10 Amazing Comparisons Between Becky Lynch And Stone Cold Steve Austin
4. One More For The Good Guys
1997: Driven to distraction by the rising popularity of Austin and his own sense of righteous indignation, Bret Hart completes his heel turn to allow the white hot programme to continue in rebooted form. 'The Hitman's turn allows for the fans to firmly embrace 'The Rattlesnake' in a way that finally jives with WWE's booking of the two characters. With a hot-selling shirt and scintillating pops when his music hits, Stone Cold is firmly entrenched as the organisation's next great babyface hope. Hart had to go bad - Austin was simply far too good.
2018: Keen as much to assuage the rising hatred towards Charlotte Flair as they are to harness the electric energy around the 'The Man', Lynch's end-of-the-world encounter with 'The Queen' confirms what the fanbase had already decided - she's the biggest babyface in the company. Build-up promos for the huge Ronda Rousey encounter no longer ask audiences to boo the SmackDown Women's Champion, not that the request would stand up anyway. In between promos, Becky's near-daily incinerations of 'The Baddest Woman On The Planet' on social media threaten to overwhelm one of the best rookie years in industry history.