Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson has warmed the hearts of many after he gifted an apartment to UFC fighter, Themba Gorimbo, who was previously sl...
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson has warmed the hearts of many after he gifted an apartment to UFC fighter, Themba Gorimbo, who was previously sleeping at a gym in Miami.
Themba got to meet The Rock last week when he jetted to Florida to look him in the eye, ‘hug him and shake his hand’.
In an Instagram post, The Rock wrote that Themba had just $7 in the bank when he won a recent UFC fight, whereupon he sold his fight gear and made $7,000.
Themba’s fame
UFC welterweight, Themba Gorimbo, drew attention earlier this year with his unbelievable backstory of going from a 13-year-old orphan in his native Zimbabwe to a 16-year-old illegal diamond miner. And then nearly dying after being attacked by police dogs. After winning his second UFC fight in May, Gorimbo revealed he had only $7.49 in his bank account.
He received $7,000 from that UFC win. But he sent it back home to his Zimbabwean village to pay for a water pump. He sold his fight kit for the same cause. That earned the attention of Johnson, who posted a tweet promising Gorimbo “Got your back, brother. I’ll help.”
That help was revealed Thursday, when Johnson posted a video of himself meeting Gorimbo in Miami, where the fighter had been sleeping on a couch at his MMA gym. After meeting at the gym, Johnson took him to meet “a friend” at a house elsewhere in the city, then revealed the whole house was for Gorimbo and his family, who have had to stay in Zimbabwe.
Here’s how The Rock explained it to Gorimbo:
“Your story moved me. When I found out you had seven bucks in your bank account, I know what that’s like. I was here in Miami when I had seven bucks. But then also, you win your second fight, then you sell your fight kit. You buy a water well for your village in Zimbabwe so your people can have clean water.
“You could have taken that money and you could have put it down on a car, on an apartment, but you didn’t. Instead, you took care of your people. And that just says exactly who you are and that’s why I flew all the way in, just to look you in the eye and tell you I got your back.”
It appears that The Rock is covering the house lease for the 32-year-old Gorimbo, who said he will use the money that would have gone to a house on another borehole for his village instead. In the meantime, he can focus on training and getting his family closer to him.
By Wanjiru Mbaru
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