>Never grow up during AE>Some boomers in a previous thread told me to check Rocky's old mic works to understand "what real mic skill is.">I searched>Almost all of Rocky's promos are minutes of barrages of random catchprases >No context with the storylines at all. He just use the same formulas: calling his opponent jabronis or bitches, saying he's the Great One at cooking, mandatory ass kissing to whatever city the episode was hosted>Opponents were clearly scripted to just Pikachu face at his kindergarten-tier jokes with no possibility of reply >I will admit he was really impressive at controlling and reading the crowds: but that's all the good that i can sayLater workers like late Cena or Punk (whose promos can be considered elaborate masterpieces of rhetoric) are 1000x better at mic that Rocky ever ways. This Dwayne wankery is just nostalgia googles by boomers, xers and xillennials (early millennials)
SHUT UP, BITCH
>>19812111nu-uh
>>19812112Unlike Rocky's opponent, i am allowed to reply to your childish jokes. You are a dickhead
>>19812122IT DOESNT MATTER WHAT YOU RESPOND WITH
And yet, The Rock drew more times than Cena and Punk.
>>19812111Rock is similar to Hogan. Nobody ever said they were the greatest mic workers ever but they know exactly how to make the crowd eat out of the palm of their hand. You don't need to innovate with every single promo when your charisma is off the charts
>>19812111t. roody poo bitch
>>19812111There was a brief period, after he turned heal and gained a clue but before he bcame the people's champ, where his promos were genuinely some of the best of all time. Where is spoke with speed, confidence and conviction, where he had his catch phrases but just dropped them in casually throughout the promo without breaking pace, rather than them being the focus of the promo. It's hard to find examples if you weren't watching at the time as that period didn't inform his legacy the same as the catch phrase period, here's one example though not the best one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR98Knu-M7k
>>19812111>Cena or Punk (whose promos can be considered elaborate masterpieces of rhetoric)Good God that's an overstatement. Prime Austin and Rock are in a class all their own when it comes to mic skills. What you identified as Rock's ability in "controlling and reading the crowds" is essentially the measuring stick for good mic work. Neither Cena nor Punk came close to matching Rock at this. In fact, neither Cena nor Punk could measure up to Rock on the mic when they were directly feuding with him. Punk, especially, was mogged off the screen when he delivered his cringey "boxing with God" promo, filled with trite one-liners like "I'm swingin' for the fences!" It did take Rock a good five years to reach his peak -- from his initial heel turn and name change to his later "Hollywood" heel turn. He was good as he developed, but by the time he was getting the entire audience invested in a minor comedy feud with a cruiserweight like Hurricane Helms back in 2003, he had reached the same summit that Austin rose to. All of his work in the buildup to WM40 should have reinforced that no one has since come close to that summit.
>>19812403prime austin was a acting monster.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g2xdCs8zl8everyone, even fucking becky are trying to copy him but they lack the emotions for it.
>>19812463There's a promo Austin cut in the ring right after he regrettably got the "WHAT!" chant over where he talks about the condiments he put on a hot dog he ate. The crowd was going fucking ballistic the entire time. I think he was showing off at that point, proving the point that he was so over and so good on the mic that he could act like a complete retard and still promote a PPV better than any horseshit script the writing staff might have had for him.
>>19812522They tell you in wrestling school, that it's not even about what you say...it's how you say it and deliver it.
>>19812160He was born in tbe right timeframe. Nowadays he would be nowhere as over, given High level mic works requires improvisation (something Chez is an absolute master with), while Dwayne was well know for preparing his whole promo, word to word, on the backstage
>>19812522Austin even somehow managed to turn into cringekino even the silly vignettes of him and Angle competing for Vince's approval in mid '2001. Altought being paired with Angle, a master at being comedy without losing credibility, surely helped
OP is a dumb ass mark. Nobody goes to a fucking wrestling show to listen to faggots like Keith Lee have a battle of the wits on the microphone like they’re in some gay British stage play. They want to watch larger than life superstars talk shit and beat each other up. The Rock is a million times more over than all of your lame smark “promo gods” like Punk that can only get attention by doing yummy insider references and breaking kayfabe.
>>19812192OP here. Didnt watched this specific promo during my reseaech and its indeed much, much better than the catchprases spam merchant Rocky became later and every oldfags still sucks off
>>19812111That Austin and Rock face off promo probably best of all time let's be real. Punk was great tho in his prime years
