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Before joining WWE and getting famous by starring in Hollywood, Dwayne Johnson played Football during his university years. With The Rock stating that he wanted to be an NFL player in the beginning but couldn’t due to complications, his former teammate testified against the actor and called him a liar.
With Johnson playing Football at the University of Miami, his former teammate and NFL legend Warren Sapp stated how the actor has lied several times. Stating that The Rock used to sit on the sidelines when they were playing any game, Warren Sapp essentially called Dwayne Johnson’s beginning an utter lie.
NFL Legend Denies Dwayne Johnson’s Football Claims
Before he joined Vince McMahon’s WWE, the wrestler was into Football during his college years. Playing for the team of the University of Miami, Dwayne Johnson claimed that he had to leave Football due to some complications that made him join the WWE.
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His former teammate and NFL veteran Warren Sapp denied all the claims made by Dwayne Johnson and essentially called them bluffs. Revealing that the actor used to sit at the sidelines during a game, Warren Sapp essentially called The Rock a liar! In an interview onThe Rich Eisen Show,Warren Sapp immediately corrected the host by stating that The Rock was sitting on the sidelines when he [Sapp] was playing on the field.
The NFL veteran further denied Johnson’s claim by stating that he was never a starter on the University of Miami Football team! When asked about why he thinksDwayne Johnsonmade it all up, the veteran had a simple remark.
“Because he’s in Hollywood and you make it up. You follow the script, he’s good at it. Following the script, he’s damn good at that.”
Speaking of dedication and commitment, Dwayne Johnson had one hilarious incident to recall during the shooting of the 2014 movieHercules.
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Dwayne Johnson’s Fake Beard Was Made With Yak’s Hair
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Although it doesn’t sound bad at all what Dwayne Johnson’s beard was made out of, the body part from which the hair was used seemed weird to people and the actor. In an interview, theBlack Adamactor revealed that his beard hair that was used in the 2014 filmHerculeswas actually the hair around a Yak’s te*ticles!
“The beard hair, I’ve got to mention this, this is crazy. The beard wasn’t lace so it had to be put on strips cut in tri, quarter inch wide, piece-by-piece. So I asked my Italian designer, ‘Matteo what is this?’ And he goes, ‘Oh, it’s the hair from a yak’. It’s very expensive and very fine hair and I said, ‘Yak?’ And he says, ‘Yes, yak’. And he’s putting it on my face like this [rubs the area around his mouth] and I say, ‘What part?’ And he goes, ‘The te*ticles.”
With fake beards and alleged Football stories, Dwayne Johnson is quite busy as the actor is associated with a plethora of projects. The 2014 movie,Herculesis available to stream on Prime Video in the U.S.
Source:Essentially Sports
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Visarg Acharya is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on movies, with over 3000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past three years and a copywriter at a corporation. Visarg usually covers news and theories on the MCU and the DCU, with an emphasis on Avengers and Superman; Game of Thrones, and more.A Tarantino fan, Visarg, spends his time critiquing various directors’ filmographies and watching them with curiosity. Medieval fantasy like The Lord of the Rings or sci-fi movies like Interstellar, watching the latest horror movies, and listening to Hans Zimmer become his comfort zone. When idle, he can be found reading fantasy novels with a terrible cup of coffee in hand.
