Dwayne Johnson

And while very proud of my family's history in pro wrestling, I also wanted to make it on my own, and I wanted to carve my own path.

And so they came up, WWE came up with this name, Rocky Maivia, a combination of my dad's name, Rocky Johnson, and my grandfather's name, High Chief Peter Maivia.

So it was showing respect to my family lineage,

And all part of the good guy, baby face persona.

And I remember having a conversation with Vince McMahon, who was the owner at that time of WWE.

And he said, when you go out every night, I want you to smile.

I said, can I ask you why?

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 they 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.