7 Ups & 3 Downs From WWE WrestleMania XIX
2. One More Round
There's a subtle beauty to Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock's final WrestleMania encounter, even if it understandably fell slightly short of their prior two clashes - this was not a battle between two creative and commercial juggernauts consumed by Attitude Era chaos but an encore performance of the period's epic season finale two years earlier.
'The Great One' hadn't yet fully stepped away for Hollywood (and that halfway house informed his outstanding heel schtick) just as Austin (as far as the fans were concerned) hadn't been forced out of action altogether, but in contrast to banter brawl they followed, both men still felt like they were in a version of their prime.
On the outstanding "Mania Of WrestleMania" proto-24 documentary made on this show, the extent of 'The Rattlesnake's plight was fully fleshed out. For the want of more words, he was f*cked, but got up one last time to lay down for the man that had helped enhance his incredible legacy. Rock knew all of that, and took a poignant moment centre-ring after the fall to tell him as much. Two larger-than-life icons had never looked so human.