Dwayne Johnson

the bad guys were beating me up.

And then my dad comes in and he helps make the save.

And we, in wrestling parlance, it's called cleaning house.

So the baby faces, the good guys start cleaning house, meaning, you know, they're just beating up the bad guys and throwing them out of the ring.

And ultimately, the good guys, the baby faces, are left standing in the ring.

And that's like a nice father and son moment that was...

It was really cool.

I wasn't, at that time, again, I was kind of struggling with that because I felt like, wait, I still want to try and create my own path.

And I remember thinking, if my dad comes out and he's involved, it's not aligned with what I want to do and trying to make my own path here.

But I still, I said, okay, let's do it.

And we did it, and it was a nice moment.

But, you know, I realized what actually it meant for him.

which that was a highlight for him.

And he has said that that was the highlight of his entire career, which meant a lot to me because my dad, he did trailblazing.

He and his tag team partner, Tony Atlas, they became the first black tag team champions of WWE.

And even in the world of WWE, that's fictionalized and rehearsed and you know who's going to win and you know who's going to lose.

And

When somebody becomes champion, the decision is made from an office that this man or this woman is going to become champion.

But why this was so significant in terms of, I think, culture and black culture and them becoming the first black tag team champions is because it signified that they really were trailblazing at that time.

And in the early 80s, there was still a lot of racism that was present, and especially in these small arenas and these small towns around the country where the audience was predominantly white.