Aaron Judge won his third American League MVP award on Thursday night. Judge was surrounded by his family and dogs when Don Mattingly made the announcement on MLB Network, but all eyes were on the Yankees outfielder because of his fashion choices.
With a simple dark long sleeve shirt and a visible necklace, Judge conjured thoughts of one person who saw him.
Aaron Judge was dressed like The Rock in his infamous fanny pack picture from 1994. The Rock originally posted the throwback picture on Instagram in 2014. He then recreated the image himself when he hosted Saturday Night Live a few years later.
And now many years later Judge rebooted the look and everyone on social media made the same joke.
Aaron Judge is dressed like The Rock for the AL MVP presentation pic.twitter.com/Wln5qeiSEh
— Dan Why-Ner (@ReallyDanWeiner) November 14, 2025
mlb network: hey aaron judge any comments on this evening?
judge: im gonna take that mvp award turn that sum bitch sideways and stick it up ur candy ass pic.twitter.com/39otoug21R
— max fried respecter (@jonmoxIeys) November 14, 2025
Aaron “The Rock” Judge pic.twitter.com/BO4N2xPon0
— Jeff Eisenband (@JeffEisenband) November 14, 2025
Aaron Judge doing his best The Rock impression pic.twitter.com/WstyhYwrXy
— Hopeless Giants fan (@Saquon_Gleyber) November 14, 2025
There are plenty more examples on X and other social media sites, but you get the point.
Perhaps if Cal Raleigh had dressed like a wrestler he wouldn’t have finished in second place.
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