“It Was Rocky’s Dad”: WWE Legend Who Beat The Rock in a Huge Upset Reveals Rocky Johnson’s Alter-Ego as His Biggest Inspiration

Belonging to a family of athletes, Dwayne Johnson entered the pro-wrestling world with a lot of expectations on his shoulders. Soon Johnson would soar up to massive heights and become one of the biggest stars in the industry.

Hailing from the Anoa’i Wrestling family, Dwayne Johnson would enter WWE after a failed football career as Rocky Maivia. However, he would soon undergo a character change, and become The Rock. Similar to his father, who also had different gimmicks, such as Rocky Johnson, and Sweet Ebony Diamond. Former WWE wrestler recently opened up about how he fulfilled a legacy related to Rocky Johnson.

Which former WWE superstar opened up about coming about a full circle with Dwayne Johnson?

During a recent interview with Chris Van Vliet, Hurricane aka Gregory Helms opened up about his favorite wrestler growing up. He would claim as a child his favorite masked wrestler used to be Sweet Ebony Diamond, aka Rocky Johnson.

Helms would go into great detail about how he identified Sweet Ebony Diamond as Rocky Johnson. And potentially solved a mystery, before opening up on coming a full circle with the Johnson family. He said, “So, my first favorite masked wrestler ever was, Sweet Ebony Diamond. Who People might not realize, it was Rocky’s dad. So yeah, he came down to the mid-Atlantic area and did some work down there.”

Being a masked wrestler was never in the plans for Hurricane, but as career progressed, he ended up being one. Helms would then state, how his career once came to a full-circle when he was involved in the biggest win of his career against The Rock, son of the masked Sweet Ebony Diamond.

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He stated, “But the thing, the guy like that was my first favorite masked wrestler ended up being the father of the guy, I had my biggest match with while I was wearing a mask. It’s just a weird story to me.” Back during the Ruthless Aggression Era, The Rock and Hurricane had one of the most entertaining feuds of all time, and one of the biggest in Helm’s career.

How did Hurricane solve the mystery of Sweet Ebony Diamond being Rocky Johnson?

In the same interview with Chris Van Vliet, Helms stated how he decoded the mystery of the two gimmicks. He said, ” I had this magazine and I had you know Sweet Ebony Diamond, and he’s in the mask, and he doesn’t have a shirt on. And I see the tattoos, and I recognize the tattoos from this picture of Rocky Johnson from a different magazine.”

The 49-year-old further continued, ” I am so excited, I have solved this mystery. I am like five or six years old, so I go in and tell my dad, and my dad was a big wrestling fan. He’s the one that got me into wrestling. And I go, ‘Hey dad look! Sweet Ebony Johnson he is Rocky Johnson!’ And my dad goes, ‘Yeah! I know.’ Damn it!”

While the young Helms thought he had solved a huge mystery, it was rather never a mystery. However, years later, a masked Hurricane would be involved in a huge match-up with Sweet Ebony Diamond’s son, The Rock and come out on top.

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