Dwayne Johnson's Incredible Rags To Riches Story

The Rock may seem like a larger than life figure, but even he's gone through his fair share of hard times. From major setbacks to skyrocketing success in wrestling and films, this is the story of how Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson worked hard to turn his poverty into star power.

Today, Rocky "Soulman" Johnson is mainly known as the Rock's dad, but he once had a respectable wrestling career of his own. Rocky, whose father was also a wrestler, started in the '60s and found considerable success after joining the WWE, then known as the WWF, in 1983. In December of that same year, Soulman and Tony Atlas defeated the Wild Samoans and became the first African-American tag team in WWE history. Rocky retired eight short years later, but he made enough of an impact to get inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2008.

Unsurprisingly, it was Rocky who first introduced a young Dwayne to wrestling, often teaching his son simple holds and maneuvers and introducing him to the gym at the age of 13. Sadly, Rocky passed away in 2020 at age 75. His son said of him on Instagram,

"I love you. You broke color barriers, became a ring legend and trail blazed your way thru this world. I was the boy sitting in the seats, watching and adoring you, my hero from afar. The boy you raised to always be proud of our cultures and proud of who and what I am. The boy you raised with the toughest of love."

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A wrestling lineage | 0:00
Serious poverty issues | 1:14
Legal trouble | 2:05
A brief football career | 2:45
Injuries ended his football career | 3:23
Cut from the team | 4:01
Back in the ring | 4:37
Starting from the bottom | 5:13
Joining the WWF | 5:57
A hated character | 6:33
The Rock is born | 7:24
A wrestling superstar | 8:30
Dwayne Johnson, movie star | 9:20

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