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'Stone Cold' Steve Austin voted greatest WWE Champion

'Stone Cold' narrowly saw off The Rock to become your 'People's Champion'.
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'Stone Cold' Steve Austin has narrowly beaten The Rock to be voted the 'Greatest WWE Champion of all time' by Sky Sports viewers.

Around 35,000 of you had your say but it was Austin that just about held off the self-proclaimed 'People's Champion' to win by just 130 votes.

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Fifty men have held the WWE Championship since its inception in 1963 in what was then known as the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF).

Both Austin and The Rock dominated our public vote, clearly showing a fondness from fans for the 'Attitude Era' of the late 90s and early 00s.

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Austin was involved with Mike Tyson's famous appearance at Wrestlemania XIV

Austin's brash manner and infamous run-ins with WWE chairman Vince McMahon helped wrestling in the late 90s become must-see TV and helped put rival company WCW out of business.

'Stone Cold stunners' laid out anyone that came close to 'The Rattlesnake' and he rarely got through a confrontation without flipping an opponent the finger or cutting them off with an angry 'What?'.

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'Stone Cold' later led 'The Alliance' in 2001 after WWE's takeover of WCW in an attempt yet again undermine Mr McMahon

Austin's rivalry with The Rock was, to use Dwayne Johnson's words, 'electrifying' and when the pair got in the ring pay-per-view and TV records were broken.

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'Stone Cold' got almost three times as many votes as Hulk Hogan, who finished third on 10 per cent.

16-time World Champion John Cena, who we'll see at SummerSlam on Sky Sports Box Office at midnight on Monday morning, was narrowly beaten into fourth, just 36 votes behind Hogan.

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Take a walk through WWE history and see all 50 Superstars who captured the WWE Championship, including John Cena, The Rock

Results from Sky Sports vote:

1st - 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin - 27%

2nd - The Rock - 27%

3rd - Hulk Hogan - 10%

4th - John Cena - 10%

5th - Undertaker - 9%

6th - Bret Hart - 7%

7th - Triple H - 6%

8th - Ric Flair - 2%

9th - Bruno Sammartino - 1%

10th - Andre The Giant - 1%

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