Simone Johnson is wrestling off haters who wish to rely out her skilled identify.
Johnson introduced Sunday that she could be often known as Ava Raine, and other people on Twitter have been upset the identify wasn’t a nod to her father, wrestling legend Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
“I’m barely upset she received’t be often known as The Pebble,” one particular person quipped.
“Pebbles!! Her dad’s the Rock why not!?” one other added.
The 20-year-old clapped again on the overused joke by posting a picture of a Google search of various kinds of rocks, writing “nothing on this class please xx.”
“i urge of you guys to discover a new joke. something,” she mentioned in one other tweet.
“Giving Simone Johnson, the daughter of THE ROCK, a brand new identify is totally nonsensical,” one other consumer commented. “Will maintain judgment till she debuts, but when WWE doesn’t acknowledge her dad is The Rock that’s ridiculous.”
In response to the criticism, Johnson wrote on Twitter, “I in all probability sound like a damaged report & hopefully that is the final I’ll point out this however I don’t perceive why individuals being portrayed as separate people from their household identify is such a heated subject.”
“A reputation doesn’t discredit any prior accomplishments from any household.”
In a follow-up tweet, she mentioned, “I might construct my whole profession round my father & individuals would nonetheless bash me anyway.”
Johnson revealed her WWE persona by altering her Twitter deal with to @AvaRaineWWE and sharing a GIF of grinning Nancy Downs, Fairuza Balk’s character in 1996 film “The Craft.”
She signed a cope with WWE in 2020, however had her debut delayed on account of a knee harm.
Johnson is a fourth-generation wrestler, and her father was a 10-time WWE world champion. Her grandfather Rocky Johnson and great-grandfather Peter “Excessive Chief” Maivia are WWE Corridor of Famers.
“It means the world to me,” she mentioned in a assertion in the beginning of her coaching. “To know that my household has such a private connection to wrestling is de facto particular to me and I really feel grateful to have the chance, not solely to wrestle, however to hold on that legacy.”
She is anticipated to make her WWE debut later this yr.
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