The Rock has named essentially the most insane athletes he ever confronted off towards in WWE. The Folks’s Champ made his skilled wrestling debut for WWE at Survivor Sequence in 1996. After initially struggling to ring a bell with the viewers as the tasteless babyface character, Rocky Maivia, he received followers over when he grew to become a villain and reworked into The Rock.
The Nice One spent eight years as a full-time wrestlers for WWE earlier than transitioning to Hollywood in 2004. He is since made sporadic appearances and has returned to the ring on quite a few events. He is thought-about one of many best WWE stars of all time and is answerable for among the firm’s most iconic moments, matches and rivalries.
Because of this, he is come up towards an actual who’s-who {of professional} wrestling legends. The Rock has gone toe-to-toe with the likes of Stone Chilly Steve Austin, The Undertaker and Triple H over time and hasn’t been shy to bathe his former opponents with reward previously. Not too long ago, although, he sat down with Mark Kerr, the UFC icon who he is not too long ago portrayed in The Smashing Machine, and through their dialog, he named the three most ‘insane athletes’ that he got here throughout in WWE.
The Rock’s Three Most Insane WWE Athletes
When The Rock sat down and spoke with Kerr for Sports activities Illustration’s YouTube channel, the subject of Kurt Angle got here up. The Olympic gold medalist initially made a reputation for himself in newbie wrestling earlier than transitioning into WWE. Because of this, he ended up dealing with off towards each males. He took on The Nice One contained in the squared circle and he wrestled Kerr throughout his newbie profession.
The 2 males spoke extremely of Angle and mentioned how insane an athlete he was. Then, The Rock went on to call two different wrestlers he got here up towards in WWE that have been insane athletes. As quoted by Wrestling Inc, he mentioned:
“Kurt was one of the crucial unbelievable athletes, proper? You realize, I felt that if you speak about his gears, like, there are guys I wrestled with, and that is why I all the time liked wrestling guys who have been simply insane athletes with a pedigree in different issues. And that was all the time Kurt Angle — insane athlete, pedigree in wrestling, gold medal on the Olympics, wins the gold medal with a damaged neck.
“I imply, it is simply wild. You realize, Brock Lesnar was the identical, unbelievable pedigree, athlete. You could possibly go anyplace within the ring with him. And, you recognize, who else was an incredible athlete? Booker T, who I really like. Wonderful athlete.”
All three males had unbelievable careers in WWE. Lesnar remains to be energetic to today, whereas Angle and Booker have since retired. All of them made an affect on The Rock, although.
