Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson became the highest-paid actor in 2016, 2019, and 2020. The People's Champion
who won the WWE Championship eight times, is one of the most iconic, and decorated personalities in
sports entertainment. The raised eyebrow which became the signature style of the Brahma bull,
the jabroni beating, pie eating, the popular slang, "Just Bring It", the most electrifying move
in sports entertainment, whatever was linked to The Rock, became a pop culture and a high
market value product. When things seem to fade away for The People's Champ, the reality is different,
in fact, he is on the most successful time of his career at the age of 50. And if you want to smell
how the rock cooked his career from being broke to the status of The Great One, then watch the video
till the end. Born in the family of pro wrestlers, Dwayne Douglas Johnson is the son of WWE hall of
famer, Rocky Johnson, Dwayne didn't have a great relationship with his dad, and he recalls it as
a tough love between father and son. His childhood has not been so good, and as the family had to deal
with numerous financial problems. They had to shift through various places to make a living.
When he was 14, The Johnson family were evicted from their residential place and even forced
out of Hawaii island. He moved to Pennsylvania, and got admitted to Freedom High school,and
that's when his whole life took a new turn. He was recruited by head football coach, Jody Swik
to play in the school's team, and fell in love with the game of football. Then, he got a full athletic
scholarship at the University of Miami and started competing in the national level championships.
After graduation, Dwayne wanted to play in NFL, but instead got into the Canadian Football League.
Dwayne got signed with Calgary Stampeders, but sadly for Johnson, he got cut out just two months
into his first season. Then he has to go back to stay with his parents in a small apartment.
Nearly spending about a month and half jobless, battling depression, he was again called back to
the football club. But Dwayne rejected the offer, and tried his luck to become a professional
wrestler. His father defied Dwayne's decision of rejecting the football career and stepping into
the wrestling industry. But later on at the time of the Hall of Fame induction ceremony
Rocky Johnson praises his son Dwayne, and considers him a family legend. And Rock also considers his
father as his real-life hero, and misses the WWE superstar, as Rocky Johnson passed away in 2020.
Moving on with Dwayne's stardom journey, this is the turning point of his career. He had to bet it
all in, he was completely broke at that time, he had to pay his apartment rent, send money to his home.
But was just making 250 Canadian dollars a week, if he would go out and play in the football league.
And finally he decided to make it to professional wrestling like his father
but he literally had only seven bucks left in his pocket. One of the toughest times of his
life going back to football, get a 250 dollars paycheck, or moving to a completely new arena.
Dwayne made up his mind and tried his luck towards what would make him a superstar.
Luckily for Dwayne this won't be a completely new arena for him
His father happened to be the first black tag team champion and his maternal grandparents, Peter
Maivia and his wife were pro wrestler and wrestling promoters respectively.
His uncles were wild Samoan fighters and this won't be the first time when Dwayne has stepped
up for wrestling. Back when he was six years of age, he used to put on the gym work and wrestle on
the mats with his father. Dwayne was doing all the weight work in the gym since he was 13. He always
believed that hitting the weights is his personal motivation and the strongest attitude of his life.
Then on November 4th of 1996, Dwayne made his television debut on Monday night raw, and 17th
of the same month, he finally got his first debut match in the pay-per-view survivor series he was
given a stage name the blue chipper but dwayne picked the name for himself as rocky my via
and he won the match as rocky was the only one to survive the eight-man elimination tag match
it didn't take long for the third generation superstar to get his hands on the gold
on february 13 1997 he defeated triple h to win the intercontinental championship
on monday night raw is war he made his biggest pay-per-view debut on the 23rd of march 1997
when he had to defend the intercontinental championship on wrestlemania 13. he defeated the
sultan and remained the intercontinental champion but at this point the audience was bored with his
character and the reign of rocky my via was on the brink of disappearance dwayne recalls my very
first wrestlemania that night 20 000 fans started chanting rocky sucks that was the end of my
initial run in the wrestling one month later after participating in wrestlemania 13 rocky lost his
intercontinental championship to owen hart then after suffering an injury and taking a three-month
hiatus from wrestling he again returned to raw his war in august of 1997. he joined the group
called the nation of domination alongside the godfather d-lo brown and farook this time rocky
came back with a new name for himself the rock and looks for redemption he would go on to retain the
intercontinental title and get in a feud with big names in the industry he went on a feud with ken
shamrock with whom he successfully defended the intercontinental championship a couple of times
but back in 1998's king of the ring tournament he lost to ken shamrock in the finals
at this time the rock had fights with stone cold steve austin against whom he managed to earn the
intercontinental championship with a controversial forfeited victory and in the royal rumble of 1998
the two men were the only participants left after the elimination of 28 other superstars but austin
throws the rock off the top rope to win that year's royal rumble the rock goes on to lead
the group nation which was initially called nation of domination he banishes for rook from the team
and even defends his intercontinental championship against him at over the edge in your house on may
31st then along with the group nation he gets in a feud with triple h and d generation x he defeats
triple h and defends his title in a two out of three falls match it fully loaded in your house
but he eventually loses the title to the game in a ladder match at summerslam of 98 and at this
point he started to get the likes of the audience as he got his role more as of a good guy he then
wrestles with the group's own member mark henry which led the disassemble of the group nation
after going solo in his career yet again this time rock's popularity continues to
grow amongst the audiences the rock heads towards superstar status as he becomes the new face of wwf
then back on november 15 1998 he won the first world wrestling title of his career
he defeated mankind in the finals of deadly game tournament for the vacant wwf title
which took place in the survivor series then the title was exchanged between these two superstars
numerous times the rock went on to win his second and third wwf championships against the mankind
in the period of three months and he again meets his former rival the rattlesnake and defends the
wwf championship after losing the title to stone cold at wrestlemania 15 the rock went
on to feud with triple h and the undertaker at that time again getting the role of a good guy
he battles against the corporate ministry then he forms a team with his former opponent the mankind
and their duo becomes one of the most popular tag teams in wwe history the rock n sock connection
went on to become the wwf tag team champions three times defeating the duo of the undertaker
and the big show and the new age outlaws then the rock pinned triple h to become the wwf champion
for the fourth time on april 30th of backlash 2000. the rock became wwf championship for the
fifth time at king of the ring 2000 he got his hands on the wwf championship for the sixth time
in his career back on february 25th 2001 the rock finally defeated kurt angle at no way out
after having a long feud with the olympic gold medalist in between winning his fifth and sixth
wwf championship rock had won the wwf tag team championship teaming up with the undertaker the
duo defeated edge and christian on monday night raw on december 18 2001. rock won his first wcw
championship in summerslam of 2001 after pinning booker t later on he defeated jericho to earn the
title of wcw championship for the second time after that rock was involved in the most iconic
match of the wrestling era he went on to wrestle the iconic legend hulk hogan at wrestlemania 18.
the match was promoted as icon vs icon ultimately the rock pinned hogan establishing himself as the
top superstar of the era then the people's champ went on to set a record for himself
as he became the wwe champion for the seventh time he won the wwe undisputed championship defeating
kurt angle and then champion the undertaker in a triple threat match had vengeance on july 21
2002 the brahma bull featured in two iconic matches with the legends of the wrestling industry
on the pay-per-view no way out of 2003 he again faced hulk hogan and defeated him yet again
and in wrestlemania 19 on march 30 2003 he faced his bitter rival the texas rattlesnake
the match had got the wwe fans hyped up as two iconic superstars were facing each other
after a long time rock defeated austin in a decorative fashion as he delivered three
consecutive rock bottoms to pin the stone cold one two three then rock faced the new
member of wwe bill goldberg who was already a dominating force in the wrestling industry
back in 2003's backlash the two superstars went on to face each other in a dramatic match
goldberg delivered a back-to-back spear and a jackhammer finally pinning the rock to win the
match after a year long hiatus the rock made a comeback and started a feud with john cena
then the two went on to face each other in wrestlemania 28. cena hit the attitude adjustment
but rock kicked out then john went for rock's move people's elbow but ended up getting a rock bottom
from the people's champ and the rock pinned him to win the match after that the great one went on
to face cm punk in 2013's royal rumble the match had some controversies but was restarted later on
and then rock hit the famous people's elbow to win the wwe championship for the eighth time
then the rock will meet the doctor of the gnomics yet again in wrestlemania 29
rock defended his title against john cena in the main event
and this time cena would go to defeat the rock with an attitude adjustment
since then the rock appeared numerous times in the wwe but never went for the big matches and
on august 3rd 2019 the rock officially announced his retirement from professional wrestling
but rock didn't make it as a global icon just as a professional wrestler
no doubt the wwe superstar had a good exposure to the td screens through wrestling
but stepping into hollywood is the biggest gamble he made when he was at the peak of his wrestling
career and that paid off huge for johnson dwayne recalls when i was at the height of my career in
the wwe i felt that for the very first time that i was close to accomplishing everything
that i wanted to accomplish in wrestling and i quietly walked away kind of shook me a little bit
because wrestling was all i knew at that time and i had dabbled in acting but yet i also felt that
i wanted to do more and i wanted to achieve more and i wanted to grow i wanted to grow as a person
i wanted to grow as an entertainer and i wanted to reach as many people as possible
and dwayne did achieve all his goals as one of the best global entertainers in the world
not only that dwayne made the list of highest paid actors for the past six years
back in 2016 2019 and 2020 dwayne became the most expensive actor in the world similarly in 2017
2018 and 2021 johnson was the second highest paid actor in the world let's take a look back
at dwayne's movie career dwayne will surely make the list of highest paid actors in 2022
and there's no doubt about it and it seems he is not stopping anytime soon so this is the journey
of dwayne johnson to the status of being one of the most decorated entertainers of all time
from being broke forced to leave the state place being rejected in a football career
and not being able to make it in the wrestling industry in the beginning the rock has faced it
all dwayne never gave it up and most importantly he pursued his dreams with all his determination
and discipline and look what height of success has the superstar reached now
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