Long before confronting “The Final Boss” at WrestleMania 40 to assist Cody Rhodes topple Roman Reigns and finish his story, John Cena’s beef with The Rock was firmly established, each on- and off-screen. With real life feelings because the backbone, including legit shots fired by Cena, who questioned not only “The Rock,” but Dwayne Johnson himself, when it comes to his love for the wrestling business, the pair went full throttle toward their “Once In a Lifetime” foremost event at WrestleMania 38, only to run things back a yr later, in two of probably the most successful WrestleMania finales of that era.
Cena’s claims from that era could appear ironic now, seeing as how “The Never Seen 17” just about followed The Rock’s blueprint, leveraging momentum created from his WWE profession to launch an uber-successful profession in Hollywood. But on the time, those were the accusations—that “The Brahma Bull” left WWE within the lurch to grow to be nothing greater than a part-time superstar. Tensions rose once The Rock returned to a WWE ring for the primary time in nearly eight years in 2011, first successfully pairing with Cena at Survivor Series against The Awesome Truth, before the one-on-one rivalry took shape.
With a series of “shoots” in each directions, including Cena’s infamous calling out of The Rock having promo notes scribbled on his arm (which clearly got under the identical skin at which The Rock now consistently showcases goosebumps during his latest run of intermittent appearances), things allegedly nearly got here to a physical head backstage and one point. Lately, nonetheless, as evidenced each on-screen with Cena’s ill-fated heel turn and “Final Boss” allegiance, in addition to behind the scenes, with whatever beef now seemingly squashed, it appears to be all about business and, though Cena’s profession soon coming to an in depth rules out any further physicality together with his longtime rival, all of it seems to have worked out for each parties in the long term.