lmao MHV1, here's my reply toward JJ's opening statement.
Nice job of using wikipedia for SCSA's Awards. Now here's The Rock's awards and title reigns
PWI Match of the Year award in 1999 – vs. Mankind (Royal Rumble, January 24, 1999)
PWI Most Popular Wrestler of the Year award in 1999
PWI ranked him # 2 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the year on the 2000 PWI 500 list
PWI Most Popular Wrestler of the Year award in 2000
PWI Wrestler of the Year award in 2000
PWI Match of the Year award in 2002 – vs. Hollywood Hogan (WrestleMania X8, March 17, 2002)
PWI ranked him # 76 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the PWI Years in 2003.
IMO, the only reason that SCSA vs. Bret Hart at WM 13 was on the Match of the Year Award was because Bret Hart carried Austin through the later stages of the match. Sure SCSA was a great wrestler, but he had to be carried through most of his matches.
USWA Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Bart Sawyer
WCW World Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
WWF/E Championship (7 times)
WWF Intercontinental Championship (2 times)
WWF World Tag Team Championship (5 times) - with Mankind (3), The Undertaker (1), and Chris Jericho (1)
Royal Rumble (2000)
Sixth Triple Crown Champion
Wrestling Observer
Most Improved Wrestler award in 1998
Best Interviews award in 1999
Best Gimmick award in 1999
Most Charismatic Wrestler award in 1999
Best Box Office Draw award in 2000
Best Interviews award in 2000
Most Charismatic Wrestler award in 2000
Most Charismatic Wrestler award in 2001
Most Charismatic Wrestler award in 2002
There's Most Charismatic many times on there, also Most Improved and best Interviews/Promos, 18 overall championships ,and a Royal Rumble winner, he is just a great wrestler all around.
And let me point out parts of your opening statement.
Section 1. The Ring
Yes Stone Cold had tons of memorable matches, but when you think about it, who was he facing in those matches, Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, Mankind, The Rock, HHH, and many, many great wrestlers, but he wasn't anywhere close to the HHH's and Bret Hart's and Shawn Michaels' or The Rock's of wrestling. Yes he was an awesome heel in 2001 when he joined "The McMahon Butt Fuck Club" (yes it's a weird name, it's all that I could come up with in that era) but there was always something missing, he went from being a major face to major heel to major WWF face supporter, to WCW supporter, he just turned too many times in that year, but The Rock stayed put and only turned from Heel to Face in that year.
Section 2: Charisma
Yes SCSA had great promos and had tons of Charisma, but now that you see him in 2007 before WrestleMania, he just said the same old shit that you've always heard, he did the most expected things and that gets a little boring after doing that for 10 years, it just gets to predictable, The Rock on the other hand, kept changing things around in his promos, he was an awesome story teller on the mic and will always be, when people saw him on the Titantron earlier this year, everyone went apeshit, but Austin didn't get as much as a pop as Rock did becuase they liked Rock more than Austin IMO. And when you think Attitude Era, you think Rock, Austin, Kane, Taker, those 4 names in that order. You remember Rock for his awesome mic skills and ring work, you remember Austin for the Austin/McMahon fued, you remember Kane for the awesome gimmick, you remember Taker for the Ministry of Darkness and his eventual turn into the American Badass.
Section 3: He didn't sell out
Sure Austin didn't leave WWE, but Rock didn't "sell out", he just took an absence and he decided that he like being in movies more than he did wrestling. Hell, he gave everything to the WWE, he didn't have much more to give before he got stale like Austin did. Sure his match at WM XX w/ Foley against Evolution wasn't the greatest match ever, but it still delivered. The same match on that card that Austin was involved in, was considered the worst match in maybe WrestleMania history, and you think that Austin might have helped it, but no, he just made it worse and it showed everyone that Austin had became stale. Rock was starting to become injured and he left wrestling, that's what everyone does, I don't hear anyone bitching about John Cena "selling out" or Kane "selling out" or HHH "selling out" because of their respective movies. BTW, the Beer Drinking Contest against JBL was very bad, it was a short segment, and Austin was no where to be seen on WM 22. And one more thing, if you ask people "Who The Rock faced at WM X8?" People would say "Hogan" if you replaced The Rock with Austin, some people wouldn't know who Austin faced at WM 18, but the big SCSA fan in me knows that he faced Scott Hall.
