10 Coolest Wrestlers Of All Time
2. The Rock
The line dividing cool and the dangerous ground of pathetic self-parody is thin. The Rock pushed and pushed into it with such carefree abandon that you could not help but admire - and fall under the spell of - his gigantic balls.
The thing about The Rock is that he was kind of a d*ck. He wore the most garish flowered shirts - unbuttoned. He rocked huge sideburns during a time in which nobody was gaga for 1970s nostalgia. He raised his eyebrow like a thirsty teenager with no seduction game whatsoever. He referred to himself in the third person. On paper, it was a pastiche of cool; in execution, he possessed such an inherent allure that he could pull off any ostentatious wrinkle he threw over his shoulder.
It's little wonder that Rock switched from heel to face and back again with such frequency; the man, with his smooth baritone and psychotic lack of empathy, was as easy to hate as he was to love, with his hilarious one-liners and cocksure strut. His complete lack of insecurity helped to establish his legacy; The Rock, unlike so many of his megastar contemporaries, paid no mind to putting his opponents over.
He knew he was made; he was The Rock.