Posted on 9/25/125 by Colin Vassallo
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson teared up during an interview
promoting his new movie The Smashing Machine while speaking
to MTV UK regarding his daughter’s WWE journey.
With the NXT GM by his side, he said he’s so proud of her,
before he had to take a step back to contain his emotions.
“I am so proud of her. Because it’s what I did, you know?
And I love what I did. And I love wrestling, I grew up in
wrestling…she was born into it too, just like I was,”
Johnson explained.
He said that the fact that she wanted to do what he did but
with a difference that she wanted to carve her own path
without having his influence behind it, is what makes it a
big deal for him and what makes him emotional.
“Because it’s easy, I think…for any kid who wants to come up
and do what their parents are doing to, maybe it’s not
overt, but to utilize the influence,” Johnson continued.
“I’m telling you, it never happened. I never got that call.
Like, ‘Hey, can you call someone?’ I never got that call,
and that’s the truth.”
Johnson said that had he got that call, he would have been
there and he would have made that call, but when he didn’t
get it, it gave him a sense of pride because he knows he and
her mom raised an amazing human being.
Ava, real name Simone Johnson, started on NXT television in
late 2022 as part of The Schism faction and eventually
transitioned to an on-screen assistant to Shawn Michaels and
then NXT General Manager.