WWE Denies Rumors The Rock Was 3 Hours Late for WrestleMania 40 Main Event Match

Doric SamApril 30, 2024

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WWE has refuted a report that The Rock was late to arrive at WrestleMania 40 for his main-event match on Night 1.

While reporting on The Rock’s “chronic lateness and lack of professionalism” during the production of the film Red One, Umberto Gonzalez of TheWrap added that “two insiders” said “he was three hours late arriving ahead of his main event match at WrestleMania 40.”

However, WWE has denied the rumor.

“Dwayne was not only on time for WrestleMania, he was hours early to help with rehearsal — and a pleasure to work with throughout the entire run,” said Chris Legentil, WWE’s executive vice president for Talent Relations and Head of Communications, per Ian Carey of Wrestling Observer.

Carey pointed out that The Rock was also over two hours late to an appearance at WWE World ahead of WrestleMania 40, but the company said it was due to traffic and other commitments.

Also, a spokesperson for Amazon MGM denied the claims asserted in Gonzalez’s article that The Rock caused issues during the production of Red One.

“Dwayne Johnson and Seven Bucks have been incredible partners on Red One—a film that audiences of all ages are going to love this holiday season,” the spokesperson said. “Our testing has been very strong — the reaction from CinemaCon speaks for itself — and we couldn’t have made it without Dwayne’s constant work and support. Any reporting that implies that we got to this point with him showing up seven, eight hours late to set is both ridiculous and false.”

Red One is set to release in November.

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