The Rock

Roster
 1- Defeating Stone Cold to win the WWF Championship at
 3-G1 win against Shawn Michaels

## "Die Rocky Die"(1996-1997)

Rocky Maivia was introduced at Summerslam 1996 as he was shown in the crowd and introduced as Rocky Johnson's son and that he would make his debut entering the G1, since this was in philadelphia and it was right after the ECW invasion segment, the crowd loudly chanted "fuck off" at him.

He made his in-ring debut 3 weeks later shockingly rolling up The Undertaker to win his first match showing how much Vince was sold on Rocky to become a star, Maivia would go on to beat Bradshaw, British Bulldog and Bob Holly to somehow win Block B while getting no reactions from the crowd. Tommy Dreamer attacked him leading up to the ECW vs WWF PPV and in the show the chants of "die rocky die" began as people were seeing he was being overpushed and he was beaten by Dreamer. At G1 Finals, a heel Stone Cold defeated a babyface Rocky Maivia but the crowd was clearly rooting for Austin and booing Maivia

He started a feud with DX as Shawn called him out on being hated by the whole crowd, at Survivor Series Rocky beat DX member Barry Windham but at In Your House 22 Shawn defeated him to end this feud as his push was put on a break for a while.

In the march 10th episode of RAW, he rolled up Sycho Sid to beat him but was then destroyed by him in the ring starting a new feud, Maivia challenged him to a match at Wrestlemania 13 and in the PPV, Maivia was being beaten up when Rocky Johnson came out and helped him when suddenly Maivia punched his dad and did his finisher to him turning heel and taking advantage to pin Sid in his first Wrestlemania match

## Nation of Domination(1997-1998)

Maivia proclaimed he wanted to be recognized more than his father so he dropped the name Rocky Maivia and started calling himself The Rock, he was able to be more free during promos and started showing his true charisma, The Rock started proclaiming that he was the best black wrestler today which led Faaroq from Nation of Domination to challenge him. At Canadian Stampede, Faaroq defeated The Rock and decided to take him under his wing as Rock joined NOD.

In the 1997 King of the Ring, he defeated Chyna, British Bulldog and lastly Vader to win the King of the Ring, he challenged Intercontinental Champion Stone Cold to a match at Summerslam and they engaged in great promos but since Austin had just defeated Bret Hart for the title, Bret also had a claim for a rematch. Rock faced off against Bret but Brian Pillman showed up and chairshot the both of them so it was decided that the match for the title would be a triple threat. At Summerslam, Rock defeated Bret and Austin to become Intercontinental champion.

During the G1, The Rock suddenly attacked Faaroq saying he should be the leader of NOD, Faaroq only agreed to this if Rock could ever beat him. The Rock almost won the B Block but Faaroq attacked him to ensure he would be the one winning it, at G1 Finals Austin beat Rock to regain the belt. The Rock was pissed at Faaroq and challenged him to a match to see who truly should be the leader of Nation of Domination, at Survivor Series, Faaroq defeated The Rock with hidden brass knuckles and The Rock respected his mentor again saying he was way over his head but people started mocking Rock as he didn't remember what happened at Survivor Series. Rock watched the Survivor Series footage and was furious so he challenged Faaroq at Royal Rumble which The Rock won using brass knuckles as he became the new leader of NOD

Faaroq was okay with The Rock stepping up as leader because black power was black power no matter who the leader is. Rock kicked out Kama Mustafa from the group and told D'Lo Brown and Mark Henry to "start doing better", they started a feud against "White Folks" Jeff Jarrett and Dustin Runnels. Vince Mcmahon started feuding with Jim Cornette over "sports entertainment vs wrestling" and told Cornette to get a guy who was the embodiement of wrestling while Vince would get a guy that defined sports entertainment, Vince ended up choosing Rock and at Wrestlemania 14 Rock defeated British Bulldog

## The Corporation and WWF title wins(1998-1999)

After Wrestlemania Vince introduced The Corporation of people who he thought were best for business including Pat Patterson, Gerald Brisco, Shane Mcmahon, Big Boss Man, Nation of Domination and their allies DX but this was mostly to try to takedown Austin from being WWF champion. At Unforgiven, Nation of Domination defeated Bob Holly, Steve Blackman, Dustin Runnels and Jeff Jarrett to end the racist feud.

In the june 8th episode of RAW, Shane lowblowed Austin during his match against The Rock and Rock managed to defeat him which got Vince Mcmahon's attention. On the 300th episode of RAW is WAR, Vince made a fatal 4 way between Austin, The Rock, Shawn Michaels and Kane but Austin still managed to retain the belt

Austin continued pissing off management as he interrupted a battle royal for NO1 contendership to the IC belt and won it all, another battle royal was held to determine who would face Austin to become the actual NO1 contender and The Rock won it after eliminating the supposed golden boy of The Corporation Shawn Michaels, everyone celebrated with Rock and left Shawn alone which pissed him off. At RAW is WAR 303, Rock beat Austin completely clean with no help from The Corporation. At King of the Ring 1998, The Rock defeated Ken Shamrock to become intercontinental champion while Faaroq won the King of the Ring. In an episode of RAW, Faaroq and The Rock faced Bradshaw and Ahmed Johnson when Faaroq attacked The Rock while Bradshaw attacked Ahmed as Faaroq announced that at Summerslam he'd fight for The Rock's IC Championship, at Summerslam Faaroq was hyped to fight The Rock when he came out and announced that he was forfeiting the match and the IC title to Faaroq as he had better things to do

The Rock entered the G1 as Vince clearly started showing favoritism towards him and making him the golden boy of The Corporation, Shawn had to win every single match of his block all by himself while Rock was always helped by The Corporation, this led to the G1 Finals of The Rock vs Shawn Michaels and with Vince as special guest referee, he rang the bell without Shawn tapping to give The Rock the win, this all led to Survivor Series in one of the most hyped matches of the year as Rock defeated Austin completely clean to become WWF Champion

During The Rock's championship celebration, Austin interrupted it and the segment ended with Austin stunning Linda Mcmahon to a big pop. The week afterwards he was scheduled to have his rematch against The Rock but now co-owner of WWF Jim Cornette helped Vince as both men fired Austin and made sure he wouldn't have his rematch. The Union and The Corporation were forced to work together as Cornette(leader of the Union) was now co-owner along with Vince Mcmahon, due to the Survivor Series Briefcases all of The Union got title shots at Judgment Day with Dan Severn breaking Rock's arm and ending his WWF Championship reign in just 28 days, when The Rock returned he beat up Severn and The Corporate Union quickly fell apart, at Royal Rumble Rock defeated Severn to regain the belt

A fatal 5 way was set to determine Rock's next challenger and Faaroq(who was trying to get a match against The Rock since his failed attempt at Summerslam) defeated Dan Severn, X-Pac, The Godfather and Shane Mcmahon to get him. He faced The Rock a week later as Bradshaw clothslined Rock and helped Faaroq shockingly win the big one. At Over The Edge,, The Union defeated The Corporation in a 4 on 4 winner take all match for the european, IC and tag belts. At Breakdown, Rock had another shot for the WWF title but failed to defeat Stone Cold with Mankind as the special guest ref

Rock clearly had no plans for Wrestlemania as Mankind was set to face WWF Champion Stone Cold at Wrestlemania 15, after beating Mankind in an episode of RAW is WAR, Vince Mcmahon revealed that The Rock would be added to the Wrestlemania main event and at the show Rock defeated Austin and Mankind to become WWF champion. On the RAW after Wrestlemania, Mankind got another title shot and on the most watched segment in the monday night wars drawing 13.2 million viewers to it, Mankind defeated The Rock with Stone Cold's help to become WWF champion.

## Face turn(1999-)

Vince Mcmahon wanted his newest signing Chris Jericho to be added to The Corporation but Jericho set his intentions by spitting on The Rock which led to a main event at RAW is WAR where Jericho defeated Rock completely clean in his first match with the company, Rock had a rematch at Backlash 1999 where he defeated Mankind in an I Quit match. Al Snow was involved in The Corporation after winning the Blue World Order battle royal and Rock gave him a WWF title shot out of pity and in one of the most shocking RAW moments ever, BWO helped Al defeat Rock to become champion

Rock started being paranoid that Vince wanted to replace him as the golden corporate boy and give the spot to Chris Jericho, Vince assured him he would never do that and The Rock threatened that if he ever did, he would make Vince's life more of a living hell than Austin, in the Money in the Bank match Rock and Owen Hart were taken out and The Corporation's Gerald Brisco and Steve Blackman put the ladder up to help Chris Jericho win the briefcase, Rock was pissed at this decision because it was clearly Vince's decision, Vince explained that he wanted both of them to be helped, on the same night both men were involved in a 6 men package to determine WWF champion Mankind's challenger at Summerslam, during it Vince attacked The Undertaker who retaliated but Jericho saved him, Vince ordered Jericho to pin The Rock but he kicked out at 2, Vince tried manipulating Rock to work together with Jericho but Rock responded with punches and a spinebuster to Jericho finally turning face

At RAW is WAR 353, The Godfather defeated Mr.MITB Chris Jericho with help from The Rock and Rock and Austin started working together to big reactions from the crowd, Austin wanted to end The Corporation but The Rock started saying he had a bigger grudge against them, they started a feud yet again to see who would end the group, Austin and The Rock defeated Pete Gas and Joey Abs with Austin getting the pin so he would get Vince Mcmahon 1 on 1 finally. During this Austin vs Rock feud, The Godfather tried to help Rock multiple times but always failed, Rock was involved in a poker game against tag team champions APA and he won which got him a tag title shot, he said he would do it handicap but Godfather showed up as his tag partner even if Rock didn't want to, they had really good chemistry and became tag champions.

Rock and Godfather were introduced as Rock N'Hoe Connection as Rock started liking him and the team quickly got over, at Summerslam they lost the belts to Ministry of Darkness' Kane and Viscera

## Career history

### Face/heel turns

 Heel
 Face

## Championships and accomplishments

* World Wrestling Federation
* WWF Championship(4 times)
* Intercontinental Championship(2 times)
* World Tag Team Championships(1 time) - with The Godfather
* Hardcore Championship(2 times)
* King of the Ring(1997)
* G1(1998)