10 SICK & TWISTED Wrestling Funerals
7. Stone Cold Steve Austin & The Rock Live Forever
Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock just had no right.
A grim emerging trend on the often-rotten social media discourse cycle is this bizarre feedback loop that everything that happened in the past would be eaten alive by "wrestling twitter" as if there wasn't critical analysis long before people had a modem in their office let alone the f*cking bird app on their phone.
An example - relevant to this entry, but could easily be real - is some d*ckhead posting eight sideways cry laugh emojis alongside a list of Austin/Rock matches from the 1990s questioning insincerely what today's commentariat might make of all those rematches.
The answer then arrives enthusiastically from those that lived through it that it was f*cking awesome because they were both megastars and the feuds were really heated and creative and stop making redundant comparisons if your single-minded numb skull allows for it.
No, Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock had absolutely no right to do a funeral segment in the middle of a stolen belt angle that allowed WWE to run back a WrestleMania rematch from the prior month. But they did, and it ruled, and a car got ruined, and everybody rejoiced.
Look out into the crowds today and find any rejoicing at yet more rematches if you can. And that's the difference.