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The Rock Discusses Tension Between Himself and John Cena

Posted By: Ben Kerin on Sep 13, 2014

The Rock Discusses Tension Between Himself and John Cena

The Rock recently spoke on a number of wrestling related topics with Muscle and Fitness. Highlights below include the tension between him and John Cena, suffering an injury in his last match and a possible in-ring return.

The Rock on tension between he and John Cena:

"It got really uncomfortable for a lot of people. And it gets uncomfortable for the fans–that they sense something. But then when it gets uncomfortable for the wrestlers and to the executives and the company, then it's something special. ... I'd say 'John, here's what I'm going to say tonight: Go f--- yourself.' He'd say, 'Well, here's going to be my response: F--- you too.' I mean, it was like that. And it was palpable for the fans, and it was palpable backstage. And I would never be like that under any other circumstance. I'm collaborative with everyone I work with. And I take a lot of pride in that, and you know something? So is John."

Almost coming to blows with Cena in the ring:

"He's a great guy. He's one of the best guys out there, but here's what we realized: If we wanted to build the two biggest matchups back-to-back and create something special in Miami and in New York, we're going to do it this way. And we might fail miserably at it. People might think it's not real or you run into the challenge of the potential for people to go, 'It's so real that it's not real.' But in this case it worked out very well and through all that edge and attitude and bite that we had and nearly coming to blows backstage and one night in the ring—literally we were nose-to-nose, it was any second. And through that in a crazy, weird completely unexplained way, we became great buds."

Suffering an injury during the match:

"Any athlete or any actor who's preparing for a long time to step on a stage or step on a field or step on a movie set, who suffers an injury right before you're getting ready to perform or to execute–it is a massive challenge that's thrown your way that you didn't expect. I wound up tearing my rectus tendon from my pelvis I also tore my adductor from my pelvis, then had a triple hernia as well.

"The match was scheduled to go approximately 50 minutes and about minute 25, is when I tore my rectus. I asked the referee at that time how much time do we have left, and he said, 'Well we've got about another 25 minutes. Are you okay?' And I said 'Yeah, I'm good.' Which I knew I wasn't, but I knew when I stood up, as long as I could put a little pressure on one leg and kind of move the other one around… You know when you lose your rectus tendon–that's a tough tendon to lose because you can't push off of it and you don't have a lot of power in it. So I think what happened was because I had to continue another 25 minutes on that. As you know, when something like that happens, all the surrounding muscles start to weaken. I didn't know what the extent of the injury was until the very next day. I flew home to Miami and went to see my doctors at the University of Miami."

A possible in-ring return:

"I'd love to. We just have to figure out what it could be and what the most ideal matchup would be, and who it would be with. Because I always feel like if I go back to the WWE, then it has to be bigger and greater than what I've done in the past."

You can read the full interview by clicking here.

Source: Muscle and Fitness
Tags: #wwe #the rock #john cena

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