The Rock owes his career to whoever created his walk in intro
Almost 30 now and I remember the Rock being my favorite wrestler back in the day, but it was never because I thought he was a GOOD wrestler, he just had the absolute best gimmick
“CAN YOU SMEEEELLLLLLL WHAT THE ROCK IS COOKING” doesn’t even make sense but DAMN did that hit
Then he had the Iconic people’s elbow, named as such to strategically market the rock as a champion of the everydayman.
Whoever created this things for rick deserves all the credit for making him blow up. Looking back on it, he was an ok wrestler but the tools they gave him to perform showmanship are what made his career skyrocket
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I’m 90% sure he created it. I watch a lot of historical wrestling docs and interviews, and, if I’m not mistaken, the rock persona was mostly his creation…
So himself? Wrestlers typically create their own characters.
I was a pretty big wrestling fan during a lot of The Rock’s rise.
I feel he has the cleverness, charisma and look to pull off any catch phrase they gave him.
His mic skills were always fantastic – and I always feel like Obama secretly studied him – same cadences, tendencies etc even factoring in some common culturally stuff it’s a bit uncanny.
The People’s elbow had to be paired with The Rock Bottom to give him a more serious finishing move.
Overall he and Austin were definitely better wrestlers than the classic WWF main eventers like Hogan and Savage and that helped a lot.
Neither was an Eddy Guerrero or Dean Malenko but they could hang with a more complex match choreography and pull of some surprisingly intricate spots when called for
So disagree – the elbow and catch phrase were a couple trees but the forest was well planted
Who let this Jabroni post????
No, he owes it to his ability to put on a performance, both in the ring and with a mic. A lesser man would have lost all the chances he received; we’ve seen mediocre wrestlers waste a push many times. The Rock made something of what he was given. He’s a performer, not a catchphrase.
I never knew that dude had a catchphrase until today. I thought he was just an actor. That doesn’t make any sense. Ill have to check out a vid on YouTube.
“What’s the name of the guy who came up with the Rock’s catchphrase?” “His name is -“
“Nobody cares what your name is!”
The guy who came up with his catchphrase was Dwayne Johnson.
Who made the rock’s catchphra..
IT DOESN’T MATTER WHO MADE THE CATCHPHRASE!
Not really sure the point you’re trying to make. If you think he’s all about a catchphrase then I don’t know what to tell you aside from go rewatch the attitude era. The people’s [insert here] was a direct rip from Muhammad Ali and he was badly booed for it initially, he was a heel at the time. He was in the nation of domination which, if we’re being objective, kind of had this nation of islam gimmick to it, hense the rip on muhammad ali. No, The Rock very much made whatever he had from his personality and aura, there’s nothing to even argue here.
Expert textbert choking smokers wasn’t a win? How about yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog’s eye?
That’s like saying Stone Cold owes his career to whoever decided to put the glass break at the start of his theme. Crazy talk.
The People’s Elbow was created by The Rock during a dark match trying to make the Undertaker break character. The Rock came up with most of his own catchphrases. His development was actually pretty bad under creative until he was allowed to put his own personality into the mix. He didn’t have to be flashy in the ring, he had a move set and stuck with it. 90% of the most popular wrestlers became that because of their consistency. People came in expecting the elbow, the Rock bottom, the eyebrow. Same with Hogan and the shirt rip, leg drop, flexing. Taker – Tombstone, top rope walk, sitting up. Stone cold – Stunner, beer, body splash takedown/trash talk. The limited move set is a trademark af nearly every single superstar because it works. You find something the crowd wants and you keep it. Something doesn’t work? It goes away. Even Brett Hart (who had a ton of move sets) you expected – the glasses, a sharpshooter, submission reversals. I didn’t list every superstar or legend, and I’m sure there are many that I should’ve listed (Flair, Sting, Road Warriors, Dusty, Shawn Michael’s etc) but there aren’t many that had a different moveset or mic skill that wasn’t repetitive.
“Can you smell what The Rock is cooking” comes from when he sat for an interview with Gennifer Flowers at Wrestlemania 14. It was a play on her last name that he came up with and then just kept using after that.
The Rock came up with the “can you smell…” catchphrase. He says it was based on something he heard said in the locker room when he was at Miami.
His mannerisms and whatnot after first turning heel and becoming The Rock were himself and Pat Patterson.
Pat Patterson is also who got him hired at WWE (then WWF) despite having no experience.
Rock’s later promos were a mix of himself and Brian Gewirtz, who was a WWE writer at the time. Rock trusts him so much he actually hired Gewirtz to be an EVP at his production company.
So I’d give a vast majority of the credit to The Rock himself.
I’m a 38 year old man and to this very day i randomly look into a non existing camera and arch just one eye brow up.