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#2 Stone Cold Steve Austin
I'll admit that I had one of Austin's shirts during the height of his run. While it doesn't fit now, Austin's anti-authority, 'doesn't care about the consequences' character certainly does.
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Becky Lynch was Austin-like during her recent run to the top of the company, but no one did it better than Stone Cold Steve Austin.
He kicked things off with the infamous 'Austin 3:16' promo after winning King of the Ring in 1996, and he became so popular as a heel that he was starting to get cheered by the crowd.
Audiences in the '90s weren't as cynical and opinionated as they are today, but the seeds of those newer audiences were planted with the run of Austin to the top of the WWE.
His match against Michaels cemented his place atop the WWF and his feud with Mr. McMahon defined the Monday Night Wars and the Attitude Era.
Austin was truly one-of-a-kind. Mr. McMahon would have had trouble getting himself as over as a heel when he opposed Austin, so it can be said that the Rattlesnake was just as important to McMahon as the Chairman was to the former Champion. The rest is literally history.
