“Stone Cold” Steve Austin ranked by Sports Illustrated as the greatest WWE wrestler of all time
Media outlet Sports Illustrated published a list of the top 20 greatest WWE wrestlers of all time. The official rankings are as follows…
1. “Stone Cold” Steve Austin
2. Hulk Hogan
3. The Rock
4. John Cena
5. Roman Reigns
6. Undertaker
7. Triple H
8. Shawn Michaels
9. Bret Hart
10. Bruno Sammartino
11. Randy Savage
12. Kurt Angle
13. Roddy Piper
14. Edge
15. Randy Orton
16. Andre The Giant
17. CM Punk
18. Chris Jericho
19. Mick Foley
20. Becky Lynch
SI noted the following about why Austin as put in the top spot…
“Stone Cold Steve Austin was the face of the biggest and most memorable professional wrestling boom period, The Attitude Era. Austin brought the realism and rawness that the business needed in the mid 1990’s.
Helping WWE push past WCW and win the Monday Night Wars, ‘The Rattlesnake’ and his era-defining feud with Vince McMahon became the greatest feud in the history of the business. His other fantastic feuds with The Rock and Triple H left an unforgettable mark on the company that is often talked about to this day.
Austin tops this list because without him, there might not be a WWE at the top of the industry today. His legacy is untouchable and worthy of being the greatest WWE wrestler of all time.”