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#4 Triple H wanted to work with The Rock
Triple H defeated The Rock, Mick Foley, and The Big Show in a Fatal 4-Way elimination match to retain his WWE Championship in the main event of WrestleMania 2000.
But, as Triple H explained to talkSPORT’s Alex McCarthy in 2019, he wanted to go through with the original idea of facing The Rock in a 60-minute Ironman match instead.
“Timing of returns and everybody else’s stuff and they needed to get us through another pay-per-view… is why we did the four-way and then we came back and did the Ironman later [Judgment Day], so it changed the thing, but I really wish I would have had that opportunity with him one-on-one at WrestleMania.”
As Triple H mentioned, the Ironman match still took place but it happened seven weeks later at Judgment Day, with “The Game” winning 6-5 to reclaim the title that he lost against The Rock three weeks earlier at Backlash.
Another Triple H vs. The Rock match was scheduled to happen in 2016 at WrestleMania 32, but The Rock’s schedule prevented him from preparing for a return match.
“The Great One” still competed at the event, defeating Erick Rowan in six seconds, but that is obviously not the same as a match against Triple H that would likely have lasted 20+ minutes.
