The True Story Of Steve Austin's Final Days In WCW
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 พ.ค. 2021
- Long before doling out Stunners, Austin himself was Stunning. In early nineties WCW, "Stunning" Steve Austin was an upper-level talent with an impressive body of work, and even back then he had "future World champion" written all over him. But in 1995, following a long stretch of frustration, contentiousness, and rotten luck, Austin was fired from WCW by Eric Bischoff...
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I'll say this, look at Austin's moveset from his time in WCW. Outside of the showoff taunts, Austin carried quite a bit over to his time in the WWF. If Owen never screwed up the sitout piledriver at Summerslam 97, then Austin would've been even more multi-faceted than he was at the top.
Yeah, dude was called Ringmaster , primarily because he was able to have great matches, with anyone. I remember him in USWA, top rope, high spots, ground, he did all of it. Then that pile driver, he has to change to a more brawling style. Sucks, because especially when Pullman and he were together, he could do just about anything in the ring.
He suffered a bad knee injury too in early 1997 before the neck and that sapped a lot of his athleticism. Some of the stuff he was doing with Ricky Steamboat. That tag team cage match between Steamboat/Shane Douglas vs Hollywood Blondes was so underrated.
a Hollywood Blondes reboot in 1995 sounded fun, loved that tag team even as a kid who was conditioned to not like heels.
It takes two to tango.
Turns out Steve Austin sticking to the basic trunks and boots was out of spite. lol.
With hindsight being 20/20 Steve Austin being fired was the best thing for Stone Cold's career.
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Can’t describe how much I dig this series. Could y’all please do one on the All Japan exodus of 2000?!
Would love to see them cover that and other things out of American wrestling and the odd NJPW video
Agreed. That would be great.
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The irony here being Bischoff didn’t think Austin was going to be a marketable star with his black trunks & boots..
Meanwhile in WWF/E, well.. you know the rest
They were still using the NWO because they were killers
WWF turned him into the Ring Master first
@@210SAi yeah which lasted like maybe a month or two? He was “Stone Cold” by March of 1996
@@superrobz true
He proved himself wrong with Goldberg as well.
They should have never split Steve Austin and Brian Pillman up, they were a good tag team. But then again, Steve Austin probably wouldn’t have became Stone Cold and dominated the Attitude Era if he remained paired up with Pillman.
Yup, it is crazy how so many of those small things led to Stonecold. If he had stayed in WCW, the landscape of WWE would be totally different.
They were brilliant as The Hollywood Blondes, worked really well together and really wound me in their heel personna with the Camera Roll gestures and humiliating their victims with a Polaroid after their beating
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Man, imagine a tag team with Austin and Arn Anderson.
My god that would have been amazing
Imagine those two out drinking together
They look the same with hair
Steve was a technically brilliant wrestler with great charisma, in a company that didn't know wtf to do with anyone unless their story was already made. If you weren't already a name there or coming in from stanford, the staff had nfc what to do with anyone.
Amazing video! Jack narrated this smoother than butter.
Similar to that guy in WCW I forget his name that told one Mark Calaway he didn't have a future in the business 😂 and we all know what happened there!
Olie Anderson was the one who told Mark Calaway that he had no future in the business that no would pay to see him.........and as you pointed out He was wrong Mark Calaway had a successful career as the Undertaker with Millions of fans who paid to see him............as the video points out Austin was told by Bishoff wearing only black trunks and boots he can't market that.....Austin goes to WWE becomes Stone Cold Steve Austin wearing only black Trunks and boots...and became a success.............people can say what they want about Vince but he knows how to market wrestlers and get them over with the fans.
They had Vince Mcmahon and the WWF marketing to get them over
Having watched Mean Mark in WcW I have no idea how Ole formed that opinion. How many big men can move like that AND are willing to listen and learn.
The Hollywood Blondes are one of the most under rated tag teams ever if they had stayed together they would've became like the midnight express and maybe even met them in title matches which would've been great.
Those WCW/ECW promos he done during his transition to WWF, to this day are his best promos EVER in his illustrious career.
The GOAT..
" were going to to do the stevamania thing and were going to be running wild no thats not for you were going to keep you right where you at what about me and the stinger no thats not for you thats for somebody else"
No, he's a wife beating disgrace. Only cowards beat up women.
To be fair the WWF had him become the Ringmaster first
There is a lot of revisionist history in talking about Stone Cold. I was watching Stunning Steve Austin back in the day. He was a good talent, but my friends and I that had been following wrestling for a full decade already weren't like "oh he's gonna sell out every stadium on earth in a few years"...it was just..."he's nice" he was upper mid-card and it was what it was. He might as well have been an Armstrong brother. It was only after Austin 3:16 shirts were selling like crazy that everyone started all that "I remember him in WCW...I knew he was gonna be huge"
I agree. I was alive and well into my college years when Stunning Steve came around on WCW. He was a pretty good wrestler to me, had charisma, but did I see him becoming what he did finally become? Not even close. It was more or less the same reaction you had: "Oh yeah, Stunning Steve. Alrighty, I'll watch his match." Even when he did show up as Ringmaster, I thought it was a joke and he'd be out on his ass soon. Then the Stone Cold character came about... it was more like, "Damn, this guy is unpredictable, wonder what he's gonna do next?" but even then, no clue as to what would become of him. Not until Austin 3:16 and the WM 13 match with Bret Hart did I realize he was gonna be something big.
Exactly. He was like Chris Jericho in the early 90's like how Chris Jericho was in the mid to late 90's on WCW.
A four horsemen line up with austin and vader, mr perfect or dustin? that is some missed opportunity there.
Vader in the four horsemen? Hell no
Let’s not forget Vince almost blew it too. The Ringmaster shall not be forgotten. If it wasn’t for the world sized chip on his shoulder from being jerked around and betting on himself Austin 3:16 wouldn’t have existed. Know your worth and fight for it kids 😁.
I'm not going to blame Vince but I do think it was a good thing that Austin spoke up from himself and told Vince that the rainmaster gimmick is not doing well. If most wrestlers to go from themselves and told Vince McMahon that they don't like the gimmick and don't mind being fired then maybe they wouldn't be in a position that they are in right now.
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Jack really doing some great work!
Do one For Mean Mark callus final days in WCW before becoming the legendary Undertaker
There is a weird backstage deals on that one.
Oh crap !! I never clicked to the 'Stunning'/'Stunner' thing before ! How the hell did I miss that ?
Yeah and I think one of his old signature moves where he dropped an opponents neck on the top rope was called the "Stun Gun". Back when he was Stunning Steve Austin.
You are correct!
Man stone colds interviews in ECW after his release are probably the best of his career and that may have been the birth of the stone cold persona and the Texas rattlesnake, cause he was spitting straight venom!
That's where it all started.
Awesome vid!
Good video. 👍
Renegade might make a good True Story of episode
this is an AWESOME video !!
If you do another video like this about Steve Austin, you should talk about his turn in ECW and the Sandman's influence on the creation of the Stone Cold persona.
I always said that SCSA was just a Sandman wanna-be in Stamford. (Mind you, I was a huge Sandman and Stunning Steve fan so seeing basically a "poor man's version" (IMHO) was like... you have to be kidding me)
@@mrmoose6619 Yeah, but he took that ball and ran with it for ALL its worth. SOME may say that SC did it better. I like both of them.
Trapped Under Ice?
Steve had to go to WWF because I 100% believe Hogan would of never let Steve get to the level he got in WWF because Hogan's ego would never allow someone to outdraw him. Steve would be an upper midcarder at best in his prime at WCW, but I think that's stretching it.
Totally. Hogan only ever lost to his friends and only then very rarely.
I don’t know if it’s the neck injury or the fact that nobody really cared about the actual in ring work in the late 90’s, but Austin’s in ring skill is underrated these days
"Nobody," is a stretch, to be fair. Plenty of great talents active then, even if it certainly wasn't what drew the most viewers.
I got to be honest Austin's in ring work during WCW and earlier days of WWF did not really impress me that much until maybe 1997
Anyone who had a knee injury can tell by how a person moves walks you can just tell and Austin walks that way.
And that’s y he never went against hogan good for Austin respect
The best thing that could ever have happened to him. Eric did him a huge favour and let another top guy leave the eventual sinking ship that was Dubya C dubya
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Steve’s comb over killed WCW.
I the intro for these videos
Dude Vince mcmahon didn't know what to do with him, the ringmaster gimmick wasn't going well and he blamed Austins "lack of conviction to the roll" JR went to bat for Austin telling Vince "Austins got some ideas" and Vince who had lost interest in Austin said "let him do what he wants" which sounds good but shows Vince had lost interest in him meaning he was a couple of months away from being jobbed out or let go. Well turns out that idea was the Stone Cold character which his English wife had thought up as she remembered a guy in England when she was growing up, bald with a goaty who wouldn't take crap from anybody. Austin Americanised the gimmick and the rest is history.
It's almost like the whole "Vince McMahon is a genius" is pretty much bullshit and his "Genius" is from having smart people around him JR, Pat Paterson, Gerald Brisco, etc. Hell he saw nothing in Mick Foley or a number of his top guys or he would get fustrated because what he envisioned wouldn't work for them and blamed them and would have been done if someone else didn't go to bat for them. Shit Cena was on his way out till Stephanie went to bat for him and Cena became the Doctor of Thuganomics.
Which is why current WWE is as bad as the New generation era. Because Vince is surrounded by yes men now. No one challenges Vinces "genius" So once again you have all this talent going nowhere and they don't have any real stars because Vince can't create stars.
@@The_Real_DCT
Vince was always a dogshít booker, but a brilliant promoter. His genius was promoting his product not creating it. His booking has always been weak. For example Steve Austin his wife at the time and Jim Ross created the Stone Cold character but Vince promoted him and ran with it and made him a household name. Only 4 people Vince had a vision with from the beginning and successfully pushed, Hogan, Warrior, The Rock and the Undertaker everyone else made themselves in the WWF or before they got there. However the reason there are no superstars in the WWF anymore is because nobody watches wrestling anymore, and Vince is very old and very out of touch at this point.
Bret Hart also went to bat for both Austin and the Rock. Both went on to become the biggest draws in history since Hulk Hogan. As a matter of fact, both of them saved the WWF.
Whoever said Vince McMahon was a genius for creating Stone Cold Steve Austin? It is well known that Steve came up with the idea himself? I know sometimes Vince does some BS things but I'm not about to blame him for the downfall of everything
@@michaele.francis that's what Austin needed was some current establishment wrestlers to say I think we can do something with this guy.
It’s crazy to think that wrestlemania 25+13 1/2 years ago
If you go back and watch Jim Duggan versus Steve Austin at fall brawl 1994 the crowd goes wild for Jim Duggan winning when he wins.
It's crazy to me that when I think about it when Stone Cold was came to WWE I was 9 and I was his biggest fan then. But had no idea who he was back when I he was in ages 2-7 and the irony for me being a kid raised in Memphis only thing we watch (RIP GREATY GRAND aka my great grandmother) was USWA on Saturdays mornings and we would go to the see USWA live shows at the Midsouth Coliseum by the fairgrounds and Liberty Land and see Jerry 'The King 'Lawler wrestle and Jeff Jarrett on Mondays (yes my historygoes back before there a Monday night Raw or MondayNitro). I was originally raised on USWA and WCW on Saturdays nights that's how far back I remember watching Sting (favorite wrestler) Rick Flair (my great grandma favorite wrestler) The Steiner Bros. Harlem Heat i had all those WCW toys at 5 and this is a constant reminder of how as good as he was in WCW I didn't know who he was until he blew up as "Stone Cold" Steve Austin. I blame the blonde hair it was always a bunch oh wrestlers with blonde hair back in the day and and he really was a man lost in the sauce my childish mind😳. Point is if he would have never got terminated by Eric Bishoff history would have played differently and there wouldn't have been an Attitude Era or for that fact a WWE as qe know it. Thank you Eric for firing him you helped to create a true Icon👏🏽 Also 6 year asking me asking my grandma why we watch don't watch WWF and her response was and I will never forget this because, "IT'S WHERE THE BIG BOYS PLAY!" Great memories I'm crying now😭
Hogan and his damn ego killed Austin but in the turn around Austin became bigger than Hogan and the industry and sold more merchandise than Hogan. That's the universe for ya!
Wrong WCW wasn't drawing fans or money before Hulk Hogan. Unlike Steve Austin. Hulk Hogan was already huge which is why Vince made him champion immediately after returning in 1983 Unlike Steve Austin who need Vince, Bret Hart are marketing to make him big. WWF was already on PPV on Wrestlemania already existed long before Austin. Without Hogan not so likely
To be the man...wooh...you've gotta beat the man. And that's the bottom line because Stunning Steve said so!
Sam you’re a freaking poet. Love this series. Nicely done!
I have such a busy day today... but now I guess I'm carving out 16 mins. 🤣🤣
Steve Austin is the G.O.A.T in Wrestling. I think the biggest thing is the ability to draw, which no one was bigger than him, but even beyond that, he had charisma, he could talk on the mic, and he could also go in the ring. Usually the greats only have 2 of the 3 and might give a good attempt on the 3rd. I mean come on, out of the 3, Austin was “weakest” in the ring, and imagine that being your weakest part when you’ve had great matches with Triple H, Dude Love, and a 5 star classic with Bret Hart in one of the best Wrestlemania matches of all time.
Damn I never got how a lot of wrestlers went broke... Austin was making we will split it at 250k in the mid 90s as a mid carder...like holy shit imagine what top guys were making...not including sponsors and merchandise
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If he wouldn’t have gotten fired, stone Cold would have never been born. He got real pissed at the business in general and changed the game!
WWF => Welcome THE RING MASTER
Have to say talent and personality are two different things. Austin has personality. Yes he is talented in the ring but they all are, that's why their there in the first place. Personality is what separates them from the rest. Personality that is taken to another level, usually just above something that would normally be acceptable.
They’re
Well not all of them
*looks over at Van Hammer and Renegade*
This video has me clamoring for an Austin / Steamboat World Title Feud. Imagine if those two remained injury free and had a year of back and forth title changes. Then let Flair get the gold back following his return the following year. But...as others have said, with that (or with a longer run with Pillman) we would never have got Stone Cold! Stone Cold! Fate has a way sometimes.
This was even the beginning of WCW's downfall after that
Austin was out of WCW before the Monday Night Wars had even began and it was during those that WCW became a serious contender to the WWF/E so that's not accurate.
Could argue that his popularity in the WWF/E helped them during the "Wars" and played a part in WCW's eventual downfall but even then it was when Austin was there (and in the main event scene) that WCW Nitro went nearly a full two years ahead of Raw in the ratings.
Wow, AEW is a lot like WCW. Except that WCW had a fantastic midcard and cruiserweight division. Unfortunately, they frittered that all away because Eric Bischoff got obsessed with the NWO and drove that storyline into the ground. But frittering away young talent seems to be a common problem in wrestling, but at least there were 2 big league level wrestling promotions plus one highly innovative promotion in the 90s, so if you didn't get over in one place, you could always try somewhere else. How many guys in the Attitude Era made a name for themselves in ECW? We'll sadly never know what Brian Pillman could have been, but he was another guy who seemed to be on a trajectory after his infamous ECW debut promo. But guys like Austin would have never found their voice without ECW. Unfortunately, there's no wrestling promotion like that today.
I look at it like this if he didn't get fired we wouldn't see or know the Gold mine and value and success off Stone Cold Steve Austin. True Legend Lol.
But let's be real in 1996 was Austin really a gold mine? I have to say no until the fall of '96
Austin never wouldve been moved to the top of the card in WCW it never wouldve work for some people brother.
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Bishoff is quoted as telling Austin he goes out there in black trunks and boots and there is not much Eric can do to market that..............enter Vince McMahon and Austin is wearing black Trunks and black boots and becomes the biggest star in WWE history. Austin was marketed straight to the top...........so say what you want now a days about Vince.. he does know how to get someone over. he also did same thing with Undertaker and Ultimate Warrior both who were told to find another line of work because no one would pay to see them.......Ole Anderson told that to Mark Calaway..........and Bill Watts owner of UWF told Warrior to find another job.. Warrior may not have been a great wrestler Vince got him over and Mark Calaway got over with Fans as the Undertaker the best gimmick ever in wrestling history.......both proved their critics wrong.
U would think that for someone who would never want anyone else to drive...that they would know how to drive...but fuck how many cars did Harley crash lol
Who was it that asked austin what's so stunning about you black jack mulligan
Sweeeeeet!!!!
Think about Steve never leaving WCW and being the one opposed to the NWO.
Basically why he ended up in ECW
To be fair to wcw. Steve Austin would never have gotten over in their style of wrestling. He needed the wcw/attitude revolution to happen so he could be himself. We wouldn’t be talking about him if he stayed stunning Steve Austin.
Jack, who is Awe-stin?
Eric bischoff have no clue about Steve Austin
Long hair stone cold
Stunning To Be Exact Before Stone Cold That His Ex-wife pitched the name idea when he was in his Ringmaster Development Stage.
Steve's rivalries in the WWF and WCW's lack of creativity after the nWo killed WCW.
Steve wouldn't have gone on to be the wrestling legend he was in WWF if he had stayed in WCW. There's no way. They were too busy with Hogan, and then try tried to replicate Steve with Goldberg as some unstoppable force but he didn't have the persona, and his gimmick was predictable.
It could be duplicated or even topped if wwe took the time to actually create Stars
What's that intro beat?
Dark side of the ring: The Renegade
Pretty sure they're gonna talk about that in their episode about Warrior.
So, Austin was injury prone and blatantly defied his bosses and no showed.
WCW didn't screw Austin. Austin screwed Austin
😂😂😂😂😂
Sounds something like Vince McMahon would say.
@@markwhittaker6866 to be honest even if that does sound like Vince McMahon that is kind of true in real life when it comes to a job if you no show for work then we fire you
Good woker
I saw that too.
People talk he was only good in WWF no he was sweet in WCW
While I would have enjoyed the return of the Hollywood Blondes, we may have never gotten Stone Cold if that had happened...thank God it went the way it did
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steve austin is every girls type in the midwest i said what i said
How could WWE take Austin who was great at cutting promos and put him with a manager at first
Because Vince was clueless. He wanted to use Austin as a mechanic and stuck him with a stupid gimmick. It took Bret Hart, Pat Patterson, and others to persuade Vince to take the shackles off of Austin and let him be himself. Same thing with the Rock.
Scsa
He was better in the WWF hands down
And I thought this was wrestling bios SMH
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Hacksaw Jim duggen a jobber beating Austin 🤦
"...into a pantheon level star." I'm not sure you know what a pantheon is, Jack...
A pantheon refers to a group of people. He may have became the top of the WWE/wrestling pantheon but one person doesn't make a pantheon.
You're so cool