Dwayne Johnson Reveals Young Rock's Attitude-Era WWE Superstars Like SCSA & ETC

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Young Rock Season 2 came with the promise that fans would see the early years of Dwayne Johnson's career in the WWE, and that slice of the timeline has now arrived.  Wrestling fans will soon see Johnson entering the organization's roster just ahead of the massively popular Attitude Era, which means a bunch of familiar wrestling legends will make their debut. Or at least the actors playing those legends will, as The Rock himself revealed the first look at The Undertaker, Mankind, a pre-3:16 Steve Austin and more, and the visuals are kinda wild. 

Dwayne Johnson took to Instagram to share photo stills from the upcoming Young Rock episode "Corpus Christi," which will feature "Rocky Malvia" (the athlete's original in-ring name) meeting "The Ringmaster" (Steve Austin's thankfully short-lived gimmick) for the first time. Take a look at the photo gallery below, and check out the actors taking on these iconic WWE behemoths.

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Professional wrestler Luke Hawx comes into Young Rock as Steve Austin, and while he didn't wrestle with the -chugging icon, Hawx did do some work in WWE and ECW briefly throughout the 2000s. Hopefully, his experience across several different organizations (slightly echoing Steve Austin's career) will help him really find the Stone Cold persona should Young Rock highlight that era, if not the "Stunning" era that preceded it.  As for other actors featured, we have Mick Foley and his Mankind alter ego, as played by Brock Dunstan, Josh Rawiri as Undertaker, Brad Burroughs as Michael PS Hayes, Miles Burris as Hunter Hearst Helmsley, and Gawain Johnstone as Mantaur. Someone who didn't show up in the pics was Adam Ray's Vince McMahon, but this crew (alongside Brett Azar reprising his recurring role as Iron Sheik) will help bring the spirit of '90s WWE to NBC primetime, and I personally can't wait to see it.