2. The Rock
Dwayne Johnson, a former football player and a member of a wrestling family, may just be the most famous wrestler in the world these days. Acting as franchise Viagra again and again on screen, he packs them in wherever he goes but if he’d never done anything on a film set his place would still be cemented. Initially reviled for his over the type good guy antics, he took the disrespect that was shoveled on him and turned it into some of the best promos we’ve ever seen. No heel turn has ever been so well executed and more beautifully explained.
After joining, leading and leaving The Nation of Domination, Rocky began a feud that defines his career against Steve Austin which saw them main event WrestleMania. Two men who truly seemed to want to destroy one another, they fought intensely to become the number one act in the company and Maivia came close to unseating Stone Cold. Holding his own against the biggest box office draw wrestling has ever seen, The Rock deserves his own wing in any building WWE ever builds to house their Hall of Fame.
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