The Rock recalls suffering several injuries during his WWE Championship match against John Cena at WrestleMania 29:
"So, I was champion, we went into the next WrestleMania in New York, MetLife Stadium. That night was a very special match because it was my final match.
"That was the night where I got hurt in the beginning of the match and I wound up tearing my adductor, which it kind of runs up the middle of your leg. It allows you to open your legs and do things like that.
"So I tore that, and then I tore my quad up my pelvis. So, I tore everything, which then caused, in the middle of the match - and we still had 20 minutes left to wrestle - a chain reaction in my abdomen. I wound up tearing my abdomen wall.
"Referee came and said ‘Are you ok? Can you go on?’ And I went ‘Yeah, I’m good, I’m going to push through this.’ (Cena) pinned me one, two, three and I remember looking up at the lights of the stadium, and looking into the clouds because it was open.
"I was like, ‘This is my last match, and this is how I’m going out, from a business that I love, on my back, f**ked up.’ But watching him climb the ropes and hold up that title, it was very surreal but also very gratifying."
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@ichibanka5uga@tinglespoon It’s weak to the first two gyms and a lot of kids that don’t try to level up other Pokèmon on their team probably end up overleveling Charmander into evolving into Charizard, making it also weak to the third gym.
@SuperAjStylesN1@MichaelSFNR1 Oh, I know the damage is basically done already, but the entire point is to make up for it and deliver a “what could’ve been”
@BeigeFrequency@JustinWhang Honestly I feel like the ring exit was absolutely just to make the gimmick feel more unnatural. That and I prefer a big guy with motion than one that has basically no mobility.
@SuperAjStylesN1@MichaelSFNR1 Considering how last year they ran back Cody vs Cena as an apology for WrestleMania, I’d expect their second outing to be a lot better. At the very least it won’t have Pat McAfee or Jelly Roll shoehorned it.
@MichaelSFNR1 They were breaking kayfabe every ten seconds in the dying days of WCW too. I bet that TKO genuinely thought that the only reason why the WWE won the Monday Night Wars was because the WWE struck gold during the Attitude Era and not because WCW was also shooting itself in the foot
@WrestleFeatures I don’t think anybody really wants that for the second biggest show of the year. They’ve pretty much already got Gunther beating Cody set in motion.
@pupzasha@CV_survive@MisterGravyBoy I know at the very least Texas stopped the practice because one guy ordered this ginormous spread and then decided to not eat any of it because he “wasn’t hungry”.
@MercedesMelcor@Raion74_ They had a great match at Crown Jewel in 2024, so I think it’s just a problem with lousy booking as opposed to either man being a bad wrestler.
@nikicaga I like how they just keep passing it down to more and more specific terms until you end up with the guy in Vermont that eats pie for breakfast and he’s probably pulling the “It’s rude to call people names”card