James Dean
All Star
all my favs wrote their own shyt. pipper used to take with him a small pocket book and write little lines came up with the 'kick ass, and chew bubblegum' shyt like that. jake did the same, lenny talked about how macho used to work on his promos very hard. hbk mother said he lost his smile, and then hbk cut that lost his smile moment. honky tonk talked about twisting country rock lyrics for his promos and the list goes on.
its a shame rock isnt on that list of greats but he ran off hype after 2000, his novelty kicked in way earlier than austin but austin was just always better screen time. while rock tries too hard now i see why after the early rock days i stopped fcking with him, i see he let others dictate his character.
just after the nation of domination was when rock was cool not corny.
lol how is it a shame. You could ask every single person on that "list" and they would surely rank him up there with them.
Rock may not make your personal list, but in no way is the guy not in their league because he did things a tad different.