Young Rock is an American sitcom based on the life of Dwayne Johnson. A professional wrestler, and actor better known by his ring moniker “The Rock.” Critics have given the series mainly favorable reviews. The series got renewed for a second season in April 2021.
On December 15, 2021, a Christmas special episode aired ahead of the second season launch on March 15, 2022. The weekly episode will be coming up with an independent wrestler playing Steve Austin.
Young Rock Casts An Independent Wrestler As Steve Austin
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On Sunday, Dwayne Johnson announced that this week’s episode of Young Rock would showcase The Rock’s 1996 WWE trial bout, in which he meets his future foe “Stone Cold” Steve Austin.
Luke Hawx will play “The Texas Rattlesnake.” He has been in series like Heels and movies like The Fate of the Furious and Logan in addition to having his own company and wrestling in companies like the NWA.
“I had never wrestled an actual real match in my life, so on this night in front of 15,000 rabid and wild pro wrestling fans – I was thrown headfirst into the fire to see if I could take the heat and survive,” Johnson reported.
“This night changed my life forever. Of course, I would eventually drop the name ‘Rocky Maivia’ (which I hated) and become known only as THE ROCK. And ‘The Ringmaster’ would eventually drop his name (which he hated) and become known as the one and only, STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN.”
Who All Will Be Featured In The Episode
Triple H, Mankind, and The Undertaker, among other wrestlers, will be featured in the episode as Johnson’s other photographs show. Before the start of Season 2, Brian Gewirtz, the program’s executive producer. A former WWE head writer spoke with ComicBook about the idea of the show handling Johnson’s time in the Attitude Era.
“Oh, definitely. We strategically put just a quick little second of a clip in there in the new trailer, kind of like Princess Leia in The Force Awakens trailer. We just wanted to give a quick, ‘Oh my God, what was that?’ moment of seeing Rocky Maivia making his grand entrance at Survivor Series ’96.
We get to that and potentially more stuff this season without really giving anything away.
Hopefully Season Three and beyond, at least in that timeline with Uli (Latukefu), we could really explore that.
Uli, who plays 23-year-old Dwayne, he’s really just an athletic freak. He took to wrestling so quickly that if Vince [McMahon] wanted to take a look at him and bring him into WWE, I’m sure he would achieve success really quickly.
I don’t think he’s going to do that. But if he wanted to, he probably could,” he said.
