Lariat's Old School Talkers series: (3)Arn Anderson vs (6)Stone Cold Steve Austin

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Lariat's Old School Talkers series​

Arn Anderson​

vs​

Stone Cold Steve Austin​

The Enforcer meets the Bionic Redneck. One spoke softly but carried a lot of weight with his words... the other... spoke loudly and beat the hell out of you if you didn't like what he had to say. AA vs. Austin.

FIGHT!

 

[poppycock]

Stone Cold Steve Austin takes this one for me. Was watching some of the stuff he did with Tyson and on the Raw's leading up to Wrestlemania. Amazing stuff..

 

[TheKingHustla]

Stone Cold was bad ass. And he got to curse out his boss whenever he wanted to. how can you vote against that? It's the true american dream.

 

[Jay Sherman]

I love Old Arn. He was so overated and was so intense, and he fit the bodyguard role so well. He was great in the ring to, and people always over look his decent mic skills. All that said, its close but Stone Cold. Austin in every field wins and anyone that one may debate its close. Arn didnt have Austins charisma, or the will he ever have Stone Colds huge cultural impact.

 

[MrHashasheen]

I love Old Arn. He was so overated and was so intense, and he fit the bodyguard role so well. He was great in the ring to, and people always over look his decent mic skills. All that said, its close but Stone Cold. Austin in every field wins and anyone that one may debate its close. Arn didnt have Austins charisma, or the will he ever have Stone Colds huge cultural impact.

Arn Anderson. I've seen both him and Stone Cold's promos, and while Arn was always overshadowed by Ric in this regard, I've found his style of speaking better. Stone Cold was the brash, uncultured and loud redneck who didn't fit the corporate image and was a problem-starter. Arn Anderson who didn't need to speak, but when he spoke, you fucking listened and you listened close.

 

[#hamler]

Like I said yesterday, I've never really noticed how underrated Arn Anderson is on the mic. When he talked he made you believe whatever it was he was saying. I agree with the posters who say he was often over shaddowed by Ric Flair's promo abilities and that may be the reason he might be so underrated. However, there's no possible way Arn Anderson's mic skills are anywhere near that of Austin's. Steve Austin's mic skills were some of the best in the WWE. Austin, wherever he went, always had the crowd in the palm of his hand. "Give me a hell yeah" is a great example of this. Austin's talking skills are just to great for the very underrated Arn Anderson. He may be good, but not Austin good.

Vote Austin

 

[wrestling89]

This one is hard because most of the stuff Arn did was back in the day, and the stuff that Austin was known for came in the Attitude era. Different qualifications were needed in both eras.

WHen I saw this match up, the only thing that came to my mind was the feud between The Hollywood Blondes and the Horsemen. I believe this was in 1993 in WCW, I may be wrong on the year. If you haven't seen these promos, you need to look them up.

Let me put it clearly, you had 4 of the best stick men in the business. Brian Pillman (AFTER his "flyin" bullshit), Stunning Steve (while not quite stone cold, he still had some skills), Ric Flair (no need for description here), and AA. All four could talk, wrestle, and entertain.

But if you watch the clips, as good as Steve is today, he just wasn't as good as the other three in that feud. Granted, the other three were the greatest of all time.

Austin has the most memorable interviews of the two (check the interview he did in ECW talking about Bischoff firing him, that is the most played promo on my ipod,) but Arn had the more effective ones.

Austin created Austin 3:16, Arn created the name The Four Horsemen. Which I have to say is kind of a wash.

As a result of that Blondes - Horsemen feud, I'm going with the Enforcer.