‘Jealous’ Triple H breaks down his ‘heated’ WWE rivalry with Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson

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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in the 1990s — and didn’t hold back about their grievances in the Season 3 premiere of A&E’s “WWE Rivals.”“I’ll tell you, when he first came in there was some jealousy and people were like, ‘Why are they pushing this kid?'” former wrestler Glenn Jacobs said on the show. “He struggled with that.”Paul “Triple H” Levesque, in particular, appeared determined to knock the aspiring champion, now 51, down a few pegs.“There was always competition between the two,” Bruce Prichard, longtime WWE producer, said. “There’s a reason you believed these two guys didn’t like each other: They didn’t.”The hatred between the two was so great, that it even continued after the cameras stopped filming.

The episode focused on “the infamous animosity between” them that “[began] with their heated rivalry over the World Championship in the early 2000s.” Johnson made his debut with the pro wrestling company at the Survivor Series pay-per-view in 1996, and ultimately pinned Levesque to help his team win the match. “It was a big deal at the time,” Levesque said on the program. “Titles didn’t change hands as often, and I can remember being jealous of that.”It wasn’t just Levesque, 54, who initially disliked Johnson either.

Johnson “took a lot s—t” from fans and fellow wrestlers, according to Levesque. Johnson, meanwhile, said the crowd “saw right through” the company’s support of him and turned on him.