WATCH: Dwayne Johnson’s Close Call to Getting Fired from WWE

Published 07/06/2022, 1:00 PM EDT

Dwayne Johnson has transitioned as a fine action hero in Hollywood from being a top WWE superstar. He is one of the prominent figures of the most popular period of WWE, the attitude era, which helped Vince McMahon to defeat and buy WCW.

The Rock debuted as ‘Rocky Maivia’ in WWE. However, he made a mistake in his first match for which Mr. McMahon would have fired him, but he didn’t.

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A few years back, Dwayne Johnson, on his YouTube channel, ‘The Rock‘, shared a reaction video of his debut. He pointed out his first-ever botch in WWE, for which they have fired him after one match.

Johnson said, “I think I’m pointing to what’s called the hard cam, and I’m literally pointing to nothing. That’s why my back was to you guys.”

He added, “And again I had this whole thing mapped out in my head that I was gonna jump over the ropes, I was gonna look at the hard cam, because we are always told you look at the hard camera, main camera, you’re speaking to the world. I jump over the top ropes and I’m like, yeah! I’m here! F**king hard camera’s behind me.”

Johnson was lucky enough that night as The Chairman of WWE was not angry with him for this mistake. McMahon might have ignored this as a rookie mistake and gave another chance to The Rock, but this is not the case always.

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Vince McMahon has fired multiple superstars over minor mistakes. One of the most notable firings is Paul London for smiling during Mr. McMahon walking out of the arena during the blasting limousine segment.

Once Kurt Angle on his show said to Ronda Rousey how The Boss suspended a WWE superstar for saying ‘Welcome’ instead of ‘Thank You’. In pro -wrestling when someone says ‘Thank You’, the wrestlers have to say ‘Thank You’ back instead of ‘Welcome’.

WWE publicly hints at Roman Reigns vs Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson

The Peacock series EVIL is a show all about the greatest heels in WWE and WCW history. Episode 8 is based on Roman Reigns’ work as ‘The Tribal Chief’/Head of the Table.

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In the episode, WWE publicly gave massive hints of a possible match between Roman Reigns and The Rock. Speakers in the episode stated Roman and Rock having a match will be great.

The episode also featured ‘The Tribal Chief’ in an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring, Jimmy Fallon. When quizzed whether he would like to face The Rock, Roman said, “I would, yes. I don’t know if he wants it.”

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Tushar Deogharkar is a WWE writer at EssentiallySports. Tushar has done his Master's in Tourism Management and is an ardent fan of pro wrestling. He follows WWE and AEW very closely and wants to learn how the promotions are run.

WATCH: Dwayne Johnson’s Close Call to Getting Fired from WWE

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