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WWE Raw: The Rock came to chew gum and give hugs and he was all out of gum

Posted by Thomas Starr | Jan 6, 2025 | Featured Home Page, TV Reports

I am sure I will be in the minority, but I did not like this show. WWE Raw has been on a hot...

NASA honors The Rock with…a rock

Posted by John Powell | Jun 3, 2024 | Uncategorized

A rock has been named after The Rock. The NASA ground team that monitors and supervises the...

From chronic lateness to peeing in a bottle, insiders rip The Rock’s unprofessionalism on movie set

Posted by John Powell | Apr 30, 2024 | Uncategorized

The Wrap is reporting that the budget of The Rock’s upcoming holiday action, comedy Red One...

WrestleMania XL Night One: Bloodline Rules with The Rock and Reigns

Posted by Tommy "Milagro" Martinez | Apr 7, 2024 | PPV Reports 2024, WrestleMania

Welcome to the first night of The Showcase of the Immortals, and we have one more chapter to go as...

The Rhodes family responds to Rock’s attack

Posted by Slam Wrestling | Mar 26, 2024 | Uncategorized

At the violent and brutal end of Raw last night The Rock battered and bloodied Cody Rhodes in a...

Raw: The prophecy comes true

Posted by Arin De Castro | Mar 25, 2024 | TV Reports

With less than two weeks remaining until WrestleMania XL, many contests continue to add fuel to...

SmackDown: The Rock sings for the “Cody crybabies” and the “walking clown emoji”

Posted by Shelby-Liza Ndumbi | Mar 15, 2024 | TV Reports

I was a little surprise when The Rock’s usual terrorizing of the cities he goes to...

The Rock to Cody’s mom: I am going to whip the piss out of him

Posted by Slam Wrestling | Mar 15, 2024 | Uncategorized

The Rock ain’t taking none of that. On X, The Rock posted video response to Cody’s...

RAW: The Bloodline strikes again, sort of

Posted by Arin De Castro | Mar 5, 2024 | TV Reports

With WrestleMania just over a month away, many build-ups to fill the cards have started. Last...

‘The People’s Champ’ takes shots at Rhodes and the ‘Cody Crybabies’

Posted by Arin De Castro | Mar 1, 2024 | Uncategorized

The global superstar posted a video today around noon calling out Cody Rhodes and the fans of the...

The Rock to produce Ric Flair movie

Posted by John Powell | Feb 21, 2024 | Uncategorized

The Fighting with My Family filmmakers will be tackling The Nature Boy. The Wrap reports that...

SmackDown: “If you smell what The Bloodline is cooking”

Posted by Shelby-Liza Ndumbi | Feb 16, 2024 | TV Reports

Kevin Owens vs. Dominik Mysterio – Elimination Chamber Qualifying match You know,...

Rollins rips on The Rock

Posted by Slam Wrestling | Feb 9, 2024 | Uncategorized

Even though Royal Rumble winner Cody Rhodes made his decision last night at the WrestleMania...

The Rock to the ‘Cody Crybabies’: ‘Sit back, know your role, shut your mouth!’

Posted by John Powell | Feb 8, 2024 | Uncategorized

The Rock doesn’t seem to care if some wrestling fans are not smelling what he is cooking...

Confusion stirs as Rhodes picks Reigns, The Rock slaps Rhodes

Posted by Arin De Castro | Feb 8, 2024 | Uncategorized

From Las Vegas, Nevada, the WWE hosted its Wrestlemania XL Kickoff where WWE Universal Champion...

Report: WrestleMania main event is part of The Rock’s contract?

Posted by Slam Wrestling | Feb 5, 2024 | Uncategorized

Since Smackdown aired last Friday some fans have expressed their disappointment with WWE’s...

SmackDown: The Rock sets his sights on Roman Reigns

Posted by Shelby-Liza Ndumbi | Feb 2, 2024 | TV Reports, WrestleMania

It’s quite obvious that I’m mad that Kevin Owens lost against Logan Paul for the US...

Johnson joins TKO board, gets a piece of ‘The Rock’

Posted by Arin De Castro | Jan 23, 2024 | Uncategorized

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson can add another title to his resume, not an Oscar, but...

Wrestlers’ Court: Time to swipe right on Jinder

Posted by Jonathan Schwartz | Jan 19, 2024 | Opinion

On January 1, 2014, WWE hosted a special ‘Day 1’ edition of Monday Night Raw. From my...

The Rock confirms WWE return

Posted by Slam Wrestling | Jan 11, 2024 | Uncategorized

Ever since he appeared on Raw last week and uttered his now famous “Head of the Table”...

Raw: If Ya Smell What The Rock is Cookin’

Posted by Joseph Casciaro | Jan 1, 2024 | TV Reports

Happy New Year everyone! There is no break from WWE action on this holiday as tonight is the...

Wrestling collectibles market Rock-ing at Goldin auctions

Posted by Josh Olsen | Jun 9, 2023 | Interviews, Not Another Collectible!

Chris Kovachis has been collecting one of a kind wrestling memorabilia for the last 25 years. He...

Dwayne Johnson blamed for Shazam sequel’s rocky box office results

Posted by Bob Kapur | Mar 23, 2023 | Hollywood Headlock

Although Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson played a superhero in the movie Black Adam, according to...

WWE/A&E’s ‘Rivals’ revisits The Rock and John Cena’s Mania matches

Posted by Dave Hillhouse | Mar 6, 2023 | Hollywood Headlock, Other Reviews

There are a couple of fair questions to be asked going into this week’s episodes of Rivals...

Card Exam: WWE brings the ‘Attitude’ to Toronto’s SkyDome

Posted by Slam Wrestling | Feb 27, 2023 | Classics, Event Reports, Results

By JOE HAGEN – For SlamWrestling.net I was going through some old wrestling mementos...

‘Young Rock’ season three finale feels like the end

Posted by Dave Hillhouse | Feb 24, 2023 | Hollywood Headlock, Other Reviews

In a season finale that feels like a series finale, Dwayne Johnson seeks a political win in...

Fact and fiction duke it out to honour Peter Maivia in this week’s ‘Young Rock’

Posted by Dave Hillhouse | Feb 17, 2023 | Hollywood Headlock, Other Reviews

It’s probably not worth spending much time on this anymore, but here goes: Young Rock plays...

Dwayne Johnson boldly goes in search of new challenges in this week’s ‘Young Rock’

Posted by Dave Hillhouse | Feb 10, 2023 | Hollywood Headlock, Other Reviews

Where in the world has Dwayne Johnson been? He was barely featured in last week’s episode of...

Ata Johnson in serious car accident

Posted by John Powell | Feb 3, 2023 | Uncategorized

Dwayne Johnson’s mother Ata Johnson seems to be doing fine after a horrendous car accident...

This week’s ‘Young Rock’ features Dwayne & Rocky’s inconceivable adventures

Posted by Dave Hillhouse | Jan 20, 2023 | Hollywood Headlock, Other Reviews

A lot of people are flooding the web with outrage over recent casting efforts in Young Rock,...

Young Rock: World Pacific Wrestling tasty revisionist history

Posted by Caleb Smith | Jan 6, 2023 | Hollywood Headlock, Other Reviews

This week in the world of Young Rock features some amazing revisionist history. I really like the...

Rocky road ahead for Dwayne Johnson’s ‘Black Adam’ character

Posted by Bob Kapur | Dec 20, 2022 | Uncategorized

Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson, who portrayed Black Adam in the DC anti-hero’s...

This week’s ‘Young Rock’ is all about giving the fans what they want

Posted by Dave Hillhouse | Dec 9, 2022 | Hollywood Headlock, Other Reviews

This week’s episode of Young Rock, titled “Five Days,” operates like a Greatest...

Dwayne Johnson posts deeply personal thoughts as ‘Young Rock’ films season three

Posted by Dave Hillhouse | Sep 25, 2022 | Hollywood Headlock

It’s not that unusual for actors from the same film or TV show to never actually meet on...

Did The Rock ‘lift’ The People’s Eyebrow from Gil Hayes?

Posted by Greg Oliver | Sep 2, 2022 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Interviews

An interesting assertion came up during SlamWrestling.net’s discussion with the second wife...

WWE/A&E’s Rivals: Rock & Austin go at it again

Posted by Domenic Marinelli | Jul 25, 2022 | Hollywood Headlock, Other Reviews

We’re on episode 3 of the Rivals A&E special and episode 3 was a ‘slobber knocker’ for sure,...

‘Young Rock’ closes out its second season on the cusp of the Attitude Era

Posted by Dave Hillhouse | May 24, 2022 | Hollywood Headlock, Other Reviews

The twisting, turning tales of Dwayne Johnson’s most formative years reach another season...

‘Young Rock’: Wrestling wives, Slim Jims, and the best qualities of Rocky Johnson

Posted by Dave Hillhouse | May 17, 2022 | Hollywood Headlock, Other Reviews

This week’s episode of Young Rock, titled “Rocky’s Code” is really a tale...

‘Young Rock’ cooks up a well-told, sort-of-true story in this week’s episode

Posted by Dave Hillhouse | May 10, 2022 | Hollywood Headlock, Other Reviews

It seems like just about everyone gets worked in tonight’s episode of Young Rock, titled...

Adrian Groulx revels in being the youngest of ‘Young Rocks’

Posted by Dave Hillhouse | May 10, 2022 | Hollywood Headlock, Hollywood Headlock Interviews, Interviews

In the world of Young Rock, there’s only one true champ for the title of “Youngest Rock” — and...

From only having seven bucks to only having six minutes: Dwayne Johnson’s WWF try-out featured in ‘Young Rock’

Posted by Dave Hillhouse | May 3, 2022 | Hollywood Headlock, Other Reviews

With his hair tousled up and his million dollar smile ready to dazzle, Dwayne Johnson arrives for...

‘Young Rock’ tells tales of a young Rocky, and a really, really young Dwayne

Posted by Dave Hillhouse | Apr 26, 2022 | Hollywood Headlock, Other Reviews

The flashback storytelling gets exponentially tricky this week, as Dwayne Johnson (in 2032) tells...

Dwayne Johnson enrolls in his father’s school of hard chops in ‘Young Rock’

Posted by Dave Hillhouse | Apr 12, 2022 | Hollywood Headlock, Other Reviews

For wrestling fans of a certain age, and that includes this writer, tonight’s episode...

Actors Leilua and Anderson chart the rocky path of Dwayne’s parents in ‘Young Rock’

Posted by Dave Hillhouse | Apr 12, 2022 | Hollywood Headlock, Hollywood Headlock Interviews

Tonight’s episode of Young Rock promises a trip down a very particular memory lane, as Dwayne...

1980s nostalgia rules in this week’s episode of ‘Young Rock’

Posted by Dave Hillhouse | Mar 30, 2022 | Other Reviews

In the time-travelling adventures of Dwayne Johnson, as told in NBC’s Young Rock showing at...

Dwayne Johnson has football dreams stamped out in this week’s ‘Young Rock’

Posted by Dave Hillhouse | Mar 22, 2022 | Other Reviews

Tonight’s episode of Young Rock portrays pivotal moments in the life and times of Dwayne...

‘Young Rock’ season two opener hits the ground running

Posted by Dave Hillhouse | Mar 16, 2022 | Hollywood Headlock, Other Reviews

Young Rock is back for its second season, featuring the tall and true tales, with some license...

Kendrick pulled from AEW Dynamite for ‘abhorrent & offensive’ comments

Posted by Bob Kapur | Feb 2, 2022 | Uncategorized

Brian Kendrick was pulled from Wednesday night’s episode of AEW Dynamite after controversial...

The Rock looks back on 2021, looks ahead on the future, and looks past ‘Fast and Furious’

Posted by Bob Kapur | Dec 31, 2021 | Uncategorized

In an interview with CNN, Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson appeared to permanently close the...

‘Young Rock’ gets into the Christmas spirit

Posted by Greg Oliver | Dec 17, 2021 | Hollywood Headlock, Other Reviews

There’s a rich tradition of network television shows doing Christmas specials, standalones...

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