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Luke Hawx Playing Steve Austin In This Week’s Young Rock
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This week’s episode of Young Rock will feature a Texas Rattlesnake, with Luke Hawx playing Steve Austin in Tuesday’s show. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson posted to his Instagram account to share pics from this week’s episode, which will feature Hawx as Austin as well as protrayals of Mankind, The Undertaker, Hunter Hearst Helmsley, Mantaur and more. Hawx then took to Facebook to confirm he’s playing Austin and comment.
Johnson wrote:
PRO WRESTLING aficionados get ready a very special episode of @NBC’s YOUNG ROCK airs THIS TUESDAY!
1996: Backstage.
@WWE locker room.
Rocky Maivia meets The Ringmaster for the first time.I had never wrestled an actual real match in my life, so on this night in front of 15,000 rabid and wild pro wrestling fans – I was thrown headfirst into the fire to see if I could take the heat and survive.
This night changed my life forever.
Of course, I would eventually drop the name “Rocky Maivia” (which I hated) and become known only as THE ROCK.
And “The Ringmaster” would eventually drop his name (which he hated) and become known as the one and only, STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN
Brock Dunstan is playing Mick Foley in the episode, with Miles Burris as Hunter Hearst Helmsley. Josh Rawiri is playing The Undertaker, and Gawain Johnstone is Mantaur. Additionally, Brad Burroughs is playing Michael PS Hayes. and Adam Ray portrays Vince McMahon. The episode, “Corpus Christi,” is described as follows:
Texas, 1996: Dwayne’s first match will be for the WWF; after meeting legends and future legends backstage, he soon discovers there’s more to the match than just the moves — he needs to get a hostile audience to care.
