The Rock Says House Show Match With Chris Jericho Was One Of His Most Memorable

WWE Live Events and house shows are never televised to the public. Which is a shame, because surely there’s been some classics matches along the ways.

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson recently took part in a live Facebook stream, where he noted that a non-televised bout with “Y2J” Chris Jericho was one of his all-time favorites (transcribed by WrestlingInc.com):

“It was a live event,” Rock said. “It was a house show. No cameras. No nothing. It was in Hawaii at the Blaisdell Center, which is Honolulu’s big arena and I went there, I wrestled Chris Jericho. Hawaii was very special, so that match, that night, the crowd that came out. I wrestled with Chris Jericho – he was my chosen dance partner. I appreciate that. And here’s a cool little thing: we sold out the Blaisdell [Center] faster than Elvis Presley.”

“But [the match] was special for me because I did a lot of my growing up in Hawaii and all of the years of struggling as a family. I was evicted in Hawaii, we were evicted out of our little efficiency, forced to move, forced to leave Hawaii. My grandfather, years ago, bought the wrestling promotion in Hawaii and he struggled with it. He died struggling.”

“My grandmother took over the wrestling promotion. She became the first woman promoter in pro wrestling in a very cutthroat, shark-infested world. And, anyway, Hawaii always represented so much struggle. I started getting arrested when I was 14 years old, doing a lot of stupid s–t that I shouldn’t have been doing. I was, at that time when we got evicted out of our efficiency, I thought it was the worst thing that could ever happen, and, actually, at that time, it was. Now, in hindsight, it was the greatest thing to ever happen because it forced me into this mindset, honestly, for hard work. If I could do anything, I would do everything I could to make sure we never get evicted again.”

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Editor’s Note

Started from the bottom, now here’s here. The Rock is the best.

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