Nowadays The Rock is one of the most famous people on the planet, but there was once a time when he was just trying to make a name for himself in WWE.
A few months ago during an episode of Confessions Of The Hitman, Bret Hart claimed that The Rock was bullied backstage by Shawn Michaels and Triple H during his early days.
The Rock managed to win the WWE Championship for the first time at Survivor Series in 1998, and during the WWE Network special Meeting The Undertaker The Great One confirmed that a “handful of guys” tried to stop the title run from happening.
“This is stuff I’ve never shared but I do want to share it because it’s important. When I started to make the move [up the card] and word got around that the office was priming me for a WWE Championship run, there were a handful of guys in the business at the time who did everything they could to stop that run from happening.”
Rock also revealed that The Undertaker gave him some valuable advice when he was facing adversity backstage.
“He was always so steady, telling me, ‘Don’t worry about it, kid. Just go out and keep doing your thing. You have a hell of a future.'”
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