The Rock Is Losing Weight To Become Friends With a Chicken

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I never thought The Rock was a big person. That’s mostly because I was judging him against people like The Undertaker, the aptly named Big Show, and The Great Khali, who are 6’10”, 7’0”, and 7’1” respectively. Yes, those are some of the taller wrestlers out there, and Dwayne Johnson is only four inches shorter than the shortest among them, but he just never looked that big. So I was surprised to see a piece about his drastic weight loss.

I’m not talking about recently. This was in 2008, as promotion for his turn in Get Smart , which was being pushed as a big opportunity for him. It wasn’t that for anybody. But that didn’t stop Johnson’s ascent, even though the p

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