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Was he ever actually the guy?

Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 02:01:48 No.9381572 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>9381585 >>9382771 >>9382866 >>9383072 >>9383077 >>9383280 >>9383356 >>9384503 >>9384533 >>9384540 >>9384589 >>9384623 >>9384882 >>9386475 >>9387582

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 02:03:08 No.9381585 Report

Quoted By: >>9381626 >>9387477

>>9381572
During 00 when Austin was out and mid-late 01 he was

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 02:06:07 No.9381626 Report

Quoted By: >>9383069 >>9383174 >>9384801

>>9381585
Nah
Looking back, Austin was the guy from 98-01
Then HHH was the guy until 2005 when Cena took over

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 04:23:32 No.9382771 Report

Quoted By: >>9382798 >>9383072 >>9384448

>>9381572
Yeah. From 1999 to 2003.
>Drew more than stevetty in 1999 (even meltzer confirms). Main evented WM, RR and Survivor Series.
>Rock was the undisputed top guy. Main evented WM, RR, SS.
>In 2001, sans the 4 months break for Scorpion King shooting, Rock was the guy. Returned and immediately main evented SummerSlam.
>Survivor Series - Winner Takes All match was basically all about the hierarchy in the roster, if you look at the order of eliminations. Sole survivor was the top guy.
>In 2002, simpcuck was back to being a midcarder and Rock had Hogan match and the SS main event, along with Undisputed title run to pass the torch to the next guy Brock.
>Was there for just 3 months and was still the guy. Main evented No Way Out, Backlash over world champions HHH and Brock.

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 04:27:02 No.9382798 Report

Quoted By: >>9382854 >>9383072 >>9384448

>>9382771
>>In 2001, sans the 4 months break for Scorpion King shooting, Rock was the guy. Returned and immediately main evented SummerSlam.
In fact, Rock main-evented all Big4 PPVs in 2001, something only guys like Hogan have done. Simpcuck never could. KWAB.

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 04:32:41 No.9382854 Report

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>>9382798
if it hadn't been for the Royal Rumble match taking the main event spot for that event, Roman would've done it in 2021

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 04:34:54 No.9382866 Report

Quoted By: >>9382884 >>9383000

>>9381572
Nope.
Austin was the GOAT and Dwayne was his side kick

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 04:37:01 No.9382884 Report

Quoted By: >>9382899 >>9383072

>>9382866
Austin is lucky to be doing second-rate reality shows on extended cable

say what you will about the quality of his movies, but Rock is a bona fide Hollywood superstar

Austin may have been the GOAT in WWE, but Rock is the GOAT everywhere else, and that's the bottom line because Dwayne Johnson made it so

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 04:39:08 No.9382899 Report

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>>9382884
>dwayne is the GOAT at sucking jewish dick
Good for him, I guess

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 04:52:37 No.9383000 Report

Quoted By: >>9383058 >>9383072 >>9383080 >>9384448

>>9382866
>Austin was the GOAT and Dwayne was his side kick
LMAO
Look at Simpcuck stevetty's career
>sidekick to Pillman as hollywood blondes
>sidekick to Bret throughout 1996-97, or i should say JOBBER to Bret.
>sidekick to vince in 1998-99.
>sidelined in 2000.
>sidekick to HHH in the Power trip in mid 2001
>sidekick to Kurt Angle in late 2001
>sidekick to the Rock in 2001-2002
>sidekick to bischoff in 2003-04
>sidekick to adam sandler in 2005
KWAB

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 05:02:40 No.9383058 Report

Quoted By: >>9383118

>>9383000
Using words like "simpcuck" makes you seem extremely overweight.
>Noooo you just like Austin
Nah, Austin is a fag and so are you. Have sex.

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 05:04:32 No.9383069 Report

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>>9381626
im an hhh fan but brock was the guy from late 02-early 04. he was the face of wwe and the guy they were building around. he was the man

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 05:04:54 No.9383072 Report

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>>9381572
>>9382771
>>9382798
>>9382884
>>9383000
All the same guy.

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 05:05:35 No.9383077 Report

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>>9381572
Before he left for Hollywood he was, every return afterwards diminished his it factor.

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 05:06:35 No.9383080 Report

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>>9383000
trips of truth
wwe revisionism has presented him as the GOAT but that bald cuck never drew a dime

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 05:15:51 No.9383118 Report

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>>9383058
what's wrong with stone cold steve austin?

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 05:27:15 No.9383174 Report

Quoted By: >>9383247

>>9381626
>Looking back, Austin was the guy from 98-01
2000 was clearly Rock's year, late 2001 is iffy because Austin was the top heel while Rock was the top face

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 05:38:00 No.9383237 Report

Quoted By: >>9383272 >>9384448 >>9384589

Rock surpassed Austin summer of 99.
>Everything important went through the Rock not Austin.
>Kurt Angles 1st title
>Mankind's 1st title
>Jericho's 1st title
>Brock Lesnar's 1st title
>The Hogan match
>Goldberg's 1st PPV in WWE
>the creation of Smackdown
It was all The Rock. Not Austin.

Rock
>Top draw of all time. Set unbroken records in 2000
>was a bigger star than austin in his prime
>highest grossing hollywood actor in the world today
>drew the highest buyrate of all WMs at WM28
>despite being a much beloved face, still turned heel. got everyone against him showing how based he is
>never afraid of putting people over. put the fking hurricane over
>despite putting people over and helping build the business, was always in the main event picture.

Stevetty
>jobber in WCW
>spent four years as a midcarder in WWE
>drew big in 1998. only really because Hogan, nWo, McMahon, Russo and Tyson created the right situation for him
>injury prone
>outdrawn by the Rock
>terrified of losing his spot. didn't do business with Lesnar
>unlike Rock who was a GOAT heel or Hogan who changed the business with his heel turn, Stevetty's heel turn killed the attitude era
>sent back to the midcard to feud with the likes of Big Show and Scott Hall
>got worked so hard by Hogan and his new status as a midcarder that he took his ball and went home like a crybaby
>not recognizable at all today. has to leech off WWE and do podcasts to get paid. Even Cena is more well known.

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 05:39:39 No.9383247 Report

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>>9383174
>2000 was clearly Rock's year
Only because the GOAT was out with injury

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 05:39:54 No.9383248 Report

Quoted By: >>9383272 >>9384448 >>9384589

>be cold stone steve bitchin
>always bitchin
>refuse to work with Jarrett, says he bullied me in the past
>refuse to work with Billy Gunn
>bigger star Rock works with Billy, makes him famous with 1 promo

>Haitch's push starts
>refuse to put over Haitch at Summerslam 99
>Bigger star Rock puts Haitch over
>Haitch doesn't forget
>Steve bitchin never wins a PPV match against Haitch ever after
>get buried by Haitch at No Mercy 99
>get buried by Haitch at No Way Out 2001

>fall 1999
>Build to Survivor Series triple threat match
>steve threw bitchfits backstage when Rock cut this promo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xooDGCgrziQ
>Rock was supposed to win Rumble 2000 and the title from austin
>after losing the championship to Rock at WM, steve would go for surgery
>BUT after this promo steve decided not to put Rocky over at WM2000 and go for surgery early

>2000
>record profits when austinetty is out
>ratings decline as soon as austinetty returns in late 2000

>radicalz arrive
>refuse to work with Eddie, says he's too small
>refuse to put over Benoit

>2002
>nWo arrives
>bigger star Rock works with Hogan
>steve bitchtits works with drunk Hall
>booked to job to Hall at WMX8
>cry like a bitch and gets the result changed

>First ever Roster Split Draft in 2002
>bigger star Rock to be the overall no.1 pick
>steve throws a fit and walks out

>return to RAW
>refuse to work with Eddie again
>work with big slow instead
>finally agree to work with Eddie
>Eddie embarrasses him in the build
>booked to put over Brock as a part of Eddie program
>walk out like a bitch
>again, bigger star Rock comes to rescue and puts Eddie and Brock over

>beat Debra
>get jailed

>2003
>program with bigger star Rock
>gets his wifebeating ass carried throughout the program and the match
>leave again when asked to work with Goldberg

>late 2003
>return as sheriff
>wear a kiddie badge
>ratings decline even more
>kek what a sheriff badge wearing baldheaded wifebeater SELF-MARK bitch KWASBWBHWBSMB

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 05:44:34 No.9383272 Report

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>>9383237
>>9383248
kek based
if you want a good laugh watch simp cuck's 2009 hall of fame speech and look at how he begs people to watch his shitty d-movies kek

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 05:46:59 No.9383280 Report

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>>9381572
Yeah once that dastardly Rikishi ran Cold Stone Steve over with his car he become the man and even tried to help Steve get his heat back but Steve turned heel and almost killed the business

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 06:00:19 No.9383356 Report

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>>9381572
Nah. He basically bailed for movies as soon as he got on top. His big push to be THE GUY was in 2000 while Austin was injured, and in 2001 he bailed to do Scorpion King. By the next time he came back, he was Hollywood Rock and a heel.

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 09:48:33 No.9384419 Report

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the fans shoot loved and repected austin and thought he was the coolest guy on planet earth. they would have never ever turned on him. they wanted him to win every single one of his matches. the rock was very popular but it was never the same level of love (apart from maybe the girls) as evidenced by how they turned on him when he started going to hollywood. it was more superficial

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 09:50:57 No.9384432 Report

Quoted By: >>9384463

This board is fucking stupid, man. Asking if The Rock was ever actually the "the guy"? Jesus Christ alive.

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 09:54:00 No.9384448 Report

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>>9382771
>>9382798
>>9383000
>>9383237
>>9383248

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 09:56:42 No.9384463 Report

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>>9384432
the way WWE does revisionist history, it's not that stupid of a question.
If you did not live during the Rock's original run and you're living through "the biggest box office draw in WWE history" Roman Reigns, I would be doubtful or at least question how truthful previous top guys original runs were.

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 10:04:09 No.9384503 Report

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>>9381572

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 10:09:25 No.9384533 Report

Quoted By: >>9386400

>>9381572
Rock was never the guy, he was Austin's Jannetty
Everybody in wrestling rates Austin higher, he saved WWE when it was in it's worst period

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 10:10:28 No.9384540 Report

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>>9381572
change the 'u' with an 'a' and you got it

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 10:21:47 No.9384589 Report

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>>9381572
The Rock was the top guy during the peakest era of pro-wrestling. >>9383237 and >>9383248 explain it so well

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 10:29:03 No.9384623 Report

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>>9381572
Black Stone Cold for Black-like White people

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 11:02:06 No.9384801 Report

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>>9381626
Hunter was never the guy

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 11:18:17 No.9384882 Report

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>>9381572
He absolutely was the top babyface in all of wrestling from 1999 to 2002. Nobody has touched that run before or since.

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 15:05:45 No.9386400 Report

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>>9384533
>1999, Rock surpassed austin.
>Friday Night SmackDown, not Friday night bottomline.
>2000, Rock set new annual PPV and house show records that are still unbroken.
>2000, austin out, Rock led WWE to record profits.
>2001, Rock left for Hollywood, austin led ratings to record decline
>2002, The biggest draw Rock got the match vs the biggest draw of the past Hogan. Drunk austin faced drunk Hall.
>2011, WM27 Rock headlined as a fucking host, made over 1 Million buys. austin referee'd a Michael Cole match.
>2012, WM28 Rock set the all time highest WWE PPV buys record

>Today, Rock is a legit Hollywood top guy. austin did a few flop direct-to-dvd flicks.
>Rock is a mainstream star. austin does podcasts.
>Rock makes blockbusters. austin tries to re-live glory days by bringing his old bandaged carcass to stun 80 years olds KWAB.

HOUSE SHOW RECORDS
>set by Hogan in 1987
>Hogan's record broken by stevetty in 1998
>austin's record broken by Rock in 1999
>In 2000, Rock set all time house show records that are still unbroken

PPV RECORDS
>WM28 has the highest PPV buys record, set by Rock
>austin's best WM buys are either with Rock, or don't even come close.

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 15:15:20 No.9386475 Report

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>>9381572
>Was he ever actually the guy?
Would he have gotten over had there been social media in 1997? Or would "Rocky Mavia" have been buried so deep even the Tonga Eruption wouldn't have pushed him back out?

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 17:00:25 No.9387477 Report

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>>9381585
Good times.

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 17:12:42 No.9387582 Report

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>>9381572
The rock was always the guy, the people's champ. Simp cuck rode his coat tails for as long as possible

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