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Originally Posted by Heyman
John Cena is definitely up there (easily Top 5 in my opinion, with Hogan, Austin, Rocky, and Bruno in there as well), but I think Hogan easily deserves the, "Greatest of all-time" moniker. Hogan meant just as much to kids back then as Cena does now, but Hogan took wrestling to an entirely new level. Hogan made put wrestling on the map. While Cena has done an admirable job of being the top guy over the past 10 years and keeping the WWE afloat, he didn't take the company to new heights like Hogan.
And for the record, my favorite guy is Stone Cold Steve Austin, and I think Austin has a legit claim for being the greatest of all-time as well. Austin took the wrestling industry to new heights just as Hogan once did.
Austin was the #1 guy during the #1 Attitude era. When you look back on Austin's career during 1997-2003, almost all of his feuds were 5 star calibre and ridiculously high profile. You can't say that about almost anyone else. Austin/Bret, Austin/Owen, Austin/HBK, Austin/Vince, Austin/Taker, Austin/Rock, Austin/HHH, Austin/Angle, Austin/Jericho-Benoit, etc.
In terms of high profile match-ups and feuds (and according to former TPWW poster Rob Harvey, ratings/revenue), Austin was the clear cut greatest of all-time.
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You don't think Rock has a legitimate argument? For all intents and purposes, he really didn't leave at all, even part-time for Hollywood until pretty much the end of the Attitude Era, and in that time he went from being the first-ever third generation superstar, but at first besides that fact, a nobody called Flex Kavana during his develiomental days with the company in the summer of 1996, to being "The Blue Chipper" Rocky Maivia, with goofy hair and attire in his Survivor Series '96 WWF debut. Still, he persevered and won his debut match as sole survivor for his team. He went on to many IC and WWF/WWE Championships and was molded into one of, if not the best talkers of all-time in the company's history. Rock definitely has a dog in the fight, too.