Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson took some time out of his busy schedule to do a Facebook Live Stream about various topics, but one topic stood out the most.
That topic was how back at WrestleMania 15 there were some WWE wrestlers who did not want him to main event that huge pay-per-view event with ”Stone Cold” Steve Austin.
Check out what he had to say down below:
“What makes that [match] so special was because it was my first WrestleMania as Heavyweight Champion and there were so many dudes in the locker room who were trying to squash that main event,” Rock said. “It was like a long ass line that formed to Vince McMahon’s office where all the top guys, many of them, were trying to stop that main event. ‘Rock has no business being in the main event’, ‘he’s a young kid’, ‘he’s a rookie’, ‘he has no business being in it’, but Vince had wanted that main event and one dude, the only dude, by the way, who could say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to it, was Steve Austin and that cat went to them, the old man, Vince, and came to me, and he was like, ‘I want you to be [my] partner. You’re my partner – you’re my dancing partner in this thing.’
“I appreciated that so much and just in that moment, we created just this great bond of trust and we went on to headline three other WrestleManias. We went on to break records. We went on to break every attendance record, every arena record across the United States. It was amazing and it was a hell of a run.”
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Clangin’ & Bangin’ in the Iron Paradise
Posted by Dwayne The Rock Johnson on Wednesday, August 5, 2015
