Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's father passes at 75

[Old Ironmaker]

I have plenty of stories of watching Rocky Johnson wrestle during tapings of "Maple Leaf Wrestling" when they taped the show at the Channel 11, CHCH studio on King Street West in Hamilton in the 60's. He was one of the 1st black wrestlers and had a body like Mr. Universe back then. One of our favorites. I didn't know he was from Nova Scotia. If there were 30 people during those tapings it was a lot. All the future WWF superstars were there from Bruno Samartino , Abdula the Butcher, The Beast (who worked at Dofasco) Whipper Billy Watson, Billy Red Lyons and Ivan The Terrible Koloff to name just a few. Condolences to the family and his  many fans around the World. 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/rocky-johnson-curtis-bowles-johnson-1.5429494