The Rock’s daughter Simone Johnson hits back over WWE name uproar

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quipped.“Pebbles!! Her dad’s the Rock why not!?” another added.The 20-year-old clapped back on the overused joke by posting an image of a Google search of different types of rocks, writing “nothing in this category please xx.”“i beg of you guys to find a new joke.

anything,” she said in another tweet.“Giving Simone Johnson, the daughter of THE ROCK, a new name is completely nonsensical,” another user commented. “Will hold judgment until she debuts, but if WWE doesn’t acknowledge her dad is The Rock that’s ridiculous.” nothing in this category please xx https://t.co/Z2u4Fug8dM pic.twitter.com/ls17RBCQOGIn response to the criticism, Johnson wrote on Twitter, “I probably sound like a broken record & hopefully this is the last I’ll mention this but I don’t understand why people being portrayed as separate individuals from their family name is such a heated topic.”“A name doesn’t discredit any prior accomplishments from any family.”In a follow-up tweet, she said, “I could build my entire career around my father & people would still bash me anyway.”pic.twitter.com/ciMhseI81YJohnson revealed her WWE persona by changing her Twitter handle to @AvaRaineWWE and sharing a GIF of Nancy Downs, Fairuza Balk’s character in “The Craft.”She signed a deal with the WWE in 2020, but had her debut delayed due to a knee injury.Johnson is a fourth-generation wrestler, and her father was a 10-time WWE world champion.

Her grandfather Rocky Johnson and great-grandfather Peter “High Chief” Maivia are WWE Hall of Famers.“It means the world to me,” she said in a statement at the start of her training.