Dwayne Douglas Johnson ( born May 2, 1972), also known—and sometimes credited—by his ring name The Rock, is an American actor and professional wrestler who works for WWE.
Johnson was a college football player. In 1991, he was on the University of Miami’s national championship 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. He gained mainstream fame as a wrestler in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) from 1996 to 2004, and was the first third-generation wrestler in the company’s history. He was quickly
pushed as a face in the WWF, originally billed as “Rocky Maivia”, then as “The Rock”. He turned heel as a member of the Nation of Domination in 1997. Two years after he joined the WWF, he won the WWF Championship and became one of the most popular wrestlers ever, primarily for his charismatic interviews and promos.
Johnson is widely considered one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time. He has had 17 championship reigns in WWE, including 10 as a world heavyweight champion (the WWF/E Championship eight times and the WCW/World Championship twice), the WWF Intercontinental Championship twice and the WWF Tag Team Championship five times. He is the sixth WWF/E Triple Crown Champion, and the winner of the 2000 Royal Rumble.
Jason Statham was born on September 12, 1967 in Chesterfield, UK. His father was a lounge singer and illegal trader, and his mother was a street dancer. So Jason’s childhood cannot be called prosperous. He later recalled that growing up in such an atmosphere, you can always meet a lot of colorful characters whose business lies on the other side of the law, and this helps him to play his characters. He grew up with the famous football player Vinnie Jones, whom he later brought to the movies, and Jason himself played football for the school team. But his true passion was diving. He trained daily, which eventually paid off: for 12 years,
Statham was part of the British national diving team and took 12th place at the 1992 World Championships. True, in one of the interviews, he said that sport was more of a hobby, and at that time he earned money by trading in the street market. In addition, Jason also studied martial arts.
A new round in Statham’s life began when, in the late nineties, an agent noticed him during a training session at the London National Sports Center and offered to participate in an advertising campaign for the Tommy Hilfiger brand. So, after advertising jeans, Jason’s modeling career began. He soon became a model for the French Connection brand.