Ex-WWE Name Reflects On Triple H’s Reaction To The Rock Calling CM Punk After Raw

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An ex-WWE name has reflected on Triple H’s reaction to The Rock calling CM Punk after Raw.

Back in 2017, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson worked with WWE to produce some scenes for his “Fighting With My Family” film based on the career of former WWE Divas Champion Paige, now known as Saraya in AEW.

Filming at the now-Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles after an episode of WWE Raw, The Great One came out to speak to the live audience. After the fan began to chant his former rival’s name, The Rock decided to call CM Punk, but the call was not answered and he left a voicemail instead.

Speaking on The Masked Man Show, Senior Vice President of The Rock’s Seven Bucks Productions, Brian Gerwitz recalled being in the gorilla position and hearing Triple H’s tongue-in-cheek reaction to the dark segment.

Revealing that Johnson was not aware of the then-ongoing lawsuit between Punk and WWE, Gerwitz said:

“The only time it ever kind of maybe qualified (possibly having to cut someone’s microphone) is when we were shooting Fighting with my Family at Staples Center and The Rock was in the ring and they’re chanting CM Punk and Rock, he doesn’t know what’s going on with the whole Punk-WWE backstage stuff and he pulls out his phone and is like, ‘Hey! What if I called CM Punk right now!?’”

“And then Triple H turns to me back in Gorilla and was like, ‘Someone wanna remind him we’re in a f**king lawsuit with this guy!’ And Punk didn’t answer.”

“He was doing something else at the time and so, it didn’t really matter and I think it was more said — I think Triple H said it, kind of tongue-in-cheek. He was not legitimately angry.”

When asked about The Rock not publicly acknowledging The Bloodline storyline, Gerwitz expressed why he would be surprised if Johnson showed up on WWE TV while the SAG-AFTRA strike is ongoing, saying:

“First of all, The Rock does look at his social media. I don’t know how much you can cover when you have millions upon millions and millions of followers but somehow, he saw the Grayson Waller thing. We haven’t discussed it (Johnson getting involved with The Bloodline).”

“I personally don’t think — obviously, there are bigger things going on in the world in general but even in the entertainment landscape, I would be — let’s just say this, even though WWE is not affiliated with any of the Guilds and not affiliated with S.A.G., I still think it’s a bad look for a prominent actor like The Rock, (John) Cena, Batista to appear on an entertainment program while there’s a strike going on while people are not getting paid and are striking and picketing every single day.”

“Yes, it’s not the same but it’s also like, appearing on television in an entertainment capacity, it’s just not a great look when there’s a strike going on, for one thing.”

Gerwitz continued on to revealed why he believes The Rock will not be addressing The Bloodline storyline anytime soon, saying:

“So I would say this, I would be shocked if The Rock appeared anytime soon while the strike is going on, but I would be equally, if not more shocked, if the Rock never appeared in a WWE ring again, and figuring in this storyline at some point too.”

“But everything, it needs to be crafted and discussed and thought about and if The Rock — again, we’ve never talked about this. Just my opinion.”

“If The Rock all of a sudden tweeted something about The Bloodline, it’s not like if I tweeted something about The Bloodline. Who gives a sh*t?”

“If he tweeted something about The Bloodline, the gates of hell are open. It’s hard to close the door again once you do it. Once you dip your toe into the pool again, it’s on. You can tweet Grayson Waller and he can tweet back and it can be a funny little exchange and you can mention it again.”

“But there’s not gonna be this pitchfork-like mentality of what are you waiting for? Do it. You started it.”

“So you can have fun with that sort of thing but once you start doing The Bloodline thing, then it’s time to go and that’s why you gotta be very, very judicious and careful about it in my opinion.”

Transcription via POST Wrestling

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• Brian Gerwitz
• Triple H
• The Rock
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