man i just watched the raw after mania XV....its mindblowing how over austin is. Honestly, you can't tell me for a second anyone was as over as Steve Austin between Mania XIV and Mania XVII. 14-15 he was absolutely a monster, and the crowd was going BALLISTIC to everything he said or did. They had a "BULLDOG IN WEMBLEY" pop to his music...i was and still am a HUGE austin fan but gotdamn, nothing compares to the way that austin had the crowd losing their minds. I mean the front row wasn't even wearing shirts...just animals in the crowd.
second thing from that night; Rock was getting babyface responses for one of the first times in MONTHS and was a TRUE #2 before they even turned him...
third: XPAC WAS LEGIT OVER AS HELL...at lowest the third most over person that night, definitely