15 WWE Wrestlers Whose Props Defined Their Characters

1. Stone Cold Steve Austin - Beer

A cultural icon and arguably the most popular wrestler on the planet during the Attitude era, Stone Cold was an insubordinate, beer-swilling, trash talking, middle-finger raising antihero of the WWE in the late 1990s boom period, who pretty much did whatever the hell he pleased and delivered a Stone Cold Stunner to anyone, mostly Mr McMahon, who dared to stop him. Therefore, the abiding symbol of the Texas Rattlesnake€™s persona was the beer - better known as a €˜Steveweiser€™ - he€™d regularly guzzle at the end of a match, bathing himself in a brooski waterfall and sometimes even drenching a stricken opponent as a final act of post-stunner humiliation. And if you remember the beer bath he subjected the Corporation to in 1999, using one of the most outrageous props in wrestling history - a beer truck - gimme a Hell Yeah! As it was, Stone Cold was the only Superstar of his generation to brazenly consume alcohol in the ring and on screen, the beer standing as a physical metaphor for the rebellious nature of his character and his inherent distaste for authority.
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