The Rock Reflects On WrestleMania 29 Injury And Choosing To Finish The Match

The Rock fought through injury to finish his WrestleMania 29 main event against John Cena for the WWE Championship.

Dwayne “The Rock†Johnson and John Cena had a storied rivalry in the early 2010s. The Great One made his in-ring return at Survivor Series 2011, his first since 2004, teaming with Cena against The Miz and R-Truth.

Despite working together and picking up the win, Rock ended the show by delivering a Rock Bottom to John Cena. The two later headlined WrestleMania XXVIII in a match billed as “Once in a Lifetime,†only to main-event WWEâ€s biggest show again the following year.

The Rock on his WrestleMania 29 injury

The Rock put his WWE Championship on the line against John Cena in the main event of WrestleMania 29. Unfortunately, The Peopleâ€s Champion suffered a serious injury in the early stages of the match, but he refused to let the setback affect the outcome.

During a recent appearance on NPRâ€s Fresh Air to promote his latest movie, The Smashing Machine, Johnson explained why he chose to finish the match despite tearing his abdominal, adductor, and quadriceps tendons off his pelvis.

“In this WrestleMania match, if he would have asked me, ‘Hey, are you okay?†And I say, ‘No, there is something wrong,†and he says, ‘Okay, letâ€s go home,†we would know where to pick up,†he said. “Itâ€s almost like you go right to the third act of the script, and we would go home. That would be the end of the match. I didnâ€t want to tell John that because I knew the match would end, and I didnâ€t want the match to end in that way.

“Not only was it important to me to go out on my shield, I knew this was my very last match of my entire career. My career was going to end on this night. No one knew, but I knew. The other reason, and maybe more important than my career ending, I was doing the honors.

“That means youâ€re passing the torch to someone who is going to carry it from here on out. That was to John, and that was the finish to our match; me doing the honors for him and him beating me in the middle of the ring to become champion. Thatâ€s why I didnâ€t want the match to end right away. I wanted him to have his moment. Thatâ€s important.†[H/T: Fightful]

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