Best trash talker of all time

May 2024 ยท 2 minute read
When it comes to "trash talk", the only guy in all of sports or entertainment that I can think of who matches up with The Rock was Muhammad Ali. In all honesty, a good deal of The Rock's promo style was heavily influenced by Ali and you'd have to be completely blind not to be able to see it.

Just like Ali, The Rock would string his catchphrases together in ways that were memorable, sometimes in ways that rhyme and in ways that were often pretty funny. Also, again like Ali, sometimes The Rock's taunts and trash talk was something pretty juvenile and irritating, even if you liked him. Exactly how much of Ali's public behavior was actually who he was is anybody's guess, though I'm pretty sure a lot of it was hype, and we know the same for The Rock.

Like Ali in public, The Rock had a MASSIVE ego in character. If you're not a small child, mentally handicapped or The Hulk, you'd have to be a world class tool to refer to yourself in the third person. As with Ali, even if you were a fan of The Rock, you sometimes wanted to see him get his ass kicked because, sometimes, The Rock in character does come off as an egotistical bully.

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