The Rock’s filming schedule may take a WrestleMania 43 match off the table, according to Dave Meltzer.
Next year’s WrestleMania is set for Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and Meltzer reported that Saudi organizers have wanted The Rock to wrestle on the show. Vin Diesel told Variety that Fast Forever, the final Fast & Furious film, is expected to begin filming in December, and The Rock is scheduled to appear in it.
On the post-Raw Wrestling Observer Radio, Meltzer said the math does not work for a match.
“Because that movie is gonna take months to film, if he is in it, which he is scheduled to be in it, that him doing a match at WrestleMania would be out the window. I mean, could he fly to Saudi Arabia and show up? Of course. Of course he could, and he could always do that.”
“I know that the Saudis really wanted him to wrestle on that show next year, and if they offer enough money, there may be a way, but I don’t know where he’s gonna get time to train when he’s doing a movie like that. And I don’t see him doing something in the ring without training. He has too much pride, if that’s the right word, to go out there and half-a– it. I mean, the one thing that you could say is every time he came back, he trained his a– off.”
The Rock last appeared on WWE programming at Elimination Chamber 2025 in Toronto.
