The Rock: I’m Not Off The TKO Board After WrestleMania, I Will Always Be Part Of This

The Rock comments on his WWE future. 

The Rock joined the TKO Board of Directors on January 23 and had since been a staple on WWE television in the build up to WrestleMania 40. Rock will compete in an advertised match for the first time since WrestleMania 29 when he teams with Roman Reigns to take on Cody Rhodes & Seth Rollins on night one. 

The Rock has reinvented himself as the Final Boss leading up to the bout after fans rejected Rock vs. Roman and threw their support behind Cody Rhodes.

Speaking to Marc Raimondi & Andrew Feldman of ESPN, Rock commented on his future after WrestleMania. 

“I’m not off the board after WrestleMania,” Rock said. “I’m still on the board, and I will always be a part of this. And we are in it now. This is our thing and will forever be our thing.”

Brian Gewirtz, a former WWE writer who has long worked with Rock at WWE and now Seven Bucks Productions, has been by Rock’s side for his return, said Rock is unlikely to be a “fixture” on WWE programming after WrestleMania. 

“But I do think there’s gonna be a Rock presence in WWE going forward until whenever he doesn’t want to…I could definitely say that this isn’t [over a] day after WrestleMania and I’m gonna go off into the sunset now. 

“This whole run has really kind of rejuvenated him,” Gerwitz said of Johnson. “He is not physically and mentally capable of ever being on autopilot. But there was kind of like this safe zone in the babyface space that is fun and fan-pleasing, but isn’t the edgiest of things you can do in a ring with a microphone. Not to the point of bloodying up the No. 1 babyface in WWE and threatening his mother and dog. It’s like he’s never been bigger than he is now,” he added. “He’s part of the board. He just kind of carries a certain weight as opposed to when he came back earlier when he was at a great level, but not this. That’s why the Final Boss feels so organic, because it not only is the TKO literal final boss, but just the weight of Dwayne Johnson in 2024. It just feels important.”

The Rock is set to film “Smashing Machine” shortly after WrestleMania and then the live action “Moana” movie. 

Fans can find The Rock’s comments on his return by clicking here.