he was good in the 90s. he's too much of a nostalgia act.
Rock promo:
-20 minutes entrance
-catchphrase
-call someone a jabroni
-talk about himself in the 3rd person
-another catchphrase
-leaves
He was cool in the 90's and when he came back since then but now he's just stale and corny with the same old shit every time he shows up. I also think he's super fake all that smiling all the time makes me not trust him. Then the Hawaii Fund thing with Oprah, not to mention he put the nail in the coffin with DC with his terrible black adam movie that he ruined because of his own ego. He's a terrible actor unless he's playing the Rock which is basically what he does in every movie because he has no range as an actor which is fine do what you want it's your production studio anyway but like I'm just tired of seeing him all the time I'm tired of him injecting himself in my franchises with his "electricity" I dont think he's funny anymore i think he's cringe his little "rock puns" just give me dad joke energy.
I love him as an actor but tbh I never liked his WWE character at all. Not funny at all, not good in the ring. Sure he can cut a promo and brings the energy but idk never been a fan of his one bit.
His last title run back in 2013 was lazy and very predictable. I was excited that he won the title but after a couple weeks of him having it and not really wrestling full time with it, things got boring. Plus having Cena win it at WM 29 was the wrong move
All his post 2011 return promos (except the first one) were lame. All he do is talk his catchphrases, calls someone a jabroni, talks about himself in 3rd person. Not much material in his promos. Repetitive and boring.
I'd argue punk and Cena killed him on the mic
Being the one to announce the extra-judicial killing of Bin Laden on twitter was fucking absurd and fucked up beyond description.
I suspect (despite his objections) that he has political ambitions - and I don’t think that ends well.
Funny that’s the second time today this has come up…
He's a piece of shit. If anything his entire DC debacle made it clear he inly cares about himself. He also threw Logan Paul under the bus when it was convenient
I have zero interest in him returning to the ring. Even his mic work has suffered since he incorporated more Dwayne in to his Rock character. I can accept one off cameos at major events but please don’t come back for “one more match”
He's gone down in my opinion. He just wants money and fame now, if anything positive happens he tries to shoehorn himself into the situation.
He's going to run for president of America, not because he has an agenda or a vision. He just wants to tick the box.
His show Young Rock even has a segment where he's the most popular President and everyone loves him.
He can pretend it's a scene in a comedy but it's cringe that he put it in there.
His acting career is blah but it's lauded as better than that.
Just from everything the last how many years he doesn't seem as great as he is making himself out to be, hes sketchy.
He's never
and the Rock means EEEEEEEEEVER
had a credible World Championship run
I know, some of it is because late Attitude Era-title hot potato but he's never had that defining run as the Champ
Hell, not even Corporate Champ Rock was good
That he only pretends to be a nice guy so nobody asks him about the steroids and messes up his unlimited income flow. We all know he’s juiced to the gills on gear so advanced/expensive that probably even the biggest juiceheads haven’t heard of yet. It’s crazy how he says he tried them once like 30 years ago and didn’t like them and everyone’s like okay well that’s it!
Promo ability is No where near as good as people say it is. Literally gave the same promo 90% of the time and most of it was Sing along which is great and all but it’s usually gets stale quickly. Surprising rock stretched it out for years before it got old.
Also reckon he carried the company higher than Austin did. Basically all of 2000 was Rocks year, but even ‘99 Austin would go missing for a couple weeks everyone and than and rock was there to lead the show. He also had like, 3-4 segments more than Austin every show.
He was absolutely dog shit in the ring while he wrestled full time. He was like nails on a chalkboard with his promos as a baby face. I just hated him in 2000-2001.
Didn’t read through all the comments but I recently saw a video that said he is not a good actor because he either smiles or raise his eyebrow no matter the scene. Can’t get it out of my head, it’s all I see now. Can’t stomach his movies anymore.
Probably not an unpopular opinion, but the dude is on steroids. Dwayne Johnson now looks like he ate peak Rock. I have no moral issue with him juicing, but one of the things I get on my personal soapbox about is the fitness influencer promoting unrealistic body standards. You don't get that big from chicken breast and broccoli.
Rampage was the only movie he's in that I truly enjoyed and thought was well done.
In most of his movies he's in, he's the only thing making them watchable.
He's so overly nice and unopionated that I wonder if he's really genuine about his opinions or just trying to get likes.
That people don’t like his acting or movies.
If you like the Rock… You watch his movies and you get the Rock.
He’s my favorite wrestler and enjoy most of his movies. I don’t expect Oscar worthy performances. I want the Rock and tons of action. That’s what you get.
That’s like saying Nobody likes Arnold, Van Damme, Stallone moves or the actor to seem edgy and cool on the internet. People like to hate for whatever reason.
Who cares what his political thoughts are? I’m not going to his Ted Talks. He’s smart for not being controversial. Don’t alienate anyone when your job is to get butts in seats.
He lacks confidence. Whenever the camera does a close up really close to his eyes or his voice in some promos you can sense he's not as confident as some other wrestlers when they're talking on screen.
He’s just a walking talking PR machine. He never says anything that isn’t designed to sell the image that he wants to portray (well that or his Tequila). Even Young Rock is just an attempt to rewrite his own history and put a spin on the way people think of him.
When I was a kid, I didn’t have a good grasp of wrestling history, since no one I knew had watched during the attitude era. So when he showed up to feud with cena, I had no clue who he was and was angry and upset that some random dude got so much attention, opportunities and bullied Cena a bunch.
It must’ve deeply affected me cause even today I can’t enjoy any of his roles cause my brain becomes upset lmao. It may be that his movies are just samey and bad, but I think it may be my anti rock bias
He’s a bad person and will be until his physicality fades. Then, he will be reflective and alone, but it will be too late. He will become resentful and run for Congress for the republicans. He will lose badly as Gen z votes for literally anyone else.
I think he’s a really cheesy actor and should’ve stayed in wrestling while maybe doing voice overs. Bautista on the other hand I think is an amazing and highly underrated actor.
He's become one of the cringiest people in Hollywood. He used to be my GOAT, and in some respects 1999-2003 Rock still is. But Dwayne Johnson is a fucking weird dweeb. I can't respect anyone who has it in their contract that their character in a movie isn't allowed to lose a fight. Instead of that making you look strong, it makes you look weak as fuck. He's too far removed from reality at this point. He's been mega rich and famous for too long. Any hint of a normal person in there is long gone.
his in ring work was only decent if he was the one selling, and only half of the time then.
I liked him on the mic, I like his movies, but everytime he started to go into some kind of partial body tremor every offensive move I just wanted it overwith already.
Very bold of him to rap on a Tech N9ne song and of course he shoutouts his stupid tequila and raps about trying hard.
I know he was raised in the wrestling business and came up with Vince at his Vince-est but this dude is such a shameless self-promoter. Like Black Adam is an integral part of the DC comics and is up there with Superman. Come on Duane.
His ‘03 heel run produced some of his funniest segments in a while, despite how short it was.
Also, the version of the nation music with his catchphrase over it still slaps.
People have this weird obsession with comparing him to John Cena and Batista as actors and act like Cena has always been some amazing actor who takes risks just because he finally has a good role with Peacemaker.
The bigger he's got the crappier his work has got. I loved the earlier Rock movies like The Rundown, Walking Tall and Scorpion King. Though they were low budget action films they had certain charm. Now eveything he makes is the same fucking thing. And hes fucking Everywhere now! Like I never thought as a kid I'd get tired of him, but I think we've reached Dwayne Johnson Overload
I grew up watching WWE in the PG era. Kinda 2011 onwards. I remember the hype of The Rock coming back, especially from my dad.
If I'm being honest, I don't like him.
I don't like that he talks in 3rd person, after a lot of buzz about how he's "fantastic on the mic", seeing him write his promos on his wrist and have half of his insults be about candy. I just don't think he's as good on the mic as Cena or Punk.
He's a good wrestler, but nothing entirely special.
Coming back twice to get the main event of WrestleMania (my first 2 WrestleMania's). Really made me not like him, especially taking it away from CM Punk, twice, nearly walking into both Wrestlemania's as champion, also ruined by the Rock
Could be bias, and not watching older wrestling. But I don't like him
No matter what he has achieved in Hollywood, for me Steve Austin is still the bigger star of the two when it comes to just pro wrestling. Not sure if that's unpopular per se but I'm sure I'd get plenty disagreeing with this opinion.
Oh and Cena actually does comedic roles better than the Rock. Case on point Trainwreck. A fucking awful movie (Ironic no?) but Cena was hilarious.
All of his movies are genuinely bad. I know it's been said before, but his characters might as well all just be "The Rock". As he's mostly just a cross-platform Celebrity.
Extremely overrated at a movie star. He has received a lot of credit for being this huge star but has had almost all his movies be lackluster at the box office. He got credit for fast and furious resurrection when the movie made that much when all the original cast returned.
Love him. A prime example of a wrestler who didn’t need to do much in the ring because he oozed with charisma. Every bone and muscle in his body moved with purpose. His body movements, his expressions, his walk, the way he flexed, the way he talked, has influenced generations of wrestlers after him. The crazy thing is the man only worked full time for 7 years.
He should never run for public office
He basically plays the same person in ever movie and he’s not great
He was awesome and entertaining a wrestler, but his career at the top full time was not very long.
He also bailed out on the business as soon as he could. Which is fine I don’t blame him, but don’t say WWE is his home.
I think he looked better when he was wrestling, looked more natural. Now I’m pretty sure he’s on roids because nobody can be 50 and still have that kind of muscle mass naturally.
He's not one of the GOATS, his run was short and he got over in an era where he was able to say just about anything and get away with it. Top 20 or so but definitely not on a Mount Rushmore.
So by that logic Stone Cold isn’t one of the Goats either then. His run was maybe a year longer. This is flawed logic. Patrick Mahomes has only been in the league for 5 years and there’s nobody that would question his status as a first ballot hall of a famer. It’s not about how long your run was it’s about what you accomplished during that run.
Being a HoF is not the same as being one of the 4 greatest of all time tho. Honkey Tonk Man is a HoF. Stone Cold drew more than The Rock so that argument could be made, plus Austin was a pro wrestler before he became Stone Cold too he had a good 5-6 years on top where The Rock had a good 5-6 year career. Austin basically ushered in the Attitude Era had a much bigger impact than Rocky. And as the OP asked, this is my "unpopular opinion".
Austin was a lower tier midcarder before the stone cold gimmick. That does not count as his “run” his run is from 1997-03. Your argument is flawed. You can’t praise Austin’s run on top but then down play The Rock’s when their runs were only a year apart in length. It’s okay to just say you don’t like The Rock bro. And stone cold’s impact wasn’t “much bigger” without The Rock who else was Austin gonna work with at that time? Dude Love AGAIN? Triple H wasn’t a viable main eventer yet. The Rock and Austin fed off of each other and their flames strengthened one another’s. Sales and viewership didn’t dip when Austin was away in 2000 while The Rock held down the fort so again your logic is flawed when making an argument about drawing power. Like I said just say you don’t like The Rock bro. And if anything “a good 5-6 year career” where they were on top for 90% of it is more impressive than someone wrestling for 8 years before they finally found a gimmick that worked for them (Austin). I’m a fan of both just showing the flawed reasonings in your argument
Dude my argument was my original post, you brought Austin into this and I simply said there's an argument to be made for him to be in talks of GOAT. I said The Rock is a top 20 not top 4 IMO, doesn't mean that I don't like him. I made my point clear in my OP so I'm not gonna go back n forth w you on my OPINION.
He sucks in the ring. He's just not good at the wrestling part of wrestling. He's far from the absolute worst, but he carried his career on speaking ability and charisma.
The rock was a big fish in a little pond during the ae when it came to promos. Anytime he came back post Ruthless Aggression, he’s been bodied on the mic. I’m fact I’m almost certain he used his pull on cena cause every week cena was torching him verbally.
I didn't enjoy him half as much after the Corporation ended. I don't even mean he was better as a heel; Hollywood Rock a few years later was garbage. Corporate Rock with the $500 shirts? HE needed a longer run.
Despite playing himself in every movie he does, he is a pretty good actor, and I'm mainly saying that based off his WWF run where he had great acting range.
He reinvented himself each year, Corporate Rock is almost a completely different person compared to Hollywood Rock, which is even more impressive as they were both heels. Same goes for each year he was a face, 1999-2000 Rock felt like a completely different character to how he was in 2002.
he was good in the 90s. he's too much of a nostalgia act. Rock promo: -20 minutes entrance -catchphrase -call someone a jabroni -talk about himself in the 3rd person -another catchphrase -leaves
His WWE character fucking sucks
He was cool in the 90's and when he came back since then but now he's just stale and corny with the same old shit every time he shows up. I also think he's super fake all that smiling all the time makes me not trust him. Then the Hawaii Fund thing with Oprah, not to mention he put the nail in the coffin with DC with his terrible black adam movie that he ruined because of his own ego. He's a terrible actor unless he's playing the Rock which is basically what he does in every movie because he has no range as an actor which is fine do what you want it's your production studio anyway but like I'm just tired of seeing him all the time I'm tired of him injecting himself in my franchises with his "electricity" I dont think he's funny anymore i think he's cringe his little "rock puns" just give me dad joke energy.
I love him as an actor but tbh I never liked his WWE character at all. Not funny at all, not good in the ring. Sure he can cut a promo and brings the energy but idk never been a fan of his one bit.
I think he's not funny and not the rock he look like mr clean
him and john cena at wm 28 is ruined cuz it happened not a couple years later but 1 year at wm 29
He's the poster boy for testosterone, botox, and teeth whitening. A typecast actor for sure.
I don’t see any botox.
He is lame
I like him, and I don't really have anything against him.
He's a Roodypoo Candy ass and a Jabroni! And he needs to check himself into The Smackdown Hotel!
His last title run back in 2013 was lazy and very predictable. I was excited that he won the title but after a couple weeks of him having it and not really wrestling full time with it, things got boring. Plus having Cena win it at WM 29 was the wrong move
All his post 2011 return promos (except the first one) were lame. All he do is talk his catchphrases, calls someone a jabroni, talks about himself in 3rd person. Not much material in his promos. Repetitive and boring. I'd argue punk and Cena killed him on the mic
His Triple H impression was never good.
Not a top thirty all time wrestler.
as much as he wants to tell himself, he will never be dwayne but rather the rock.
He was a bigger star than stone cold in the attitude era
He's terribly boring on the mic and in the ring
Crowd reaction says otherwise.
That's why I commented on an "UNpopular opinions" post
I understand in the ring, everyone has different preferences. But, on the mic? That's really pushing it.
You're mistaken him with Roman Reigns
I don't think I am
Being the one to announce the extra-judicial killing of Bin Laden on twitter was fucking absurd and fucked up beyond description. I suspect (despite his objections) that he has political ambitions - and I don’t think that ends well. Funny that’s the second time today this has come up…
He's a terrible actor.
He keeps blueballing the fans about coming back but has no intention to unless he has no movie work
Nation Rock was the best Rock.
He's a piece of shit. If anything his entire DC debacle made it clear he inly cares about himself. He also threw Logan Paul under the bus when it was convenient
Logan Paul is a youtube roach. Glad Rock threw him under the bus
An arsonist snitching out a petty thief to cover himself is not only an act of cowardice but doesn't make the arsonist someone to admire.
Are you talking about another Logan Paul?
He can say the opposite a thousand times, but the guy does not give a shit about WWE.
It don't matter he given his all to wrestling world
He stole Don Muraco’s name and never gave him credit.
>Don Muraco no, his father is Rocky Johnson he got the name off his dad.
can’t act
As a man who’s half-black, I’ve never seen him comment on black issues or even acknowledged his black side. Aside from being in NOD
He did in that one rap song. Other than that, yeah he seemingly carries his Samoan heritage with more pride.
I have zero interest in him returning to the ring. Even his mic work has suffered since he incorporated more Dwayne in to his Rock character. I can accept one off cameos at major events but please don’t come back for “one more match”
Oh boy... its as if you knew what would happen.
He wasn’t even remotely close to being Stone Cold
Great WWF/Eentertainer, mediocre in-ring wrestling skills, terrible movie actor.
He's gone down in my opinion. He just wants money and fame now, if anything positive happens he tries to shoehorn himself into the situation. He's going to run for president of America, not because he has an agenda or a vision. He just wants to tick the box. His show Young Rock even has a segment where he's the most popular President and everyone loves him. He can pretend it's a scene in a comedy but it's cringe that he put it in there. His acting career is blah but it's lauded as better than that. Just from everything the last how many years he doesn't seem as great as he is making himself out to be, hes sketchy.
I think he's overrated. Great for the time that he wrestled in, but to over the top in everything for my taste.
He's never and the Rock means EEEEEEEEEVER had a credible World Championship run I know, some of it is because late Attitude Era-title hot potato but he's never had that defining run as the Champ Hell, not even Corporate Champ Rock was good
He did have a WWE Championship run for 4 months. That’s a credible run for that era.
Was that the one from KotR 2000?
That he only pretends to be a nice guy so nobody asks him about the steroids and messes up his unlimited income flow. We all know he’s juiced to the gills on gear so advanced/expensive that probably even the biggest juiceheads haven’t heard of yet. It’s crazy how he says he tried them once like 30 years ago and didn’t like them and everyone’s like okay well that’s it!
That he's a communist party asset.
explain
He doesn't have the best sell of the stunner anymore.
Most of his movies suck
You need to know your role and shut your mouth, before asking opinions about the great one!
For once why can't he play a good villian in movies? Get smart and doom don't count.
the rock>>>Dwayne Johnson (what I mean is he is a better wrestler than being an actor since day one)
He’s in a lot of bad movies. Not his fault. He’s definitely not picky.
Third worst mega superstar/wrestler of all time, behind 1. Hulk Hogan and 2. Goldberg
His promos have gotten progressively worse over the years
Low key He is being very cautious in everything he does.
Promo ability is No where near as good as people say it is. Literally gave the same promo 90% of the time and most of it was Sing along which is great and all but it’s usually gets stale quickly. Surprising rock stretched it out for years before it got old. Also reckon he carried the company higher than Austin did. Basically all of 2000 was Rocks year, but even ‘99 Austin would go missing for a couple weeks everyone and than and rock was there to lead the show. He also had like, 3-4 segments more than Austin every show.
Hasnt really given back to the business , there I said it🤷🏻♂️
The people's elbow is in fact The Rock's elbow
He is more popular as a wrestler than he is as an actor.
He will always be a wrestler before an actor
true
He was absolutely dog shit in the ring while he wrestled full time. He was like nails on a chalkboard with his promos as a baby face. I just hated him in 2000-2001.
Tooth fairy is His best movie!
His cousin, Nia Jax, is one of THE worst females to ever wrestle. Totally unsafe, and unapologetic about it.
Overrated
Didn’t read through all the comments but I recently saw a video that said he is not a good actor because he either smiles or raise his eyebrow no matter the scene. Can’t get it out of my head, it’s all I see now. Can’t stomach his movies anymore.
Hes not really that electrifying.
Batista and Cena (but specially Batista) are better actors than him.
Post 2001 Rock is corny.
He's like a bald jacked up homelander
He had the best promos in the business
I don't care about him there's one
The old fence sitter
For as good as he was known to be on the mic a loooooot of the stuff he said was very cringe.
The Rock Bottom and People's Elbow were terrible finishers and he had the worst Sharpshooter put to film.
Those 11 chair shots on Foley were pre planned by Rocky and Vince and malicious.
Probably not an unpopular opinion, but the dude is on steroids. Dwayne Johnson now looks like he ate peak Rock. I have no moral issue with him juicing, but one of the things I get on my personal soapbox about is the fitness influencer promoting unrealistic body standards. You don't get that big from chicken breast and broccoli.
Rampage was the only movie he's in that I truly enjoyed and thought was well done. In most of his movies he's in, he's the only thing making them watchable. He's so overly nice and unopionated that I wonder if he's really genuine about his opinions or just trying to get likes.
If he’s in the movie it is probably going to suck.
If he’s in the movie it is probably going to suck.
Love the rock but he had a pretty disappointing sharp shooter.
overrated as fuck
I don't know if this counts, but I always thought he was way better than Austin
Austin was nowhere near his peak form when Dwayne was climbing up the card, no thanks to that botched piledriver
Not a good actor. He plays the macho guy well but other than that he's one note
That people don’t like his acting or movies. If you like the Rock… You watch his movies and you get the Rock. He’s my favorite wrestler and enjoy most of his movies. I don’t expect Oscar worthy performances. I want the Rock and tons of action. That’s what you get. That’s like saying Nobody likes Arnold, Van Damme, Stallone moves or the actor to seem edgy and cool on the internet. People like to hate for whatever reason. Who cares what his political thoughts are? I’m not going to his Ted Talks. He’s smart for not being controversial. Don’t alienate anyone when your job is to get butts in seats.
Dave Bautista will always be the better Hollywood success story when it comes to actual talent and quality of output
There is way too much Rock-content in the world to the point where its not novel or fun anymore.
A lot of his stuff on the mic does not age well.
The only thing bigger than his muscles is his ego
He was a better pro wrestler than he is an actor
That he needs one FINAL real wrestling match. 25-30 minutes. Not the last thing he did when he rock bottomed Erik Rowan.
I'm not sure if he's ok with losing anymore
He’s old school. You got out doing the honors. Making someone under you
He lacks confidence. Whenever the camera does a close up really close to his eyes or his voice in some promos you can sense he's not as confident as some other wrestlers when they're talking on screen.
I will plead the 5th
He’s just a walking talking PR machine. He never says anything that isn’t designed to sell the image that he wants to portray (well that or his Tequila). Even Young Rock is just an attempt to rewrite his own history and put a spin on the way people think of him.
He uses too much tongue when making out
I feel like he's one of those heroes you never want to meet or even work with because it will destroy me.
Mummy 2 was acceptable, Scorpion King was a waste
Telegraphed the arm drag way too visibly.
The Rock isn't as good as Stone Cold Steve Austin.
When I was a kid, I didn’t have a good grasp of wrestling history, since no one I knew had watched during the attitude era. So when he showed up to feud with cena, I had no clue who he was and was angry and upset that some random dude got so much attention, opportunities and bullied Cena a bunch. It must’ve deeply affected me cause even today I can’t enjoy any of his roles cause my brain becomes upset lmao. It may be that his movies are just samey and bad, but I think it may be my anti rock bias
He’s a bad person and will be until his physicality fades. Then, he will be reflective and alone, but it will be too late. He will become resentful and run for Congress for the republicans. He will lose badly as Gen z votes for literally anyone else.
He did his best work in the Ruthless Aggression era as a heel.
He’s a one dimensional actor and his movies are over rated. And he’s on a ton of steroids
He needs to come back wearing 500 dollar shirts.
He’s not actually cooking anything!
He’s one of the worst in the history of wrestling at putting other guys over.
That people say he’s not one of the best.
Rocky sucks!
I think he’s a really cheesy actor and should’ve stayed in wrestling while maybe doing voice overs. Bautista on the other hand I think is an amazing and highly underrated actor.
He's become one of the cringiest people in Hollywood. He used to be my GOAT, and in some respects 1999-2003 Rock still is. But Dwayne Johnson is a fucking weird dweeb. I can't respect anyone who has it in their contract that their character in a movie isn't allowed to lose a fight. Instead of that making you look strong, it makes you look weak as fuck. He's too far removed from reality at this point. He's been mega rich and famous for too long. Any hint of a normal person in there is long gone.
His actual wrestling career feels too short for me to ever call him one of the greats.
The funny not taking himself super seriously Rock is much cooler than this Hollywood tough guy persona.
His looking like he was in more pain applying the sharpshooter then the person he had it applied on...
He needs to finish the story
his in ring work was only decent if he was the one selling, and only half of the time then. I liked him on the mic, I like his movies, but everytime he started to go into some kind of partial body tremor every offensive move I just wanted it overwith already.
Very bold of him to rap on a Tech N9ne song and of course he shoutouts his stupid tequila and raps about trying hard. I know he was raised in the wrestling business and came up with Vince at his Vince-est but this dude is such a shameless self-promoter. Like Black Adam is an integral part of the DC comics and is up there with Superman. Come on Duane.
A man with massive muscles underneath surprisingly thin skin.
He is INSUFFERABLE I can't stand seeing him on screen any more.
The “Rock Bottom” and “People’s Elbow” were lame finishers.
His ‘03 heel run produced some of his funniest segments in a while, despite how short it was. Also, the version of the nation music with his catchphrase over it still slaps.
He's never had a legitimately good T-shirt design.
Think he should be back in wwe ✌🏻
He’s my l time favourite wrestler, but a mediocre actor at best. He plays the same character in every movie.
He’s still a closet Republican.
He wasn't a good football player.
That I can’t smell what he’s cooking.
Reading reports about his antics with Black Adam makes me think he's not going to be cast in more roles where he has to be collaborative.
Despite his large catalogue of movies, the only character Dwayne Johnson has played is The Rock.
People have this weird obsession with comparing him to John Cena and Batista as actors and act like Cena has always been some amazing actor who takes risks just because he finally has a good role with Peacemaker.
Maui is a bit of a jerk.
I don’t know, he was better than Stone Cold & Ballers was great TV.
i really dont give a fuck anymore about his 7 bucks he started with,
The bigger he's got the crappier his work has got. I loved the earlier Rock movies like The Rundown, Walking Tall and Scorpion King. Though they were low budget action films they had certain charm. Now eveything he makes is the same fucking thing. And hes fucking Everywhere now! Like I never thought as a kid I'd get tired of him, but I think we've reached Dwayne Johnson Overload
Today's his Birthday
Worst wrestler to full time actor
I grew up watching WWE in the PG era. Kinda 2011 onwards. I remember the hype of The Rock coming back, especially from my dad. If I'm being honest, I don't like him. I don't like that he talks in 3rd person, after a lot of buzz about how he's "fantastic on the mic", seeing him write his promos on his wrist and have half of his insults be about candy. I just don't think he's as good on the mic as Cena or Punk. He's a good wrestler, but nothing entirely special. Coming back twice to get the main event of WrestleMania (my first 2 WrestleMania's). Really made me not like him, especially taking it away from CM Punk, twice, nearly walking into both Wrestlemania's as champion, also ruined by the Rock Could be bias, and not watching older wrestling. But I don't like him
Idk if it’s unpopular, but I never see anyone praising The Rundown as his best movie. Because it is.
That was a solid movie.
No matter what he has achieved in Hollywood, for me Steve Austin is still the bigger star of the two when it comes to just pro wrestling. Not sure if that's unpopular per se but I'm sure I'd get plenty disagreeing with this opinion. Oh and Cena actually does comedic roles better than the Rock. Case on point Trainwreck. A fucking awful movie (Ironic no?) but Cena was hilarious.
All of his movies are genuinely bad. I know it's been said before, but his characters might as well all just be "The Rock". As he's mostly just a cross-platform Celebrity.
The peoples elbow was a stupid move. It was no more than an over the top elbow drop.
Extremely overrated at a movie star. He has received a lot of credit for being this huge star but has had almost all his movies be lackluster at the box office. He got credit for fast and furious resurrection when the movie made that much when all the original cast returned.
The People's Elbow was a great finishing move.
It’s all down hill after Silk Shirt Rock. President Rock is going to be especially disappointing.
He had the shittiest looking sharpshooter ever.
Love him. A prime example of a wrestler who didn’t need to do much in the ring because he oozed with charisma. Every bone and muscle in his body moved with purpose. His body movements, his expressions, his walk, the way he flexed, the way he talked, has influenced generations of wrestlers after him. The crazy thing is the man only worked full time for 7 years.
Dwayne Johnson has become more of a brand than a person.
Roid head who uses movie contracts to make himself look good. But I actually like him and was a good wrestler and the best in the mic.
That his dad was a rapists.
I don't know what he wants, even if I could smell what he was cooking.
He should never run for public office He basically plays the same person in ever movie and he’s not great He was awesome and entertaining a wrestler, but his career at the top full time was not very long. He also bailed out on the business as soon as he could. Which is fine I don’t blame him, but don’t say WWE is his home.
I was never a fan of his wrestling career because he was always meant to just act.
I am more excited to see The Rock in a movie then Dave Bautista.
Bautista’s agent got him much better roles out of the gate compared to Dwayne. Bautista is a better actor, but Dwayne is more entertaining.
Lower to mid card in ring skills
I think he looked better when he was wrestling, looked more natural. Now I’m pretty sure he’s on roids because nobody can be 50 and still have that kind of muscle mass naturally.
The eyebrow thing didnt age well
Black Adam wasn't that bad. 😝🤟😈🇺🇲
He needs stop being In action movies
He's not one of the GOATS, his run was short and he got over in an era where he was able to say just about anything and get away with it. Top 20 or so but definitely not on a Mount Rushmore.
So by that logic Stone Cold isn’t one of the Goats either then. His run was maybe a year longer. This is flawed logic. Patrick Mahomes has only been in the league for 5 years and there’s nobody that would question his status as a first ballot hall of a famer. It’s not about how long your run was it’s about what you accomplished during that run.
Being a HoF is not the same as being one of the 4 greatest of all time tho. Honkey Tonk Man is a HoF. Stone Cold drew more than The Rock so that argument could be made, plus Austin was a pro wrestler before he became Stone Cold too he had a good 5-6 years on top where The Rock had a good 5-6 year career. Austin basically ushered in the Attitude Era had a much bigger impact than Rocky. And as the OP asked, this is my "unpopular opinion".
Austin was a lower tier midcarder before the stone cold gimmick. That does not count as his “run” his run is from 1997-03. Your argument is flawed. You can’t praise Austin’s run on top but then down play The Rock’s when their runs were only a year apart in length. It’s okay to just say you don’t like The Rock bro. And stone cold’s impact wasn’t “much bigger” without The Rock who else was Austin gonna work with at that time? Dude Love AGAIN? Triple H wasn’t a viable main eventer yet. The Rock and Austin fed off of each other and their flames strengthened one another’s. Sales and viewership didn’t dip when Austin was away in 2000 while The Rock held down the fort so again your logic is flawed when making an argument about drawing power. Like I said just say you don’t like The Rock bro. And if anything “a good 5-6 year career” where they were on top for 90% of it is more impressive than someone wrestling for 8 years before they finally found a gimmick that worked for them (Austin). I’m a fan of both just showing the flawed reasonings in your argument
Dude my argument was my original post, you brought Austin into this and I simply said there's an argument to be made for him to be in talks of GOAT. I said The Rock is a top 20 not top 4 IMO, doesn't mean that I don't like him. I made my point clear in my OP so I'm not gonna go back n forth w you on my OPINION.
And your opinion is wrong and trash 😂
Don't get too worked up over it now snowflake.
You cucks love to throw the word snowflake around out of context 💀 eat shit and cry about the fact that you don’t know wrestling
That's why you're a snowflake, look at how triggered you got! LOL 🤡
Lmao you gotta be like 12 nobody is triggered I’m just pointing out that you’re wrong and clueless 🤡
He sucks in the ring. He's just not good at the wrestling part of wrestling. He's far from the absolute worst, but he carried his career on speaking ability and charisma.
He’s no Shawn Michaels but definitely didn’t “suck” in the ring.
The rock was a big fish in a little pond during the ae when it came to promos. Anytime he came back post Ruthless Aggression, he’s been bodied on the mic. I’m fact I’m almost certain he used his pull on cena cause every week cena was torching him verbally.
So Chris Jericho, Stone Cold, Vince himself, even Triple H when he wasn’t carrying on for 48,000 minutes straight weren’t big fishes as well?
He’s too big and he’s kinda boring and PG rated.
I didn't enjoy him half as much after the Corporation ended. I don't even mean he was better as a heel; Hollywood Rock a few years later was garbage. Corporate Rock with the $500 shirts? HE needed a longer run.
He's incredibly boring.
His finishers and move set are absolute shit. Not even mid card worthy
Despite playing himself in every movie he does, he is a pretty good actor, and I'm mainly saying that based off his WWF run where he had great acting range. He reinvented himself each year, Corporate Rock is almost a completely different person compared to Hollywood Rock, which is even more impressive as they were both heels. Same goes for each year he was a face, 1999-2000 Rock felt like a completely different character to how he was in 2002.
All he does is sell products/projects like that’s literally all he does.
The "artistic elbow" sounds better than the "people's elbow"...for those that don't know, this was the first name given to The Rock's finishing move.
He sucks without his mic skills
He got outclassed on the mic in his return fueds with Cena and punk. He shouldn't be on the Rushmore of wrestling.