[Mikey]

The Rock blew by Diamond Dallas Page in the Great One’s first outing in the tournament, while the King of Harts pulled yet another upset, this one over TNA mainstay Samoa Joe. Can the two time Slammy Award winner add another trophy to his collection by knocking off the region’s top seed? Or does THE BEST damn WWF Champ there ever was have a room reserved for The Rocket at the Smackdown Hotel?





Poll closes Sunday night at midnight eastern, pending my sleepiness.

[Moreofabreadguyanyway]

Two guys I would've liked to have seen more of. Due to certain circumstances that were good for the Rock (Hollywood) and bad for Owen (death), their career's were cut short. But of the two, the Rock is the one I definitely miss in the wrestling world more.

[Riot Act]

I'm still sticking with Owen. His career had more of an impact on me than The Rock's. This is likely because Owen was from "my day".

[Lucky]

OWEN!

[Tommy]

[blink]OWEN!!!!!!!![/blink]

[Tommy]

[blink]BLUE BLAZER!!![/blink]

[Tommy]

[blink]NUGGET!!!!!!!![/blink]

[Tommy]

[blink]TWO SLAMMIES!!!!!!!![/blink]

[Moosehead Jack]

I always hated Rock and thought he was terribly overrated, and since Owen has made this entire tournament a complete joke, I am voting for him. He really needs to win the whole damn thing

[National Champion Chris Cole]

I don't know how you can hate the Rock. He was the BEST Main Eventer ever because he didn't need to win every damn PPV match. He lost as many as he won and his matches were always fun, entertaining, and the outcome was usually in jeopardy. From 1999-2002 The Rock was the best part of the WWF.

[Moosehead Jack]

because I thought his promos were good the first time, then he would beat them into the ground, and they just got stupid after awhile. I thought he was an average wrestler at best.

Not knocking what he did, he was one of, if not the, main player in the E for several years, but nothing he did ever clicked with me at all. I give him a lot of credit for putting people over, but I still never gave a shit about him

[National Champion Chris Cole]

Different strokes for different folks I guess. Recently when I was going through a bunch of old crap that was building in the guest room as we were converting it to the nursery I found English notebook from by Senoir Year of High School. This would be 1999-2000. We had to write short stories every week and we also had numerous other writing assignments. I realized how big of a Rock Geek I really was. Almost every story ends up with pieces of Rock's promos. It was like I couldn't write 3 pages without calling somebody a jabroni or threating to layeth the smackdown. My teacher must have thought I was on drugs.

I should share one of those projects with you guys. We had to write a dictionary. So I chose to write a wrestling dictionary to help my teacher translate my work. I defined heel, face, but also wrestler slogans like Roody-poo or testicular fortitude. It was a fairly humerous read. Maybe I'll scan it and post it sometime.

[Mikey]

Don't feel guilty, Chris...

I actually once drew a map of the Rock's made up town, complete with the Smackdown Hotel (on the corner of Know Your Role Blvd. and Jabroni Drive), the Roody Poo Bridge (on the corner of the People's Champ Blvd. and Candyass Lane), as well as other various landmarks that I made up, such as Honest Rock's Used Car Sales, the Bank of the Rock, and the People's Country Club. It was good stuff, with statues of the Rock all over the town.

[salmonjunkie]

NERDS!!!


Here's a question - who would've voted Samoa Joe or Sting over Rock?

[murgen]

I really got back in to wretling at the height of the Attitude Era. The only Owen things I remember are the Blue Blazer and his death. I'm starting to see more of his older matches through the best of DVDs, and I definitely missed out. But I still have to go with the Rock. If only for the "It doesn't matter what your name is" promo on Billy Gunn.

[Tommy]

mooseheadjack said:

I always hated Rock and thought he was terribly overrated, and since Owen has made this entire tournament a complete joke, I am voting for him. He really needs to win the whole damn thing

That's the ticket Moose.
Vote Owen. It's the right choice.

[firebreakerchip]

I have to go with The Great One. In terms of influence and importance, The Rock trumps the Cinderella story of Owen. Owen edges Rock in wrestling performance, but Rock makes up that slight gap with some of the greatest promos of all times.

[gooker]

Holy crap, M-Kid and Mike. Horrifying stories.

I'm voting for Rock easily on this one. I love Owen but c'mon. It's The Rock for fuck's sake!

[Riot Act]

firebreakerchip said:

I have to go with The Great One. In terms of influence and importance, The Rock trumps the Cinderella story of Owen. Owen edges Rock in wrestling performance, but Rock makes up that slight gap with some of the greatest promos of all times.

This is the second time I'm calling you out on something here. SLIGHT gap in wrestling performance? Keep in mind that Rock is the guy who was constantly decreasing his moveset because most of what he did came off as highly sloppy. Owen on the other hand was as crisp as you'll find.

That said, what Rock lacked in pure ring skills he made up for in the way he told the story of the match through his mannerisms and all of the little subtle details he paid attention. He really understood the theatrical aspect of putting together a match.

I still vote Owen by a mile, though.

[Tommy]

But it's OWEN~!

Everyone who voted Owen over Sting should be voting for Owen here.

[Lucky]

The ring gap between Owen and Rock is WAY larger than it was between Owen and Joe. That's all I know.

But this was a WWF vs WWF matchup so I knew Owen was gonna die here.

And those are creepy stories, guys.

[Moreofabreadguyanyway]

Maybe Owen was better in terms of week to week performances, but I actually think Rocky had more classic, MOTY candidate matches than Owen. Owen has some good matches against Bulldog and Bret, but the Rock had more good matches against the likes of Mick Foley, HHH, Jericho, Benoit, Austin, and Angle.

[Lou]

tommyd420 said:

But it's OWEN~!

Everyone who voted Owen over Sting should be voting for Owen here.

I voted Owen over Sting. I don't understand why that means I should vote him over Rock.

[salmonjunkie]

Rock vs. Hulk > Owen vs. Bret

yeah, I said it.

[Tommy]

looouu said:

tommyd420 said:

But it's OWEN~!

Everyone who voted Owen over Sting should be voting for Owen here.

I voted Owen over Sting. I don't understand why that means I should vote him over Rock.

Because it makes the same amount of sense.