The Rock is doing some of the best work of his career in WWE right now, following his return earlier this year.
Return
The former WWE Champion had to change his original plans for the dream match showdown with Undisputed WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 40 once fans pushed back on The Rock taking Cody Rhodes’ spot at the event, leading to a pivot of Rock’s heel turn, alliance with The Bloodline and the tag team match where Rock will team with his cousin to take on Rhodes and World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins.
The Rock made an appearance in the opening segment of Friday’s episode of WWE SmackDown, where he brought back his concert segment and seemingly found himself in hot water with the network’s standards and practices department, something he addressed on Instagram.
Promo
The Rock has worked with former WWE head of creative Brian Gewirtz for years on his WWE promos. While speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer detailed how Rock’s promos are scripted, with FOX getting a heads up so they know when to bleep curse words.
“The SmackDown one. I mean, they bleeped a lot of stuff on SmackDown….The deal with the TV, what they have to do is, FOX gets the script ahead of time so they know when to bleep. Because the whole thing, The Rock promo, obviously it’s completely scripted. If it was anyone else, they would just be not allowed to say it, but with The Rock, it’s like, he can say whatever he wants, but they know what he’s gonna say and when he’s gonna say it, so anything they wanna bleep out, they will bleep out. And they know when to bleep it out because they’re told ahead of time. So that’s kind of the gist of the promo and why certain things were bleeped out and everything like that, and they didn’t miss on anything.”
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