Austin wouldn't have that's for fukkin sure.
Ok... time to put this whole Ken Shamrock thing to rest.
Yes, Ken was one of the three men in 1998 Cokeboy hand picked to carry the WWF along with Austin. The other two being Mankind and the Rock.
He was primed to have the booster pack strapped to him after he destroyed Rocky at WM14 and later on went to defeat him for the King of the Ring title later on that year.
There was a problem, the audience wasn't warming up to him at all as opposed to the Rock who started getting face reactions after his blockbuster match with Triple H at SummerSlam. So they turned Kenny heel and put the rocket pack on the Rock which then catapulted him to the WWF Championship. Since then he stayed in mid card purgatory until he left the E.