Young Rock Fact Check: How The Rock's First WWE Match Really Happened
Young Rock season 2 portrays Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson's first WWE match—but how did it really happen? Now one of the most famous names in Hollywood, Johnson got his start with WWE (known then as the World Wrestling Federation) in the 90s. Born into a family tree of wrestlers, Johnson would go on to carry his own legacy in the world of wrestling, winning a slew of championships and becoming one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time. For all of that to be possible, however, The Rock had to have his first match.
Young Rock season 2 episode 8, «Corpus Christi,» reflects back on Johnson's first-ever match with the WWF. Though The Rock portrayed in «Corpus Christi» had a long way to go before he would become the WWE star that he is now known as, the episode follows the icon as he takes his first steps in his wrestling career. His official debut may have happened at the company's annual Survivor Series pay-per-view in November 1996, but his first match for the WWF was actually a dark match—an unaired match for the crowd before the main card begins—against the Brooklyn Brawler (aka Steve Lombardi) in Corpus Christi, Texas, months before.
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Young Rock did a solid job representing Dwayne's first match. Dwayne did indeed wear a mostly-borrowed set of wrestling gear, including a set of trunks from his uncle, King Haku, the old wrestling boots of Dwayne's father, WWF wrestler Rocky Johnson, and volleyball kneepads, the only addition he could afford. It was Johnson's first time wrestling in front of people, as well as his first real wrestling match, and as was portrayed in Young Rock, Johnson won the match against the Brooklyn Brawler in front of 15,000 fans. Johnson
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