Triple H and The Rock were two of the biggest stars from WWE’s Attitude Era. However, they never had a singles match at WrestleMania.
The company tried to do it twice with the first being at WrestleMania 2000 with Triple H as the WWE Champion and The Rock as that year’s Royal Rumble winner. However, that was changed to a fatal four-way main event between Triple H, The Rock, Big Show and Mick Foley.
“My only regret with the whole thing with The Rock is, in 2000 we were poised to have a match at WrestleMania one-on-one,” Triple H explained on the Impaulsive Podcast this week (quotes via ComicBook). “And I think that would have been an epic thing for both of us in that moment, the timing of Taker’s return and Austin’s return. And Austin wasn’t quite ready yet. So they pushed the WrestleMania match and that year we did this Fatal 4-way with Mick Foley, who I had just retired, coming back like a month later… and Big Show. And a couple of months later we would have the one-on-one Iron Man Match (at Judgement Day in 2000) that we wanted to have at WrestleMania.”
“Unfortunately I always feel it’s the one thing… like we got to this unbelievably heated long-term rivalry and then never got to pay it off at the biggest platform possible. And I think Rock feels that way too.”
Triple H also confirmed that the backstage encounter the two had on RAW in 2014 was designed to set up a match the following year at WrestleMania 31. That couldn’t happen because of The Rock’s filming schedule.
