In a recent interview with Jimmy Traina as part of the SI Media With Jimmy Traina podcast, WWE’s Paul Heyman discussed several topics, including whether he believes that former WWE Champion turned actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson will appear at WrestleMania 39 this April.

“I never spoke to Dwayne about this year’s WrestleMania, I always heard his name being thrown around, I couldn’t imagine with his schedule, with his promotional schedule, with the launch of the XFL and with all of the projects that he has on his plate that he would be able to take the time to get back into what we could call ring shape.

Aesthetically, does anybody in Hollywood even compare it to him, no, could he run a marathon, I don’t know, maybe, I’m sure he has great cardio, but cardio itself and cardio in the ring and being in ring shape are two completely different things. I’ve seen great mixed martial arts fighters who would have no problem doing 15 rounds of sparring, or five rounds in an MMA cage, get into a wrestling ring and within two minutes of hitting the ropes, they can’t catch their breath. It’s just a different rhythm, it’s just a completely different physical toll that it takes, it’s not like riding a bicycle, it’s not something you can just get back into, it requires you to get back into a specific level of conditioning that is exclusive to the sports entertainment world.

Could Dwayne Johnson have come back and put together a really classic, very memorable 15 minute match with Roman Reigns for this year’s WrestleMania without going through that training, I bet you he could, I bet you just based on his knowledge of the ring, his supreme psychology, which made him a huge star, the people that we have around us to diagram such a confrontation and just the face that Dwayne will push himself beyond his own limits that we could have had a great 15 minute match, but I don’t think anybody would have paid to see the main event of WrestleMania of a fantasy match-up, of a dream match between the Tribal Chief Roman Reigns and The Rock himself, I don’t think anybody would have wanted to pay to see a 15 minute match. I think people would pay, and expect to see and rightfully expect to see a far longer story be told in a most exciting, in an A-Plus, plus, plus, plus level fashion, There was just no way that he would have been able to deliver, and I don’t think that he would ever want to disappoint what we end up calling the WWE Universe.”

The full interview is available at this link.