It's 3-16. Amazing how short his career was in hindsight. What were some of your favorite matches and moments?

97 Rumble? Bret feud? That match with Dude Love... 3 stages of hell? 2001 silliness. That no holds barred match with Debra. Rock trilogy. Worst rollup in history following a BROKEN FREAKIN' NECK [/kurt].

I was just thinking about this today given the date. Kilgore 's 3:16 thread from a few years back is a PW classic.

Favorite Matches

1. Canadian Stampede 10 Man Tag featuring Austin delivering the GOAT heel performance. This is my all time favorite match. 
2. vs. Bret- Wrestlemania 13
3. vs. HHH- No Way Out 2001
4. vs. Bret- Survivor Series 1996
5. War Games '92
6. vs. Dude Love- Over The Edge 98
7. vs. Benoit- Smackdown 5/31/01
8. vs. Rock- Wrestlemania 17
*Something like that

Favorite Moments
1. Any time Bret or Owen got the better of him    Austin/Bret has been my choice for GOAT feud since 1997. Wrestling was never more real to me. 
-Bedpan McMahon is sports entertainment gold
-Ditto for the comedy skits with Vince & Angle in 2001
-Helping Foley win his first WWF Championship
-Saving Steph from Undertaker's black wedding
-"Do you like nature? Do you like boys?"
-Steve-A-Mania runs wild in ECW as Austin shoots on Hogan & WCW
-The Hollywood Blonds theme and taunt
-Last but certainly not least, debuting as Ted Dibiase's Million Dollar Champion on the Brother Love Show as THE RINGMASTER~! You better believe my best friend Rick and I touched his hand. This noob was over with us from day one. Shame about the next few years...

*I was notoriously an Austin hater from when he Pillmanized....Pillman, kicking off a 2.5 year run as one of the biggest jerks in wrestling history, until he saved Steph from Undertaker's black wedding, which made him kinda sorta tolerable. Team Bret all the way! Team Vince, too. But Austin has aged like fine wine. Nobody will ever be that over for that long again. He's also one of my favorite wrestling personalities to listen to nowadays. Austin could make reading the phone book entertaining. 

Austin was what got me into wrestling. My whole household loved him except my Dad. I dunno if he truly hated him or just acted as a resident troll. Even though we didn't watch WCW he seemed to like Goldberg, so maybe that was his loyalty. He always made fun of his entrance and said his corner pose was him acting like a monkey.

"Oh look at the dumb monkey raising his arms into the air"

When HHH fell on him at No Way Out I have never seen a man that happy outside of a Maury episode.

PreStone Cold

His matches against Muta, Steamboat, and Dustin Rhodes was pretty good in WCW

His match with HBK preinjuries of course at KOTR was pretty damn good match

Of course his feud with Bret and The R0ck was great too

I was just thinking about this today given the date. Kilgore 's 3:16 thread from a few years back is a PW classic.

You and me both, that along with Strobe's retrospective on Antonio Inoki are the posts I wish I could go back and read.

The bottom line is that in 1996-99 there wasn't a bigger bad-ass on television than Stone Cold Steve Austin. He was the pinnacle and the work Austin put into his character to make sure it resonated puts him in an elite category very few have been able to attain. For me the peak of his character is the feud with Bret all the way through to the SummerSlam match with Owen. After that he reigned the character back but still had some home-run segments. That episode where everybody had a pager and they're getting 3:16 messages is one of my favourite Raw episodes period and of course the confrontation between Tyson was a major turning point.

The heel turn ended up being a bad piece of business, but even then Austin tried his best to make it work. I think my favourite period was his short-lived run with Kurt Angle.

There were a ton of classic segments, but Austin's performance here just cracks me up.

Stunning Steve is so fucking underrated, which makes sense because Stone Cold is so monumental. Austin was a prodigy in a lot of ways, his pre-WCW feud with Chris Adams, Austin was already one of the best heels in wrestling. By the time he got to WCW he was still pretty inexperienced ring-wise, and yet he was having great matches almost immediately. The chemistry between him and Windham was incredible, fantastic wrestling as sport matches. Him and Steamboat were as guaranteed to have good or great matches as any rivalry ever, which once again gets overshadowed because they have significantly more revered partnerships that get mentioned first. But whether it was 1992 or 1994, Stunning Steve and and Ricky Steamboat were tearing the goddamn house down. Throw them in a tag team match against each other (say Shane Douglas with Steamboat and Brian Pillman with Austin), and it's going to be just as incredible. 

The Dangerous Alliance used to be the most underrated stable of all time, but have gotten their due the past decade, thankfully. There's an incredible radio interview where Paul E. is hyping his Alliance one-by-one, gets to Austin and calls him the future of wrestling. Now, this was no doubt at least partially kayfabe (if not more than partial), but Paul E. genuinely saw Austin as a top guy when WCW did not, and Austin in the Dangerous Alliance as The Next Big Thing was an incredible spot, in arguably the greatest (non-nWo) year in WCW history, in large part due to the various subplots that developed from the DA vs. WCW. I think of 1992 as "The WCW New Generation Year," beating WWF's rebuild to the punch, and with much better prospects to boot, prospects that would mostly all bloom in WWF a few years later, unfortunate for WCW.

Of the Austin vs. Rhodes matches that came just before and just after the Dangerous Alliance vs. WCW period, I think it's a really bizarre case of their first Halloween Havoc match being the best, and every other high profile one after that getting progressively worse, which is completely inexplicable considering how good both were, but that was really noticeable when I saw them in succession during Steve Austin Month. I blame Rhodes, who I always felt was overrated. Stunning Steve is innocent. 

Of course The Hollywood Blonds are next (I do not abide Hollywood "Blondes" revisionism, it was usually spelled sans the E in its day), which was an absolute miracle. Austin and Pillman are two of the greatest minds of their generation, flat out, maybe a few can equal them, but no one is above either of them on that front. For them to just be haphazardly thrown together in 1993, which was an injustice to both of them who had incredible 1992s and should have been groomed for the next step, and for them to summon he angst of that into one of the great heel tag teams ever, it was beautiful to watch, and extremely formative in my wrestling watching as they were the cool heels that made me like heels. It was like, no more baby shit. No more falling for Hogans or Stings. The Blonds are the truth, and the truth is where its at. I'm a man now (I was like 8 or 9 years old). One of the biggest creative tragedies in wrestling that WCW basically sabotaged them for the audacity of being awesome as a thrown together whatever team. 

1994 is really where WCW failing to capitalize on Austin's talent starts to become a bummer. He's pretty much lost post-Blonds, if not for the Steamboat feud reboot, there'd probably be nothing to remember. Those matches are incredible. Hogan coming in that summer pretty much kills Austin as WCW pivoting to 80s WWF nostalgia show doesn't leave room for an upstart like Austin, especially one that they apparently didn't agree was much of an upstart anyway. His being jobbed out to Hacksaw Jim Duggan (at Fall Brawl, I think) is hilariously inept now, but I assure you, seemed pretty inept at the time too.

Then he's injured, he comes back in 1995 at his most Stone Cold yet, cuts a lot of bitter promos that hint at work shoots, his cadence now really Stone Cold like, but this was mostly to face jobbers on WCW Saturday Night. There was no plan for him. Maybe that was good, because it gave him some room to cut those promos at all, but ECW, here he comes. Like the WWF run, it's pretty incredible how short the Stunning Steve years were too. And that he left a mark at all, with all those things going against him, a real credit to the dude who would become one of the greatest. Albeit on a smaller scale, he refused to be denied even then. 

Superstar Steve Austin, what a time. Sort of a proto-Pillman Loose Cannon run (although Pillman would do it even better months later), and Austin's "I'm gonna be the Superstar" promo where he calls his shot is, for me, the greatest promo ever. Even if he flamed out, it would still be a god tier promo, but the fact that he was correct (like just over two years later he's pushing Mike Tyson in a WWF ring as the biggest thing in wrestling), it's Babe Ruth calling his shot in the World Series, except it really happened.

Then it's Stone Cold time, where reminders are unnecessary. We all know, we all remember. It was really amazing to re-watch in 2016 as contemporary pro wrestling was collapsing at the same time. The combination of that time, and him, the amount he was over is surreal. It really feels like there will never be anything like that ever again. Many wrestlers will get incredibly over, but not like that.  

          

Mar 17, 2021 1:52:39 GMT Baker said:

Team Bret all the way! Team Vince, too. 

I am in favor of us turning this thread into an all purpose Austin gif thread for future uses as need be.

By default my favourite match is against Scott Hall at WMX8 because I was there. Only time I ever saw him live and it was great. The double stunner got a big pop when Hall left his feet. So good.

Favourite all time is against Bret of course. Literally one of the best wrestling matches ever.

Favourite moment is either the beer truck or when he helped Mankind win the title.

OH HELL YEAH

Mar 17, 2021 20:45:52 GMT SummerSlam 1998 said:

Mar 17, 2021 1:52:39 GMT Baker said:

Team Bret all the way! Team Vince, too. 

Mar 17, 2021 22:55:54 GMT Baker said:

Mar 17, 2021 20:45:52 GMT SummerSlam 1998 said:

And then he tapped to Kurt a few years later. LUL

My favorite wrestler of all time.

The GOAT.

Mar 17, 2021 22:55:54 GMT Baker said:

Mar 17, 2021 20:45:52 GMT SummerSlam 1998 said:

But how does one end up team Vince as well?

Mar 18, 2021 12:05:28 GMT SummerSlam 1998 said:

Mar 17, 2021 22:55:54 GMT Baker said:

But how does one end up team Vince as well?

For those that root for Amazon and Walmart.

I like this game. I want to try!

They're even themed. 🤯 breaks the mold.

Mar 18, 2021 12:05:28 GMT SummerSlam 1998 said:

But how does one end up team Vince as well?

Long story. I'll do my best to explain...

I was primarily a heel fan growing up. Heels generally had more fun. I usually found them to be the more entertaining characters and promos. Plus my usual contrarianism no doubt came into play. I wasn't merely trolling though. I was genuinely sincere about liking the so-called bad guys. Rooting for the heels during the Hulkamania & New Generation Eras also meant I was automatically rooting for the underdog given WWF's penchant for building the promotion around superman babyfaces. This meant victories were few and far between. But man were they sweet. It wasn't as if I liked every heel though. Some were boring. Others had stupid characters. And a few were too heelish even for me-Nailz, Jake, early Dibiase, IRS at times, Bad News Brown, Austin...

The First Commandment of heeling as far as I was concerned was Thou Shalt Not Attack Other Heels. Austin didn't just cross this line. He obliterated it. I guess that's what initially made him a tweener to most people? But it made him the ultimate heel to me. He was the worst. 

Confession time. I genuinely didn't understand Austin's appeal. Like it was beyond my apparently limited understanding. The more heelish he acted, the more popular he became. The more he flipped off the fans, the more they cheered for him. I didn't get it.

I may not have liked Hogan, Warrior, "Made In The USA" Lex Luger, and 1996 Shawn Michaels, but I could at least understand why other people did. For starters, their characters genuinely cared about their fans. Even some of my heel heroes (HTM, Flair, 97 Bret, Raven, Rougeaux, NWA Cornette, etc.) would give a shoutout to their fans from time to time. Austin, on the other hand, didn't give a hoot about his fans. He wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire. He’s far more likely to be the one who set them on fire in the first place. I thought Austin fans were masochists...A bunch of self-loathing Tommy Dreamers thanking sir and begging for another.

This is messed up, but true. The first wrestling shirt I ever really wanted was a Four Horsemen tee in 1996. The second was Owen 3:16 Says I Just Broke Your Neck because fuck a Stone Cold.

The epic feud with my latest wrestling hero Bret Hart only put Austin deeper on my shit list. Rooting for Austin was out of the question after that. Rooting for Austin over my other hero Vincent Kennedy McMahon was never, ever going to happen...

I was never much of a brand whore. Nintendo vs. Sega? Who cares? I just to play cool video games. Nor did I care about shoe wars, network battles, fast food fights, record label arguments, or most anything else involving simping for one corporation over another. There was only one exception to the rule...

WWF. Whether true or delusions of grandeur, I proudly fancied myself the biggest WWF fan in the entire world during the Monday Night Wars. WWF was like my favorite sports team and favorite tv show rolled into one. I was crazy about WWF the way some people were about ECW. I gleefully guzzled down all the Kool Aid Vince served up. I truly believed he was this genius who had taken wrestling out of dingy smoke filled arenas and made it mainstream. I also genuinely believed he was the little guy valiantly fighting off Billionaire Ted's Evil Empire. The loyalty factor was off the charts. I watched so much WWF growing up that to this day I still joke around about Vince being my second daddy. The chances of me rooting for anybody over Vince were slim, though not impossible. Bret from Royal Rumble 97 on and post-Screwjob Owen instantly spring to mind since they actually had valid reasons for a theoretical feud with Vince. But me rooting for the hated Steve Austin over Vince was just never going to happen.

Austin/McMahon kicked off on the 9/22/97 Raw at MSG. Vince wanted to have a reasonable adult discussion with Austin. The gist of it was Vince saying something like, "You really shouldn't be wrestling with a broken freaking neck." Austin, being a surly sociopath with severe anger management issues, then Stunned the boss. I was shocked and appalled. As far as I was concerned, Austin didn't just attack Vince, but the very WWF itself.

This was a far cry from Vader striking a blow for justice by attacking a corrupt commissioner Monsoon who had been asking for it for months. That was justified. That was good. But this was a heinous unprovoked assault. The greatest crime Vince had ever committed in kayfabe up to that point was simply being an annoying, hyperactive good guy announcer. The punishment was much too severe for that relatively minor misdemeanor. Austin struck the first blow. Never forget. Because of that, ANYTHING Vince did in retaliation was justified in my book. So be it if Vince happened to make Austin's life a living hell after that. Austin had asked for it. Mr. McMahon only existed because Austin created him. 

I didn't even like most of Vince's Corporate henchmen. Shane was annoying. Shamrock and Test were boring. Bossman sucked. HHH hit the jabroni jackpot of being annoying, boring, and sucking. But I was still 100% Team Vince in spite of his less than stellar choice in minions.

I booed Austin at live events and took great pleasure in doing so. 10,000+ Baltimorons would jump out of their seats popping for their favorite sociopath while I stood there defiantly booing and giving Austin the middle finger right back, much to the amusement of my largely Austin-neutral friends. They just got the biggest kick out of me booing Stone Cold. Like "OMG! Get a load of this guy. I can't believe he actually went through with it." But don't think I was trolling or playing a gimmick. It was sincere.

Once Austin became solidified as the top guy I just viewed him as an updated version of Hogan/Warrior/Michaels. The stupid beer bash was just his version of Hogan's posing or HBK's prancing striptease routine. I'd just sit there shaking my head, rolling my eyes, and muttering something about "stupid Stone Cold" during the dumb beer bashes and weekly vehicular shenanigans.

By the Spring of '99 Austin became a little more tolerable.....or WWF just wore me down. Probably a combination of both tbh. But if it's the latter, that makes 1999 Austin the equivalent of 2007 Cena in a comparison nobody has likely ever made before or will ever make again. Anyway, the only times I kinda sorta rooted for Austin during about a four year span stretching from approximately September 96-September 00 were against HBK & HHH using the old "lesser of two evils" logic. 

Did anyone else catch the A&E Biography?

They go over a lot of the same talking points but it's all brand new interviews and they got all the right people involved. You got Steve's brother, Steve's sister, JR, Heyman, Foley, Rock, Vince, Bruce, HHH, Taker and of course Steve himself.

I like how they have Steve's WWF run down pat.

- Debuts as the Ringmaster and it's a giant waste of everyone's time.
- Vince gives him one last shot to come up with something so he comes up with the Iceman persona based on a hitman. WWF comes up with names like Chilly McFreeze and Ice Dagger before Jeannie (Steve's ex-wife) tells him to drink his tea before it becomes 'stone cold' and they both have a eureka moment.
- Then a series of clandestine moments happen. The Curtain Call sees Austin shoe-horned as the new King of the Ring winner. Austin then gets his lip split open goes to hospital and when he comes back something about Michael Hayes relaying Jake's promo to Austin instantly reminds him of Austin 3:16. He cuts that infamous line and then to bring it all home he feels he has to sign off and comes up with that's the bottom line out of nowhere.
- Just as he's getting hotter and hotter disaster strikes and Owen spikes him on a piledriver. Miraculously he isn't permanently paralyzed and he's allowed to continue forward.
- Things really explode when he and Vince go at it. The two are made for one another and it goes from Austin/Vince to somebody being able to take their frustrations out on their boss.
- While Vince/Austin was great, he still needed an active in-ring wrestler on his level to feud with and that was The Rock. The two had one of the all-time greatest rivalries culminating at Wrestlemania XIX where Austin did the favours.
- In the end the pressures of being the star of the company and his spinal injury caught up to him. Steve was infamously difficult to work with because he was so protective of his character and when they suggested to do Brock/Austin free on television with Austin doing the favours that's when he decided to take his ball and go home.

The biggest thought I had during it is how much I wish I could read Kilgore's 3/16 thread. Still, it's a nice reminder of all of Steve's accomplishments.

Apr 19, 2021 15:48:04 GMT Big Pete said:

Did anyone else catch the A&E Biography?

They go over a lot of the same talking points but it's all brand new interviews and they got all the right people involved. You got Steve's brother, Steve's sister, JR, Heyman, Foley, Rock, Vince, Bruce, HHH, Taker and of course Steve himself.

I like how they have Steve's WWF run down pat.

- Debuts as the Ringmaster and it's a giant waste of everyone's time.
- Vince gives him one last shot to come up with something so he comes up with the Iceman persona based on a hitman. WWF comes up with names like Chilly McFreeze and Ice Dagger before Jeannie (Steve's ex-wife) tells him to drink his tea before it becomes 'stone cold' and they both have a eureka moment.
- Then a series of clandestine moments happen. The Curtain Call sees Austin shoe-horned as the new King of the Ring winner. Austin then gets his lip split open goes to hospital and when he comes back something about Michael Hayes relaying Jake's promo to Austin instantly reminds him of Austin 3:16. He cuts that infamous line and then to bring it all home he feels he has to sign off and comes up with that's the bottom line out of nowhere.
- Just as he's getting hotter and hotter disaster strikes and Owen spikes him on a piledriver. Miraculously he isn't permanently paralyzed and he's allowed to continue forward.
- Things really explode when he and Vince go at it. The two are made for one another and it goes from Austin/Vince to somebody being able to take their frustrations out on their boss.
- While Vince/Austin was great, he still needed an active in-ring wrestler on his level to feud with and that was The Rock. The two had one of the all-time greatest rivalries culminating at Wrestlemania XIX where Austin did the favours.
- In the end the pressures of being the star of the company and his spinal injury caught up to him. Steve was infamously difficult to work with because he was so protective of his character and when they suggested to do Brock/Austin free on television with Austin doing the favours that's when he decided to take his ball and go home.

The biggest thought I had during it is how much I wish I could read Kilgore's 3/16 thread. Still, it's a nice reminder of all of Steve's accomplishments.

They completely whiffed on Bret Hart's impact on Austin. Despite Austin 3:16 being coined at KOTR he was still on the Summerslam preshow in a two minute match with Yokozuna. They were a little misleading with the rocket ship like push he got after KOTR. They skipped over WM13 completely which is a big part of the story that was missing. Other than that pretty solid, they mentioned his daughters which was kind of interesting how that relationship has grown. Plus they acknowledged that the seeds were planted in ECW so that was good.



Austin looks more ripped than ever, he's on a Scott Steiner trajectory with those arms.

Apr 19, 2021 17:53:34 GMT Shootist said:

Apr 19, 2021 15:48:04 GMT Big Pete said:

Did anyone else catch the A&E Biography?

They go over a lot of the same talking points but it's all brand new interviews and they got all the right people involved. You got Steve's brother, Steve's sister, JR, Heyman, Foley, Rock, Vince, Bruce, HHH, Taker and of course Steve himself.

I like how they have Steve's WWF run down pat.

- Debuts as the Ringmaster and it's a giant waste of everyone's time.
- Vince gives him one last shot to come up with something so he comes up with the Iceman persona based on a hitman. WWF comes up with names like Chilly McFreeze and Ice Dagger before Jeannie (Steve's ex-wife) tells him to drink his tea before it becomes 'stone cold' and they both have a eureka moment.
- Then a series of clandestine moments happen. The Curtain Call sees Austin shoe-horned as the new King of the Ring winner. Austin then gets his lip split open goes to hospital and when he comes back something about Michael Hayes relaying Jake's promo to Austin instantly reminds him of Austin 3:16. He cuts that infamous line and then to bring it all home he feels he has to sign off and comes up with that's the bottom line out of nowhere.
- Just as he's getting hotter and hotter disaster strikes and Owen spikes him on a piledriver. Miraculously he isn't permanently paralyzed and he's allowed to continue forward.
- Things really explode when he and Vince go at it. The two are made for one another and it goes from Austin/Vince to somebody being able to take their frustrations out on their boss.
- While Vince/Austin was great, he still needed an active in-ring wrestler on his level to feud with and that was The Rock. The two had one of the all-time greatest rivalries culminating at Wrestlemania XIX where Austin did the favours.
- In the end the pressures of being the star of the company and his spinal injury caught up to him. Steve was infamously difficult to work with because he was so protective of his character and when they suggested to do Brock/Austin free on television with Austin doing the favours that's when he decided to take his ball and go home.

The biggest thought I had during it is how much I wish I could read Kilgore's 3/16 thread. Still, it's a nice reminder of all of Steve's accomplishments.

They completely whiffed on Bret Hart's impact on Austin. Despite Austin 3:16 being coined at KOTR he was still on the Summerslam preshow in a two minute match with Yokozuna. They were a little misleading with the rocket ship like push he got after KOTR. They skipped over WM13 completely which is a big part of the story that was missing. Other than that pretty solid, they mentioned his daughters which was kind of interesting how that relationship has grown. Plus they acknowledged that the seeds were planted in ECW so that was good.



Austin looks more ripped than ever, he's on a Scott Steiner trajectory with those arms.

The lack of Bret, Taker and the heel turn stood out to me as well. I can sort of see what they were going for and they were just trying to do a general overview and didn't want to go through all the story beats of his career. So it was basically this story of this one diamond in the rough who finally put it altogether but it only lasted for so long and it came at such an expensive price. I suppose outside of Vince the Rock rivalry makes the most sense since mainstream audiences are familiar with him, they did headline three Wrestlemanias and it did tie into Austin's retirement nicely. Plus getting Dwayne was a nice get for the production, so you may as well capitilise on it.

I thought all the family stuff was great as well. His poor little sister having to ring up dairy queen because Steve was too shy when he was teenager.

While it didn't bring any new information to light for me, I definitely felt inspired watching it.

I'm looking forward to the Roddy Piper documentary that's due next week as well.

Apr 19, 2021 18:06:44 GMT Big Pete said:

Apr 19, 2021 17:53:34 GMT Shootist said:

They completely whiffed on Bret Hart's impact on Austin. Despite Austin 3:16 being coined at KOTR he was still on the Summerslam preshow in a two minute match with Yokozuna. They were a little misleading with the rocket ship like push he got after KOTR. They skipped over WM13 completely which is a big part of the story that was missing. Other than that pretty solid, they mentioned his daughters which was kind of interesting how that relationship has grown. Plus they acknowledged that the seeds were planted in ECW so that was good.



Austin looks more ripped than ever, he's on a Scott Steiner trajectory with those arms.

The lack of Bret, Taker and the heel turn stood out to me as well. I can sort of see what they were going for and they were just trying to do a general overview and didn't want to go through all the story beats of his career. So it was basically this story of this one diamond in the rough who finally put it altogether but it only lasted for so long and it came at such an expensive price. I suppose outside of Vince the Rock rivalry makes the most sense since mainstream audiences are familiar with him, they did headline three Wrestlemanias and it did tie into Austin's retirement nicely. Plus getting Dwayne was a nice get for the production, so you may as well capitilise on it.

I thought all the family stuff was great as well. His poor little sister having to ring up dairy queen because Steve was too shy when he was teenager.

While it didn't bring any new information to light for me, I definitely felt inspired watching it.

I'm looking forward to the Roddy Piper documentary that's due next week as well.

Another thing that stood out was Steve's brother breaking down even today when talking about the Owen neck injury. It was kind of hard to watch.

I'm also surprised that they didn't talk about how Austin was not the first choice to win King of the Ring. It suppose to be Triple H, but he screwed himself with the whole Curtain Call.

Also they didn't talk about Deborah and the gag order.

Apr 20, 2021 0:55:02 GMT Da Gr8t I Is said:

I'm also surprised that they didn't talk about how Austin was not the first choice to win King of the Ring. It suppose to be Triple H, but he screwed himself with the whole Curtain Call.

Also they didn't talk about Deborah and the gag order.

They talked about the curtain call, but yeah the glossed over the Deborah thing.

I’m a massive Austin fan although a bit late to the game - when I first started watching in 2000, I wasn’t really a fan of most of the usua main eventer except for Undertaker. I was all about tag teams and Lita was my fave. However I really grew to appreciate Austin’s work.

I think one of my favourite things about Austin that’s not been covered is this post wrestling life he’s settled in to. I loved how they had him introduce the video packages for last years Royal Rumble, there was just something cool about the biggest star from the past introducing the start of the road to WM. I’m loving his work on the Broken Skull sessions, you can tell he’s still such a big fan and keeps well up to date - it was awesome how much of a mark he was for Bayley and Sasha, bringing up loads of different points and matches that you wouldn’t really bring up unless you’re a big fan of them.

Apr 20, 2021 3:00:36 GMT Shootist said:

Apr 20, 2021 0:55:02 GMT Da Gr8t I Is said:

I'm also surprised that they didn't talk about how Austin was not the first choice to win King of the Ring. It suppose to be Triple H, but he screwed himself with the whole Curtain Call.

Also they didn't talk about Deborah and the gag order.

They talked about the curtain call, but yeah the glossed over the Deborah thing.

Your right they did, I don't know how I did not catch that the first time.