If the Rock never went to Hollywood, would he still be wrestling anyway?

Question

I mean, if he never decided to do movies and stayed with WWE, would he even be wrestling anymore anyway. Would he have retired after the years and years of wrestling. I like to think he would be, I mean, he is still in great shape, I just don't understand why he has given up wrestling altogether. The fact that he showed up in a video on Raw earlier this year nearly gave me a stroke, when he threw that newspaper down and showed his face with his classic Rock glasses and the people's eyebrow, I nearly fell backwards. He was my favorite wrestler throughout the whole attitude era, I like him even more than Stone Cold and DX. I just don't understand why he can't make occasional appearances like Stone Cold. Stone Cold has bad legs and a kneck and he still shows up every once and a while and whips some candy @$$, so why can't the Rock. I wish he was still wrestling, we could really use him now, with all the injuries, suspensions and people leaving, we could really use a Rock or a Stone Cold.

Answer 1

He'd be a highly paid notorious bouncer and body guard.

Answer 2

Yeah, I think he is probably still going to wrestle. But there are two things might happen to him which is good news and bad news. One is that wrestling fans may get tired of seeing him on the top every monday night. Wrestling fans may think that he is holding back talent and one primary example of this is Triple H. No wrestling fans want to see him win the world title for the 12th time and hold back talent. I think that is why he immediately lost the world title to Randy Orton the same night he won it from him, because bookers think that people may get tired of him. No disrespect to Triple H, fans are still thrilled to see him wrestle but not as the world champ. Second, he may take the role of the Undertaker and Shawn Michaels who are top guys in the past but is not always achieving for the top nowadays. This guys sometimes wrestle in the mid-card and wrestling fans are still excited to see them. But anyways, in the end the Rock will still end up as an actor. He said that while he is still in college, he writes comedy scripts because he aspires to be a comedian in a TV sitcom. He also said that wrestling was like a training ground to acting for him. He stated “Then wrestling opened up to me, and I realized that this was a format that I could use. It allowed me to perform every night for nearly six years, sometimes before a live audience of 60,000 people. It’s incredibly rewarding because you get instant feedback. I always consider wrestling my own form of theater.” So from the start the Rock plans to be an actor one way or the other.

Answer 3

Course he would, he's still only 35 so younger than most of the other top guys.

As long as he had a clean run on injuries he'd still be a top draw and possibly a champion.

Answer 4

i'd like to think that by now, the rock would have become like a really cool gm or comissioner, like foley and i think hbk did when they needed some down time but still wanted to be on the show. i imagine that he'd later come back, go for a title run, then drop it to someone who deserved it and then went his merry way for awhile. but i think that he wants to try to pursue a really serious career as an actor and doesn't want to be seen as a wrestler-turned-actor anymore, so he's kinda distancing himself from that stigma. but i agree. i miss him too.

Answer 5

You'll never know, he would have a similar status as Undertaker/Michaels/Triple H in the wwe, or he would be in the TNA being a main eventer.

Answer 6

he would wrestle on smackdown ,being face, going for the world title then turning heel sometimes. (might change his gimmick)

but now he got a better job so its not really his fault why he is not wrestling.

Answer 7

Yes sure he would be a good wrestler at the time but he would not be a champion yet...

Answer 8

Yes, He would be wrestling.

Answer 9

yah he would still be wrestling!!!

Answer 10

no i think he would still be doing it...