The Rock on Breaking Into Wrestling & Origin of Jabroni

The Rock covered many different topics with Jason & Travis Kelce on their New Heights podcast. Like the rest of us, Jason & Travis discovered Rock during his wrestling career. They discussed Rock getting into wrestling, along with some of the interesting things Rock’s character would say, such as “jabroni.” Highlights of his comments are below.

On transitioning from football to wrestling:

“My dad goes ‘Who was that?’ And I go, ‘Oh, it was the coach from Canada (CFL). He offered me a chance to come back.’ (Rocky Johnson) goes ‘Oh, that’s great!’ I said, ‘Yeah, I’m not gonna take it’ …and I said to my dad, who was a pro wrestler…I said ‘I don’t wanna do that, and I’m closing that chapter in my life… I’m going to be a wrestler.’ He hated the idea! He was like ‘Worst decision!’ We got into a huge fight that night.”

On ownership of the word ‘Jabroni’:

“I do not own the word ‘Jabroni’, I think it’s just out there. I own the name The Rock, not Jabroni… I might own that, because I own everything associated with The Rock like ‘it doesn’t matter’ or ‘if you smell’… let me give him props: The Iron Sheik… he made that word famous. He used to, especially in the locker room go ‘Oh, this jabroni’… so that’s where I got it from. It’s in the Webster’s dictionary and I get credit for it now. But it’s really the .”

Rock also discussed the topic of John Cena’s last match along with various happenings in his film career and personal life. You can listen to Rock chat with the Kelces below: