In a recent interview with ESPN prior to WrestleMania 40, WWE superstar The Rock and Brian Gewirtz discussed several topics, including The Rock discussing his post-WrestleMania 40 plans.

“I’m not off the board after WrestleMania, 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.”

Responding to The Rock’s comments, Gewirtz had the following to say, “I do think there’s going to be a Rock presence in the 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 going to go off into the sunset now. This whole run has really kind of rejuvenated him, 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 that you can do in a ring with a microphone, not to the point of bloodying up the number one babyface in the WWE and threatening his mother and dog. It’s like he’s never been bigger than he is now, 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.”

On getting back in the ring after several years away, The Rock said that getting back inside has been just like riding a bike.

“Suplexes, a launch off the rop rope, a catch, like bodies hitting bodies, it’s things like that you have to do and have to prepare for, and you’re getting bruised up, you’re hitting the ropes, it comes back fairly quick, it’s like riding a bike. Fortunately for me, very lucky in that I became somewhat of a ring general, where I see the circumference of the ring and where I need to be usually timing wise, because timing is really important in our business of wrestling, so just putting in the work, training, the diet begins, which always sucks, and taking the falls and just getting my a** kicked every day, so we’ll see how it goes.”

The full interview is available at this link.