WWE megastar Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson opened up with an emotional tribute
He might be used to playing muscle-bound tough guys in his movies, but Dwayne ' The Rock ' Johnson has shown his vulnerable side.megastar-turned-movie-icon has revealed the biggest regret of his life in an emotional social media post."My regret in this life is that I never had a chance to say goodbye to him, because he died suddenly,""Raised me with tough fatherly love and an even tougher hand. The more I live life, the more grateful I am for it.
Rocky Johnson was a professional wrestler and, alongside partner Tony Atlas, he was one half of the first Black tag-team champions inWhen The Rock broke into the wrestling business in the late 1990s, he used an amalgam of the names of his father and his maternal grandfather – the High Chief Peter Maivia – to come up with his own ring name, Rocky Maivia.
In his post to X, Johnson also included a video of his father in action. As the camera pans away from the ring, a young Dwayne Johnson is seen watching on from the stands. And Johnson played his father in one of his early acting gigs. In an episode of late-90s teen sitcom That 70s Show, The Rock appeared as Rocky Johnson at a wrestling event the show's characters attended.Johnson and his father had a strained relationship for many years but appeared to have become much closer in the years before the ex-tag champion's death.bought his dad a house in Florida, where he spent his final years before passing away at the age of 75.
"He came up the hard way, and trail-blazed for all of us men of color - in any sport & level of entertainment," Johnson said in tribute to his father. "But it was also very important to him to pave the way for all men, any color - it didn't matter.
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