The Royal Rumble 2025 ended with exciting moments for WrestleMania. However, some fans were sad because The Rock didn’t appear, even after so many teases just a few hours before the show kicked off.
Now, it looks like the disappointment will last longer for WWE fans, as reports say The Rock won’t attend WrestleMania 41. The People’s Champion was reportedly furious when this news leaked so soon.
Fans who have been following The Rock since last year’s Bad Blood, know that there were rumors he might miss WrestleMania 41 because of his busy Hollywood schedule. At that time, the news spread quickly and made WWE fans frustrated, though The Rock dismissed the rumors.
The Rock was reportedly "mad" that the news leaked that he won't be wrestling at WrestleMania.
— Cultaholic Wrestling (@Cultaholic) February 4, 2025
"December when everybody started reporting it and I kind of heard, 'Oh my God, Dwayne's mad that everybody's reporting it. He doesn't want this out.' And one person said, 'I bet he… pic.twitter.com/sDYSsXpEcx
Now, recent reports say those rumors were true, and The Rock won’t be part of WrestleMania 41. However, The Rock didn’t like that this news came out so soon.
Wrestling expert Dave Meltzer revealed that The Rock was upset because he wanted to control the story and keep it secret until WWE was ready to announce it.
Fans feel betrayed as The Rock misses Royal Rumble 2025
While the Royal Rumble event lived up to its excitement, The Rock’s absence left fans feeling disappointed. Even though WWE never confirmed his return, there were so many hints pointing to his comeback that fans truly believed he would appear.
But when he didn’t show up, it shocked many, especially since the buildup made it seem like he was part of the plan. Some fans even felt betrayed, with some going as far as blaming WWE for letting them down.
Exactly if The Rock wasn’t going to appear at the Royal Rumble than why tease us all this much and get us all over hyped all for nothing. They did this last year but they never put out any teases like this people just wanted him to return. pic.twitter.com/274KqZ1Ovg
— ? (@2SaucedOutZz) February 2, 2025
Ion think they being a coward I think they simply waited to see if Rock was finally available for Roman vs Rock n he must not be since they doing this instead n nothing was done at rumble or Netflix debut
— Roderick (@King_DappaDon) February 5, 2025
I'm starting to say this, this was the most useless thing I've ever seen in @WWE, @TheRock coming out after Bad Blood just to do this and what— people to expect to have him return to wrestle again and the 3-2-1 thing was he supposed to be at the rumble but plans changed like tf pic.twitter.com/BUQWAzGgyo
— Mr.Tacocat99313∞ (THE EMINEM – RECOVERY GOD) (@Michaelmrtacoc1) February 2, 2025
The worst part is he didn’t even get a graphic saying he was gonna be apart of rumble , no in ring promo saying he was declaring , and then comes out at 29 and tossed out in 4 minutes this was just terrible I’m loosing hope bc wtf is going on ?
— NellLovesWrestling (@mrarrington44) February 2, 2025
