Stone Cold Steve Austin Says Shawn Michaels And Eddie Guerrero Are ‘1A And 1B’ As The Best To Ever Get In A Ring

Stone Cold Steve Austin addresses the idea of his Mount Rushmore of wrestling and who sits at the top of his list.

Since the mid 1990’s, Austin has been one of the top stars in all of wrestling history, and has seen many top names exit the sport as legendary figures. When it comes to building his own personal Mount Rushmore of in ring workers however, Austin is against the idea of limiting his to four talents.

While speaking to Insight With Chris Van Vliet, Stone Cold Steve Austin was asked to name his Mount Rushmore of professional wrestling.

“Man, I won’t build one. Because right now, there are so many people that did so many things for the business, it’s hard to pick four. You can pick four. Anybody can pick four, but my list is greater than four. I’ll say this though, Shawn Michaels is probably one of the best to ever get in a ring, if not the best. If he would be 1A, then 1B would be Eddie Guerrero. I don’t know if those aren’t interchangeable, because Eddie Guerrero was straight money, so good at so many things. I was watching a promo a few months back that he cut on Brock Lesnar, and Brock Lesnar was talking about winning championships. I love Brock, but he was talking about winning championships, and then Eddie flips it over, and he talks about coming back from being addicted and stuff like that. It was about a minute, two-minute piece of business. I think Brock was damn near about to start crying, because Eddie was just laying it on and shoot, how good he was in the ring with the things that he could do, and just the character that he created. Hulk Hogan, just larger than life. Brock Lesnar, Undertaker, Cena with the longevity of his run there. Flair is my favorite wrestler of all time, and he’s the greatest traveling world champion of all time, because no one ever did it at his level. All over the world for a shoot. Harley Race is another one. But Ric Flair for what he’s done for as long as he did it, and just the way that he did it. There’s a lot more, but I won’t build a Mount Rushmore.”

Elsewhere in the same interview, Austin spoke about Austin Theory. You can read more about that here.

Thank you to Chris Van Vliet for the quote(s)