• Johnson was a college football player for the University of Miami, winning a national championship on the 1991 Miami Hurricanes football team
• He later played for the Calgary Stampeders in the Canadian Football League, and was cut two months into the 1995 season
• This led him to become a professional wrestler like his grandfather, Peter Maivia, and his father, Rocky Johnson (from whom he also inherited his Canadian citizenship)
• Johnson gained mainstream fame in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF/E) from 1996 to 2004 as a major figure in the company's Attitude Era, and was the first third-generation wrestler in the company's history
• He returned to wrestling part-time for WWE from 2011 to 2013 and continues to make sporadic non-wrestling appearances for the company
• As of November 2016, Johnson has had 17 championship reigns in WWE, including 10 as a world champion, winning the WWF/E Championship eight times (seventh reign was as WWE Undisputed Champion) and the WCW/World Championship twice
• He won the Intercontinental Championship twice and the WWF Tag Team Championship five times
• Johnson is the sixth Triple Crown Champion in WWE history, and won the 2000 Royal Rumble
• He is widely regarded as one of the greatest pro wrestlers of all time
• Johnson's autobiography The Rock Says, co-written with Joe Layden, was published in 2000
• It debuted at No. 1 on The New York Times Best Seller list, spent 20 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and sold 720,000 copies in hardcover alone
• Johnson's first leading film role was in The Scorpion King in 2002
• For this role, he was paid US $5.5 million, a world record for an actor in his first starring role
• He has since appeared in various films, and become known for his ability to reinvigorate film franchises
• Perhaps his greatest success in his acting career can be sourced to his role as Luke Hobbs in The Fast and the Furious franchise
• He hosted and produced The Hero, a reality competition series; and has since continued to produce TV series and films through his production company Seven Bucks Productions, each of which he also stars in
• Forbes listed Dwayne Johnson #25 in the Top 100 Most Powerful Celebrities in 2013
• He is the world's highest-paid actor of 2016
• Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2016
• In 2015, Muscle & Fitness named Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as their "Man of the Century

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