Legendary WWE Superstar Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson began cooking up storms since the day he stepped foot into the WWE building and most of his fellow superstars who were there before him couldn’t help but become jealous at how fast he rose to fame within minutes of his arrival.
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Who wouldn’t? When The Rock was a third-generation wrestler at the time he joined the company.
The Rock’s father Rocky Johnson and grandfather Peter Maivia were both former WWE wrestlers. The jealousy from the other superstar stems mostly from the fact that The Rock was a product of nepotism because the instant he joined the company, the company began to push him forward and give him relevance.
Sunday’s premiere episode of “WWE Rivals” season 3 which aired on A&E, focused on the rivalry between The Rock, 51, and former WWE superstar Triple H, (Paul “Triple H” Levesque). A&E dubbed the show “the infamous animosity between” the two that “[began] with their heated rivalry over the World Championship in the early 2000s.”
Dwayne Johnson — On The Rock And Triple H’s Rivalry
Although the quote claimed their rivalry began in the early 2000s, it actually began way more than that. It began in 1996 when The Rock made his debut on the grand stage of Survivor Series pay-per-view and defeated Triple H to score the win for his team. The victory was hard for Triple H who had been in the game years before The Rock joined.
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Three months later, The Rock defeated Triple H for the second time in his career. The match was for the Intercontinental Championship, and The Rock who walked into the match without any title walked out of it a Champion.
In a confessional, a WWE announcer said, “Never has anybody had so much success so quick!”A WWE Superstar Glenn Jacobs, who goes by the ring name “Kane” also said in a confessional, ‘I’ll tell you, when he first came in there was some jealousy and people were like, ‘Why are they pushing this kid?'”
The rivalry between these two didn’t just happen on camera, it continued off-screen. A WWE producer Bruce Prichard shared in a confessional that, “There was always competition between the two. There’s a reason you believed these two guys didn’t like each other: They didn’t.”
Triple H also noted that The Rock’s rise to fame wasn’t easy because the WWE Universe saw through the company’s plan to continue pushing The Rock up and therefore always “Booed” him whenever his music hits and he appears in the ring. That was when the chants of “Rocky Socks” were first heard.
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In November 1998, The Rock won his first World Championship and Triple H admitted in a confessional, “It was a big deal at the time. Titles didn’t change hands as often, and I can remember being jealous of that.”
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