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3. Stone Cold Joins Forces With Mr. McMahon To Defeat The Rock (WrestleMania X-Seven)

Speaking of foreboding announcers, Paul Heyman took a page out of Heenan’s playbook and “FOR SOME REASON” was arguably worse with his verbal prognosticating in 2001 during the climax of the WrestleMania 17 main-event between The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin. Rock vs. Austin was as genuinely unpredictable a match as had ever been wrestled in WWE, to that point. Arguments were made for both parties achieving victory for six weeks prior to the event. They were the two biggest stars of the most famed era in sports entertainment lore. Rock was Austin’s biggest in-ring rival and vice versa. However, Austin’s biggest rival, period, was Vince McMahon. There would not have been a Stone Cold without the boss against which he rebelled. Ratings as high as the 8s and PPV buys averaged, at one point, above 1.0 were created through the anti-hero everyman vs. the completely relatable/detestable villain. Wrestling became more popular than it ever had been before or ever has been since on the back of that feud.
So, there walked Vincent Kennedy McMahon to the ringside area during the latter part of the match. Eventually, there Vincent Kennedy McMahon handed Steve Austin a chair for which to physically annihilate The Rock and win the WWE Championship. In the shocker of the era, there was Vincent Kennedy McMahon and Stone Cold Steve Austin toasting with a beer to end a WrestleMania…and the era.