The Rock has returned to the WWE already on numerous occasions, his first return was in 2001 when he had been away from the WWE (then WWF) to film The Scorpion King
and then The Rock stuck around for the rest of the year feuding with Booker T and Chris Jericho over the WCW Championship and Hulk Hogan at WrestleMania X8 until the spring of 2002 when he left again to appear on Saturday Night Live for the second time (he previously hosted the show in 2000) and to promote The Scorpion King.
The Rock later made his return to the WWE that summer and won the WWE Championship for the 7th time from The Undertaker and Kurt Angle in a triple threat match at Vengeance but later lost the title to Brock Lesnar and then he left again until 2003.
The Rock made his WWE return once again in February 2003 but this time as a heel (now with a bald head and a bunch of tribal tattoos) in a rematch with Hulk Hogan at the No Way Out pay per view in Montreal Quebec Canada and won the match in controversial fashion after assistance from Vince McMahon and the referee. Then drafted himself to RAW and feuded with The Hurricane and Stone Cold Steve Austin (who also made his return to the WWE after walking out on them the year before). He defeated him at that year's WrestleMania in March after previously losing to Austin at their last two matches in 2001 and 1999 and then feuded with Bill Goldberg in April (who made his debut the night after that) but The Rock lost the match. He left the WWE once again.
The Rock's last run with the WWE was as the tag team partner for Mick Foley in 2004 (after saving him a few times before that against La Resistance at the end of 2003) but this time against Evolution (a tag team comprised of Ric Flair, Randy Orton and Batista) for WrestleMania 20 but they lost the match (and that was The Rock's last match for 7 years) but he still made a few special guest appearances after that (such as coming back to save Eugene, getting involved with Randy Orton and hosting a RAW Diva Search competition and then again for the 2008 Hall Of Fame speech for his father and grandfather) but he wasn't a wrestler anymore during those times.
Then after 7 years of being away from the WWE he came back in 2011 again to feud with John Cena (who was talking trash about The Rock for a few years prior to that)
The night after WrestleMania 27, they agreed to wrestle against each other at the WrestleMania the year after that which took place in Miami Florida in 2012
The Rock later returned (for the last time as an active wrestler) in 2013 to defeat CM Punk and win the WWE Championship again (for the first time since 2002) at the Royal Rumble in 2013
Rock defeated Punk again at Elimination Chamber (and changed the WWE Championship belt design for the first time since 2005)
The Rock had a rematch against John Cena at that year's WrestleMania at 29 but he got injured in that match and lost the WWE Championship to him.
He is now currently inactive but he still makes appearances every once in a while in non wrestling roles, The Rock appeared at WrestleMania 30 in 2014 at the beginning of the show with Stone Cold and Hulk Hogan, appeared on RAW several months later in October of that year against Rusev and Lana, then restarted his feud with Triple H and Stephanie McMahon (for the first time since 2001) and brought Ronda Rousey to the ring to fight them at WrestleMania 31 in 2015 and once time he tried to save Roman Reigns a few months before that at the 2015 Royal Rumble but got booed, WrestleMania 32 etc
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