Dwayne Johnson

We would know where to pick up our finishes.

So it's almost like if you go right to the third act of the script.

We would go there, and then we would go home, and then that would be the end of the match.

So I didn't want to tell John that because I knew the match would end, and I didn't want the match to end in that way because not only was it important to me to go out on my shield, also, Terry, I knew this was my very last match of my entire career.

My career was going to end on this night.

No one knew, but I knew.

This was in 2013.

Okay.

And the other reason, and maybe more important than my career ending, was I was...

Doing the honors.

So again, in wrestling parlance, when you're the world champion and you're carrying the wrestling business and the company on your shoulders and you do what's called doing the honors, that means you are passing it on and you're passing the torch to someone who's going to carry it from here on out.

And that was to John, and that was the finish of our match, was me giving him, me doing the honors for him, and he was beating me in the middle of the ring, one, two, three, to become champion.

And that's why I didn't want the match to end right away.

I wanted him to have his moment.

That's important.

Good question.

It became global.

And it became publicly traded.

And it evolved from wrestling in very, very small venues to stadiums throughout our country and around the world.

And I was lucky in a way, Terry, in that my era, when I came into pro wrestling in the 90s,