It’s Icon vs. Icon as the Toronto Skydome explodes with The Rock taking on “Hollywood” Hulk Hogan for the first time-ever.
Widely recognized as one of the greatest professional wrestlers in the wrestling world[7][8][9], Johnson began to gain fame through his participation in the WWF World Wrestling Federation. (now WWE) from 1996 to 2004 and was the first third generation wrestler in the company’s history. He returned to WWE part-time from 2011–2013. Johnson has won the WWF/WWE Championship eight times, the WCW/World Heavyweight Championship twice, the WWE Intercontinental Championship twice, and the World Tag Team Championship five times. He is the sixth person to win the Triple Crown title in WWE and won the 2000 Royal Rumble event. His autobiography The Rock Says… debuted at number one on the magazine’s bestseller list. The New York Times in 2000.[10][11]
Johnson’s first leading role was in the 2002 movie Scorpion King. For this role, he was paid $5.5 million, a new record for an actor’s first leading role[12]. Another notable role of his is Luke Hobbs in the Fast & Furious franchise. He also produced and hosted The Hero, a reality television competition, and has since continued to produce television shows and movies through his own production company, Seven Bucks Productions. In 2013, Forbes ranked Johnson 25th on the list of Top 100 most powerful stars and every year since then he has been in the top 20.[13] In addition, he is also the actor with the highest salary in 2016.[14] In 2021, Dwayne Johnson announced that he wants to become the next James Bond actor