The Rock's daughter slams backlash over her WWE name

Simone Johnson is wrestling off haters who are dissatisfied with her qualified identify.

Johnson declared Sunday that she would be identified as Ava Raine, and persons on Twitter had been disappointed the identify wasn’t a nod to her father, wrestling legend Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

“I’m a little unhappy she won’t be known as The Pebble,” a person human being quipped.

“Pebbles!! Her dad’s the Rock why not!?” an additional included.

The 20-calendar year-old clapped again on the overused joke by posting an graphic of a Google lookup of distinctive styles of rocks, producing “nothing in this class remember to xx.”

“i beg of you guys to locate a new joke. nearly anything,” she said in a further tweet.

“Giving Simone Johnson, the daughter of THE ROCK, a new title is fully nonsensical,” another person commented. “Will hold judgment till she debuts, but if WWE doesn’t acknowledge her father is The Rock that’s absurd.” 

Simone Johnson attends the 75th Annual Golden Globe Nominations Announcement held at The Beverly Hilton on December 11, 2017
Simone Johnson introduced Sunday that she would be regarded as Ava Raine.
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In reaction to the criticism, Johnson wrote on Twitter, “I almost certainly audio like a broken document & with any luck , this is the very last I’ll point out this but I really don't fully grasp why persons staying portrayed as independent people from their family members name is this kind of a heated matter.”

“A title does not discredit any prior accomplishments from any loved ones.”

In a stick to-up tweet, she stated, “I could build my total job all over my father & individuals would even now bash me anyway.”

Simone Alexandra Johnson attends the premiere of 'Skyscraper' on July 10, 2018 in New York City.
Simone Johnson is a fourth-technology wrestler.
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Johnson disclosed her WWE persona by transforming her Twitter tackle to @AvaRaineWWE and sharing a GIF of Nancy Downs, Fairuza Balk’s character in “The Craft.”

She signed a deal with the WWE in 2020, but experienced her debut delayed thanks to a knee damage.

Johnson is a fourth-technology wrestler, and her father was a 10-time WWE world winner. Her grandfather Rocky Johnson and terrific-grandfather Peter “High Chief” Maivia are WWE Hall of Famers.

“It signifies the planet to me,” she explained in a statement at the start of her schooling. “To know that my relatives has these a own relationship to wrestling is seriously distinctive to me and I come to feel grateful to have the prospect, not only to wrestle, but to have on that legacy.”

She is envisioned to make her WWE debut later this calendar year.

The Rock's daughter slams backlash over her WWE name

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