The Rock has shared moving memories of his "childhood hero" after the wrestler's death this week from cardiac arrest.

"To millions of little kids you were a childhood hero - myself included," Johnson wrote of his fellow wrestling legend, who died Thursday at the age of 71.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is remembering his late friend and "childhood hero," Hulk Hogan. One day after Hogan's death, Johnson took to Instagram to pay tribute to the famous wrestler, whose real name is Terry Bollea.