Below are a couple of top WrestleMania 41 news stories of the day, featuring Becky Lynch and The Rock.
• Originally Planned Match For Becky Lynch At WrestleMania 41
At WrestleMania 41 – Night 2, Becky Lynch returned to WWE programming after 11 months.
She was Women’s Intercontinental Champion Lyra Valkyria’s mystery tag team partner, after Lyra’s original partner, Bayley, got attacked the previous night.
Becky & Lyra went on to defeat Liv Morgan & Raquel Rodriguez to win the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship. The next night on RAW, they lost the titles back to Liv and Raquel, with Becky turning heel and brutally assaulting Lyra after the bout.
According to Fightful Select, Becky Lynch & Charlotte Flair vs. Asuka & IYO SKY for the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship was the originally discussed match for WrestleMania 41 late last year, when WWE started to write plans for this event.
• Backstage News On When The Rock Told WWE He Won’t Work WrestleMania 41
Last year, the Wrestling Observer reported that The Rock wasn’t scheduled to work WrestleMania 41. No one believed that report, as The Rock told a fan in Instagram comments to not believe that BS. In the end, The Rock didn’t appear at WrestleMania 41.
In an update, the Wrestling Observer now reports that Dwayne Johnson told WWE in August 2024 that he won’t be working WrestleMania 41:
“One time I was even told, I was actually told this, if you really want him there (at WrestleMania) essentially go in there and report that he’s absolutely not coming because he might get so mad that he’ll come.
People expected the day of the show, in the end, he would probably show up because it’s WrestleMania but he never at any point was scheduled to be on the show.
It went back to August or maybe even earlier when he said he was not doing Mania (next) year. Not just not wrestling, he was not doing the show.”
The Rock revealed on The Pat McAfee Show that TKO CEO Ari Emanuel called him back for Elimination Chamber 2025 due to slow ticket sales.
Also Read: The Rock Reacts To Allegations Of Throwing Triple H Under The Bus After WrestleMania 41
