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Hulk Hogan vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. The Rock vs. John Cena
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Austin will always be my favorite but honestly out of those four...I gotta give it to Cena, and I'm not even the biggest fan of Cena.
Dude has put in more work than almost any wrestler out there, and unlike some of those above guys is a genuinely good guy for the most part. He's also stuck around for the most part, unlike the other three. All the backstage dirt on Cena involves him having an ego, which the other three have in even larger quantities, lol. Most wrestlers in the business that have worked with Cena have said nothing but positive things about him.
Dude has put in more work than almost any wrestler out there, and unlike some of those above guys is a genuinely good guy for the most part. He's also stuck around for the most part, unlike the other three. All the backstage dirt on Cena involves him having an ego, which the other three have in even larger quantities, lol. Most wrestlers in the business that have worked with Cena have said nothing but positive things about him.
Naw
The Hamburglar
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Do they also come with a McMahon in every corner!
They were already trying to get rid of him, he wasn't drawing anymore
he probably would've stayed in New Japan
gutter_trash
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depends from what era the bookers decide it.
1980s bookers would have had Hogan pull off some bullshit to go over for the win.
Attitude Era would have had Stone Cold and the Rock battle in blood and sweat to the bitter end that could go either way.
PG era LOL, Cena haha
1980s bookers would have had Hogan pull off some bullshit to go over for the win.
Attitude Era would have had Stone Cold and the Rock battle in blood and sweat to the bitter end that could go either way.
PG era LOL, Cena haha
WWE was trying to phase out the old at the time so he probably would've put Mable or Diesel over or some other big guy, then go make some movies and come back.
Its still real to me damnit.
Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!
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If it was the PG era, Cena would lose this match, but then in a rematch he would win, and then in the rubber match he would win again
TheAtomicPile
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Couldn't we say that the 80s had three, in Macho, Hogan, and Warrior?
CountAntonius
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Replace Cena with Undertaker and we have a topic.
Macho and Warrior were popular but I would never say they ran the company, Hogan was still the top of the top dawgs
Kurt Angle
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Triple H
Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!
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Warrior technically didn't become the guy until the 90s, but you could replace him with Andre the Giant.
Also, Piper could have been a top babyface if they had ever let him, but they kept him as a heel most of the time.
The WWF was stacked in the 80s
because Vince raided all of the talent away from the territories
Was Austin's in ring really that good? I thought his psychology was good but from what I remember from when I was 10/11 Austin seemed like a brawler/fighter and less of a wrassler. I could be remembering wrong, because I was just a kid who was a rock mark who worked himself into a shoot, brothers
Aeternus Malum
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Whoever the Booker wants to win
illmatic22
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That and he's far and away Wrestling's biggest crossover star. Makes way more $ than the others.Rock wins this because he's beaten all three of these men at WrestleMania.
GOAT.
Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!
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Randy Savage was world champion for a year and did some of the best house show business in WWF history during that time.
He was great before he broke his neck. Then he had to change his style to become a brawler. Watch his Survivor Series match against Bret Hart.
TheAtomicPile
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Hmmm maybe HBK and Bret in the Next Generation era (with the caveat that they never drew like the four in the topic)?
The One and Done
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Cena doesn't belong in this conversation.
Rock wins this because he's beaten all three of these men at WrestleMania.
GOAT.
Came to say this. Pretty sure the Rock has already handled this business.
Master Thespian
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Truth hurts, man. I don't think I'll ever see a run like those two had again in my lifetime.
The Bookerman
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Not even HBK?
Precisely my thought.Not even HBK?
Master Thespian
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If wrestling receipts were albums HBK wouldn't have even gone double wood, playa. Scrub couldn't draw a dime.Not even HBK?
Wrestling was more popular at Austin's peak than Hogan's.
Strangelove77
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Hogan has creative control over all his matches, so he'd definitely win this one.
Kurt Angle
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these marks don't know who run the showNot even HBK?
I like the Rock at his peak better than Stone Cold, but the Rock stuck along long after his peak was over, and I blame Roman Reigns on him partly, so Stone Cold
Say what you will about Stone Cold, and yeah maybe it's because he's too banged up to do keep doing matches, but the guy definitely left when it was time for him to go and has more or less stayed away
Cena... I can respect what he means to some people, especially little kids, but to me he is emblematic of how terrible wrestling has been, and continues to be. There have been modest gains, but just as many setbacks, and the product remains on the unwatchable side for me. And Cena is the icon of this era. He is not particularly untalented in the ring, or on the mic, but he's not good enough to return the vague disdain I have for everthing he stands for, either.
Hogan... now I'm not ageist, but I wouldn't want my daughter to be with any washed up over the hill opportunistic piece of shit beard-dying assholes
Say what you will about Stone Cold, and yeah maybe it's because he's too banged up to do keep doing matches, but the guy definitely left when it was time for him to go and has more or less stayed away
Cena... I can respect what he means to some people, especially little kids, but to me he is emblematic of how terrible wrestling has been, and continues to be. There have been modest gains, but just as many setbacks, and the product remains on the unwatchable side for me. And Cena is the icon of this era. He is not particularly untalented in the ring, or on the mic, but he's not good enough to return the vague disdain I have for everthing he stands for, either.
Hogan... now I'm not ageist, but I wouldn't want my daughter to be with any washed up over the hill opportunistic piece of shit beard-dying assholes
People forget how ruthless Cena got with his lil chain
http://www.wwe.com/videos/playlists/john-cena-chain-attacks-playlist
http://www.wwe.com/videos/playlists/john-cena-chain-attacks-playlist
Basketball
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TheAtomicPile
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The One and Done;234543031 said:
In 5-10 years this will have to be updated to Rock vs. Austin vs. Hogan vs. Cena vs. Roman.
Believe.
That.
That's a good thing.
For me it's a difficult call between Austin and The Rock. It almost feels like you can't have one without the other.
Ya, it just seems like WWF was bigger in the Hogan era because of all the dorky, larger than life '80s stuff that went along with it.
Ya, it just seems like WWF was bigger in the Hogan era because of all the dorky, larger than life '80s stuff that went along with it.
Paracelsus
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Austin never jobbed
Cena jobbed but in a way that never put anybody over or if he did, it was a rubber match situation (so he would go over in the end)
Rock jobbed even when he was the #1 draw in the world
Hogan never jobbed save for that one time at WM18 against Rock
In such an egomaniacal match I would say Austin or Hogan would pin Rock. I can't see Cena falling to the leg drop or the stunner.
Cena jobbed but in a way that never put anybody over or if he did, it was a rubber match situation (so he would go over in the end)
Rock jobbed even when he was the #1 draw in the world
Hogan never jobbed save for that one time at WM18 against Rock
In such an egomaniacal match I would say Austin or Hogan would pin Rock. I can't see Cena falling to the leg drop or the stunner.
The Hamburglar
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The rock jobbed all the time when he was a mid card heel in 1998 but when he was the headliner he only lost due to outside interference .
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