The True Story Of Steve Austin's Final Days In WCW

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  • @joeyl7656
    @joeyl7656 3 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    Wanted to thank everyone in front of and behind the camera at Cultaholic Wrestling. You guys put out such amazing content and work tirelessly for us. Today is my birthday and I plan on celebrating with family and friends. Although we’ve not met, I consider each and everyone of you to be both. And I can’t wait to spend my birthday watching Cultaholic videos!

    • @jskow9677
      @jskow9677 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Happy birthday man!

    • @joeyl7656
      @joeyl7656 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jskow9677 Thanks so much! Appreciate you!!

    • @joshuarocks112
      @joshuarocks112 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Happy birthday hope u had a great one

    • @joeyl7656
      @joeyl7656 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@joshuarocks112 Thank you very much! It was great!

    • @AlexanderKahrs
      @AlexanderKahrs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Happy birthday!

  • @perfectprince8062
    @perfectprince8062 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    With hindsight being 20/20 Steve Austin being fired was the best thing for Stone Cold's career.

  • @Pensfan5919
    @Pensfan5919 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    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.

    • @heatherphillips5983
      @heatherphillips5983 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      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.

    • @BXMarathoner26
      @BXMarathoner26 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      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.

    • @Rasslinwithracism
      @Rasslinwithracism 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It takes two to tango.

    • @Rschr101
      @Rschr101 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@Rasslinwithracism all on Owen.

  • @Chigen_Atomic
    @Chigen_Atomic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Turns out Steve Austin sticking to the basic trunks and boots was out of spite. lol.

  • @d3ricc
    @d3ricc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    Can’t describe how much I dig this series. Could y’all please do one on the All Japan exodus of 2000?!

    • @lanagievski1540
      @lanagievski1540 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Would love to see them cover that and other things out of American wrestling and the odd NJPW video

    • @darthnowlan
      @darthnowlan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Agreed. That would be great.

    • @d3ricc
      @d3ricc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@darthnowlan they finally came around and did the thing. Check out their video “The Rise and Fall of AJPW” it’s a great watch

    • @darthnowlan
      @darthnowlan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@d3ricc Saw that video. A whole video on the AJPW walkout would be great so we know the complete story.

  • @superrobz
    @superrobz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +98

    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

    • @almadinjohnchristophers.9014
      @almadinjohnchristophers.9014 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They were still using the NWO because they were killers

    • @210SAi
      @210SAi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      WWF turned him into the Ring Master first

    • @superrobz
      @superrobz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@210SAi yeah which lasted like maybe a month or two? He was “Stone Cold” by March of 1996

    • @paradoxr.n.o8688
      @paradoxr.n.o8688 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@superrobz true

    • @LongLiveRockAnRoll
      @LongLiveRockAnRoll 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He proved himself wrong with Goldberg as well.

  • @Jobe826
    @Jobe826 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Amazing video! Jack narrated this smoother than butter.

  • @DJDoubleCee
    @DJDoubleCee 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    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.

    • @steve_jackson9933
      @steve_jackson9933 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      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.

    • @WalsallGooner
      @WalsallGooner 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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

    • @forestandres5118
      @forestandres5118 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      i guess it's kinda randomly asking but do anyone know a good site to stream newly released series online?

    • @connorjameson3152
      @connorjameson3152 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Forest Andres lately I have been using Flixzone. You can find it on google :)

    • @cohenharley1462
      @cohenharley1462 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Connor Jameson yup, have been using flixzone for years myself :)

  • @kjpierson1152
    @kjpierson1152 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    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.

  • @FoxeyeValkyrie
    @FoxeyeValkyrie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Man, imagine a tag team with Austin and Arn Anderson.

    • @rogregg29445
      @rogregg29445 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      My god that would have been amazing

    • @GOJOWrestling
      @GOJOWrestling 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Imagine those two out drinking together

    • @WowieZoë
      @WowieZoë 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They look the same with hair

  • @josephmiller9424
    @josephmiller9424 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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.

  • @jimbrown5091
    @jimbrown5091 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    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"

    • @fordid42
      @fordid42 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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.

    • @nameless646
      @nameless646 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

  • @mitzicarpenter2820
    @mitzicarpenter2820 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    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!

    • @patrickperalta59
      @patrickperalta59 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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.

    • @melvynsngltn27
      @melvynsngltn27 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      They had Vince Mcmahon and the WWF marketing to get them over

    • @davidlewis5312
      @davidlewis5312 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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.

  • @MPatt2021
    @MPatt2021 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    To be fair the WWF had him become the Ringmaster first

  • @82gamerprincess31
    @82gamerprincess31 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    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 😁.

    • @attiepollard7847
      @attiepollard7847 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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.

  • @shadowwarrior7218
    @shadowwarrior7218 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    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..

    • @jdfromnyisgod1789
      @jdfromnyisgod1789 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      " 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"

    • @namikstudios
      @namikstudios ปีที่แล้ว

      No, he's a wife beating disgrace. Only cowards beat up women.

  • @CRob172
    @CRob172 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    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!

    • @Lazbotable
      @Lazbotable 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's where it all started.

  • @mrmojomajestic8317
    @mrmojomajestic8317 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Oh crap !! I never clicked to the 'Stunning'/'Stunner' thing before ! How the hell did I miss that ?

    • @justinbonds2002
      @justinbonds2002 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      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.

    • @jwavada
      @jwavada 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You are correct!

  • @kwshaun
    @kwshaun 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Great video as always, Cultaholic!

  • @mephosto
    @mephosto 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    A four horsemen line up with austin and vader, mr perfect or dustin? that is some missed opportunity there.

    • @attiepollard7847
      @attiepollard7847 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Vader in the four horsemen? Hell no

  • @jasperswarp
    @jasperswarp 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Steve’s comb over killed WCW.

  • @henrikschmidt3964
    @henrikschmidt3964 หลายเดือนก่อน

    When WCW TV finally came to Denmark in 1993 two talents really stood out to me. 'Stunning' Steve Austin and 'Lord' Steven Regal. I actually liked those characters too and I always thought it would have been a hoot having them return to those gimmicks as part of the invasion.

  • @Matthew6248
    @Matthew6248 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Renegade might make a good True Story of episode

  • @AFMountaineer2000
    @AFMountaineer2000 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Austin never wouldve been moved to the top of the card in WCW it never wouldve work for some people brother.

  • @SirFragalot
    @SirFragalot 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    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.

    • @martinputt6421
      @martinputt6421 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Totally. Hogan only ever lost to his friends and only then very rarely.

  • @AntonioJCRM
    @AntonioJCRM 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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!

    • @melvynsngltn27
      @melvynsngltn27 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      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

  • @ahmadsamman3992
    @ahmadsamman3992 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Amazing video!! Much love for you guys!! I love your videos

  • @prj7894
    @prj7894 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Do one For Mean Mark callus final days in WCW before becoming the legendary Undertaker

    • @davidlewis5312
      @davidlewis5312 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      There is a weird backstage deals on that one.

  • @trystinlindsay5674
    @trystinlindsay5674 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    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

    • @jhinpotion9230
      @jhinpotion9230 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      "Nobody," is a stretch, to be fair. Plenty of great talents active then, even if it certainly wasn't what drew the most viewers.

    • @attiepollard7847
      @attiepollard7847 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      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

  • @deenur_3205
    @deenur_3205 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Jack really doing some great work!

  • @josephmiller9424
    @josephmiller9424 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Anyone who had a knee injury can tell by how a person moves walks you can just tell and Austin walks that way.

  • @jeanpaulsinatra
    @jeanpaulsinatra 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    00:10 What?
    00:11 What?
    00:12 What?
    00:14 What?

  • @MM-cu9kd
    @MM-cu9kd 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    And that’s y he never went against hogan good for Austin respect

  • @theantilifeequation8150
    @theantilifeequation8150 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    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.

    • @The_Real_DCT
      @The_Real_DCT 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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.

    • @theantilifeequation8150
      @theantilifeequation8150 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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.

    • @michaele.francis
      @michaele.francis 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

    • @attiepollard7847
      @attiepollard7847 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      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

    • @attiepollard7847
      @attiepollard7847 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@michaele.francis that's what Austin needed was some current establishment wrestlers to say I think we can do something with this guy.

  • @jackmackakaheavyguyhaiku545
    @jackmackakaheavyguyhaiku545 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    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.

    • @mrmoose6619
      @mrmoose6619 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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)

    • @jackmackakaheavyguyhaiku545
      @jackmackakaheavyguyhaiku545 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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.

    • @quercusquercus532
      @quercusquercus532 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Trapped Under Ice?

  • @DJPrince2032
    @DJPrince2032 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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.

  • @KINGMONKEY1989
    @KINGMONKEY1989 ปีที่แล้ว

    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

  • @awakenedanarchism4202
    @awakenedanarchism4202 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    this is an AWESOME video !!

  • @stevenlynch-barry7280
    @stevenlynch-barry7280 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome vid!

  • @garycabezas
    @garycabezas 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sam you’re a freaking poet. Love this series. Nicely done!

  • @SheriffOutlaw
    @SheriffOutlaw 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Once again!
    What's Goodie I'm Mistah Jay! Supporter Extraordinaire of this very awesome channel @CultaholicWrestling!
    Once Again..........with Feeling........STORYTIME!!!!!!

  • @IamTheStormThatIsApproaching1
    @IamTheStormThatIsApproaching1 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good video. 👍

  • @Rasslinwithracism
    @Rasslinwithracism 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    It’s crazy to think that wrestlemania 25+13 1/2 years ago

  • @estebannavarro5769
    @estebannavarro5769 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Eric bischoff have no clue about Steve Austin

  • @donshipman8441
    @donshipman8441 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    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!

  • @jamesmastrobuono1774
    @jamesmastrobuono1774 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    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

  • @Zman82
    @Zman82 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    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.

    • @Noname-eu5uj
      @Noname-eu5uj 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      They’re

    • @davidlewis5312
      @davidlewis5312 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well not all of them
      *looks over at Van Hammer and Renegade*

  • @djam-wc8hh
    @djam-wc8hh 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I the intro for these videos

  • @GavinWoods
    @GavinWoods ปีที่แล้ว

    To be the man...wooh...you've gotta beat the man. And that's the bottom line because Stunning Steve said so!

  • @outlawrip-offartist4161
    @outlawrip-offartist4161 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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.

  • @andrewatuahene3234
    @andrewatuahene3234 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    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.

    • @attiepollard7847
      @attiepollard7847 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But let's be real in 1996 was Austin really a gold mine? I have to say no until the fall of '96

  • @HiLykSpace
    @HiLykSpace 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    What's that intro beat?

  • @tamzidmohsinkhan3333
    @tamzidmohsinkhan3333 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This was even the beginning of WCW's downfall after that

    • @Macephtopheles
      @Macephtopheles 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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.

  • @Rschr101
    @Rschr101 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    GOAT

  • @BronzeAgeBryon
    @BronzeAgeBryon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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.

  • @christhornycroft3686
    @christhornycroft3686 ปีที่แล้ว

    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.

  • @Nbflowers1989
    @Nbflowers1989 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have such a busy day today... but now I guess I'm carving out 16 mins. 🤣🤣

  • @jamesmastrobuono1774
    @jamesmastrobuono1774 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    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

  • @patrickperalta59
    @patrickperalta59 ปีที่แล้ว

    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.

  • @210SAi
    @210SAi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    WWF => Welcome THE RING MASTER

  • @jerransperarman9411
    @jerransperarman9411 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    good video

  • @dylanbryant3547
    @dylanbryant3547 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Long hair stone cold

    • @Cw311z
      @Cw311z 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Stunning To Be Exact Before Stone Cold That His Ex-wife pitched the name idea when he was in his Ringmaster Development Stage.

  • @andrebriscoe2272
    @andrebriscoe2272 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Sherri🥰🥰🥰

  • @NotCornette
    @NotCornette 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    6:36

  • @michaelrollins3765
    @michaelrollins3765 ปีที่แล้ว

    Who was it that asked austin what's so stunning about you black jack mulligan

  • @DjBoggLEMaN
    @DjBoggLEMaN 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    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😭

  • @jtrain6789
    @jtrain6789 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Think about Steve never leaving WCW and being the one opposed to the NWO.

  • @lilpoetat
    @lilpoetat 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    thanks!

  • @cathaldowdall7467
    @cathaldowdall7467 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hacksaw Jim duggen a jobber beating Austin 🤦

  • @nameless646
    @nameless646 ปีที่แล้ว

    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.

    • @johnshooter4763
      @johnshooter4763 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hoogan killed his character!

  • @DaGreatBrandonie
    @DaGreatBrandonie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So, Austin was injury prone and blatantly defied his bosses and no showed.
    WCW didn't screw Austin. Austin screwed Austin

    • @markwhittaker6866
      @markwhittaker6866 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      😂😂😂😂😂
      Sounds something like Vince McMahon would say.

    • @attiepollard7847
      @attiepollard7847 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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

  • @superkid12345
    @superkid12345 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    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.

  • @jacobepicmay
    @jacobepicmay 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Basically why he ended up in ECW

  • @QuietM4n
    @QuietM4n 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    “Locker room seemed really clique-ish,” says man whose entire push comes from said clique-ish locker room

  • @Lutz87IsGod
    @Lutz87IsGod 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    steve austin is every girls type in the midwest i said what i said

  • @RobPalmer80
    @RobPalmer80 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Jack, who is Awe-stin?

  • @chriscrawford6191
    @chriscrawford6191 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good woker

  • @shotsandchopswrestling120
    @shotsandchopswrestling120 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dark side of the ring: The Renegade

    • @SirJoelsuf1
      @SirJoelsuf1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Pretty sure they're gonna talk about that in their episode about Warrior.

  • @marvelsProtege
    @marvelsProtege 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    People talk he was only good in WWF no he was sweet in WCW

  • @zacharycarter9887
    @zacharycarter9887 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    It could be duplicated or even topped if wwe took the time to actually create Stars

  • @spluddrott
    @spluddrott 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sweeeeeet!!!!

  • @leestens419
    @leestens419 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    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

  • @migomontana8437
    @migomontana8437 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    He was better in the WWF hands down

  • @Jamessmith-xk3fh
    @Jamessmith-xk3fh 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    How could WWE take Austin who was great at cutting promos and put him with a manager at first

    • @michaele.francis
      @michaele.francis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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.

  • @jackbaker144
    @jackbaker144 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    OARSTIN?

  • @Macephtopheles
    @Macephtopheles 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    "...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.

  • @bluezayyad1296
    @bluezayyad1296 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Scsa

  • @stevecampbell1692
    @stevecampbell1692 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    And I thought this was wrestling bios SMH

  • @blade8989
    @blade8989 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hfjfjf

  • @doubletime9098
    @doubletime9098 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    You're so cool