Dwayne Johnson

CTL-E-6982 · Person · other · Attitude Era and after · 1996–present

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Combined Graph record U-07854 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-6982.

Dwayne Douglas Johnson (born May 2, 1972, in Hayward, California) is a third-generation wrestler: the son of Rocky Johnson — a Black Nova Scotian with a small amount of Irish ancestry — and of Ata Johnson, who is Samoan. His mother was adopted by Samoan wrestling patriarch Peter Maivia, making Maivia his grandfather by adoption and tying him to the Anoaʻi wrestling family; “third-generation” is stated in exactly that sourced sense. After University of Miami football and a brief Canadian Football League stint, he signed with the WWF in 1996, debuted as Rocky Maivia, and remade himself as “The Rock,” the defining talker of the Attitude Era. WWE title histories credit him with ten world championship reigns and five tag team reigns, and he won the 2000 Royal Rumble. In 2008 he inducted both his father and his grandfather into the WWE Hall of Fame. This record centers his wrestling career, the foundation on which his later entertainment career stands.

The record

• Also known as: Dwayne Douglas Johnson, The Rock, Rocky Maivia, Flex Kavana

Notes

Firsts disposition: No bare first asserted in this record; the 'first world champion of African descent in the promotion' phrasing appears in secondary summaries and is NOT carried as a headline claim here. 'Third-generation wrestler' is used only in the sourced sense (father; grandfather by adoption). Photo: CLEARED — 'Dwayne Johnson 2, 2013.jpg' (Eva Rinaldi), CC BY-SA 2.0 per Commons API extmetadata. Curator's Judgment (DRAFT): The modern era's biggest wrestling star, recorded through his wrestling career and his family structure exactly as sourced — blood and adoption lines distinguished, never blended. Staged 2026-11-03 in packet W (professional wrestling), temp id — merge assigns the next sequential CTL-E id. No CTL-SPE roster id exists for professional wrestling — the AAES roster's wrestling shelf holds only Olympic wrestling and Bobo Brazil (CTL-E-6902). See the packet memo's roster-addition proposal.

Relationships

• Rocky Johnson — child of
  Dwayne Johnson is the son of Rocky Johnson (Wayde Bowles) and Ata Johnson; he inducted his father into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2008.

Sources

• Wikipedia. “Dwayne Johnson.” en.wikipedia.org. (build store)
• WWE. “The Rock at the 2008 WWE Hall of Fame.” wwe.com. (primary source · build store)

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