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He retired from wrestling in 1991, but went on to help train his son Dwayne to chase his ring dreams as The Rock.

Rocky, who had been living in Florida, was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by his superstar son in 2008, and published his autobiography, Soulman: The Rocky Johnson Story, last year.

A movie about his life was also in the works after he granted the rights to filmmakers Jonathan and Justin Gajewski in 2018.

Ring King was due to chronicle his career from the 1950s to the late 1990s.

He was married twice – first to Una Johnson, the mother of his kids Curtis and Wanda, for six years until 1968, and then to Ata Maivia, Dwayne’s mom, in 1970 until 2003.