Cody Rhodes Thinks His Story With The Rock Is Unfinished
The subject of The Rock is discussed by Cody Rhodes.
Towards the backend of Cody Rhodes’ appearance on The Ariel Helwani Show, he was asked about Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson.
The last time Johnson was on WWE programming was at the 2025 Elimination Chamber Premium Live Event, where John Cena turned heel, aligned with Johnson, and then Cena, Johnson, and multi-time Grammy-nominated music artist Travis Scott beat Rhodes down.
Rhodes was asked if he must finish his story with Johnson, and here’s what he had to say:
“Deep breath. Dwayne Johnson… I think it’s safe to say he’s a bit of a fixture in my career and my life. Not just for his flag in the sand moment that was WrestleMania and then the emergence of probably one of the better characters that we’ve only seen a little bit of it being ‘The Final Boss.’ I don’t wanna give it an absolute and say that we do have to settle that. I think it’s an unfinished story. There’s probably two unfinished stories that are out there and they don’t always get finished. There’s a lot of fantasy-booking, there’s a lot of ways but there’s a lot that goes into it. There’s a version of this where finishing that story is me trying to be as successful as I possibly can be. Follow a bit of, if not a lot of his lead. Break into TV and Hollywood and do something only he thought he could do and do that to honor him. Then there’s a version of it that’s probably more appealing to a wrestling fan where The Final Boss shows back up and there is more on the rose than a non-ending so, I can’t answer that one… I can say as a wrestler, we get a little trepidatious or we don’t get super excited when people tease, ‘Oh, he might be there,’ leak it or drop something that’s misleading solely because we’re the ones here on the ground who are trying to pull this wagon and you know me, I love nostalgia for nostalgia but it’s gotta be current, it’s gotta be active and right now, we need active. Trick Williams is a prime example. We need that to move and grow and it’s doing that right now…”
Johnson addressed his absence from WWE programming after John Cena’s heel turn, and those remarks can be read at this link.
If the quote in this article is used, please credit The Ariel Helwani Show with an H/T to Fightful for the transcription.
