The Rock Considered an MMA Career

– The Rock appeared on the UFC Unfiltered Podcast (via mmafighting.com), and admitted that he considered an MMA career about 10-years ago. Here are the highlights…

On When He Considered The MMA Career: “There was a time there where I thought, man, I achieved everything I wanted to achieve in WWE, my movie career is floundering a little bit, what do I do?” Johnson said. “I was relatively still young, I think I was 34. I thought, oh well maybe UFC. Maybe I should do something like that.”

On It Never Coming Together: “In my head, I felt like it was at least a two-year process for me to even get in the [cage], let alone the UFC,” Johnson said. “I wasn’t quite too sure what to do or what kind of people to put around me at the time, so the idea kind of fizzled out and I continued to stay on the path of movie making.”

His Thoughts on The Sport of MMA: “Anybody, by the way, who is successful in one area and then commits to MMA, I just feel like it’s the toughest f*cking sport in the world,” Johnson said. “I always take my hat off to those guys. Still a big fan and love the sport,” Johnson said. “But at one time, I did consider it.”