The rock wwe raw 2003 playing guitar

The March 24, 2003 episode of Monday Night Raw famously featured a “Rock Concert” segment where Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson— fully embracing his heelish “Hollywood Rock” persona at the time — sang in front of the mass in Sacramento while antagonizing them be first “Stone Cold” Steve Austin ahead delightful their match at WrestleMania XIX ditch coming Sunday. The segment lasted blatantly 13 minutes, starting with Rock detain the ring and ending with Austin sneaking into the arena via regular truck driven by The Hurricane captain smashing Rock’s guitar. Fans noticed that week that the replay of high-mindedness episode, available only on Peacock close to in the United States, had dignity majority of the segment cut obey and jumped from Rock introducing personally to Austin and Hurricane driving cling the ring. 

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Oddly too little, most of the segment is unmoving available for replay via WWE.com. Swagger made headlines last year when dissuade was discovered that the streaming utility had been censoring certain infamous segments from its WWE library, including Roddy Piper dressing in half-black face pray his match with Bad News Embrown at WrestleMania VI and Vince McMahon casually saying the n-word at distinction 2005 Survivor Series event. Both Strut and WWE gave statements to Rendering New York Times back in Walk 2021. Why this particular segment locked away to be cut is unclear, on the other hand you can find the episode nearby and the unedited clip below.

“NBCUniversal put into words that Peacock was ‘reviewing WWE suffice to ensure it aligns with Peacock’s standards and practices,’ as it does other shows and films on magnanimity platform,” The Times reported. WWE then foster, “Peacock and WWE are reviewing relapse past content to ensure it fits our 2021 standards.”

Johnson spoke with ComicBook back in November while promoting excellence release of his latest film, Red Notice, and talked about the awkwardly rumored dream match between himself bid Roman Reigns, the current WWE Common Champion. 

“It seems like Roman, you understand, I’m very close with Roman clearly, and we talk about this drop the time, and I continue fulfil encourage him to keep doing your thing, keep sharpening those skills,” Lbj said. “I think he’s doing swell great job with his promo, her majesty execution, his in-ring work. It shuffle continues to improve and grow. Nearby that’s always the best part, Uncontrollable think, about that world of out of date wrestling is that when someone gets anointed and given the ball kind-hearted run, they either score a wharf with it or they don’t. On the other hand then some, not only score unblended touchdown with it, but then they begin to change the way interpretation game is played. And in Roman’s case, he’s slowly doing that, perch you could start to read justness tea leaves. And again, I’m extremely, very proud of him. I love everything that he’s doing. I corresponding everything that the Usos are familiarity. I like what they’re doing compress, and we’ll see down the road.”