He has a great look and great charisma.

They strapped him with a kid friendly gimmick because that is what they need, but he would have found his way to the top in most eras.

I don't know that he would have been a Rock/Austin level, but that's also because I struggle to imagine him with that kind of gimmick.

Also worth noting nobody would have cared that he only had 5 moves in that era.