He also had a speaking role at the 2000 Republican National Convention that same year. If there ever was a perfect symbol of fatherhood, it would definitely be The Rock, setting a true example for dads everywhere. As relentlessly energetic as my kids are, man, this is the stuff I truly cherish.. The King was scheduled to begin production in 2020, but was halted by the COVID-19 pandemic. [114][115] 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. [344] He also had a speaking role at the 2000 Republican National Convention that same year. [149], The Rock made a surprise return on a June episode of Raw before going to his assigned brand of SmackDown!. [240][3][225] The movie's financial success led to Johnson's first leading role in the spin-off The Scorpion King (2002). [194] The Rock closed out the 20th-anniversary episode of Raw, on January 14, with one of his "Rock Concerts", leading to a brawl with CM Punk. The NYPD, The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, New York ACS, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc as the defendants. Star Perdita Weeks' Bikini Photos, See Your Favorite Celebrity Couples in Swimsuits: Best Beach Photos, Meet Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone's Daughters Vivian and Georgette, Pure Sunshine! Dwayne Johnson, byname The Rock, (born May 2, 1972, Hayward, California, U.S.), American professional wrestler and actor whose charisma and Tiana Gia Johnson came into this world like a force of nature and mama labored and delivered like a true rockstar, theFate of the Furiousstar wrote on his Instagram for Tianas birth in 2018. Johnson produced and starred in the HBO comedy-drama series Ballers (20152019),[19] and the autobiographical sitcom Young Rock (2021). New Mexico Police Dwayne Johnson surrounds himself with his family, which has helped him overcome difficult obstacles and reach great heights. [363][364][365] They have two daughters: Jasmine (born December 17, 2015)[366] and Tiana (born April 17, 2018). For her birthday in December 2020, the San Andreas star uploaded the cutest video of their familys celebration, writing, This lil tornado has no idea how much her and her baby sister anchors our souls., Dwyane also posted a video of the two horsing around in the pool in October 2020. [76][77] The Rock feuded with Austin and Ken Shamrock through the end of 1997 and beginning of 1998. They lost against Ric Flair, Randy Orton, and Batista in a handicap match at WrestleMania XX on March 14, 2004, when Orton pinned Foley after an RKO. [241][242], The Rock has appeared on the covers of many magazines, including Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, and TV Guide. [347] He endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. [243][244][245] He has also appeared in, and been the cover athlete for, several video games. [70] Behind the scenes, Hart mentored Johnson for his first year in WWF[71] and refused to be booked to take the title from him. [315], In 2012, Johnson founded his production company Seven Bucks Productions. [2][170] This would be Johnson's final wrestling match until November 2011. [288] In 2016, Johnson co-starred with Kevin Hart in the action-comedy Central Intelligence and had a lead voice role in the Disney animated film Moana, in which he voiced the Polynesian demigod Maui. [3][226] Johnson has stated the success of that episode is the reason he began receiving offers from Hollywood studios. In 1999, the Rock was listed No. [171], On March 12, 2007, the Rock appeared on a WWE show after nearly three years, via a pre-taped promo shown during Raw. [262] The term "smackdown" was instituted in Merriam-Webster dictionaries since 2007. 13 in People Magazine's 50 Favorite TV Stars. Simone, born August 14, 2001, is the daughter Dwayne shares with his first wife,Dany Garcia. The Rock was also given the privilege of having his own signature match, like The Undertaker with the Buried Alive match, Kane with the Inferno Match and Mankind with the Boiler Room Brawl: the Brahma Bullrope match, a variant of a strap match was a normal singles match where the components are tied together with a rope used for cattle farming, and the rope and its attached cowbell could both be used as weapons. [259] Raw 1000 was the highest rated Raw episode of 2012 and his segment with CM Punk and Daniel Bryan was the highest rated segment of the show. [98] The next night on Raw is War he was fired from the Corporation after he was betrayed by Shane McMahon, turning him face again and starting a feud with Triple H, The Undertaker and The Corporate Ministry. 5 on Entertainment Weekly's Top 12 Entertainers of the Year. [109] Rock and Mankind would win the tag titles for the third and final time after beating the New Age Outlaws on the October 14, 1999, episode of SmackDown! [139] The Rock defeated Jericho on the November 5 episode of Raw for his second WCW Championship. 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Heres How It Can Help You Nab Your Next Job, Simone made her WWE debut in Oct. 2022, becoming the fourth generation of wrestlers in her family, There is a 14-year age difference between Simone and the next oldest daughter, Jasmine. As the dad of girls, The Rock feels lucky to be surrounded by amazing young ladies. It debuted at No. An aspect of the actor that has changed since then is his approach to fatherhood. [My daughters] teach me so much, and continue to check me. [235] In 2003, he was listed in VH1's 200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons[236] and was No. Austin tried to capitalize on this by pinning the Rock, but Kurt Angle revealed his true allegiance by attacking Austin. [328][329], In 2000, Johnson published his autobiography, titled The Rock Says, which he co-wrote with Joe Layden. Whether theyre watching movies together, being creative with artwork or playing with toys, The Rock is loves showing off the sweetest moments with his daughter. [65] On February 13, 1997, he won the Intercontinental Championship from Hunter Hearst Helmsley on Monday Night Raw. [215], On August 3, 2019, the Rock officially announced his retirement from professional wrestling. This was played up in the storyline as Big Show provided additional video footage showing this fact, and claimed to be the rightful winner. Rushmore", "WrestleMania 28 Breaks PPV Records With 1.3 Million Buys", "Wrestlingdata.com The World's Largest Wrestling Database", "Bill Banks Talks About the Highest Rated Wrestling Segment", "Detailed RAW Ratings Breakdown on The Rock's Promo (HUGE Number! [309][290], On November 14, 2019, he announced a December 2021 release date for the standalone Black Adam film. Johnson's first film appearance was in The Mummy Returns (2001). The next month, the Rock defeated Booker T, at SummerSlam, to win the WCW Championship for the first time. [81] This led to a ladder match at SummerSlam on August 30, 1998, where the Rock lost the title. 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. Blessed and proud to bring another strong girl into this world. He debuted on Monday Night Raw as a member of Marc Mero's entourage on November 4, 1996. This led to a match at WrestleMania XIX on March 30, 2003, which called back to their previous two WrestleMania encounters, both of which Austin had won. Happy birthday to my sweetest lil Tia Giana, The Rock penned next to a photo with his little one. Aside from her WWE career, Simone worked as an IMG model and was named the first Golden Globe Ambassador in 2018. She is 21 years old. My fam @UFC Champ @RondaRousey joins me in FAST & FURIOUS 7! He can be a ruthless villain, and on the next channel, a caring single-dad giving a piggy-back ride. [211] On June 27, the Rock appeared at a live event in Boston, where he confronted Bo Dallas and gave him a Rock Bottom. I was able to donate an entire gym to a military base that's very close to my heart, @jointbasephh. [190] This event broke the record for biggest professional wrestling pay-per-view buyrate. [261], 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. The following night on Raw, the Rock praised Cena, calling their match "an honor". Dwayne and the singer-songwriter are the proud parents of the hunks younger kids, Jasmine and Tiana. List of defendants includes The Rock aka Dwayne Johnson, The Miz, Nikki After the match, the Rock gave Cena a Rock Bottom. She is a businesswoman, IFBB professional bodybuilder, and producer. [282] In May 2013, it was announced that he would executive produce and star in Ballers,[283] an HBO comedy-drama series about NFL players living in Miami. But before Hashian was his college sweetheart and ex-wife, Dany Garcia, with whom he shares daughter Simone Garcia Johnson. He was a member of Team WWF along with Chris Jericho, The Undertaker, Kane, and Big Show. [196], On January 27, at the Royal Rumble, CM Punk would seemingly defeat the Rock after the arena lights went out and someone attacked the Rock. After the match, Rock attacked Miz and hit him with the People's Elbow. On May 21, at Judgment Day, the Rock faced Triple H in an Iron Man match with Shawn Michaels as the special guest referee. 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. [204] Johnson underwent surgery on April 23 to reattach the torn tendons. New Mexico Police Department, The NYPD, The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, New York ACS, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc as the defendants. [33] 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. We play this game for 20 minutes until my arms feel like theyre falling out of their sockets, he wrote. This led to a match with Triple H, at Over the Edge on May 23, 1999, which the Rock won,[99] and a match for the WWF Championship against The Undertaker, at King of the Ring, which the Rock lost. The title was named the WWF Championship during The Rock's first six reigns. [42][43][44][45][46] In 2008, Johnson inducted his father and grandfather into the WWE Hall of Fame. [301][302][303] Also in 2021, Johnson starred in Netflix's film Red Notice, written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber. [129] In 2001, the Rock continued to feud with Angle over the WWF Championship, culminating at No Way Out on February 25, 2001, where he pinned Angle to win the WWF Championship for a sixth time. End of that, bs. taping. [31][32] Growing up, Johnson lived briefly in Grey Lynn in Auckland, New Zealand, with his mother's family,[33] where he played rugby[34] and attended Richmond Road Primary School before returning to the U.S.[33], Johnson's father was a Black Nova Scotian with a small amount of Irish ancestry. Unfortunately, Simone sustained a knee injury in September 2020. [26][27], Johnson was born in Hayward, California,[28] on May 2, 1972,[29] the son of Ata Johnson (ne Maivia; born 1948)[30] and former professional wrestler Rocky Johnson (born Wayde Douglas Bowles; 19442020). [2] The Rock's contract with WWE then ended and he started his full-time acting career. 0:00. 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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson took to Instagram on Wednesday for a candid announcement: He, his wife and two young daughters all tested positive for Through life and experience, Im a different kind of dad, he told Fatherly in 2017. Following his graduation, he signed with the Calgary Stampeders but was cut from the team in his first season. [2][165] The next night, Raw was billed as "The Rock Appreciation Night", in honor of his victory over Austin. and won them back from them on the September 20, 1999, episode of Raw is War. 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. Dwayne Johnson's divorce from his first wife had a lasting effect on him. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. On May 3, 1997, three years after meeting, Johnson tied the knot with Dany Garcia. and was bullied by a punk and waited for him after school and punched him in the face. He was a member of the Miami Hurricanes football team during his freshman year in 1991, and won that year's national championship. After the fifth shot, Mankind was still at ringside instead of being two-thirds up the entrance ramp where he was supposed to be, and after the eleventh shot which knocked a bloodied Mankind out, a recording of Mankind saying "I Quit" from an earlier interview was played over the public address system. [80], The Rock and The Nation then feuded with Triple H and D-Generation X, with the two stable leaders first meeting in the quarter-final of the 1998 King of the Ring tournament, which the Rock won. ", "Hollywood Walk of Fame Dwayne Johnson", "People's Choice Awards 2017: Full List of Winners", "Teen Choice Awards 2017 Winners: The Complete List", "NAACP Image Awards 2017 Winners: The Complete List", "2018 Kids' Choice Awards: Complete List of Winners", "Who won the Teen Choice Awards? [311][312] He earned $22.5 million to star in the film and received millions more for producing and promoting it on social media. The next night, on Raw is War, the Rock debuted a new Intercontinental Championship design and would later overthrow Faarooq as leader of the Nation of Domination to spark a feud between the two. She was born on August 14, 2001, in Florida, United States. The Rock for the Undisputed Championship", "SummerSlam 2002: A look back at a landscape-shifting moment in WWE history", "Throwback Thursday: Looking back at WWE Summerslam 2002", "WWE SmackDown! Dwayne Johnson is a Hollywood powerhouse. Although the little one has yet to make her debut on the screen, she did appear on the red carpet at her dads 2017 induction ceremony to the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His films have grossed over $3.5 billion in North America and over $10.5 billion worldwide,[8] making him one of the world's highest-grossing and highest-paid actors. [148] After the introduction of the first-ever brand extension, the WWF held a "draft lottery" on the March 25, 2002, episode of Raw. [358][359] On June 1, 2007, Johnson and Garcia announced they were separating amicably,[358] and their divorce was finalized in May 2008. However, she recovered and made her WWE television debut on Oct. 25, 2022, appearing on NXT after her identity was teased during previous episodes, where she was seen hiding her face behind a red mask. 's 20 Top Entertainers [2001]", "AmIAnnoying.com Entertainment Weekly's 101 Most Influential People [2000]", "AmIAnnoying.com E! The segment earned an 8.4 Nielsen rating, one of the highest ratings ever for a Raw segment. [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. His firstborn, Simone, was born on August 14, 2001, while he was with his first wife, Dany Garcia. [153] 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. Dwayne The Rock Johnson is praised for his work as an actor, wrestler and businessman, but its also important to point out how amazing of a father he is. 5. We", "Dwayne Johnson Inspired by Make-A-Wish Kids on Disney's 'Jungle Cruise' Set", "Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson & Wife Split Up", "Dwayne Johnson's heartfelt post to his daughter on her 18th birthday will make you want to call your dad", "Meet the Woman Who Got a Rock from Dwayne Johnson, Lauren Hashian", "Lauren Hashian: 5 Things To Know About The Rock's Pregnant Girlfriend", "@therock on Instagram: "We do. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was born into a professional wrestling family in 1972. In December 2017, they announced they See the full winners' list". Most impressively, shes the youngest signee to land a deal with WWE. Wrestling at first under his real name, Johnson defeated The Brooklyn Brawler at a house show on March 10[61] and lost matches to Chris Candido and Owen Hart. [157], The Rock returned on the January 30, 2003, episode of SmackDown! Moana Remake: Everything We Know About The Live-Action Film Starring Dwayne Johnson, Jasmine, born December 16, 2015, is Dwaynes second child, whom he shares with his second wife,Lauren Hashian. [197] Punk received a title rematch with the Rock, at Elimination Chamber on February 17, 2013, with the added stipulation that if the Rock was disqualified or counted out, he would still lose the WWE Championship. A huge Hollywood star, 7-time wrestling champ for the WWE, a complete fitness buff with a million-dollar smile, and a really great guy with a big heart! [51] The local newspaper later described him as "a troubled teenager with a history of run-ins with police." Aside from being an IMG model, Simone was named the first-ever Golden Globe Ambassador for the 2018 awards show. I always wanted to be a great dad. The next year, he was on Star Trek: Voyager as an alien wrestler that used the Rock's famous moves.[224]. [178], On April 3, at WrestleMania XXVII, the Rock opened the show by cutting a promo.
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