Dwayne Johnson

Dwayne Douglas Johnson (also known as “The Rock”) was born on the 2nd of May 1972 in Hayward, California. He was born to a professional wrestling family. He is the son of a wrestler, Rocky Johnson and the grandson of a professional wrestler, Peter “High Chief” Fanene Maivia. He grew up watching his father in the ring, wrestling. Dwayne had no interest in following in their footsteps, so he played college football at the University of Miami. He made a great success, however he got a back injury which had cost him a spot in the NFL. He then left football and turned to wrestling. After a few matches including a tag team win with Bart Sawyer, the WWF had signed him under the name Flex Kavana. After a year, he joined the Nation of Domination, where he took over its leadership and then started calling himself THE ROCK. He has famously feuded with wrestler Steve Austin and won the WWF heavyweight title 6 times. Johnson had parlayed his wrestling fame into a film career, where he had appeared in The Mummy and Tooth Fairy