Less than two months after WWE heavily teased The Rock vs. Triple H as the main event storyline direction for WrestleMania 31, Sting caused The Authority to lose power by helping Team Cena defeat Team Authority atSurvivor Series. Now, Triple H seems on course to face The Man They Call Sting on the biggest show of 2015 instead, so where does that leave The Rock?
Although Bryan Alvarez claimed immediately after the Survivor Series event had finished that Rock was tentatively pencilled in to tangle with The Bulgarian Brute Rusev at this year's WrestleMania, more recent reports suggest that he is unlikely to wrestle on the extravaganza due to his movie schedule. Indeed, Dave Meltzer suggested on his subscriber only message board that WWE only shot the angle where Sting cost Triple H his onscreen rule because the company now feels The Rock will miss the show:
"Rock is doing a movie in the spring. I'm not saying he's not doing WrestleMania because the movie schedule isn't solid, but right now, he's not doing WrestleMania.
He makes far more for a movie than Mania.
HHH vs. Sting was done because of the belief Rock isn't doing Mania."
It's true that The Rock's schedule in the spring will be hectic enough as it is without promoting and participating in a WrestleMania match, as Furious 7 will be released just five days after WrestleMania and shooting is set to start on his next film, Central Intelligence, a buddy action comedy also starring Kevin Hart, around the same time. I wouldn't rule out Rock making an unannounced WrestleMania cameo appearance like he did this year, but it sounds like he won't have the time to do much more than that.
Although I have no sources to back up this opinion, the fact that Sting was chosen to be The Rock's replacement as Triple H's WrestleMania dance partner suggests that The Undertaker will also not be wrestling at the event, as his two obvious opponents (Sting and Brock Lesnar) are being programmed with other acts (Triple H and Roman Reigns, respectively).
Although Bryan Alvarez claimed immediately after the Survivor Series event had finished that Rock was tentatively pencilled in to tangle with The Bulgarian Brute Rusev at this year's WrestleMania, more recent reports suggest that he is unlikely to wrestle on the extravaganza due to his movie schedule. Indeed, Dave Meltzer suggested on his subscriber only message board that WWE only shot the angle where Sting cost Triple H his onscreen rule because the company now feels The Rock will miss the show:
"Rock is doing a movie in the spring. I'm not saying he's not doing WrestleMania because the movie schedule isn't solid, but right now, he's not doing WrestleMania.
He makes far more for a movie than Mania.
HHH vs. Sting was done because of the belief Rock isn't doing Mania."
It's true that The Rock's schedule in the spring will be hectic enough as it is without promoting and participating in a WrestleMania match, as Furious 7 will be released just five days after WrestleMania and shooting is set to start on his next film, Central Intelligence, a buddy action comedy also starring Kevin Hart, around the same time. I wouldn't rule out Rock making an unannounced WrestleMania cameo appearance like he did this year, but it sounds like he won't have the time to do much more than that.
Although I have no sources to back up this opinion, the fact that Sting was chosen to be The Rock's replacement as Triple H's WrestleMania dance partner suggests that The Undertaker will also not be wrestling at the event, as his two obvious opponents (Sting and Brock Lesnar) are being programmed with other acts (Triple H and Roman Reigns, respectively).
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