Turns out the “People’s Elbow” only works in WWE.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is quickly learning what it’s like to be a professional mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter, suffering an elbow injury while filming “The Smashing Machine,” the upcoming movie based on the career of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) veteran Mark Kerr.
“Any time your film is called ‘The Smashing Machine,’ well, you’re going to get smashed up,” Johnson said on Instagram. “Looks like I have a cantaloupe right there on the bottom of my elbow. I got banged up pretty good today in our scenes.”
“There might be some soft tissue damage in there. That’s a lot of fluid, we’ll see. I got to get it out of there first before I get any kind of MRI. But yeah, the pain feels pretty good. But all good. It is what it is, until it isn’t.”
Fortunately for a wealthy actor like Johnson, this is just a movie. He won’t have anyone pressuring him to compete injured and he’s not a month behind on his mortgage. You know, all the stuff real MMA fighters have to deal with in this cutthroat business where you “eat what you kill.”