The Rock discusses his decision to return to wrestling.
The Rock returned on last Friday's WWE SmackDown, confronting Roman Reigns after Cody Rhodes seemingly stepped aside to give him the match at WrestleMania. The tune changed less than a week later with Rock and Roman united at the WrestleMania 40 Kickoff.
Speaking to Entertainment Tonight ahead of the Kickoff, Rock explained why he return to wrestling.
"I love it," Johnson said. "I love what I do, I love this world of wrestling, I love pro wrestling, I was born into pro wrestling, I will always be a pro wrestler at heart and in attitude too."
Rock not only returned to WWE TV, he joined the TKO Board of Directors to help continue to grow wrestling.
Rock recalled visiting WWE HQ and being shown a photo of his father Rocky Johnson and Tony Atlas winning Tag Team Championships.
"I have never seen that picture before and I was so choked up... I was really moved," Rock said. "In that moment, I thought, 'Man, they were wrestling in what was a field house back then and wrestling has changed!' My dad just made history and the bumps and the bruises and the sacrifices that he made and that all those guys made. Now we're talking about the biggest WrestleMania of all time and the company signs a $5 billion deal with Netflix. It's just incredible.
"I'm so grateful for the work that he put in and the ground that he laid, [with] my grandfather and all the other wrestlers," Johnson said. "But also, I'm so grateful to come back in this capacity that I could come back and give to this business and give to the men and women in that locker room, and try and do my little part to do this with everything and create greater opportunities for all of them."
Though Roman Reigns chose to face Rock at WrestleMania, Cody Rhodes reversed course and decided he did want to face Reigns at WrestleMania.
Triple H decided that it would be Cody vs. Roman in the main event of WrestleMania 40.
