The Rock Reacts To His Very First WWE Match


Internet ‘react’ videos are pretty played out, but I might just make an exception for The Rock.

This is fascinating. The Rock, watching his very first WWE match and commentating. No, it’s not video games. But we all love wrestling right?

For me personally, as a huge fan of The Rock, this is super cool partly because of The Rock’s story. The Rock started life as ‘white meat babyface’. A very clean-cut, generic ‘good guy’. He was very quickly rejected by the WWE fanbase who were in the process of getting older and transitioning. They were about to start cheering a different kind of ‘good guy’, the Stone Cold Steve Austin type — edgier, harder, rougher. In a way The Rock was old-fashioned and the fans would eventually react negatively. That would fuel The Rock’s ‘heel turn’, a different kind of transition into a ‘bad guy’. The end result: The Rock as we now know him. Charismatic, hilarious, brutal. So I found it a lot of fun to rewatch his earliest match, particularly with The Rock providing background information on his thought processes at the time.

The cool part: watching The Rock — as Dwayne Johnson — just watching his own match as a normal human being. Very cool.


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