GREAT NEWS FOR ALL THE FANS: Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson will appear and also produce the biopic based on MMA legend Mark Kerr

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson will change into an amazing “The Smashing Machine.”

On Friday following the UFC 245 question and answer session, Johnson declared he’ll create and star in a forthcoming biopic dependent on the life of MMA legend Mark Kerr.

I’m pleased to state that myself and Seven Bucks Productions are going to make a film about the life of one of your establishing fathers, the spearheading establishing fathers, ‘The Smashing Machine’ Mark Kerr,” Johnson said.

“Imprint Kerr’s story is such an unimaginable story. Here’s a person who won the double-cross heavyweight competition in the beginning periods of UFC, and here’s a person who additionally headed toward PRIDE, (and) he had this mind-blowing run. The same number of these warriors have, and I needed to sparkle a focus on this man.”

Kerr, 50, started battling in 1997 after he was an NCAA wrestling champion from Syracuse University. He won both the UFC 14 and UFC 15 heavyweight competitions while piling on seven complete battles in his first year of rivalry in blended hand to hand fighting.

Following his success at UFC 15, Kerr then advanced toward Japan, where he started contending in PRIDE Fighting Championships. He didn’t taste his first destruction until 2000 when he tumbled to Kazuyuki Fujita.

Kerr’s life was the subject of a mainstream 2003 HBO narrative titled “The Smashing Machine” that tailed him while he contended in PRIDE. The film likewise sheds light on the dependence on solution painkillers.

“I believe what’s fascinating about Mark Kerr’s story is, truly, he accomplished such a great amount in his life, (and) he was a ‘Crushing Machine,’ undefeated for quite a while,” Johnson said when talking about the task. “Yet additionally like we all and like a great deal of these contenders, he fought these evil spirits. These evil spirits of compulsion, these devils of emotional well-being, these evil presences of getting out and the weight of battling before 20, 30, 40, 50,000 individuals, and what that does to someone.

“So here’s a person who has experienced everything and wound up in a sorry situation, however the best part about Mark Kerr, similar to us all in this room, and like these contenders coincidentally, every one of these warriors, regular you get up, and you need to improve tomorrow than you did today.”

Johnson will play Kerr in the motion picture about his life, and the previous UFC and PRIDE contender will counsel on the film during creation.

There is no confirmed schedule for when Johnson will start to take a shot at his biopic about Kerr. The previous WWE hotshot has an amazingly bustling timetable with “Jumanji: The Next Level” opening one month from now and with Disney’s “Wilderness Cruise” coming in July 2020.