"Stone Cold" Steve Austin

In the WWF, Austin initially debuted under the short lived gimmick of The Ringmaster, an in-ring technician character before being repackaged as a short-tempered, brash and brazen anti-establishmentantihero named "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, becoming the most popular wrestler of the Attitude Era off the back of his feud with company chairman Vince McMahon. He won the WWF Championshipsix times, the WWF Intercontinental Championshiptwice, the Million Dollar Championship once, and the WWF Tag Team Championshipfour times, making him the fifth WWF Triple Crown Champion. He is also a record three-time Royal Rumble winner and also won the 1996 King of the Ring. He was forced to retire from in-ring competition in 2003 after multiple knee injuries and a serious neck injury at the 1997 SummerSlam event, making sporadic appearances ever since. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2009, and returned for a final match against Kevin Owens at WrestleMania 38 in April 2022.