Were these Stone Cold Steve Austin's 5 most shocking Stunners of all time?

#1. The one that started war...

Of all the Stone Cold Stunners that ever were, there's little doubt that there would have been many, many thousands fewer were it not for this one - the Stunner we put as our most shocking of all time.

It came in 1997 and, again, at a time when Austin was battling serious injury issues; some of them legitimate, but mostly designed to play into storylines. It was around this time that Vince McMahon had first started publicly acknowledging himself as the owner of WWE and, as such, he was desperate to keep the company from harm by insisting on-screen that Austin accept that he simply wasn't cleared to wrestle - and so would be doing so at his own risk.

It was, in hindsight, beautifully done. Slowly, it planted the seeds of what would grow to become arguably WWE's most memorable and entertaining rivalry - and it all exploded with the force of one, iconic, brilliantly-sold Stunner. "I accept the fact that you and the World Wrestling Federation care," barked Austin at McMahon, before infamously adding "I also accept... that you can kiss my a**!"

And with that, and a boot to the mid-section, Austin laid out McMahon in Madison Square Garden. A star, arguably, was born, and a rivalry to last decades was set on its way.