Backstage Update On The Rock’s WWE Return On RAW

Partial Source: Pwinsider

On Monday’s edition of RAW, WWE legend The Rock made a shocking surprise return during an in-ring segment with Rusev and Lana.

As luck would have it, The Rock was already in New York City for non-WWE business reasons, as he was meeting with Time Warner executives. It appears as though WWE did not bring Rock in to NYC, so he legitimately was only there for his own business.

Additionally, The Rock was not listed in any early version of the script for Monday’s RAW, so it’s highly likely that his return just happened to be a case of perfect timing as far as WWE is concerned. Of course, WWE may have tried to keep his return a secret and didn’t include his segment in the RAW script. We hope to have more later today. Stay tuned for that.

ORIGINAL: As was rumored earlier today here on the website, The Rock was in New York City and made his return to WWE on Monday night’s edition of RAW. The Rock came out during a promo featuring Rusev and Lana. Here is a recap from our WWE RAW report:

In-Ring Segment: Rusev, Lana and … THE ROCK!

Rusev and Lana make their way to the ring. Lana cuts a typical Lana-style promo addressing The Big Show. She tells Rusev to follow up, and in broken English, he basically says he’s going to beat up Big Show, etc. He demands Big Show come out. They wait, but nothing happens. Finally (pun intended), THE ROCK’S music hits. And this ain’t no fake-out, FOLKS! The Brahma Bull appears on stage to an enormous reaction from the fans in the Barclays Center.

After a super-long entrance, The Rock finally speaks. He cheap-pops the five burroughs and also references Rusev’s “Moscow Moose Knuckle,” mocking him for wearing his tights up to his nipples. From there, he finally hits the “Finally!” speech, which the fans in Brooklyn ate up with a spoon.

Lana asks The Rock who he thinks he is, coming in here and interrupting the great Rusev. She informs The Rock that he needs to “shut-tup” (not a typo). The Rock says, “and you need to stop dressing like a Soviet Street-Walker!”

Rusev grabs the mic, but is cut off by loud “Rocky! Rocky!” chants. Rusev says, “listen, you American piece of garbage. Leave now, or I will crush you!” The Rock repeats what Rusev said and then informs him that his breath smells like “Chewbacca’s hairy bean-bag.”

Rock goes on to tell Lana that in person, she’s beautiful, gorgeous and stunning. Or as we say here in America, smoking! But it’s too bad that she’s walking around like someone shoved a Smirnoff bottle up her “Putin.” Word-for-word what The Rock said. He questions what Rusev claimed he was going to do. Rusev tries to respond, but Rock cuts him off with a lovely, “it doesn’t matter what you’re going to do!”

The Rock goes on to explain to Rusev and Lana that the fans don’t boo them for being Russian, they boo them for being a couple of international a-holes. The fans chant “a**hole” at the two. Lana gives Rock another warning, which prompts Rusev to take his gold medal off and move closer to The Rock. Rock says like Jay-Z says, “allow me to re-introduce myself.” He does a Rock-rhyme and starts firing away at “The Bulgarian Brute” with punches, knocking him out of the ring.

He challenges Rock to come back into the ring, but he just throws a fit outside the ring on the floor instead. He concludes by saying, “here’s something that needs no translation — if you smell what The Rock is cookin’!” (only he said it in Rock-fashion). Great segment. Really woke up the crowd and really added “electricity” to what has been a “so-so” show thus far tonight.

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