The Rock's WrestleMania Matches - From Worst To Best
5. Vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin - WrestleMania XV
The weakest of the trilogy between the two biggest icons of an era, this is still a damn fine match in its own right. The WWF was running far, far away from WCW at this point, and a lot of that was down to Austin and The Rock. This was 1999 though, and a straight-up wrestling match between the two biggest stars simply wasn't going to happen. Before the match even begins we see Vince McMahon and Commissioner Shawn Michaels get involved, with Vince trying to replace Mankind as special guest referee but being thwarted by HBK. The match was a 100mph brawl, heading up the entrance aisle early on before heading back down to ringside to show the Spanish announce table what for. Numerous referees go down, a few at the hands of Rock and Vince, before Mrs. Foley's baby boy returns to implement law an order. Austin hits a number of Stunners to pick up the win. and the greatest trilogy in World Wrestling Entertainment history was kicked off in style.
Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.
