Dwayne Johnson

He goes, I want to make sure that the crowd thinks and knows that you're grateful to be here and you're grateful for the opportunity.

So I always want you smiling.

I want you to be the quintessential baby face.

And I remember at that time, Terry, thinking, well, I feel like there might be other ways for me to show how grateful I am, but also this is a performance.

And

Even before I went out with my big smiles as requested from WWE, it just didn't feel right to me.

So I made my debut and my very first match in WWE, which was actually my very first match ever, and that was in Madison Square Garden.

And I went out and we had my match and I wind up winning the whole thing, which was a pretty incredible night.

And the smiles were consistent.

Every night I would smile.

But then what happened quite quickly is the fans picked up on that and it wasn't good because they felt, and it was true, that I wasn't being just real and authentic.

And they began to turn on me.

Oh, yeah.

So that's the world of pro wrestling is you know and well aware of who's going to win that night and who's not.

That's why I'm always careful to say, not to say how many people I actually beat because it's actually, I didn't, you know, and they allowed it to happen.

So everybody supports everybody.

But yes, I did know that.

Mm-hmm.

So now when I get the call from WWE and says, hey, after your injury, when you heal up at the end of the summer, we're going to bring you back as a heel.

And then that night I got on the microphone and I said, Rocky, my via is a lot of things.