Dwayne Johnson belongs to a legendary Samoan wrestling family, known as Anoa’i. After his grandfather High Chief Peter Maivia and father Rocky Johnson, DJ embraced the Samoan legacy into WWE as ‘The Rock’. Alongside Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock made an enormous impact in the WWE’s infamous attitude era.

‘The Great One’ was associated with the professional wrestling business from a young age. He used to be near the ringside area to support his father. At a young age, Johnson knew multiple wrestlers from WWE and other promotions.

Recently, Dwayne Johnson’s most famous picture with Ric Flair went trending. In the picture, a young Johnson is in formal attire with ‘The Nature Boy’ Ric Flair.

A wrestling page 90sWWE shared the picture on their Twitter account. The caption said, “Not 90s, but an awesome pic of a young Rock with Ric Flair 🙌🏻 @TheRock”

The hand signs in the picture of young Dwayne Johnson calling Ric Flair number one in the business. His right hand depicts number one and his left hand is pointed towards ‘The Nature Boy’. It is no debate that Flair was at his best during that time.

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More interestingly, this photo is also one of the very few pictures of Young Dwayne Johnson with curly hair. Also, by looking at Ric Flair’s hairstyle, this picture is definitely from somewhere around the 80s era.

A sneak peek into the WWE career of Dwayne ‘ The Rock’ Johnson

Dwayne Johnson was already born into a wrestling family. Upon not being able to make a career in football, Johnson quickly started training for wrestling. He signed with WWE and after having some dark matches. Further, Vince McMahon sent him to Memphis at Jerry Lawler’s territory to learn this art. There he named himself ‘Flex Kavana’ for some time.

Johnson debuted in WWE at Madison Square Garden at Survivor Series in 1996 as Rocky Maivia. They pushed him as the first third-generational ultimate baby face in the company. He won the Intercontinental Championship in 1997, but fans booed him. In 1997,1997,1997, they sidelined him because of a knee injury.

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He returned to WWE in August of the same year and turned heel, joining The Nation of Domination. This heel turn changed his career as later he became the WWE Champion in 1998. Now he became The Rock and quickly got over the fans during the attitude era. Fans consider his feud and matches with Stone Cold Steve Austin greatest and are most talked.

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In the year 2002, The Rock started his Hollywood career and by 2004 he left WWE to pursue acting. He succeeded there too and returned to WWE in 2011 and also won the WWE Championship in 2012, defeating CM Punk. He had two classic WrestleMania matches against John Cena at WrestleMania 28 and 29.

As of today, The Rock is a 10-time WWE World Champion and has acted in over 40 movies, of which several were blockbuster hits.