maybe four months of the following year, we got to that, and Rock goes, ‘it’s just not gonna work. I just can’t. All of my stuff. My movies and everything has changed. I just can’t make it work anymore.’ It was what it was. I would’ve loved to have [done] it. It would’ve been a blast to step in there with him one more time and tear it up.”
The 14 time WWE World Champion went on to say that originally he was suppose to face Rock in an iron man match at WrestleMania 16, but the match was changed to a fatal four way because WWE wanted to extend the feud.
“One of the things people always ask me is regrets, and it’s not really a regret. It’s just one of those things that I wish we would’ve had the chance to do in 2000 when we did the fatal four-way match. That was originally supposed to be The Rock and I. I believe if I remember correctly, he might remember too, we were supposed to do an iron man match. It was the originally scheduled match at Mania. Timing of returns and everybody else and they needed to get us to another pay per view is why we did the four-way and came back and did the iron man match later. I really wished I had that opportunity with him one-on-one at WrestleMania because we had done so much together having that one-on-one would’ve been special.”
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