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2016-02-27

Dwayne Johnson

Dwayne Douglas Johnson was born on May 2, 1972. He is also known by his ring name The Rock, he is an American and Canadian actor, producer and semi-retired professional wrestler, signed with WWE. Johnson was a college football player for the University of Miami to win a national championship at the 1991 Miami Hurricanes football team. He later played for the Calgary Stampeders in the Canadian Football League, and was cut two months into the season 1995th This led him a professional wrestler like his grandfather, Peter Maivia, and his father, to be Rocky Johnson (from whom he inherited his Canadian citizenship). By Maivia, he is a non-blood relative of Anoa'i rings family.Originally billed as "Rocky Maivia" is considered, he won mainstream fame in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF / E) from 1996 to 2004 as an important figure in the attitude era of the company and was the first of the third generation wrestler in the company's history. He returned to wrestling part time for WWE 2011-2013 and continue to not make the company sporadically wrestling appearances. The Rock has seventeen championship reigns in WWE, had twice with ten as a world champion and won the WWF / E Championship eight times and the WCW / World Championship. WWE.com described him as 10-time WWE World Heavyweight Champion. He won the Intercontinental Championship twice and the WWF Tag Team Championship five times. He is the sixth Triple Crown Champion in WWE history and won the 2000 Royal Rumble. The Rock was instrumental in organizing the ratings war against the World Championship Wrestling win (WCW) .Johnson autobiography The Rock Says. first leading film role for this role in 2002 in The Scorpion King was Johnson, he was paid us in his first starring $ 5.5 million, a world record for an actor. He has appeared in several films since, including The Rundown, the Schedule, Get Smart, the other guys and fast. in The Fast and the Furious franchise As an actor he is perhaps known for his portrayals of Luke Hobbs. He hosted and produced the hero a reality competition series.