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| CW is as shocked as the rest of you that he's willing to walk away from roles like this. |
Miami Herald - Do you smell what's cookin'? The Brahma Bull, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson will `bring it' to WrestleMania XXVII. WWE (NYSE: WWE) announced Monday night that The Great One will return home to be The World's Most Electrifying Host of WrestleMania on Sunday, April 3 at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. As The World's Most Electrifying Host of WrestleMania XXVII, The Rock will lay the SmackDown on all of the pomp and festivities that makes WrestleMania the world's greatest, annual pop culture extravaganza.
Why would a guy who had starring roles in such critically acclaimed films as; Faster, The Other Guys, Why Did I Get Married II (I hear that's the one worth watching), and Tooth Fairy, all in 2010 alone move back to the small screen and into the ring?
Don't get me wrong, I'm thrilled, it brings me back to a simpler time in my life when my biggest concern was being done with homework in time for Tuesday night wrestling, but it just doesn't add up. Clearly his brutish charm and community theater level acting skills were paying off big time in Hollywood. And it's not like the competition has been too stiff lately for muscle bound, macho men roles. When your main rival is Vin Diesel I'd say you can pretty much bank on 3-4 movie checks per year.
So why go back? Well probably because this guy is the current WWF Champion, and as the 2nd greatest WWF champion of all time it cannot possibly sit well that a Real World reject who used to run around drunk on MTV in his underwear, is sitting in his former throne. The 8th grader in me can hardly handle the anticipation of Mike the Miz catching his first "People's Elbow" to his smug grill. Watch out Mike, The Rock is Back.
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