When 'The Rock' Dwayne Johnson joined the TKO Board of Directors, 'Triple H' Paul Levesque took him on a tour of #WWE HQ and showed him a photo of his father that he'd never seen before:
Johnson said he'd never been to the base of operations before and he got a tour from Paul "Triple H" Levesque, CCO of the WWE, who showed him a slew of memorabilia.
"He goes, 'Hey, I got one more thing to show you,' and we went downstairs, [where] you see on the wall these pictures of these wrestlers," Johnson remembered. "He goes, 'Oh, look at that one.' And over in the corner is this incredibly well-lit picture, black-and-white, of my dad and Tony Atlas, the day they made history and became the first Black tag team champions."
"I have never seen that picture before and I was so choked up... I was really moved," Johnson added. "In that moment, I thought, 'Man, they were wrestling in what was a field house back then and wrestling has changed!' My dad just made history and the bumps and the bruises and the sacrifices that he made and that all those guys made. Now we're talking about the biggest WrestleMania of all time and the company signs a $5 billion deal with Netflix. It's just incredible."
(Entertainment Tonight)