Former WWE Champion The Rock was recently named as fifth place on Forbes’ Celebrity 100 List. He is the highest-paid actor in the history of the list with $124 million for this year.
Rock placed 22nd on the list last year and shot up spectacularly to fifth place in 2018. It was noted he made the $124 million between June 2017 to June 2018. “The Great One” nearly doubled his earnings from 2017 as he made only $65 million.
He reacted to the news on Twitter recently:
Wow unexpected news.
I don’t have a Harvard MBA, but my business philosophy has been sharpened over time and thru failure. I have one boss I serve and connect with – the world and the people in it. I’m the dude who started w/ $7bucks. I’m awestruck ($124M) grateful & hungry. https://t.co/0VWSn5YU6N— Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) July 17, 2018
This prompted a congratulatory response from his former boss and WWE frontman Vince McMahon:
Congratulations to @TheRock on becoming the highest-paid actor in @Forbes #Celeb100 history. The hardest working man in show business proving once again that anything is possible through hard work. https://t.co/xJScYQ0jxD
— Vince McMahon (@VinceMcMahon) July 19, 2018
