Why does WWE favor Stone Cold to The Rock?

May 2024 ยท 2 minute read
Austin brought it back to that stage. You're insane if you think WWF 1993-1996 was at all popular.

Rock was in the highest rated show in history. Awesome.

Some of you look at Rock being the headliner when WWF was at it's peak and credit him with that. Was Rock REALLY the reason? Or was that already a company surging?

Think about this, most CEOs get compensated based on growth. If Apple has huge sales next year, are people going to say that Tim Cook is the reason Apple is so big? Or is Tim Cook just the guy who took over after Steve Jobs made it amazing and carried it a bit further?

You can't look at it in a vacuum. Austin took it from near failure and took WWF to the top. Rock took it from the top and brought it a little higher, then Austin and Rock together made them unbeatable.

You can use stats all you want, but use them correctly. You can't attribute the WWE's enormous numbers to Rock when they were getting big (and growing) numbers before him under Austin. If a quarterback leads a drive from the 1 yard line and gets his team to the other team's 1 yard line. Then a running back rushes in the touchdown, you can't say "wow, look at that running back, he's the reason for the score". Without the QB, the running back had no shot. Same with Austin/Rock.

Also, by your logic, Mankind is a bigger draw than Austin (he was apart of the overrated as fuck this is your life segment).

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