Stone Cold Steve Austin is the biggest draw in the history of the business. That goes for live events, merchandise, TV ratings and PPV buys. That is indisputable.
Nope, Refuted:
1999 The Rock is named the biggest box office star of 1999, breaking Austin’s record in 1998. In 2000 the Rock would then break his own record from 1999.
The Rock was drawing the biggest PPV’s whenever he main evented that year(First 3, KOTR) while breaking the record and drawing the biggest wrestling ppv of all time at the time with Wrestlemania 15, he would then break this record with Wrestlemania 2000.
Rock outdraws Austin on August 24, 1998 Raw during road to Summerslam 1998:
The Rock drew the biggest ratings the entire year, start to finish, outdrawing Stone Cold since the end of 1998:
Rock out pops Austin even as WWF champion May 3rd 1999:
Compilation of Rock’s media coverage:
-7:50 “he’s the hottest thing in the world wrestling federation”
Appearances on:
The View - 2:59
That 70’s show - 1:13
Much music - 25:56
Promoting Georgia dome debut(Where they booed Austin)- 11:13
People magazine names Rock one of the sexist men of 1999 - 22:30
On TSN’s Off The Record with Michael Landsberg, February 1999
4:50 - “In 1996 if anyone could’ve told you that you would become one of the most personalities in North America and around the world that wouldn’t have surprised you?”
15:40 - “You took that guys place, Stone Cold”
Crowds cheers Rock over Austin on road to Wrestlemania 15 despite being a heel:
https://wrestlingsmarks.com/threads...ld-during-the-road-to-wrestlemania-15.118706/
Rock drew the highest rated cable segment in professional wrestling history on the September 27, 1999 Raw Is War with an 8.4:
1999 was Austin’s peak year of his own career, despite that The Rock was a bigger draw and more popular than Stone Cold.
I don't even care to prove this as it's so subjective, but the fact is Austin sold half the merch in the entire company in 1999. It's a fact.
Again, prove it. You provide zero proof, zero verified facts.
Rock was the top merchandise seller of 1999, your incoherent and denial of proof doesn’t change that:
You clearly don't understand The Rock isn't a credible source.
By what objective standard?
You’re saying the most reliable source... THE actual source isn’t reliable, you’re killing your credibility here.
It’s analogous to saying the victim of a crime isn’t a credible.
You claim you don’t care yet you’re jumping through all these gymnastics and claiming that the VERY generator of that revenue isn’t credible.
That’s like not taking Elon Musk as credible when he reports Tesla earnings... it’s his revenue of course he’s credible.