The Rock
Childhood Of Celebrities : The Rock
Dwayne ” The Rock ” Johnson was born in Hayward, California to African Canadian wrestler Rocky Johnson and Ata Maivia, a Samoan of royal Samoan lineage. His maternal grandfather was High Chief Peter Maivi. Dwayne traveled around a lot with his parents and watched his father perform in the ring. He went to such schools as President William McKinley High School in Hawaii. As he entered 11th grade, Johnson’s father’s job required his relocation to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the state’s rugged Lehigh Valley region. For Johnson, the Lehigh Valley proved a huge cultural shift from he had known and seen in the San Francisco Bay Area in his early youth. But Johnson welcomed the change and assimilated quickly in the new area. In Bethlehem, Johnson began to cultivate an intense athleticism, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather. He began playing football at Bethlehem’s Freedom High School, a member of what was then known as the East Penn Conference (recently renamed the Lehigh Valley Conference). The conference was one of the highest quality high school football and wrestling conferences in the United States. In football, the conference has produced a considerable amount of high-level Division I collegiate and NFL football talent.
Known for its blue collar ruggedness, the Lehigh Valley proved a hand-in-glove match for Johnson, who fit in well with the area’s street toughness. He had always been rowdy and football allowed him to translate the negative energy he had from fighting and hurting whomever he fought. He had actually been deemed a lethal weapon by police because his fights were always one sided. That toughness carried to his football play, where Johnson began, for the first time, to face high quality players and began to excel amidst the area’s extraordinary athletic competitiveness. He would later credit the high level of athletic competitiveness he encountered in the Lehigh Valley with building the foundation for his life-long passion for winning and embracing challenge. In addition to playing football at Freedom High School, he also was a member of the high school’s track and field team.
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Bill Goldberg
William Scott Goldberg was born on December 27, 1966, in Tulsa, OK. He went to school at the University of Georgia where he was an All-SEC and All-American Nose Guard. He was drafted by the Rams and went to the WLAF where his team the Sacramento Surge won the World Bowl. He was then signed by the Falcons where he played for 3 years before he suffered a torn abdominal muscle. He was drafted by the Panthers in the 95 expansion draft but couldn’t play.
Living in Atlanta, he crossed paths with many of the superstars of WCW. While working out in a gym co-owned by Sting and Lex Luger, Sting convinced him to go to the WCW Power Plant training facility. His TV debut was on September 22, 1997, where he beat Hugh Morris. On the July 6, 1998, edition of Nitro, he beat Hulk Hogan for the WCW title in a match at the Georgia Dome which was the highest attended WCW event ever.
He would lose the title in December at Starrcade 98 in a match that was also his first loss as a professional wrestler. He spent the next year feuding with the New World Order. He then started a feud with Bret Hart and during their Starrcade 99 match kicked Bret in the head so hard that Bret suffered a career ending injury.
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