{"id":62650,"date":"2020-02-10T18:46:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T23:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=62650"},"modified":"2020-03-24T00:21:20","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T04:21:20","slug":"simone-johnson-signs-with-wwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/02\/10\/simone-johnson-signs-with-wwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Simone Johnson Signs With WWE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She&#8217;s been training at the WWE Performance Center since she was a young teenager, but on Monday WWE made it official &#8211; <strong>Simone Johnson<\/strong>, the 18-year old son of <strong>Dwayne &#8220;The Rock&#8221; Johnson<\/strong>, has officially signed with the WWE and will continue her career as a WWE Superstar. Simone announced the news on her Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B8ZZNazg7Ji\/?utm_source=ig_embed<\/p>\n<p>The news was also broken by WWE on their own Social Media<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Simone Johnson begins training at WWE Performance Center: WWE Now, Feb. 10, 2020\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nf8d-9azrbY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Triple H<\/strong> tweeted out his congratulations to the now fourth generation Superstar, whose great-grandfather was <strong>High Chief Peter Maivia<\/strong>, grandfather in <strong>Rocky &#8220;Soulman&#8221; Johnson<\/strong>, and father in former 9x World Champion (8x WWE, 1x WCW) The Rock.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Carrying on the legacy and beginning her own. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SimoneGJohnson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@SimoneGJohnson<\/a> has earned her place at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWEPC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@WWEPC<\/a> training with the best in our industry. Congratulations, Simone! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DfJCV3p4zG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/DfJCV3p4zG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Triple H (@TripleH) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TripleH\/status\/1226975290036977669?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Simone Johnson began training at the PC during her down time from school starting in late 2018 and now officially joins the PC as its latest signee.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She&#8217;s been training at the WWE Performance Center since she was a young teenager, but on Monday WWE made it official &#8211; Simone Johnson, the 18-year old son of Dwayne &#8220;The Rock&#8221; Johnson, has officially signed with the WWE and will continue her career as a WWE Superstar. Simone announced the news on her Instagram. 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