During an interview with The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani, Paul Heyman discussed The Rock potentially returning at WrestleMania 38 this weekend.
âI donât deal in ifs, I deal in absolutes. Roman Reigns is going to win this Sunday, and thatâs not a prediction, thatâs a spoiler. I think there are some people who are really ready to step up. Iâm not gonna name them because itâs up to them to step up. Theyâre not gonna get the benefit of my endorsement if they donât know that itâs time for them to step up. There are still some very big money matches for Roman Reigns. Is this the biggest one on the table at the moment? Of course it is. Itâs the main event of WrestleMania and the biggest WrestleMania match of all time. Winner take all, title vs. title, unification match. Are there other people that are ready to step up into the spotlight and give Roman Reigns a fight? Absolutely.â
âWhy? Why would you do it? Because then youâre telling everybody that for the next 364 days nothing matters until The Rock. I didnât say [The Rock and John Cenaâs year-long storyline] was right. That wasnât my call. Nobody consulted me on that one. Didnât say I liked it, didnât say I didnât, and it doesnât matter because it was 10 years ago. If I liked it, who cares? Even if it played well then, would it play well now? And if I donât like it, who cares, it was 10 years ago.â
If Dwayne Johnson wants to step up to Roman Reigns, then Dwayne Johnson should step up to Roman Reigns and weâll set the match and go for it. But to go for it a year from now? Thatâs a long time. A lot can happen in a year. What if I say to Roman Reigns, âTake 30 days off and do a movie just to show Dwayne Johnson whoâs a bigger box office attraction himself.â It would be Roman Reigns. And Roman Reigns is a better actor than Dwyane Johnson, to be blunt. Thereâs a lot that could happen. Youâve got a year.â