10 Wrestlers You Won't Believe Never Had A Five Star Match

10. The Rock

The Rock doesn't get enough praise for his ability between the ropes, but that his mic game overshadows it is no real (or disheartening) surprise.

He is easily within the bracket of top five all-time stick men, objectively, and his style though limited was far more athletic and pacy than is often credited. He never did much beyond his brawling power game - and when he deviated from that template, the results were mixed. His use of the Sharpshooter was gentle and clunky, but he occupied the space between moves as well as anybody.

His body language and crowd awareness during his match with Hollywood Hogan at WrestleMania X8, in which he improvised a pseudo heel turn perfectly, is evidence of that - but his crowning moment took place one year earlier.

Closest Candidate: The Rock Vs. Steve Austin, WWF WrestleMania X-Seven.

Meltzer afforded the match a rating of ****1/2, and it's not too difficult to determine why it did not receive the maximum five. The opening two thirds of the match were a nuclear-powered exchange of brawling and signature offence, pitched perfectly to convey the tension and the microscopic difference between their storyline stature - but Austin's intra-match heel turn was cheered by his home state Dallas audience.

You could perceive it is nitpicking, but Meltzer uses his gut to determine whether or not a match reaches true greatness - and as brilliantly as even the most derided portion of the match was performed, that churning sense of unease - was it really the way to go? - was shared by damn near everybody.