The Rock Explains Why He Oversold Every Stone Cold Stunner

[Dillah810]

FINALLY, The Rock…has come clean…about why he flopped like a fish out of water after every single Stunner he took (and there were many) from “Stone Cold” Steve Austin over the years in the WWE.



Turns out the story behind The Rock selling the crap of Steve Austin’s Stunners is about as ridiculous as the story of how The Rock came up with his signature move “The People’s Elbow.”

The reason he finally came clean has to do with the fact that his Baywatch co-star Hannibal Buress brought it up on his show, even showing a bunch of clips of just how insane The Rock’s reaction was to all those stunners.


Buress isn’t not joking about how crazy some of The Rock’s flops were. This is one of my all time faves…



Apparently The Rock got wind of Burress’ comments and fired off a tweet to settle once and for all why he oversold Austin’s Stunner…

The Rock Finally Explained Why He Oversold The Hell Out Of Every Stone Cold Stunner He Took

 

[Leonard Washington]

I remember one of the Smackdown video games had everybody selling it like The Rock

 

[Golayitdown]

Rock could do no wrong

 

[NoMorePie]

Someone should ask Dolph Ziggler why he sells every mother fukking bump he takes

 

[Dillah810]

If you pause the youtube video around 22 sec, you can see Austin laughing at the Rock.

 

[Vinny Lupton]

Someone should ask Dolph Ziggler why he sells every mother fukking bump he takes

he thinks if he wears boots like Shawn and does the superkick and bumps around he will be as over as Shawn hang it up Dolph

 

[raw613]

That used to be hilarious , I always laughed at that

 

[HYDRO]

Real talk tho
Every time Austin gave Rock the Stunner it felt like a huge deal

 

[Ironman]

Real talk tho
Every time Austin gave Rock the Stunner it felt like a huge deal

Cause they both sold the shyt out of it

 

[Da King]

Yet Uncle Rockus still won't ever mention his black half

 

[Shadow]

It's actually very smart to do a signature sell of a specific move. As you can see it eventually started to make it's way into video games. Look at The Rock's sharpshooter. A lot of people don't like it, some hate it. But when you see it, you know it's his. It looks different from Bret's or Sting's. That's important. Eventually The Rock's sharpshooter made it into video games too. It's important to switch up how you do certain moves, they'll stand out and become memorable. The Rock setting up The Rock Bottom by readying himself also made it into games. His entire move set was able to be adapted and it doesn't look generic, you know the Rock's moves. Even his specific spine buster, it differs from HHH's which differs from Arn Anderson's.

It's the reason why in video games you don't just get one frog splash, you get one from Eddie, RVD and D'Lo because they all differ and standout. The super kick has become boring because so many people do it without putting their own spin on it. Shawn stomping the ground beforehand makes it memorable.

Rock's stunner sell is one of the most memorable things in wrestling. His entire move set is, from the spine buster, to the sharpshooter, to people's elbow, to Rock bottom, to the damn eyebrow. Hell, even the way he stomps people made it into video games. The way he punches as well. Why? Because he made sure every single thing he did was different and unique to him personally. This is one of the most important things, making sure that people actually remember your move set. Beyond your finisher, your whole damn move set.

The way you walk as well, how you talk, how you dress and catchphrases. There's a reason Rock had so many of them. Guess what happened? Eventually those catchphrases became marketable(games, music, shirts, etc) and they are of course memorable.

 

[Ku$h Parker]

The Rock setting up The Rock Bottom by readying himself also made it into games.

My WWE 2K17 MyCareer Player got all of that as the Finisher

 

[GodinDaFlesh]

I remember one of the Smackdown video games had everybody selling it like The Rock

 

[Momentum]

Funny, this was the wrestling boom period where guys did moves that were barely athletic and printed money..... just saying.

 

[CarltonJunior]

I remember one of the Smackdown video games had everybody selling it like The Rock

Y'all done brought me AWWWWWWLLL the way back. Too far back