Rock ' n ' Sock Connection Rock ' N ' Sock Connection is a former professional wrestling tag team of The Rock and Mankind that wrestled in the World Wrestling Federation between 1999 and 2000 and briefly in 2004 . As a team , they held the WWF Tag Team Championship three times . History . On August 30 , 1999 , the Rock ' N ' Sock Connection was formed when the The Undertaker and Big Show attacked The Rock on " Raw " , leading The Rock to challenge both of them to a match . At the time , it was considered career " suicide " to face a team as deadly as The Undertaker and The Big Show . With this in mind , Mankind ( who recently started using a sock named " Mr . Socko " as part of his gimmick ) asked his former enemy if he could help with his fight against Undertaker and Big Show . The Rock reluctantly accepted , and later that night , the two captured The Undertaker and Big Show ' s WWF Tag Team Titles when they pinned Big Show after a double People ' s Elbow . They lost the belts on September 7 in a Buried Alive match against Undertaker and Big Show , when then - heel Triple H interfered . However , Triple H was really only helping out Undertaker , as he hit The Big Show with a sledgehammer . On September 20 , the Rock ' N ' Sock Connection won the titles back in a Dark Side Rules match against The Big Show , Mideon , and Viscera ( The Undertaker did not feel like being in the match so they took his place , thus turning the match into a three - on - two ) . Three days later on " SmackDown ! " , the New Age Outlaws reunited and challenged Rock ' N ' Sock Connection for the titles , which The Outlaws won . Several days later , Mick Foley helped WWF " Raw " achieve some of its highest ratings ever with a segment featuring himself ( as Mankind ) and The Rock . The " This is Your Life " segment aired on September 27 , 1999 , and received an 8 . 4 rating . Two weeks later , The Rock told Mankind that he was tired of him , did not like the whole Rock ' N ' Sock team , nor did he enjoy Mankind stealing his catchphrases during promos . Mankind begged The Rock to team up with him for one more night , but he did not tell The Rock who they would be fighting . They ended up challenging The New Age Outlaws for the championships on October 14 , 1999 . That night , the Rock ' N ' Sock Connection won the tag team titles for the third time , meaning they would have to continue teaming together to defend the titles . Four days later on " SmackDown ! " , before their title defense against The Holly Cousins , Mick Foley gave the Rock an autographed copy of his book , " " , but later found it in the trash . Mick confronted The Rock and cursed him out for throwing away his life ' s work . Later that night , during their match , a crushed Mankind refused to participate as he sat despondently on the steel steps , facing away from the ring , as Hardcore and Crash Holly ( with outside interference once again by Triple H ) beat The Rock for the Titles . The Rock and Mankind began a feud with each other , until Foley discovered that it was his close friend , Al Snow who threw the book in the trash , since the book contained many Al Snow jokes . In real life , Foley and Snow are very good friends , and continually make good - natured fun of each other and their careers . Reunions . The Rock ' N ' Sock would later reunite to take on the McMahon - Helmsley Faction . They teamed off - and - on until Foley ' s in - ring retirement in March 2000 and The Rock ' s blossoming movie career . In 2004 , The Rock ' N ' Sock Connection reunited at WrestleMania XX when they took on then Evolution members Randy Orton , Ric Flair , and Batista in a 3 on 2 handicap match . The Rock ' N ' Sock Connection lost the match , however , when Orton pinned Foley after an RKO .