Roman Reigns has addressed the rumors of WWE wanting to book a match between him and The Rock at WrestleMania 39 and the belief that it won’t be happening.
As previously reported, The Rock’s status for WrestleMania 39 is not set in stone, but he has indicated to the company that he doesn’t feel like he has enough time to get into the kind of shape he feels he needs to be in a match.
While appearing on Friday’s The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon to promote the Royal Rumble, where he will defend the Undisputed WWE Universal Title against Kevin Owens, “The Tribal Chief” was asked about the rumors.
Although Reigns did state that Rock put out a statement saying he wasn’t going to be ready in time, Reigns misspoke, as Rock hasn’t recently commented on his WrestleMania 39 status.
“That’s been the rumors, a huge buzz on that for years now, but it’s really picked up in the last couple of years. I believe he just came out with a statement saying he’s not going to be ready in time, which that’s the kind of face everyone’s making, like, hold on, he trains every single day. He’s huge. To his defense, it’s one thing to train with weights and bodybuilding to look the part but to get into the ring to do a main event match, an Undisputed WWE Universal Championship match. It takes a lot of conditioning. It beats up your body. There’s more that goes into it than just training in the weight room. It’s a professional athlete situation. You have to condition. He does two out of the three things perfectly. His nutrition and his weight training is on point, but you have to condition yourself, and you have to be ready to be ready to fall down. You can never get away from that. That’s number one, Dwayne. When you’re going up against Roman Reigns, you better get ready to fall down,” Reigns stated.
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