[131] Austin and Triple H then formed a tag team called The Power Trip,[132] while the Rock was indefinitely suspended in storyline. [349] In 2018, Johnson donated a gym to a military base in Oahu, Hawaii. The segment earned an 8.4 Nielsen rating, one of the highest ratings ever for a Raw segment. It was the final nail in the coffin for Johnson's football career, and he left the team with just $7 to his name. [68] Behind the scenes, Hart mentored Johnson for his first year in WWF[69] and refused to be booked to take the title from him. Joe: Retaliation and reprising his role as Luke Hobbs in Fast & Furious 6 (2013),[273][274] while also starring in true-story films Pain & Gain (2013) and Empire State (2013). The EPC's wrestling programs have been ranked best in the nation by WIN magazine and have been described as "among the nation's best in the sport for nearly three decades", and Johnson quickly found himself facing some of the nation's most accomplished high school wrestlers. [282] He hosted another reality series for TNT in 2014, entitled Wake Up Call, which saw him "lending a helping hand to everyday people who were facing enormous challenges in their lives" alongside guest experts such as Rocco DiSpirito, Jillian Michaels, and Josh Shipp. [37] Johnson's maternal grandmother Lia was the one of the first female pro wrestling promoters, taking over Polynesian Pacific Pro Wrestling after her husband's death in 1982 and managing it until 1988. They then worked together to fend off an attack by The Corre, which at the time consisted of Wade Barrett, Heath Slater, Justin Gabriel, and Ezekiel Jackson. [195] The following night on Raw, the Rock unveiled a new WWE Championship design, with a different center plate and removable customizable side-plates which had his "Brahma Bull" logo. Cast in the role in August 2015, the film was based on the theme-park ride of the same name. the rock cfl stats. Players. [121][122] The Rock successfully defended the championship against Chris Benoit, on July 23, at Fully Loaded. [2][39], After losing the Intercontinental Championship to Owen Hart on the April 28, 1997, episode of Raw Is War[71] and suffering a legitimate knee injury in a match against Mankind,[2] Maivia returned in August 1997 and turned heel for the first time in his career by lashing out at fans who had been booing him and joining Faarooq, D'Lo Brown and Kama in the stable called the Nation of Domination. [304][285], On November 14, 2019, he announced a December 2021 release date for the standalone Black Adam film. [108][109], 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. [12], In 1996, Johnson's father Rocky, a longtime professional wrestler, assisted in helping him secure a contract with the WWF. His breakthrough role was in the 2001 film, The Mummy Returns, as the Scorpion King. 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Atlanta, GA 30313 's 20 Top Entertainers. Submit Feedback; Help Centre; Audience Relations, CBC P.O. PFN NEWSLETTER [331] Since then, they have released sneakers, headphones, and other apparel. [160] He also began performing "Rock Concerts", segments in which he played the guitar and mocked WWE performers and fans in song. Intended to show a vicious streak in the Rock's character, the Rock hit Mankind in the head with a steel chair 11 times instead of the scripted five, five shots already being a risky amount (most wrestling matches in the Attitude Era involving steel chairs had at most 2 or 3 shots to the head). [355], Johnson dated Lauren Hashian, the daughter of Boston drummer Sib Hashian. [116], In the following weeks, the Rock continued his feud with Triple H and eventually won his fourth WWF Championship, which he won on April 30, at Backlash, after Stone Cold Steve Austin intervened on his behalf. [2] Later in 2004, he hosted a pie-eating contest, as part of the WWE Diva Search, and ended the segment by giving Coachman a People's Elbow. He also started a new persona that has been called Hollywood Rock, with a new look and a shaved head. : Miami (2007), and Southland Tales (2006). At 16, he was a 64, 225-pound high school sophomore with a chip on his shoulder. Contributors have the benefit of receiving access to the raw CFLdb Statistics data. Johnson produced and starred in the HBO comedy-drama series Ballers (20152019),[18] and the autobiographical sitcom Young Rock (2021). He spent two months on the team's practice roster before eventually beingcut by coach Wally Buono, now president of the BC Lions. [159] There, he had various small feuds, including one with The Hurricane. He has starred in more than 20 movies, including the Fast and Furious franchise, and credits range in genre from action and sports to comedy and family. [368], In February 2020, WWE announced that Johnson's daughter Simone began training at the WWE Performance Center,[369] making her the first fourth-generation WWE wrestler. [366], He got a partial Samoan pe'a tattoo on his left side in 2003. 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.[9][10]. [29][57][58], After being cut by Calgary, Johnson began his professional wrestling career the following year, in 1996. He then successfully defended the Intercontinental title against Faarooq at Over the Edge: In Your House on May 31. [62] 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. [218][219] He also recorded "Pie" with Slick Rick for WWF The Music, Vol. [315] Johnson is also attached to produce/star in a sequel to Big Trouble in Little China,[316][317] as well as project under development with Shane Black focusing on a new interpretation of Doc Savage. Cheers to dreams not coming true Not an easy concept to process, but the idea that sometimes our biggest and most important dreams that DONT COME TRUE are often times the BEST THING that never happened. [265], At the 2021 Survivor Series, WWE held a 25-man Battle Royal to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of The Rock's WWE debut. [80], In the latter half of 1998, The Rock saw a big uptick in fan support. 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. One day, he decided he would use the teachers restroom instead of the one for students. [319], A film centered around Teth-Adam/Black Adam, a part of the DC Extended Universe, was announced to be in development in January 2017. That's when I started thinking about goals and what I wanted to accomplish," he has since said about his high school football experience. It debuted at No. Hesays it helped shape him into the superstarhe is today. [247] In "Cable Visions: Television Beyond Broadcasting", the Rock was described as "for a long time, the WWE's biggest star and probably held the greatest international appeal". [190] On January 11, he made his first SmackDown appearance in ten years, getting into an altercation with Team Rhodes Scholars, resulting in him delivering a Rock Bottom to Damien Sandow and a People's Elbow to Cody Rhodes. Hello world! In 2000, he hosted Saturday Night Live (SNL) for the first time. He was assigned to Calgary's practice roster, but was cut two months into Calgary's 1995 season. and was bullied by a punk and waited for him after school and punched him in the face. [237][3][222] The movie's financial success led to Johnson's first leading role in the spin-off The Scorpion King (2002). [225] In 2000, Access Hollywood ranked him number six in their list of the Top 10 Celebrities of 2000. The next month, he successfully defended his title against Kurt Angle and Triple H at SummerSlam. The title was renamed the World Championship during his second reign. The Rock has a special shout-out for CFL fans ahead of the release of his new movie, Rampage. 's 20 Top Entertainers [2001]", "AmIAnnoying.com Entertainment Weekly's 101 Most Influential People [2000]", "AmIAnnoying.com E! The Rock later saved Cena from an assault by Big Show, only to be laid out by CM Punk. Remembering Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson's stint with the CFL's Calgary Stampeders. [186] On April 1, at WrestleMania XXVIII, the Rock beat Cena in the main event after countering Cena's attempt at a People's Elbow into a Rock Bottom. Kamar Jorden had the best game of his CFL career against the BC Lions on Saturday night after channeling The Rock pre-game. His role as Luke Hobbs in the Fast & Furious films, beginning with Fast Five (2011), helped the franchise become one of the highest-grossing in film. The Rock then resumed his feud with Triple H, as the two had a two out of three falls match at Fully Loaded: In Your House for the Intercontinental title, which the Rock retained in controversial fashion. Johnson eventually joined the Nation of Domination alongside wrestlers Faarooq, DLo Brown and Karma, where he embraced the role of heel a wrestler who portrays a villain or a bad guy, acting as the antagonist and the antihero The Rock was born. [114][115], Due to his image at the time, a Magic: The Gathering deck archetype was named after him. CTRL + SPACE for auto-complete. [88] Then at the Royal Rumble on January 24, 1999, the Rock regained the title in an "I Quit" match, a type of submission match that only ends if one of the combatants says "I quit" on a microphone. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson showing the CFL some Love CFL.ca Staff Share The People's Champion pays homage to the #CFL He's the Highest paid Actor in Hollywood, a 8 time WWE Champion and he. [2][167] This would be Johnson's final wrestling match until November 2011. [104] The two lost the titles back to Undertaker and Big Show on the September 9, 1999, episode of SmackDown! 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. His football capabilities at Freedom High School led him to be ranked as one of the top ten defensive tackle high-school prospects in the nation, drawing the attention of several NCAA Division I college football programs. Before the season started, MLSE chairman Larry Tanenbaum talked with the Globe & Mail about various topics, including the CFL. By Lyle Kilbane. At King of the Ring, the Rock defeated Dan Severn in the semi-final match and lost to rival Ken Shamrock in the final. Part of the Anoai family, Johnsons father Rocky and maternal grandfather Peter Maivia were professional wrestlers, and he secured a contract with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) in 1996. 0. [117][118] The following night on Raw, he successfully defended his title against Shane McMahon in a Steel Cage match. 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[310], In 2012, Johnson founded his production company Seven Bucks Productions. The Rock was the number one overall pick, going to the SmackDown! [191] 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. [128][129] The Rock then feuded with the Royal Rumble winner, Stone Cold Steve Austin, whom he lost the title to at WrestleMania X-Seven after Austin allied with Vince McMahon, who interfered on his behalf. [52][29] 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. Tanenbaum was rumored to be high on the XFL/CFL partnership/merger talks. [3] Maivia, a clean-cut face character, was pushed heavily from the start despite his wrestling inexperience. [55] 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. [330] Johnson also released an alarm clock app as part of "Project Rock" that received more than one million downloads in its first week of release. In a statement posted on the Graceland website, the singer's . Johnson starred as the title character in Hercules (2014)[281] and reprised his role as Luke Hobbs in Furious 7 (2015). McMahon had previously set up the league in 2001 but the league did not . Big love to all the kids and staff. Later on Wednesday, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson took to Instagram to talk about his own love and admiration for the CFL. [56], Following his graduation, Johnson was signed by the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League. "Dwayne Johnson Celebrates Winning a Razzie For Baywatch: "The Rock Proudly Accepts 2018 Razzie Award for So-Bad-It's-Good 'Baywatch' Movie", "People unfollow 'The Rock' after he posts support of US military", "Dwayne Johnson Will Receive MTV's Generation Award", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dwayne_Johnson&oldid=1134004121, 100 Most Influential People in the World inclusion, The Razzie Nominee So Rotten You Loved It, Ranked No. He played a supporting role in Be Cool (2005) - most notable for the meta element of playing a bodyguard that wants to become an actor[271] - and was the primary antagonist in Doom (2005). As a matter of As we know, The Rock was once on a Canadian Football Roster as a member of the Calgary Stampeders Johnson made his official WWF debut in 1996 as Rocky Maivia, honoring both his father and grandfather, and officially found his calling. [309], On March 16, 2021, he appeared for the first time as The Foundation in Fortnite Battle Royale. [130] On the next night's Raw Is War, during a steel cage title rematch, Triple H attacked the Rock, allying with McMahon and Austin and helping Austin retain the championship. [110] However, the Rock's feet accidentally hit the floor during the reversal attempt although those watching the event on television did not see that. Happy birthday to @therock who turned his career around after his football dreams were shattered. [296][297][298] Also in 2021, Johnson starred in Netflix's film Red Notice, written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber. In his first television acting job, in 1999, he played his own father in an episode of That '70s Show called "That Wrestling Show". [205][206][207] The Rock appeared at WrestleMania 31 on March 29, 2015, alongside Ronda Rousey, getting into an in-ring altercation with Triple H and Stephanie McMahon. 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