Madcap Moss has revealed some insights Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson shared with him and other select members of the WWE roster during a Performance Center visit made by 'The Great One' several years ago.
“[The Rock] came and talked to a group of us one time and someone asked him about being able to go beyond WWE and get into Hollywood and get into acting...he said, ‘We should all want to transcend the business. We should all want to be that big of a star, but you have to master the business before you can transcend it.”
Moss is currently toasting victory over Happy Corbin following the conclusion of their programme on last week's SmackDown. That "Last Laugh" encounter followed a victory at the Hell In A Cell premium live event a fortnight earlier.
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Moss has been in the WWE system since 2014 and but is currently experiencing what most would consider his first real opportunity to make a mark on the main roster after a couple of prior false starts. After middling runs in NXT, he made his Monday Night Raw debut in January 2020 as an associate of Mojo Rawley, which in turn saw him eventually dragged into 24/7 Championship nonsense. This was followed by a quick stint in Shane McMahon's Raw Underground project before an injury absence and late-2021 joining up with Happy Corbin.
Michael is a writer, editor, podcaster and presenter for WhatCulture Wrestling, and has been with the organisation for nearly 10 years. He primarily produces written, audio and video content on WWE and AEW, but also provides knowledge and insights on all aspects of the wrestling industry thanks to a passion for it dating back over 35 years.
As one third of "The Dadley Boyz" Michael has contributed to the huge rise in popularity of the WhatCulture Wrestling Podcast and its accompanying YouTube channel, earning it top spot in the UK's wrestling podcast charts with well over 65,000,000 total downloads. Within the podcasting space, he also co-hosts Benno & Hamflett, In Your House! and Podcast Horseman: The BoJack Horseman Podcast.
He has been featured as a wrestling analyst for the Tampa Bay Times, Fightful, POST Wrestling, GRAPPL, GCP, Poisonrana and Sports Guys Talking Wrestling, and has provided in-person coverage of some of the biggest pay-per-views and Premium Live Events in wrestling history, including WrestleMania, Survivor Series, All In & Double Or Nothing in destinations such as New York, New Jersey, Chicago, Dallas, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, London and Cardiff. Michael's background in media stretches beyond wrestling coverage, with a degree in Journalism from the University Of Sunderland (2:1) and a series of published articles in sports, music and culture magazines The Crack, A Love Supreme and Pilot. When not offering his voice up for daily wrestling podcasts, he can be found losing it singing far too loud watching his favourite bands play live.
