Got to agree. Trying to think of wrestlers at their peak who got such a pop on an entrance. Some come very close, but not Austin levels
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Still get chills when I hear the glass break.
Even when he back to WWE every so often itās not any less special.
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Yep.
The suspense and build-up to his theme when coming out to face Kevin Owens 18 odd months ago was amazing, too.
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Nothing matches the Hell Frozen Over version of the theme. The heavy bass and raw sound to it made it fit right in with 97-98 Austin.
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In hindsight It always fascinates me how he did with a basic arse look. But it just works.
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That character worked because he wasnāt flamboyant. Very rare but any bells and whistles and it just wouldnāt have.
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That worked in his favour in the end. People felt they could identify with him.
Not to mention he had the size, the build, the rawness in his mic skills, the āBMFā walk.
Package all into one and you have a believable ābadassā character who looked like heād be a real problem in a street fight
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The biggest problem with todays product is that a lot of guys just donāt look believable. In this business people buy into believability.
Size isnāt everything in wrestling but the big guys sell and thatās a fact.
In a street fight a boxer who weighs 66kg like Errol Spence or Crawford is going to annihilate an untrained big man the same way 5ā5 Volkanowski is going to make mince meat of a big guy in a street fight.
But in trained combat sports the weight classes exist for a reason. The skilled big guys will generally always beat the skilled little guys because they have comparable skill levels but with the obvious advantage of size.
So wrestling needs to go back to prioritising believability. Push the sensationally gifted smaller guys and leave the rest lower down the card. And push the big guys who look like they could actually do damage and push them to the moon
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I think he was truly the original ātweenerā, that helped, too.
Who gives the fingers up to fans and gets cheered nowadays? This guy was incredible.
Sid deserves an honorable mention for the shit he pulled at SS96, too 
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Believable presentation as well, I havenāt watched in awhile but all the high flying shit is so fake and itās not even believable like how the WCW Cruiserweights did it. Do they still that stupid dive through the ropes where everyone is standing around for no reason?
Fake shit only works if you got the showmanship (Thatās how you get away with blatantly fake moves like the peopleās elbow) but thatās a rare talent. A lot of wrestlers I believe looked up to Shawn Michaels but they aināt got anywhere close to his talent, even if he was an arsehole lol.
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Unfortunately, thereās too many guys out there who donāt even wanna wrestle the way theyāre supposed.
You see big guys wrestle like luchadors and do their best impression of Shawn Michaels, selling their ass off to people that they have no business selling to. And then you have smaller guys who have zero interest in selling and do every move imaginable with no flow and psychology behind it.
I get that someone may find it entertaining watching it for the first time or itās done for a special occasion, but when this is the norm, it results in some shitty pro wrestling.
For those that watch WWE still, are they teasing The Rock showing up at SummerSlam?
Theyāve had Grayson Waller name drop him and Iāve just seen he did the peopleās elbow too yesterday. The WWE account also mentioned it.
https://twitter.com/WWE/status/1685106727731986432
So, is he coming back to squash Grayson at SummerSlam and then also show up in some sort form in the main event of Roman v Jey?
For a man who watches no wrestling, you watch a lot of wrestling 
Blame my Twitter timeline, sorry X timeline. 
Now tell me, is The Rock actually coming back?
(Btw, I do watch Collision in full every week since it debuted)
The FTR v MJF & Adam Cole match is a match Iāve been looking forward to. Most anticipated match (personally speaking) for a long long while.
I donāt know because I donāt read twitter. The Waller thing didnāt seem like a big deal to me.
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Thanks. Could be just wrestling Twitter making a bigger deal out of it. Perhaps wishful thinking on my part as well as I really want to see Rocky v Roman.
Yep, the show has been so good. Are you watching it live tonight or are you watching it later?
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Itās not the first time WWE have teased something like that frivolously. There was a Survivor Series (I think) a little while ago where the show was promoted around the 25th anniversary of The Rockās debut despite him being nowhere near the show. Whatever gets a few more people watching Summerslam I suppose.
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