{"id":2157412,"date":"2024-01-23T19:10:01","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T00:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dwayne-the-rock-johnson-secures-ownership-of-his-famous-nickname-in-wwe-deal\/"},"modified":"2024-01-23T19:10:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T00:10:01","slug":"dwayne-the-rock-johnson-secures-ownership-of-his-famous-nickname-in-wwe-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dwayne-the-rock-johnson-secures-ownership-of-his-famous-nickname-in-wwe-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwayne \u2018The Rock\u2019 Johnson secures ownership of his famous nickname in WWE deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdwayne-the-rock-johnson-secures-ownership-of-his-famous-nickname-in-wwe-deal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2157412&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Despite going by \u201cThe Rock\u201d for years, wrestling and movie star Dwayne Johnson never actually owned the rights to his famous nickname \u2014 until today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> The full ownership of his stage name came from a services and merchandising agreement that also appointed Johnson to the board of directors at the TKO Group, a professional wrestling entertainment company that owns WWE and UFC. The company will pay The Rock $30 million in stock awards to boost its brand throughout 2024 and 2025, according to an FEC filing on Tuesday.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> \u00a0In an interview on CNBC, Johnson said, \u201cMy grandfather, High Chief Peter Maivia, and my dad, Rocky \u2018Soulman\u2019 Johnson, would\u2019ve never thought this day would come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> The nickname was inspired by his father, Rocky, the first black champion in WWE history<\/p>\n<p> Johnson said taking ownership of the name \u201cis not only unprecedented but incredibly inspiring as my crazy life is coming full circle.\u201d He added that TKO \u201cis building something truly game-changing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Outside of his movie career, Johnson owns companies such as Teremana Tequila and marketing company Seven Bucks Productions, among many others.<\/p>\n<p> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> TKO announced that Johnson will be joined by fellow entrepreneur Brad Keywell, co-founder of Groupon and chairman of AI software provider Uptake Technologies. The two additions bring the board to 13 members in total.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Johnson recently appeared on WWE\u2019s TV shows Smackdown and Raw. There is talk among fans that he might participate in WrestleMania next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite going by \u201cThe Rock\u201d for years, wrestling and movie star Dwayne Johnson never actually owned the rights to his famous nickname \u2014 until today.\u00a0 The full ownership of his stage name came from a services and merchandising agreement that also appointed Johnson to the board of directors at the TKO Group, a professional wrestling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2686,"featured_media":2157414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2157412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2157412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2157414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2157412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2157412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2157412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}