The Rock open to face Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 40

WWE fans have been waiting for a long time for this matchup.

The Rock made a surprise return on the latest episode of SmackDown with Pat McAfee and shocked the entire WWE Universe. Before returning to WWE, The Rock appeared on the Pat McAfee show, where he talked about his potential plans to fight his cousin Roman Reigns and the scrapped plans of the previous year's WrestleMania and so on.

WrestleMania 40- The Rock vs Roman Reigns

When the Greatest One was asked about his Bloodline and The Rock vs Roman Reigns for WrestleMania 40.

The Rock on the Pat McAfee show,

“All right, so The Rock headlining WrestleMania with Roman Reigns. Sofi Stadium, that was locked [in]. What we were doing, the way we were doing it, we knew we were doing it. We were doing it. But let me just tell you, so about the beginning of 2022, Nick Khan, who we know. He's the man. He was very instrumental in bringing Vince and I together. We all flew to LA, we met, we sat. This is the beginning in 2022, and we broke out the Teramana. 

We toasted life, toasted the business we love, and about an hour later, we started talking about the potential of what this match could be between myself and Roman Reigns, headlining WrestleMania at So Fi and we shook hands and we hugged right there, all three of us at the table and said, Let's do this. And so the North Star, though. 

So then we had a year to really think about this. So the North Star thought was, okay, let's not do something good. Let's not do something great. Let's do something unprecedented. And it was in what we can create for the fans that has never been done before. A match. Great. 

Roman is an incredible athlete. He's going to be on Mount Rushmore. Good dude, my cousin's family. Amazing. We can have the match, but the bigger thought was what can we do for the fans in this business that we love, where WrestleMania isn't the end of something, it's actually the beginning of something bigger."

WrestleMania 40- The Rock vs Roman Reigns

The Rock says that he is “open” to The Rock vs Roman Reign at WrestleMania 40 in Philadelphia,

“So we got really, really close, but we couldn't actually nail what that thing was. So we decided to put our pencils down and then we agreed, 'Hey, listen, there's a merger coming up. Eventually, that will happen. There's a WrestleMania in Philadelphia.'

I'm saying that's a potential, too. I'm open. But again, let's figure out what that is because the fans deserve something just incredible and unprecedented. And not only that, but I also want to deliver to the locker room and the boys and the girls back there who are working their asses off.

What can we do to put them in a position where they're part of something that is a new change in an era in this world of pro wrestling? Again, Vince is a big-picture thinker, as you know. And this is why we've gotten along for years. Just trying to think of the big picture."

With high stakes built after the interview and WWE return, how excited are you to see The Rock vs Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 40 and the storyline?