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Dwayne Douglas Johnson

DOB :May 2, 1972 (age 36)

Birth Place : Hayward, California, U.S.

Other name(s) The Rock

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

Years active 1995–2004 (wrestler)

1999-present (actor) 

Is a third generation wrestler, followed the likeness of his grandfather Peter Maivia and his father Rocky Johnson.

Johnson was a nine-time world champion in his career, including a record-setting seven-time WWE Champion where he ties current WWE Champion Triple H in most reigns; his last reign was as WWE Undisputed Champion in 2002, and a 2 time WCW Champion. He also won the WWF Intercontinental Championship twice and is a former five-time WWE Tag Team Champion. He also was the winner of the 2000 Royal Rumble.

Johnson is also an actor, with his first leading role in 2001, in The Scorpion King. For this film, he received the highest salary for an actor in his first starring role, earning $5.5 million. He has since starred in movies such as Be Cool, The Game Plan, Gridiron Gang, Doom, and Get Smart. 

World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment

Signed his contract on 1996 With help from veteran wrestler Pat Patterson, Johnson had several tryout matches with WWE in 1996; he defeated The Brooklyn Brawler at a house show, and lost the others to Chris Candido and Owen Hart.

WWF played up his connection to his father and grandfather, calling him the company's first third-generation wrestler [However there were several third generation wrestlers before Rock].

He debuted at Survivor Series in November 1996 and was the sole survivor, and he won the Intercontinental Championship from Hunter Hearst Helmsley on Raw on February 13, 1997, after only three months in the company. 

After losing the Intercontinental Championship to Owen Hart on the April 28, 1997 edition of Raw is War.

At In Your House: D-Generation X, Austin defeated The Rock in less than six minutes to retain the Intercontinental title. The following night on Raw is War, Austin was ordered by Mr. McMahon to forfeit the WWF Intercontinental Championship, which Austin handed over to The Rock before hitting the Stone Cold Stunner on him.Rock spent the end of 1997 and the beginning of 1998 feuding with both Austin and Ken Shamrock.

Rock held the IC title for quite some time till the Summerslam 1998 where he lost the belt to HHH.

At Breakdown, Rock defeated Ken Shamrock and Mankind in a triple threat steel cage match to become the #1 contender to the WWF Championship,at Survivor Series, when The Rock defeated the then-heel Mankind in the finals of the "Deadly Game" tournament for the vacant WWF Championship, and thus became the youngest WWF champion at the time [breaking Yokozuna's record, it was later broken by Brock and currently held By Randy Orton].

He had a rematch against Mankind for the WWF Championship. Mankind won by submission but Mr. McMahon said that since The Rock did not tap out that The Rock would retain his title. The Rock began a feud with Mankind over the WWF Championship, during which the title changed hands back and forth between the two, first during the main event of the January 4, 1999 edition of Raw is War, when Mankind defeated The Rock with the help of Stone Cold Steve Austin. The Rock captured his second WWF Championship in an "I Quit" Match at Royal Rumble in early 1999.This feud lasted until February 15 edition of Raw is War, where The Rock won his third WWF Championship in a ladder match after The Big Show chokeslammed Mankind off a ladder.

Rock the lost his title to Austin on WrestleMania XV. He teamed with Mankind to create the Rock 'n' Sock Connection and challanged Undertaker and Bigshow for Tag team title which they went on to win and later won two more time. Their tage team is said to be one of the most entertaining and succesful on WWF HIstory. 

Thee Rock then defeated The Big Show on March 13, 2000 edition of Raw is War to regain the right to face the WWF Champion, Triple H, at WrestleMania 2000 in a Fatal Four-Way Elimination match where The Big Show and Mick Foley competed, as well.Each competitor had a McMahon in their corner; for Triple H, his on-screen wife and then off-screen girlfriend Stephanie McMahon; for Mick Foley, the matriarch Linda McMahon; for The Rock, Vince McMahon; and in Big Show's corner, Shane McMahon.Triple H retained the title when Vince turned on The Rock, giving him two chair shots, allowing Triple H to pin The Rock for the three-count. 

The Rock had a rematch with Triple H at Backlash in which The Rock won his fourth WWF Championship .Later, at Judgment Day, the two had an Iron Man match with Shawn Michaels as the special guest referee, Rock got Disqualified and hence lost his title to HHH. He regained the title at King of The Ring in a Tag team match teaming with Undertaker. Finally Lost his belt to Kurt Angle at No mercy 2000 after holding the belt for quite a number of PPV's.He then participated in a six-man Hell in a Cell match at Armageddon for the WWF Championship, in which Kurt Angle retained the title .

In 2001, The Rock continued his feud with Angle over the WWF Championship and eventually settled it at No Way Out. After a battle that saw both wrestlers kick out of each other's finishers, The Rock finally came out on top and regained the WWF Championship.

The Rock then lost his title to Stone Cold Steve Austin on WrestleMania Seventeen.At SummerSlam, The Rock defeated Booker T to win the WCW Championship.He lost the WCW title to Chris Jericho, with whom he won the WWF Tag Team Championship around the same time, at No Mercy.

Rock defeated Jericho on November 5 edition of Raw is War for his second WCW Championship,however he lost the title to Jericho later and hence Jericho became the unified champion [Undisputed Champion].

On July 21, The Rock won his record-breaking seventh and final WWE Championship, which was then under the name "WWE Undisputed Championship".He defeated Kurt Angle and The Undertaker in a match at Vengeance, after he hit the Rock Bottom on Angle,finally dropped the WWE Undisputed Championship to Lesnar at SummerSlam, ending his final championship reign [Which is considered as one of the greatest matches of all time, this match let a kick Start of Brock's career].

The Rock defeated Austin at WrestleMania XIX, which was Austin's last major appearance in a wrestling role.The Rock then had a feud with former World Championship Wrestling star Bill Goldberg, to whom Rock lost at Backlash.He left WWE to pursue his acting career and made only occasional appearance after it as he was no more people's favourite.