Previously on the vintage Best and Worst of WWF Monday Night Raw: It was Thursday Raw Thursday, the episode that changed everything. Rocky Maivia pinned Triple H to win the Intercontinental ...

Rocky Maivia. Literally the only highlight of any ... Austin filtered through the WWF of just a few years later. That’s Austin vs. Hart at Revenge of the Taker. It’s still fun, because you ...

After winning a couple of championships, the WWF realized he was a gifted superstar in the making and signed him on as Rocky Maivia. WWF pushed Rocky to be their next big thing, and he quickly ...

Did you know? Survivor Series 1997 marked the final time the WWF referred to The Rock as Rocky Maivia. That name was taken out of the company lexicon immediately afterwards, and The Rock was ...

die" and "Rocky sucks" began to frequent his matches, a change of direction was needed. The WWF used the crowd's negativity to their advantage by turning Maivia heel when he joined the Nation of ...

Rocky Maivia, nicknamed "The Blue Chipper" at the ... This popularity led him to a WWF title match. At the time, he was feuding with Mr. McMahon, who had said he had a problem with the people ...

His father, Rocky Johnson, spent nearly 20 years in the NWA before jumping to the then-WWF for four years and winning the tag team titles with Tony Atlas. His grandfather, Peter Maivia wrestled ...

Upon his WWF debut in 1996, Dwayne Johnson took the ring name Rocky Maivia in honor of his wrestling roots before reimagining himself as the Attitude Era heel known famously as The Rock.

“I hated it because the lineage I had gave me the opportunity to at least knock on the door but I wanted my own identity, my own space,” Johnson said. “So I was very proud to come from who I ...