Brian Gewirtz On Whether He Expects The Rock To Return To WWE During Strikes

Brian Gewirtz doesn’t expect The Rock to return to WWE while the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes are taking place.

Gewirtz, who works as the SVP of Development for The Rock’s Seven Bucks Productions, was a recent guest on “The Ringer” podcast to discuss The Great One potentially returning to WWE at some point, fans asking him to acknowledge Roman Reigns, and more.

You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:

On fans asking him to acknowledge Roman Reigns: “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. 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…even though WWE is not affiliated with any of the guilds and not affiliated with SAG, it’s a bad look for a prominent actor like The Rock, Cena, Batista to appear on an entertainment program while there is a strike going on and people are not getting paid and are striking. Yes, it’s not insane, but appearing on television in an entertainment capacity is not a great look when a strike is going.”

On The Rock potentially returning to WWE at some point: “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 the storyline at some point. It needs to be crafted, discussed, and thought about. We’ve never talked about this, just my opinion, if The Rock tweeted something about The Bloodline, it’s not like if I tweeted something. If he tweeted something, 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, it’s on. You can tweet Grayson Waller, he can tweet back, and it can be a funny exchange, but there’s not going to be this pitchfork like mentality of ‘what are you waiting for, do it, you started it.’ Once you start doing the Bloodline thing, it’s time to go. That’s why you have to be very judicious and careful.”

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