- IMDb Mini Biography By: However, he always knew his future lay in wrestling, and he eventually made his WWF bow in 1996, under the name Rocky Maivia. The video is called Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson's Wedding Surprise!. In 2000, Johnson released his autobiography, The Rock Says, which was a New York Times bestseller. 's 25 Toughest Stars [2002]", "AmIAnnoying.com VH-1's 200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons [101200]", "AmIAnnoying.com People Magazine's 50 Favorite TV Stars [2003]", "CES 2001: The Rock Crashes Bill Gates' CES Keynote Speech", "Dwayne Johnson developing 'The Scorpion King' reboot", "Top 25 Hollywood moneymakers: these black powerhouses generate the most green in Tinseltown", "Dwayne Johnson: The Pain and the Passion That Fuel the Rock", "Dwayne Johnson sleighs the holidays on EW's new cover", "WWE announces collector TV Guide editions", "WWE 2K14 cover revealed, features The Rock talking smack", "Hulk Hogan on Which Four Wrestlers Should Be on Wrestling's Mt. [January 2016], Designed training sneakers for Under Armour called Project Rock Delta. [138] The Rock defeated Jericho on the November 5 episode of Raw for his second WCW Championship. [12], In addition to playing football at Freedom High School, Johnson also was a member of the school's track and field and wrestling teams. Attended and graduated from Freedom High School in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. In 1999, the Rock was listed No. [103][104] The two performed a number of critically acclaimed comedic skits together, including one called "This Is Your Life", which saw Mankind bring parody versions of people from the Rock's past on television, such as his high school girlfriend and his high school football coach, only to have the Rock insult them. [63] His first match came at Survivor Series, on November 17, 1996, in an eight-man elimination tag match; he was the sole survivor and eliminated the final two members of the opposing team, Crush and Goldust. During his main career he was in the main event at WrestleMania three different years (1999, 2000, 2001). My fam @UFC Champ @RondaRousey joins me in FAST & FURIOUS 7! [256][257] His return in 2001 did a 7.1 rating which was the highest rated segment of the entire year. Calgary moved Johnson from defensive tackle to the linebacker position. [360] They first met in 2006 while Johnson was filming The Game Plan. There, he was named the number one contender for the WWE Undisputed Championship, which he won for a record-setting seventh time at Vengeance, on July 21, by defeating Kurt Angle and then-champion The Undertaker in a Triple Threat match. and mustachioed demeanor which led his fellow students to suspect he was an undercover policeman, not unlike. Named one of Entertainment Television's "top 20 entertainers of 2001". [372] In 2017, he had the small "Brahma bull" tattoo on his right arm covered with a larger half-sleeve tattoo of a bull's skull. [February 2017], As a high school student, he found this very difficult to make friends due to his lofty (6' 4" / 225 lbs.) [34][35] His mother is Samoan. Johnson left WWE in 2004 and returned in 2011 as a part-time performer until 2013, making sporadic appearances until retiring in 2019. [174], On February 14, 2011, the Rock was announced as the host of WrestleMania XXVII on April 3, 2011, appearing live on Raw for the first time in almost seven years. 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London. and won them back from them on the September 20, 1999, episode of Raw is War. It all adds up. The Horizon Award is a special recognition from the Joint Leadership of the United States Congress and the Congressional Award Board of Directors. That was . Congratulations to The Rock!The 'Baywatch' star is on the cover of the new comedy issue of GQ Magazine.While much of the interview focuses on whether or not The Rock (real name Dwayne Johnson) could win a Presidential election, as well as his patriotism and his thoughts on the current administration . During the show, he encountered then-reigning WWE Champion CM Punk, Daniel Bryan, and John Cena, all of whom expressed a desire to face him. [2][164] The next night, Raw was billed as "The Rock Appreciation Night", in honor of his victory over Austin. Tanoai Reed has been Johnson's stunt double for more than 15 years. [56] Additionally, Johnson was one of the university's most prolific student speakers in the Miami-area community, frequently delivering positive messages about his own struggles and encouraging them to remain in school and avoid the dangers of drug use. Examples include. He is the Father of Leia Cardillo. was re-worked into two separate films. [315] Additionally, he will produce and star in a Netflix exclusive film titled John Henry & The Statesmen, as the titular folklore hero. The wrestling superstar began his career in the National Wrestling Alliance all the way back in the 1960s, but rose to fame in the 1980s upon joining the WWE. Johnson briefly lived in New Zealand with his mothers family, before returning to the United States to finish his schooling, at the President William McKinley High School in Honolulu, Hawaii. : Miami (2007), and Southland Tales (2006). He then successfully defended the Intercontinental title against Faarooq at Over the Edge: In Your House on May 31. He was offered a promotional deal with "Dunkin' Donuts", which would have seen the company name a donut after him. Those experiences led him to take the role in the movie. [226] He has since hosted SNL another four times. The Rock's popularity was fueled by his charisma and speaking abilities, which led to many catchphrases and merchandising opportunities. What is the net worth of Dwayne The Rock Johnson? Since 2016, every movie Johnson has starred in has been produced by Seven Bucks Productions, which is his own company. He correctly predicted that Bobby Lashley would defeat Umaga at WrestleMania 23 in Donald Trump and Vince McMahon's "Battle of the Billionaires" Hair vs Hair match. [371], He got a partial Samoan pe'a tattoo on his left side in 2003. [224] Fellow wrestlers Triple H, Big Show, and Mick Foley also appeared on the show. While many people know it's from his early wrestling career and many people my know that Dwayne Johnson comes from Samoan wrestling royalty perhaps what is less well known are the origins of his iconic nickname. Success isn't overnight. College football recruiters ranked Johnson as one of the top ten high school defensive tackles in the nation. The event also saw the WWF debut of the famed WCW faction New World Order, which at the time consisted of "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash, and Scott Hall. Dwayne's father, a native of Canada, is black, of Black Nova Scotian descent, and was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia (Dwayne's father's ancestors were African-Americans who moved to Canada). The University of Miami renamed the Hurricanes' locker room in Johnson's honor. It was really the only thing that I had going into acting. [281] In May 2013, it was announced that he would executive produce and star in Ballers,[282] an HBO comedy-drama series about NFL players living in Miami. [165] At Backlash on April 27, 2003, Goldberg defeated The Rock, who then briefly left WWE to film Walking Tall. He spent his childhood in Grey Lynn in Auckland, New Zealand. In 1996, Dwayne joined the WWE and became Rocky Maivia where he joined a group known as "The Nation of Domination" and turned heel. David Leitch directed the project from a script co-written by franchise-writer Chris Morgan and Drew Pearce. [134][135] He later lost the title to Chris Jericho at No Mercy on October 21, 2001. He also started consolidating his famous persona during this time, which would last until 2000. [53][30] Despite playing four years there, Johnson found himself behind elite players on the depth chart, including future NFL star and Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee Warren Sapp, and appeared mostly in backup roles. [152] In 2018, writing for ESPN.com, Sean Coyle noted in a retrospective review of the event, that following his victory over Hulk Hogan at WrestleMania X8, the Rock "started to see a dip in fan support" and "that dip turned into a plunge" by the time Rock had his match with Lesnar at SummerSlam because fans knew he was leaving WWE to pursue an acting career. You will go one on one with the Great One! He then vowed to once again become WWE Champion. [271][272][273][274] He began his acting career on television while wrestling. [260], Derived from one of his catchphrases "lay the smackdown", WWE introduced its second flagship program WWE SmackDown in 1999 which later became television's second longest-running weekly episodic program in history. [215] On September 30, 2019, after weeks of speculation, the Rock announced that he would be making an appearance on SmackDown's 20th Anniversary on October 4, 2019, marking his first appearance on SmackDown since October 2014 and his first televised appearance since April 2016. Johnson used this time off to act in The Scorpion King. The Rock Comes From a Family of WWE Hall of Famers On NBC's Young Rock, we meet two central figures in the former wrestler's life. [338], In March 2020, Johnson launched Teremana Tequila which sold 600,000 nine-litre cases in its first year. The Rock got into a verbal back-and-forth with Bray Wyatt before having an impromptu match with Wyatt Family member Erick Rowan. The rights to the name "The Rock" were previously owned by WWE, Inc. (which is the main reason why, Once, while putting on a show for WWF road agent Pat Patterson, sold his opponent's moves so well, his then-girlfriend. [214], On August 3, 2019, the Rock officially announced his retirement from professional wrestling. After becoming successful in the movie industry, Dwayne was able to fulfill an ambition he had listed on his agenda of priority "To Do" items, and bought a home for his parents, a luxury they had never theretofore known. Johnsons original character proved to be unpopular due to his colourful choice of clothing and ridiculously clean-cut image. Audiences became increasingly hostile toward Maivia, with chants of "die, Rocky, die" and "Rocky sucks" being heard during his matches. [106][107] Rock and Mankind then lost the titles to The New Age Outlaws on the very next episode of SmackDown!. It would be safe to say that he's the Hulk Hogan of our generation. Ata Fitisemanu was the. Dwayne Johnson was named as Forbes magazine's highest-paid actor. [354] After the 2018 Hawaii floods, he worked with Malama Kauai, a nonprofit organization, to help repair damages caused by the floods. [173], On September 30, 2009, the Rock appeared at a World Xtreme Wrestling (WXW) show to support the professional wrestling debut of Sarona Snuka, the daughter of his long-time friend and mentor Jimmy Snuka. [74] The next night on Raw Is War, Austin was ordered by Mr. McMahon to defend the title in a rematch, but forfeited it to the Rock instead, handing him the title belt before hitting him with the Stone Cold Stunner. Reed has called Johnson the "realest" and most "down to earth, humble and talented" guy he knows. [183] On November 14, during the special Raw Gets Rocked, the Rock appeared live, delivering Rock Bottoms to Mick Foley, who had been hosting a "This Is Your Life"-style segment for Cena, and later both members of Awesome Truth. [216] At the event, he would cut a promo with Becky Lynch before they were interrupted by King Corbin. [47][48] Johnson attended President William McKinley High School in Honolulu and then Glencliff High School and McGavock High School, both in Nashville, and then Freedom High School in Bethlehem Township in the Lehigh Valley, where he graduated in 1990. [306][307] A sequel to the box-office hit San Andreas was announced to be in the pre-production stage with the director of the first film, Brad Peyton, returning as director along with the main cast (marking the fourth collaboration between the two following Journey 2, San Andreas, and Rampage). [32] After wrestling at Jerry Lawler's United States Wrestling Association under the name Flex Kavana and winning the USWA tag team championship twice with his partner Bart Sawyer in the summer of 1996, Johnson was signed to a WWF contract. I've never gone wrong trusting my gut. [160] There, he had various small feuds, including one with The Hurricane. On March 29, at WrestleMania XIV, he defeated Shamrock by disqualification once again to retain the title. [341], Johnson attended the 2000 Democratic National Convention[342] as part of WWE's non-partisan "Smackdown Your Vote" campaign, which aimed to influence young people to vote. With the critical and financial success of Welcome to the Jungle, production of the movie began in early 2019, and was released on December 13, 2019. 3. [109][110], At the Royal Rumble, on January 23, 2000, the Rock entered the Royal Rumble match and was one of the final two remaining, along with Big Show. [353] In 2018, Johnson donated a gym to a military base in Oahu, Hawaii. His first video, The YouTube Factory, featured online personality Lilly Singh and several other internet stars. [126] The Rock wrestled a six-man Hell in a Cell match for the WWF Championship, at Armageddon, which Angle won to retain the title. To a degree, all of my promos are scripted, in that there are certain lines and phrases that I plan to include. During a lengthy promo, he addressed the fans and started a feud with John Cena. Johnsons enormous popularity extends far beyond the wrestling world, with the California native having become one of Hollywoods most successful superstars, and widely popular across the world. [283] By December of that year, Forbes named him the top-grossing actor of 2013, with his films bringing in $1.3 billion worldwide for the year. Dwayne Douglas Johnson aka Dwayne Johnson was born in Hayward, California on 2nd May, 1972. [239][3][224] The movie's financial success led to Johnson's first leading role in the spin-off The Scorpion King (2002). [64] On February 13, 1997, he won the Intercontinental Championship from Hunter Hearst Helmsley on Monday Night Raw. Mankind appeared to win the match when the Rock passed out to the Mandible Claw submission move, but Vince McMahon ruled that since the Rock did not tap out, he retained his title. I have so much love and respect for the fans. )", "411MANIA Complete Quarter Hour Breakdown From Monday's Raw 1,000", "Omos Wins Battle Royal to Celebrate The Rock at 2021 WWE Survivor Series", "How The Rock went from failed football player to the highest-paid actor in Hollywood", "Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson is the world's highest paid actor, and rightly so", "The Secret to Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's Success", "80th Annual Academy Awards Results & Commentary", "Why Dwayne The Rock Johnson is 'franchise viagra', "3:35am. [120][121] The Rock won the WWF Championship for a fifth time at King of the Ring on June 25 by scoring the winning pin in a six-man tag team match, teaming with Kane and The Undertaker against Shane McMahon, Triple H and Vince McMahon, whom he pinned. [234] In 2003, he was listed in VH1's 200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons[235] and was No. The Rock w/ Mr. McMahon", "The Rock defeats Triple H to become new WWE Champion", "The Rock's fourth WWE Championship reign", "The Rock vs. And everyone always asks me, from Letterman [. [270], Johnson entered Hollywood and the film industry, becoming a star initially through his wrestling popularity and noted work ethic. [113][114] Each wrestler had a McMahon in his corner: Triple H had his wife Stephanie, Foley had Linda, the Rock had Vince and Big Show had Shane. 5 on Entertainment Weekly's Top 12 Entertainers of the Year. The title was named the WWF Championship during The Rock's first six reigns. Second highest paid actor of 2017, earning $65 million. [85][86] A "double turn" then occurred as the Rock turned heel again after allying with Vince and Shane McMahon as the crown jewel of their stable, The Corporation, after the McMahons betrayed Mankind. [82] His popularity caused him to be booked in a feud with fellow Nation members Mark Henry and D'Lo Brown, turning babyface in the process. He opted to accept a full athletic scholarship offer from the University of Miami, whose football program was then one of the best in the nation. [30][58][59], After being cut by Calgary, Johnson began his professional wrestling career the following year, in 1996. [132] Austin and Triple H then formed a tag team called The Power Trip,[133] while the Rock was indefinitely suspended in storyline. [300][301][302] Also in 2021, Johnson starred in Netflix's film Red Notice, written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber. He played a cocky famous American football player in The Game Plan (2007) and Agent 23 in Get Smart (2008). February 27, 2015 Johnson in 2007 Birth Name: Dwayne Douglas Johnson Place of Birth: Hayward, Alameda, California, United States Date of Birth: May 2, 1972 Ethnicity: *father - African-Canadian/Black Nova Scotian [including Beninese], small amount of Irish *mother - Samoan, as well as 1/16th Scottish (December 16, 2015) Has two daughters with his wife. The Rock will take you down Know Your Role Boulevard which is on the corner of Jabroni Drive and check you directly into the Smackdown Hotel! He reprised his role as Luke Hobbs in The Fate of the Furious, which was released in 2017. ", "Dwayne Johnson's 'Red Notice' Pushed Back 5 Months to Fall 2020", "Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson Might Just BE The BUSIEST Celeb In The Business! His father, from Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada, is black (of Black Nova Scotian descent), and his mother is of Samoan background (her own father was Peter Fanene Maivia, also a professional wrestler). [2] Johnson quickly rose to global prominence, aided by a gimmick he employed as a charismatic trash talker. Signed an endorsement deal with Under Armour. Dwayne is a skilled light tackle salt water fisherman. WWE enthusiasts are in mourning as Rocky "Soulman" Johnson esteemed wrestler and father of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has passed away at age 75, according to TMZ. After appearing in numerous backstage segments, the Rock came to ringside to restart the main event between Cena and The Miz as a No Disqualification match, after it had ended in a draw. The Rock was also part of the highest rated match of the 21st century with his WWF Championship defense, on May 1, 2000, against Shane McMahon did an 8.3 rating making it the highest rated segment of all time behind 'This is your life'. The Rock for the WWE Championship", "WWE Champion Stone Cold Steve Austin def. Publicity Listings [120] With the score tied at five falls each, and with seconds left on the time limit, the Rock was disqualified when The Undertaker attacked Triple H, thus giving Triple H the 65 win and the title. Many have placed the Rock on their "Mount Rushmore of Pro Wrestling", including Hulk Hogan,[247] Ric Flair[248] and John Cena. Before he was called "The Rock," his football teammates at the University of Miami called him "Dewey" Johnson. In his first television acting job, in 1999, he played his own father in an episode of That '70s Show called "That Wrestling Show". Vince McMahon then asserted that if The Shield attacked the Rock in his title match with CM Punk, Punk would be stripped of the WWE Championship.
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