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THROUGHOUT THE 1990S, MONDAY
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NIGHT SERVED AS A PRIME TIME
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BATTLEFIELD THAT TRANSFORMED
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PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING INTO
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SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT.
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TED TURNER'S WCW TOOK ON VINCE
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MCMAHON'S WWE FOR RATING
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SUPREMACY AT THE RISK OF
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EXTINCTION, AS INNOVATION AND
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EVOLUTION PAVED THE WAY FOR A
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KING TO BE CROWNED.
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STEVE AUSTIN: NUMB, TALENTED,
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DISREGARDED.
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WHEN I WAS A US CHAMPION, THE
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NUMBER ONE CONTENDER, I NEVER
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GOT A DAMN THING.
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HE WOULD CHANNEL HIS ANGER
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INTO A STONE COLD ICON.
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AUSTIN 3:16 SAYS I JUST
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WHIPPED YOUR --.
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THE WWE NEEDED A SAVIOR IN
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THEIR WAR WITH WCW.
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STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN WOULD
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PUT THE COMPANY ON HIS BACK AND
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REWRITE HISTORY ON HIS OWN
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TERMS.
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AND THAT'S THE BOTTOM LINE,
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'CAUSE STONE COLD SAID SO.
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THIS IS THE MONDAY NIGHT WAR.
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HULK HOGAN HAS BETRAYED WCW!
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WHAT IN THE HELL IS HE DOING
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HERE?
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WELCOME TO MONDAY NIGHT RAW!
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MONDAY NITRO!
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GOD AS MY WITNESS!
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HE HAS BROKE IT IN HALF!
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AUSTIN 3:16 SAYS I JUST
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WHIPPED YOUR --.
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BRET SCREWED BRET.
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THE NEW WORLD ORDER, BROTHER!
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IT'S GONNA BE ...
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WE ARE AT WAR!
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YOU HAVE TO HAVE AN ATTITUDE
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IN THIS BUSINESS.
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YOU'VE GOTTA HAVE SOME FAILURES.
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HEY, IT'S GREAT.
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THERE'S BEEN SOME PEOPLE THAT
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HAVE CINDERELLA STORIES AND THEY
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GET IN THE BUSINESS AND THEY
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JUST GO STRAIGHT TO THE TOP, AND
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HAVE A HUNKY-DORY CAREER.
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THAT JUST WASN'T MY CASE.
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MAN, I HAD TO KICK, SCRATCH,
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CLAW AND FIGHT FOR EVERYTHING I
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GOT.
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STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN
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EMERGED AS A POP CULTURE ICON
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DURING THE 1990S, HELPING VINCE
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MCMAHON DEFEAT TED TURNER FOR
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THE TOP SPOT IN SPORTS
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ENTERTAINMENT.
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THE TOP MAN IN THE INDUSTRY,
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STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN.
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BUT HIS JOURNEY WAS ONE
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RIDDLED WITH OBSTACLES, AND
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WOULD BEGIN OVER A DECADE
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EARLIER AS THE INDUSTRY EMBARKED
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ON AN EVOLUTION.
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AND I WANNA CONGRATULATE
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WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING FOR
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CONTINUING THE TRADITION OF
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BRINGING ACTION-PACKED WRESTLING
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EXCITEMENT TO TBS.
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BY 1991, MEDIA MOGUL TED
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TURNER HAD PURCHASED WORLD
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CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING, THE
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SECOND LARGEST PROMOTION BEHIND
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INDUSTRY LEADER WWE, VINCE
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MCMAHON'S RENOWNED HEAVYWEIGHT.
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IT'S A VERY SPECIAL NIGHT FOR
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TBS, TURNER BROADCASTING AND
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WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING.
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WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING
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GAVE US SOME FRESH, VAGUELY
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MARQUIS [?]
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PROGRAMMING TO GET PEOPLE TO
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WATCH THE STATION, AND I'VE MADE
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IT CLEAR THAT WE WERE IN THE
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WRESTLING BUSINESS TO STAY.
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WCW'S ATLANTA ROSTER WAS
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HEADLINED BY RECOGNIZED NAMES
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AND BUILT ON TRADITIONAL
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SOUTHERN ROOTS.
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NATURE BOY RIC FLAIR!
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BUT THE GROWING COMPANY ALSO
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WELCOMED A YOUNG INFLUX OF
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NEWCOMERS, INCLUDING A HUNGRY
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TEXAN JUST BEGINNING TO BLOSSOM.
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I WAS THE 1990 ROOKIE OF THE
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YEAR.
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I WAS A DAMNED GOOD MECHANIC IN
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THE RING.
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I'D COME A LONG WAY IN THE SHORT
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TIME I'D BEEN IN THE BUSINESS,
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GO DOWN TO WCW AND I'M STUNNING
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STEVE AUSTIN.
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INTRODUCING FIRST,
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ACCOMPANIED BY VIVACIOUS
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VERONICA, FROM HOLLYWOOD,
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CALIFORNIA ...
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AND I HEAR THE GUY IN THE
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BACKGROUND GOING, "FROM
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HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA" ...
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AND I'M THINKING, "WHO THIS --
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TALKIN' ABOUT?
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I AIN'T FROM HOLLYWOOD!"
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"STUNNING STEVE AUSTIN!"
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I WAS THINKING, "WHO IN THE HELL
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SAID I WAS FROM HOLLYWOOD,
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CALIFORNIA?"
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I'VE GOT A TEXAS ACCENT AND I'M
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FROM HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA,
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STUNNING STEVE.
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NICE MOVE.
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GOOD WRESTLING MANEUVER.
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I WAS A FAN OF STEVE AUSTIN
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IN WCW.
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STUNNING STEVE!
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HE WAS STUNNING STEVE AUSTIN.
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THIS GUY HUSTLED LIKE NOBODY
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ELSE.
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HARDEST WORKING MAN IN THE
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BUSINESS, AND THAT'S WHAT CAUGHT
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MY EYE.
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HE HAS ONLY BEEN WRESTLING
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PROFESSIONALLY FOR ABOUT TWO
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YEARS, BUT HE'S BEEN ONE OF THE
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QUICKEST STARTERS EVER IN THE
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SPORT.
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OH, WHO'S THE BEST?
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AUSTIN WAS ONE OF THOSE GUYS
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THAT GOT IT, HAD IT.
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HE WAS JUST SUCH A NATURAL.
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AND NOW, YOU CAN SEE
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STEAMBOAT, TRYING TO GO FOR THE
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COUNTER, BUT HE IS GETTING
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PUMMELED.
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ALREADY HOLDING HIS OWN
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AGAINST THE CONVENTIONAL,
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ESTABLISHED TALENT, IT SEEMED
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NOTHING COULD DERAIL AUSTIN'S
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MOMENTUM TOWARDS THE TOP OF WCW.
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I'LL GET HIM AGAIN.
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YOU REST ASSURED I'LL GET HIM
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AGAIN, AND WHEN I DO, I'LL BE
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THE CHAMP AGAIN.
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MY PROMOS AS STUNNING STEVE,
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THEY WEREN'T GREAT, BUT AS A
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MECHANIC, I HAD THAT PART OF IT
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DOWN AND KEPT WORKING, WORKING,
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WORKING.
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ALL OF A SUDDEN, I GET A CALL
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FROM DUSTY RHODES.
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DUSTY PROMISED ME A BIG SINGLES
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PUSH, UNITED STATES CHAMPION,
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AND THIS IS REALLY GONNA PUT ME
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ON THE MAP.
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STUNNING STEVE AUSTIN, RANKED
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NO.
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4 IN THE WCW TOP 10.
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STUNNING STEVE AUSTIN, EARLY
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IN HIS CAREER, YOU NEVER
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BELIEVED THAT HE WOULD BECOME
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THE STEVE AUSTIN WE KNOW.
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I THOUGHT HE WAS GONNA REALLY BE
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GOOD AT THE BLONDE HAIR, COMBED
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IT OVER, HAD A DIFFERENT LOOK.
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GONNA MAKE A NICE NICHE FOR
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HIMSELF IN THE BUSINESS.
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BUT WE NEEDED A BUNCH OF TAG
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TEAMS.
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STEVE AUSTIN WASN'T THE
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COMPANY'S ONLY RISING STAR.
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BRIAN PILLMAN'S ATHLETIC ABILITY
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AND CHARISMATIC PERSONA HAD ALSO
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CAUGHT THE EYE OF WCW OFFICIALS.
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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE
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FOLLOWING TAG TEAM EVENT IS SET
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FOR ONE FALL.
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STEVE AUSTIN'S SOLO ACT WAS
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ABOUT TO BECOME A DUET.
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FLYIN' BRIAN AND STUNNING
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STEVE AUSTIN!
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SURE ENOUGH, ME AND BRIAN ARE
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GONNA BE A TAG TEAM.
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WELL, I SAID, "THAT'S BULL
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[BLEEP]
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," YOU KNOW?
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I KINDA GOT THE CARPET YANKED
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OUT FROM UNDER ME, RIGHT?
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I DON'T LIKE TAG TEAM WRESTLING.
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I DON'T LIKE HAVING TO DEPEND ON
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ANYBODY.
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I LIKE BEING A SINGLES GUY.
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ANYWAY, ME AND BRIAN ARE A TAG
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TEAM.
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EXCELLENT TEAMWORK SO FAR ON
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THE PART OF AUSTIN AND PILLMAN.
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WE'RE TWO JUST MISMATCHED
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GUYS, BUT WE WERE GONNA MAKE THE
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BEST OUT OF A BAD SITUATION.
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WE STARTED CALLING OURSELVES THE
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HOLLYWOOD BLONDES.
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AND THEN, ALL OF A SUDDEN, WE
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STARTED FEEDING OFF EACH OTHER,
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OUR CHEMISTRY WAS STARTING TO
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COME AROUND ...
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YOU KNOW, AUSTIN AND PILLMAN,
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I THINK THEY'RE THE MOST
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COMPLEMENTARY TAG TEAM I'VE SEEN
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SO FAR.
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THEY HAD PHENOMENAL UPSIDE.
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BRIAN PILLMAN HELPED STEVE FLESH
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OUT HIS PERSONALITY A LITTLE BIT
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MORE.
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COME ON, TONY, DON'T YOU KNOW
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WHO THE BIGGEST STARS IN
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HOLLYWOOD ARE RIGHT NOW?
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IT'S THE BLONDES!
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AS STEVE AUSTIN'S CAREER WAS
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CONTINUING TO DEVELOP, SO TOO
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WAS WCW.
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ANNOUNCER ERIC BISCHOFF WAS
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PROMOTED TO EXECUTIVE PRODUCER.
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BUT, DESPITE MODERNIZING THE
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APPEARANCE OF THE PRODUCT, THE
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CREATIVE DIRECTION WAS STUCK IN
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THE PAST.
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THERE WAS FINALLY SOMETHING
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FRESH, SOMETHING NEW TAKING
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OVER, AND THEY MADE THE DECISION
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TO TURN AUSTIN AND PILLMAN
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AGAINST EACH OTHER TO STAY WITH
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TRADITION.
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FORMER DOMINANT WORLD TAG
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TEAM CHAMPIONS GOING AT IT HERE.
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THEY BUST UP THE HOLLYWOOD
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BLONDES, NOW I'M GONNA GET THE
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SINGLES RUN I WAS SUPPOSED TO
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GET.
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I WAS LIKE, WELL, NOW I DON'T
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WANNA BREAK UP.
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I WANNA BE ON A TAG TEAM WITH
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BRIAN.
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WE'RE ABOUT TO MAKE IT BIG TIME
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HERE.
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ANYWAY, THEY DECIDED TO BUST US
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UP.
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ONCE AGAIN A SINGLES
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COMPETITOR, STEVE AUSTIN'S
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IMPRESSIVE RESUME HELPED HIM
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ASCEND TOWARDS MAIN EVENT
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STATUS.
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I MEAN, YOU'RE TALKING A MAN
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WHO WAS TELEVISION CHAMPION,
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WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPION, US
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CHAMPION ...
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DESERVES TO BE ON TOP OF THAT
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LADDER, AND I'M SURE HE WANTS TO
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CLIMB THE RUNG.
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BUT ONCE AGAIN, HIS PROGRESS
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WOULD BE POSTPONED.
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WELCOME, EVERYONE, TO MONDAY
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NIGHT RAW.
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WE ARE LIVE FROM NEW YORK CITY.
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LAUNCHING THE INNOVATIVE
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"MONDAY NIGHT RAW" LIVE IN PRIME
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TIME SOLIDIFIED VINCE MCMAHON'S
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WWE AS THE TOP COMPANY IN SPORTS
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ENTERTAINMENT.
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BY JUNE OF 1994, IN AN ATTEMPT
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TO KEEP PACE WITH THE INDUSTRY
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LEADER, TED TURNER SIGNED THE
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BIGGEST NAME IN SPORTS
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ENTERTAINMENT HISTORY AND THE
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FORMER FACE OF WWE.
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HULK HOGAN!
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TED TURNER WANTED ANYTHING
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THAT HE DID, WHETHER IT WAS CNN
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OR WCW OR THE BRAVES, OR
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ANYTHING ELSE.
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HE WANTED TO BE NO.
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1.
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HE'S A VERY COMPETITIVE GUY.
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WE BROUGHT HULK HOGAN IN, AND I
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KNEW THAT IT WOULD BE A TURNING
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POINT FOR WCW.
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I KNEW THAT THE MEDIA WOULD GO,
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"YOU KNOW WHAT?
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THESE GUYS ARE ACTUALLY
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SERIOUS."
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GET READY FOR THE RIDE OF
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YOUR LIFE, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
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ALL OF SUDDEN, THERE'S HULK
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HOGAN, AND I WAS KIND OF AN
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AFTERTHOUGHT.
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THE IMMORTAL HULK HOGAN HERE
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AT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING
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AGAINST THE UNIFIED WORLD
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HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMP, THE NATURE
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BOY RIC FLAIR.
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CERTAINLY, WE'RE GOING TO BE
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TALKING ABOUT THAT IN THE WEEKS
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TO COME.
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COME ON IN, UNITED STATES
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HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION STUNNING
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STEVE AUSTIN ...
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HULK HOGAN COMES IN AND STEVE
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AUSTIN FEELS LIKE HE'S NOT BEING
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APPRECIATED, AND YOU COULD
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CERTAINLY TELL IT.
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BEFORE WE GET TO RICKY
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STEAMBOAT, LET'S JUST GO BACK TO
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THIS HOGAN/FLAIR THING.
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WHY DON'T YOU TALK ABOUT 'EM ALL
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WEEK, BECAUSE YOU'VE ALREADY
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THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE GIVEN TO
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ME.
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HE REALLY WITHDREW.
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HE WAS -- HE BECAME REALLY
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IRRITABLE.
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HE WAS MISERABLE TO BE AROUND,
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AND ALL OF A SUDDEN, HE CAME UP
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HURT.
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EVERY TIME WE NEEDED HIM, HE
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CAME UP HURT.
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I'M TELLING YOU RIGHT NOW, I
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AIN'T WRESTLING NOBODY.
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I FELT LIKE I HAD BEEN JERKED
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AROUND.
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I'M THE KIND OF PERSON, I'M
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GONNA WORK MY -- OFF FOR YOU,
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BUT WHEN I FEEL LIKE I'M
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STARTING TO GET [BLEEP]
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WITH, WHEN I FEEL LIKE
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SOMEONE'S STARTING TO POKE ME
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WITH A STICK, THAT'S WHEN YOU'RE
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STARTING TO PISS ME OFF, AND I'M
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GONNA BITE YOUR --.
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I SAW STEVE AUSTIN A LOT OF
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NIGHTS, UM, COMING OUT OF THAT
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RING AND, UM, HE WAS VERY, VERY
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FRUSTRATED.
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UM, MAN, STOMPING, YOU KNOW,
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BACK AND FORTH THROUGH THE
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HALLWAY.
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A LOT OF CURSING AND A LOT OF
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YELLING.
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LOOK AT THE AGGRESSIVENESS OF
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STUNNING STEVE.
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I THINK THERE WERE, LIKE,
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PARTIES IN WCW WHO REALLY
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THOUGHT STEVE AUSTIN WAS
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SOMETHING, AND OTHERS WHO JUST
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THOUGHT HE COULD HAVE GREAT
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MATCHES WITH ANYBODY, BUT HE
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WASN'T SPECIFICALLY THE
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SPOTLIGHT, THE FEATURE, THE NEXT
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WAVE.
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YOUR WINNER: US CHAMP HACKSAW
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JIM DUGGAN.
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WCW, THEIR SLANT WAS, "WELL,
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THE GUY'S JUST NOT MARKETABLE.
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WHAT'RE YOU GONNA DO?
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HE'S A GREAT PERFORMER, BUT THAT
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DOESN'T TRANSLATE INTO DOLLARS."
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THE MACHO MAN CHASING
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STUNNING STEVE ...
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OH!
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RIGHT INTO OUR SLIM JIM
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RINGPOST.
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WCW WAS JUST PUSHING THE SAME
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GUYS THAT HAD BEEN ON TOP FOR
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YEARS.
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PUTTING AN EMPHASIS ON
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POPULARITY OVER POTENTIAL, WCW
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HAD LITTLE USE FOR A DISGRUNTLED
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SUPERSTAR WEARING OUT HIS
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WELCOME.
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WHEN STEVE WASN'T GETTING
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WHAT STEVE WANTED, STEVE BECAME
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VERY DIFFICULT TO WORK WITH, AND
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THERE'S A POINT WHERE YOU JUST
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GOTTA SAY, "ENOUGH!
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I'M TIRED OF IT."
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I TORE MY TRICEP, AND ABOUT
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HALFWAY THROUGH THE
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REHABILITATION PROCESS, ERIC
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BISCHOFF CALLED ME ON THE PHONE
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AND HE GOES, "YEAH, STEVE, I
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JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW,
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BASED ON THE AMOUNT OF MONEY
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WE'RE PAYING YOU AND ON THE
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AMOUNT OF DAYS YOU'VE BEEN
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INCAPACITATED, UH, WE'RE GOING
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TO GO AHEAD AND EXERCISE OUR
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RIGHT TO TERMINATE THE
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AGREEMENT."
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I SAID, "WELL, BASICALLY, YOU'RE
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TELLING ME I'M FIRED, RIGHT?"
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HE GOES, "YEAH, YOU'RE FIRED."
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SO, NEXT DAY, I GOT A FEDEX IN
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THE MAIL THAT SAID I WAS FIRED.
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I WAS LIKE, "THAT KIND OF
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SUCKED."
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HE SAID, WASN'T LIKE I WAS A
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DRAWING CARD FOR THE COMPANY,
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THERE WAS A MILLION GUYS LIKE ME
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THAT COULD DO WHAT I WAS DOING.
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THEY JUST FIRED ME
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UNCEREMONIOUSLY, AND I WAS
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MADDER THAN A --!
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INJURED AND UNEMPLOYED, STEVE
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AUSTIN RECEIVED ANOTHER PHONE
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CALL, THIS TIME FROM AN OLD
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FRIEND WITH A NEW OPPORTUNITY.
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DAMN NEAR AS SOON AS I GOT
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FIRED, I DON'T KNOW HOW WORD HIT
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THE STREET SO FAST, BUT MY PHONE
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RINGS, AND THERE'S PAUL HEYMAN.
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MAN, ME AND PAUL HAD KNOWN EACH
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OTHER FOR YEARS DOWN IN WCW.
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HE GOES, "COME UP AND WORK FOR
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ME AT EXTREME CHAMPIONSHIP
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WRESTLING."
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I SAID, "I CAN'T, PAUL!
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MY ARM'S BUSTED!"
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HE GOES, "DON'T GOTTA WORK, CUT
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PROMOS."
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YOU'RE GONNA PAY ME ONCE A WEEK
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TO COME UP THERE AND CUT PROMOS.
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I SAID, "ALL RIGHT, I'M IN."
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SUPERSTAR STEVE AUSTIN'S IN
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THE RING.
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WHAT'S HE DOING HERE, ANYWAY?
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HERE'S A -- OFF STEVE AUSTIN.
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DOESN'T TAKE A GENIUS TO KNOW,
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HAND HIM A MICROPHONE AND ROLL
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TAPE!
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I'VE BEEN CRAPPED ON FOR FOUR
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YEARS.
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I BELIEVE I DESERVE A BREAK.
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FIRED FROM WCW, STEVE
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AUSTIN'S FALL FROM GRACE WOULD
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LEAVE HIM IN PHILADELPHIA
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WORKING FOR EXTREME CHAMPIONSHIP
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WRESTLING, A SMALL REGIONAL
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PROMOTION.
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[ CROWD CHANTING: ECW!
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ECW!
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ECW!
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]
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I THOUGHT I WAS BETTER THAN
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THAT PLACE.
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I THOUGHT I DESERVED TO BE IN
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THE BIG LEAGUES.
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IT -- ME OFF TO SEE A PIECE
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OF CRAP LIKE YOU DEFENDING THE
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DAMN WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT BELT!
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AS AUSTIN WAS VENTING HIS
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FRUSTRATIONS IN EXTREME
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CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING, WCW WAS
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PROGRESSING WITHOUT HIM.
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[ BELL RINGING ]
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AIRING THEIR OWN PRIME TIME
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PROGRAM, "MONDAY NITRO," WCW WAS
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NOW IN DIRECT COMPETITION WITH
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WWE AS THE TWO COMPANIES WENT
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HEAD-TO-HEAD EVERY MONDAY NIGHT
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BEGINNING IN SEPTEMBER OF 1995.
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WHERE THE BIG BOYS PLAY,
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RIGHT HERE ON TNT ...
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WHEN WE LAUNCHED NITRO,
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EVERYBODY, INCLUDING THE PEOPLE
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THAT WORKED FOR ME, SAID,
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"YOU'RE NUTS!
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YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO BE ABLE TO
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COMPETE."
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NOT ONLY DID THEY COMPETE;
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WCW MONDAY NITRO SCORED SEVERAL
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WINS IN THE RATINGS BATTLE FOR
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SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT SUPREMACY.
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ARMED WITH WEEKLY LIVE
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PROGRAMMING AND A PROVEN TALENT
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POOL, WCW WAS MAKING NOISE.
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STEVE AUSTIN WOULD USE THE
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SUCCESS OF MONDAY NITRO TO HELP
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FUEL HIS CREATIVITY.
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YOU'RE GONNA SEE ALL THE OLD
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CODGERS HERE IN OUR ORGANIZATION
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AND THEY'RE GONNA BE SCRAPPING
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AROUND AND USING THEIR WALKERS
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...
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HE REALLY WASN'T THAT GOOD A
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PROMO AT WCW.
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GOING TO ECW WAS HUGE FOR HIM,
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BECAUSE HE GOT TO VENT AT
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BISCHOFF.
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I'M GONNA TELL YOU RIGHT NOW,
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I DON'T KNOW THE NAMES OF ANY OF
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THE HOLDS, BUT I'M GONNA SIT
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HERE AND FUMBLE AROUND AND
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BUNDLE AROUND, AND IF I PUT YOU
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TO SLEEP -- IF I DON'T PUT YOU
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TO SLEEP -- THE MATCHES PROBABLY
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WILL.
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SO, BEAR WITH US.
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00:15:27,035 --> 00:15:29,071
THIS IS MONDAY NYQUIL AND WE'RE
519
00:15:29,071 --> 00:15:30,639
LIVE!
520
00:15:30,639 --> 00:15:31,574
NEVER KNOWN FOR HIS CHARISMA
521
00:15:31,574 --> 00:15:32,374
ON THE MICROPHONE, AUSTIN'S
522
00:15:32,374 --> 00:15:33,209
FRUSTRATION WOULD BECOME MORE
523
00:15:33,209 --> 00:15:34,777
THAN JUST JOKES AND INSULTS.
524
00:15:34,777 --> 00:15:35,878
A NEW SIDE TO THE PREVIOUSLY
525
00:15:35,878 --> 00:15:37,479
ONE-DIMENSIONAL SUPERSTAR WAS
526
00:15:37,479 --> 00:15:40,382
ABOUT TO BE REVEALED.
527
00:15:40,382 --> 00:15:41,684
WE DID OUR INTERVIEWS WITH
528
00:15:41,684 --> 00:15:44,720
STEVE AUSTIN AT 5:00 IN THE
529
00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:46,288
MORNING, 'CAUSE I MADE HIM WAIT.
530
00:15:46,288 --> 00:15:49,491
I WANTED TO -- STEVE OFF, SO
531
00:15:49,491 --> 00:15:51,660
THAT YOU WOULD FEEL THIS MAN'S
532
00:15:51,660 --> 00:15:55,030
AGGRESSION.
533
00:15:55,030 --> 00:15:56,732
YOU KNOW, FOR THE LAST SIX OR
534
00:15:56,732 --> 00:16:00,135
SEVEN WEEKS, EVERYBODY'S HEARD
535
00:16:00,135 --> 00:16:02,972
ME COME OUT HERE AND -- AND
536
00:16:02,972 --> 00:16:03,873
COMPLAIN AND SING A SAD SONG
537
00:16:03,873 --> 00:16:05,407
ABOUT GETTING TREATED LIKE A
538
00:16:05,407 --> 00:16:06,609
PIECE OF CRAP IN WCW ...
539
00:16:06,609 --> 00:16:07,776
I SAID, "[BLEEP]
540
00:16:07,776 --> 00:16:09,211
PAUL," I SAID, "WHAT DO YOU
541
00:16:09,211 --> 00:16:10,946
WANT ME TO TALK ABOUT?"
542
00:16:10,946 --> 00:16:13,849
HE SAYS, UH, "TALK ABOUT WHAT
543
00:16:13,849 --> 00:16:15,618
YOU'RE FEELING."
544
00:16:15,618 --> 00:16:16,919
YOU PEOPLE GET UP EVERY
545
00:16:16,919 --> 00:16:18,654
MORNING, YOU THROW A HAM AND
546
00:16:18,654 --> 00:16:20,422
CHEESE SANDWICH IN A METAL
547
00:16:20,422 --> 00:16:22,358
LUNCHBOX, YOU PUNCH A TIME
548
00:16:22,358 --> 00:16:23,359
CLOCK, YOU LET SOME [BLEEP]
549
00:16:23,359 --> 00:16:24,593
OFF YELL AT YOU FOR NINE HOURS,
550
00:16:24,593 --> 00:16:27,028
THEN YOU PUNCH OUT AND GO BACK
551
00:16:27,028 --> 00:16:28,063
HOME TO SOME HAG.
552
00:16:28,063 --> 00:16:33,102
I'LL NEVER DO THAT, MAN.
553
00:16:33,102 --> 00:16:34,270
I SAID, "I'M HERE.
554
00:16:34,270 --> 00:16:35,204
I'M GONNA -- I'M GONNA BE THE
555
00:16:35,204 --> 00:16:36,105
SUPERSTAR THAT I ALWAYS KNEW I
556
00:16:36,105 --> 00:16:38,674
COULD BE, AND THERE'S NOBODY --
557
00:16:38,674 --> 00:16:39,708
NOBODY HERE -- THAT CAN HOLD ME
558
00:16:39,708 --> 00:16:41,110
DOWN."
559
00:16:41,110 --> 00:16:42,411
BUT I'M GONNA GET MY ACT
560
00:16:42,411 --> 00:16:44,346
TOGETHER, BECAUSE ALL THE
561
00:16:44,346 --> 00:16:45,781
[BLEEP]
562
00:16:45,781 --> 00:16:48,083
THAT'S GONE ON FOR THE LAST FEW
563
00:16:48,083 --> 00:16:50,219
WEEKS AND FOR THE LAST TWO WEEKS
564
00:16:50,219 --> 00:16:51,520
OF MY LIFE ISN'T WHERE I'M
565
00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:52,888
SUPPOSED TO BE.
566
00:16:52,888 --> 00:16:54,823
STEVE AUSTIN WAS NOT KNOWN AS
567
00:16:54,823 --> 00:16:57,459
A GUY WHO WAS A GREAT INTERVIEW
568
00:16:57,459 --> 00:17:00,329
BEFORE HE GOT TO ECW, AND THAT
569
00:17:00,329 --> 00:17:02,131
CHANGED VERY QUICKLY.
570
00:17:02,131 --> 00:17:08,070
AND THAT'S THE BOTTOM LINE.
571
00:17:08,070 --> 00:17:11,005
AFTER THREE MONTHS IN EXTREME
572
00:17:11,005 --> 00:17:12,141
CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING, AUSTIN
573
00:17:12,141 --> 00:17:14,777
WAS ABOUT TO GET HIS WISH,
574
00:17:14,777 --> 00:17:17,011
RECEIVING AN OPPORTUNITY TO GO
575
00:17:17,011 --> 00:17:18,080
BACK TO THE BIG LEAGUES IN
576
00:17:18,080 --> 00:17:21,350
JANUARY OF 1996.
577
00:17:21,350 --> 00:17:24,219
WWE WAS SLIPPING IN THEIR WAR
578
00:17:24,219 --> 00:17:26,655
WITH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
579
00:17:26,655 --> 00:17:27,723
WRESTLING, BUT DESPITE AUSTIN'S
580
00:17:27,723 --> 00:17:29,992
EVOLUTION IN ECW, VINCE MCMAHON
581
00:17:29,992 --> 00:17:32,194
WAS MERELY LOOKING FOR IN-RING
582
00:17:32,194 --> 00:17:35,264
TALENT TO FILL HIS ROSTER.
583
00:17:35,264 --> 00:17:36,432
THE PHONE RINGS, AND IT'S MR.
584
00:17:36,432 --> 00:17:38,534
MCMAHON.
585
00:17:38,534 --> 00:17:39,201
SO, I SAY, "HELLO!"
586
00:17:39,201 --> 00:17:41,035
"STEVE!
587
00:17:40,836 --> 00:17:42,071
HOW YA DOIN', PAL?"
588
00:17:42,071 --> 00:17:42,938
I SAID, "I'M DOING GOOD, VINCE.
589
00:17:42,938 --> 00:17:44,606
HOW ARE YOU?"
590
00:17:44,606 --> 00:17:48,042
"WELL, GOT SOME IDEAS FOR YOU.
591
00:17:48,042 --> 00:17:48,043
WE'RE GONNA BRING YOU IN, CALL
592
00:17:48,043 --> 00:17:50,012
YOU THE RINGMASTER.
593
00:17:50,012 --> 00:17:51,046
TED DIBIASE'S YOUR MANAGER, MAKE
594
00:17:51,046 --> 00:17:52,982
YOU THE MILLION DOLLAR CHAMPION.
595
00:17:52,982 --> 00:17:53,716
YOU'LL COME IN A CHAMPION!"
596
00:17:53,716 --> 00:17:54,883
AND I'M SITTING THERE THINKING,
597
00:17:54,883 --> 00:17:56,518
"EH, THE RINGMASTER, THAT'S A
598
00:17:56,518 --> 00:17:57,386
[BLEEP]
599
00:17:57,386 --> 00:17:58,153
IDEA."
600
00:17:58,153 --> 00:18:00,622
I KNEW HE DIDN'T HAVE BIG PLANS
601
00:18:00,622 --> 00:18:01,423
FOR ME.
602
00:18:01,423 --> 00:18:02,091
HE JUST BASICALLY THOUGHT I WAS
603
00:18:02,091 --> 00:18:02,858
A MECHANIC.
604
00:18:02,858 --> 00:18:05,627
BUT, IT'S A JOB, SO, I SAID,
605
00:18:05,627 --> 00:18:06,428
"ALL RIGHT, MAN, SOUNDS LIKE A
606
00:18:06,428 --> 00:18:08,029
GOOD IDEA TO ME."
607
00:18:07,663 --> 00:18:10,799
WE WANNA DO SOMETHING WITH HIM
608
00:18:10,799 --> 00:18:11,533
BUT WE WEREN'T TOO SURE, AND HE
609
00:18:11,533 --> 00:18:12,201
WAS GIVEN THE NAME THE
610
00:18:12,201 --> 00:18:12,935
RINGMASTER, BECAUSE OF THOSE
611
00:18:12,935 --> 00:18:16,171
SKILLS, MUCH LIKE OF BRET HART,
612
00:18:16,171 --> 00:18:16,972
YOU KNOW, THOSE KIND OF
613
00:18:16,972 --> 00:18:18,073
WRESTLING SKILLS, UH, A
614
00:18:18,073 --> 00:18:19,608
RINGMASTER.
615
00:18:19,608 --> 00:18:21,110
AND ...
616
00:18:21,110 --> 00:18:23,345
WAIT A MINUTE, HERE WE GO, NOW!
617
00:18:23,345 --> 00:18:24,880
ACCOMPANIED BY TED DIBIASE,
618
00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:25,781
THE MILLION DOLLAR MAN ...
619
00:18:25,781 --> 00:18:26,849
HERE COMES TED DIBIASE ...
620
00:18:26,849 --> 00:18:27,649
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN ...
621
00:18:27,649 --> 00:18:28,884
AND HIS CROWN JEWEL!
622
00:18:28,884 --> 00:18:29,485
THE MILLION DOLLAR CHAMPION
623
00:18:29,485 --> 00:18:30,119
...
624
00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:32,020
OH YEAH!
625
00:18:32,020 --> 00:18:33,021
THE RINGMASTER!
626
00:18:33,021 --> 00:18:33,088
BECAUSE OF WHO I WAS AT THE
627
00:18:33,088 --> 00:18:34,323
TIME, THE COMPANY PUT ME WITH
628
00:18:34,323 --> 00:18:35,190
HIM.
629
00:18:35,190 --> 00:18:36,091
THE RUB WITH ME WOULD HELP
630
00:18:36,091 --> 00:18:37,326
ELEVATE HIM AT THE BEGINNING.
631
00:18:37,326 --> 00:18:38,660
I WANT TO OFFICIALLY CROWN
632
00:18:38,660 --> 00:18:43,866
YOU MY MILLION DOLLAR CHAMPION.
633
00:18:43,866 --> 00:18:45,300
I DON'T KNOW THAT, WHEN HE
634
00:18:45,300 --> 00:18:46,301
CAME TO WWE, THAT WE DIDN'T
635
00:18:46,301 --> 00:18:48,103
REGRESS A LITTLE BIT, BECAUSE WE
636
00:18:48,103 --> 00:18:50,372
GAVE HIM A MANAGER, MILLION
637
00:18:50,372 --> 00:18:52,307
DOLLAR MAN, GREAT TALKER, BUT
638
00:18:52,307 --> 00:18:54,810
STEVE DIDN'T NEED A MOUTHPIECE.
639
00:18:54,810 --> 00:18:56,412
TO DISCOUNT MY LAST FIVE
640
00:18:56,412 --> 00:18:58,113
YEARS OF WORK AND JUST START OFF
641
00:18:58,113 --> 00:18:59,114
AS SOMETHING NEW AS THE
642
00:18:59,114 --> 00:19:00,883
RINGMASTER, MAN, IT TOTALLY
643
00:19:00,883 --> 00:19:02,751
SUCKED.
644
00:19:02,751 --> 00:19:04,219
THIS IS MY RING!
645
00:19:04,219 --> 00:19:06,255
AH!
646
00:19:06,255 --> 00:19:08,257
YEAH, THIS IS MY RING!
647
00:19:08,257 --> 00:19:09,391
NO ONE REMEMBERS THE
648
00:19:09,391 --> 00:19:10,392
RINGMASTER.
649
00:19:10,392 --> 00:19:11,860
WHAT THEY DO REMEMBER OF IT, IT
650
00:19:11,860 --> 00:19:14,263
WAS LACKLUSTER AT BEST.
651
00:19:14,263 --> 00:19:15,964
YOU JUST THINK, "IF YOU GO TO
652
00:19:15,964 --> 00:19:17,800
WWE, AS SOON AS YOU WALK IN THE
653
00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:19,201
DOOR, THEY'LL PUT A GIMMICK ON
654
00:19:19,201 --> 00:19:20,803
YOU THAT'LL MAKE YOU A STAR."
655
00:19:20,803 --> 00:19:22,471
NO, THAT'S NOT THE CASE.
656
00:19:22,471 --> 00:19:23,639
WHEN HE WAS THE RINGMASTER,
657
00:19:23,639 --> 00:19:26,007
HE WASN'T COOL.
658
00:19:25,941 --> 00:19:27,209
WE'VE GOT A BUNCH OF THEM.
659
00:19:27,209 --> 00:19:28,277
WHAT WE NEED IS A GOOD
660
00:19:28,277 --> 00:19:29,344
CHARACTER.
661
00:19:29,344 --> 00:19:30,479
AND, SOMETIMES YOUR BEST
662
00:19:30,479 --> 00:19:31,680
CHARACTERS, YOU DON'T HAVE TO
663
00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:32,981
GIVE THEM ANY MONIKERS OR ANY
664
00:19:32,981 --> 00:19:34,049
TITLES.
665
00:19:34,049 --> 00:19:36,618
YOU JUST LET 'EM BE THEMSELVES.
666
00:19:36,618 --> 00:19:37,986
MONDAY NIGHT RAW WAS PUTTING
667
00:19:37,986 --> 00:19:40,889
OUT A PRODUCT NOT FIT FOR PRIME
668
00:19:40,889 --> 00:19:43,525
TIME, BUT ERIC BISCHOFF WAS
669
00:19:43,525 --> 00:19:46,095
SIGNING FORMER WWE TALENT,
670
00:19:46,095 --> 00:19:47,830
CASTING THEM AS MORE
671
00:19:47,830 --> 00:19:50,199
TRUE-TO-LIFE CHARACTERS.
672
00:19:50,199 --> 00:19:52,000
THE MEASURING STICK JUST
673
00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:53,836
CHANGED AROUND HERE, BUDDY.
674
00:19:53,836 --> 00:19:56,905
YOU'RE LOOKING AT IT.
675
00:19:56,905 --> 00:19:58,006
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
676
00:19:58,006 --> 00:19:59,942
WRESTLING'S CHANGE IN DIRECTION
677
00:19:59,942 --> 00:20:01,910
WOULD BEGIN TO PAY OFF, BRINGING
678
00:20:01,910 --> 00:20:03,545
MONDAY NITRO SEVERAL RATINGS
679
00:20:03,545 --> 00:20:04,546
VICTORIES DURING THE SPRING OF
680
00:20:04,546 --> 00:20:09,118
1996.
681
00:20:09,118 --> 00:20:10,385
AS MOMENTUM HAD SHIFTED TO WCW,
682
00:20:10,385 --> 00:20:12,387
TED DIBIASE WOULD DO THE SAME.
683
00:20:12,387 --> 00:20:16,492
THE RINGMASTER'S MOUTHPIECE
684
00:20:16,492 --> 00:20:20,095
WOULD LEAVE WWE, ENABLING STEVE
685
00:20:20,095 --> 00:20:22,064
AUSTIN THE CHANCE TO MODIFY HIS
686
00:20:22,064 --> 00:20:23,866
CHARACTER AND DEVELOP A MORE
687
00:20:23,866 --> 00:20:25,033
ACCURATE PORTRAYAL OF HIS
688
00:20:25,033 --> 00:20:26,568
PERSONA.
689
00:20:26,568 --> 00:20:27,870
STEVE CAME TO ME AND SAID,
690
00:20:27,870 --> 00:20:28,637
"THAT'S IT.
691
00:20:28,637 --> 00:20:29,605
I'M JUST NOT THE RINGMASTER."
692
00:20:29,605 --> 00:20:31,039
AND, "WELL, OKAY.
693
00:20:31,039 --> 00:20:32,207
WHO ARE YOU?
694
00:20:32,207 --> 00:20:33,142
YOU KNOW, YOU'RE A MASTER OF
695
00:20:33,142 --> 00:20:34,409
WHAT YOU DO IN THE RING.
696
00:20:34,409 --> 00:20:35,477
IT'S LOGICAL."
697
00:20:35,477 --> 00:20:37,146
"YEAH, I KNOW, BUT I'M JUST NOT
698
00:20:37,146 --> 00:20:38,213
FEELING IT, YOU KNOW?"
699
00:20:38,213 --> 00:20:39,481
"WELL," I SAID, "WE'LL GIVE IT
700
00:20:39,481 --> 00:20:40,449
SOME THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, AND
701
00:20:40,449 --> 00:20:41,250
MAYBE WE'LL COME UP WITH
702
00:20:41,250 --> 00:20:43,018
SOMETHING ELSE."
703
00:20:43,018 --> 00:20:43,952
I WENT HOME AND I WAS
704
00:20:43,952 --> 00:20:45,087
DRINKING A FEW BEERS AT THE
705
00:20:45,087 --> 00:20:46,688
HOUSE AND I WAS WATCHING A
706
00:20:46,688 --> 00:20:47,890
SPECIAL ON HBO ABOUT RICHARD
707
00:20:47,890 --> 00:20:48,924
KUKLINSKI, AND IT WAS CALLED
708
00:20:48,924 --> 00:20:50,492
"THE ICE MAN."
709
00:20:50,492 --> 00:20:52,027
THE ICE MAN WAS A HIT MAN FOR
710
00:20:52,027 --> 00:20:53,062
HIRE, HAD A BALD HEAD AND A
711
00:20:53,062 --> 00:20:55,631
BEARD AND TOTALLY REMORSELESS.
712
00:20:55,631 --> 00:20:57,199
I WAS A BAD GUY.
713
00:20:57,199 --> 00:20:58,367
IT WAS MY JOB TO BE HATED.
714
00:20:58,367 --> 00:20:59,268
THERE WAS SOMETHING ABOUT THIS
715
00:20:59,268 --> 00:21:01,203
GUY THAT REALLY GOT MY GEARS
716
00:21:01,203 --> 00:21:01,970
GOING.
717
00:21:01,970 --> 00:21:02,771
PITCHED MY IDEA TO THE OFFICE,
718
00:21:02,771 --> 00:21:03,906
AND THEY SAID, "OKAY, STEVE,
719
00:21:03,906 --> 00:21:05,807
WE'LL THINK ABOUT IT," AND THEY
720
00:21:05,807 --> 00:21:07,576
FAXED ME THREE PAGES OF THE
721
00:21:07,576 --> 00:21:08,610
WORST NAMES I'D EVER SEEN IN THE
722
00:21:08,610 --> 00:21:11,113
HISTORY OF MY LIFE, AND THE
723
00:21:11,113 --> 00:21:12,147
THREE NAMES THAT I'LL NEVER
724
00:21:12,147 --> 00:21:14,349
FORGET BASED ON THIS COLD
725
00:21:14,349 --> 00:21:16,585
BLOODED, RUTHLESS INDIVIDUAL
726
00:21:16,585 --> 00:21:18,420
WERE, OTTO VON RUTHLESS, ICE
727
00:21:18,420 --> 00:21:21,857
DAGGER AND FANG MCFROST.
728
00:21:21,857 --> 00:21:22,958
MAN, IT DON'T GET MORE SUCK --
729
00:21:22,958 --> 00:21:25,727
THAN THAT.
730
00:21:25,727 --> 00:21:27,296
I'M SITTING THERE, FRUSTRATED,
731
00:21:27,296 --> 00:21:29,131
AND MY WIFE MAKES ME A CUP OF
732
00:21:29,131 --> 00:21:30,632
HOT TEA AND SHE SITS THAT HOT
733
00:21:30,632 --> 00:21:32,134
TEA ON THE TABLE AND SHE GOES,
734
00:21:32,134 --> 00:21:33,802
"EH, DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT.
735
00:21:33,802 --> 00:21:35,170
YOU'LL THINK OF SOMETHING."
736
00:21:35,170 --> 00:21:36,171
SHE GOES, "GO AHEAD AND DRINK
737
00:21:36,171 --> 00:21:37,739
YOUR TEA 'FORE IT GETS STONE
738
00:21:37,739 --> 00:21:38,473
COLD."
739
00:21:38,473 --> 00:21:39,408
THEN, SHE GOES, "THAT'S YOUR
740
00:21:39,408 --> 00:21:40,242
NAME.
741
00:21:40,242 --> 00:21:41,577
STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN."
742
00:21:41,577 --> 00:21:43,512
THERE'S A STONE COLD STUNNER!
743
00:21:43,512 --> 00:21:44,780
FED UP WITH THE DIRECTION OF
744
00:21:44,780 --> 00:21:45,914
HIS CHARACTER AND HIS CAREER ...
745
00:21:45,914 --> 00:21:47,282
LOOK AT THOSE EYES!
746
00:21:47,282 --> 00:21:48,083
STONE COLD, THIS MAN IS!
747
00:21:48,083 --> 00:21:57,526
STEVE AUSTIN HAD TRANSFORMED
748
00:21:57,526 --> 00:22:00,128
FROM THE RINGMASTER AND BECOME
749
00:22:00,128 --> 00:22:02,331
STONE COLD.
750
00:22:02,331 --> 00:22:04,099
IT'S ONTO BIGGER AND BETTER
751
00:22:04,099 --> 00:22:05,667
THINGS AFTER KING OF THE RING,
752
00:22:05,667 --> 00:22:07,803
AFTER I WIN IT ALL, BECAUSE
753
00:22:07,803 --> 00:22:10,572
THERE IS NO WAY, NO WAY, ANYONE
754
00:22:10,572 --> 00:22:13,208
IN THE WORLD WRESTLING
755
00:22:13,208 --> 00:22:14,509
ENTERTAINMENT CAN STOP STONE
756
00:22:14,509 --> 00:22:17,446
COLD STEVE AUSTIN.
757
00:22:17,446 --> 00:22:18,814
GIVEN THE CHANCE TO CREATE
758
00:22:18,814 --> 00:22:21,016
AND DEVELOP HIS OWN CHARACTER,
759
00:22:21,016 --> 00:22:22,884
STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN USED HIS
760
00:22:22,884 --> 00:22:24,786
VICTORY AT THE KING OF THE RING
761
00:22:24,786 --> 00:22:26,555
PAY-PER-VIEW TO SHOWCASE HIS NEW
762
00:22:26,555 --> 00:22:28,523
PERSONA.
763
00:22:28,523 --> 00:22:29,458
OH, THERE IT IS!
764
00:22:29,458 --> 00:22:30,659
THERE IT IS!
765
00:22:30,659 --> 00:22:32,060
THERE IT IS!
766
00:22:32,060 --> 00:22:33,128
IT'S OVER!
767
00:22:33,128 --> 00:22:34,229
THAT'S IT.
768
00:22:34,229 --> 00:22:35,097
AND THE STUNNER APPLIED
769
00:22:35,097 --> 00:22:36,965
AGAIN!
770
00:22:36,965 --> 00:22:38,500
ONE, TWO, AND HE GOT HIM!
771
00:22:38,500 --> 00:22:39,568
[ CHEERING ]
772
00:22:39,568 --> 00:22:40,469
[ BELL RINGING ]
773
00:22:40,469 --> 00:22:42,037
THE FOURTH PRESTIGIOUS KING
774
00:22:42,037 --> 00:22:43,672
OF THE RING, STONE COLD STEVE
775
00:22:43,672 --> 00:22:45,073
AUSTIN, AN INCREDIBLE VICTORY.
776
00:22:45,073 --> 00:22:47,209
THE FIRST THING I WANT TO BE
777
00:22:47,209 --> 00:22:50,145
DONE IS TO GET THAT PIECE OF
778
00:22:50,145 --> 00:22:51,880
CRAP OUT OF MY RING.
779
00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:54,283
OH, COME ON!
780
00:22:54,283 --> 00:22:55,217
YOU COULD NEVER WRITE A PROMO
781
00:22:55,217 --> 00:22:56,952
FOR STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN.
782
00:22:56,952 --> 00:22:58,086
IT'S JUST NOT WHAT YOU DO.
783
00:22:58,086 --> 00:22:59,554
HE WOULD JUST ROLL, AND FROM
784
00:22:59,554 --> 00:23:02,524
THERE, THE REST WAS HISTORY.
785
00:23:02,524 --> 00:23:04,693
YOU SAID YOUR PRAYERS, AND IT
786
00:23:04,693 --> 00:23:07,529
DIDN'T GET YOU ANYWHERE.
787
00:23:07,529 --> 00:23:08,997
TALK ABOUT YOUR PSALMS, TALK
788
00:23:08,997 --> 00:23:12,200
ABOUT JOHN 3:16.
789
00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:15,137
AUSTIN 3:16 SAYS, I JUST WHIPPED
790
00:23:15,137 --> 00:23:16,538
YOUR --!
791
00:23:16,538 --> 00:23:20,542
"AUSTIN 3:16 SAYS I JUST
792
00:23:20,542 --> 00:23:22,944
WHIPPED YOUR --!"
793
00:23:22,944 --> 00:23:24,279
AWESOME!
794
00:23:24,279 --> 00:23:25,480
THAT'S WHEN STONE COLD BECAME
795
00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:27,149
STONE COLD.
796
00:23:27,149 --> 00:23:28,617
PEOPLE HAD SIGNS THE NEXT DAY
797
00:23:28,617 --> 00:23:29,685
AND THEN WE MADE A T-SHIRT OUT
798
00:23:29,685 --> 00:23:31,086
OF IT.
799
00:23:31,086 --> 00:23:32,020
IT JUST GREW AT EACH MONDAY
800
00:23:32,020 --> 00:23:33,255
NIGHT RAW.
801
00:23:33,255 --> 00:23:35,924
STONE COLD'S BRASH IDENTITY
802
00:23:35,924 --> 00:23:37,859
WAS A DEPARTURE FROM THE WWE
803
00:23:37,859 --> 00:23:39,995
NORM.
804
00:23:39,995 --> 00:23:41,396
AUSTIN WAS CREATING A BUZZ,
805
00:23:41,396 --> 00:23:43,432
UTILIZING HIS PAST FRUSTRATIONS
806
00:23:43,432 --> 00:23:45,334
TO PROVIDE MONDAY NIGHT RAW WITH
807
00:23:45,334 --> 00:23:47,836
AN EDGY NEW VILLAIN.
808
00:23:47,836 --> 00:23:48,837
BUT I JUST HAD TO GET THAT
809
00:23:48,837 --> 00:23:49,938
CHIP ON MY SHOULDER IN THIS
810
00:23:49,938 --> 00:23:52,007
BUSINESS FOR ME TO REALLY
811
00:23:52,007 --> 00:23:54,242
SUCCEED, GET KICKED DOWN ENOUGH
812
00:23:54,242 --> 00:23:55,577
TIMES, THAT I SAID, "YOU KNOW
813
00:23:55,577 --> 00:23:56,545
WHAT?
814
00:23:56,545 --> 00:23:57,379
[BLEEP]
815
00:23:57,379 --> 00:23:58,280
YOU!"
816
00:23:58,280 --> 00:23:59,414
I SAID, "I'M GONNA DO IT MY WAY,
817
00:23:59,414 --> 00:24:00,749
I CAN DO IT MY WAY AND IF YOU
818
00:24:00,749 --> 00:24:01,817
GET IN MY WAY, I'M GONNA RUN
819
00:24:01,817 --> 00:24:02,918
YOUR [BLEEP]
820
00:24:02,918 --> 00:24:03,919
OVER!"
821
00:24:03,919 --> 00:24:05,354
WELCOME BACK TO WCW MONDAY
822
00:24:05,354 --> 00:24:06,621
NITRO LIVE!
823
00:24:06,621 --> 00:24:09,624
WE HAVE GOT CHAOS GOING ON HERE.
824
00:24:09,624 --> 00:24:11,426
IN THE LATE '90S, VIEWERS
825
00:24:11,426 --> 00:24:13,295
DESIRED MORE REALISTIC
826
00:24:13,295 --> 00:24:16,331
ANTAGONISTS, A FORMULA WORLD
827
00:24:16,331 --> 00:24:17,632
CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING HAD
828
00:24:17,632 --> 00:24:19,234
INCORPORATED ON THE BACKS OF A
829
00:24:19,234 --> 00:24:20,769
VILLAINOUS HULK HOGAN AND THE
830
00:24:20,769 --> 00:24:23,672
NEW WORLD ORDER.
831
00:24:23,672 --> 00:24:25,607
WELL, ALL OF A SUDDEN,
832
00:24:25,607 --> 00:24:27,809
BROTHER, THE NEW WORLD ORDER IS
833
00:24:27,809 --> 00:24:30,212
REAL IMPORTANT AROUND HERE!
834
00:24:30,212 --> 00:24:31,847
WHEN HOGAN CAME OUT AND HE
835
00:24:31,847 --> 00:24:33,615
BECAME A BAD GUY FOR THE FIRST
836
00:24:33,615 --> 00:24:36,752
TIME EVER, IT WAS SO UNREAL.
837
00:24:36,752 --> 00:24:38,019
I WAS LIKE, "OH, MAN, HE'S SO
838
00:24:38,019 --> 00:24:39,121
COOL NOW!"
839
00:24:39,121 --> 00:24:40,989
IS THERE ANY QUESTION NOW
840
00:24:40,989 --> 00:24:43,258
WHAT THE MOST POWERFUL
841
00:24:43,258 --> 00:24:44,960
ORGANIZATION IN PROFESSIONAL
842
00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:45,961
WRESTLING ...
843
00:24:45,961 --> 00:24:48,797
WE CREATED A HUGE AMOUNT OF
844
00:24:48,797 --> 00:24:50,932
POSITIVE MOMENTUM, AND ALL OF A
845
00:24:50,932 --> 00:24:51,900
SUDDEN OUR NUMBERS TOOK OFF AND
846
00:24:51,900 --> 00:24:54,269
WE REIGNED AND WE RULED THE
847
00:24:54,269 --> 00:24:57,305
WRESTLING WORLD IN THE RATINGS.
848
00:24:57,305 --> 00:24:59,441
LEADING WCW'S GROUP OF
849
00:24:59,441 --> 00:25:01,410
REBELLIOUS ANTIHEROES, HOGAN AND
850
00:25:01,410 --> 00:25:02,778
HIS NEW WORLD ORDER FACTION
851
00:25:02,778 --> 00:25:04,346
CARRIED MONDAY NITRO TO WHAT
852
00:25:04,346 --> 00:25:07,582
WOULD BECOME AN 84 WEEK HEAD TO
853
00:25:07,582 --> 00:25:09,651
HEAD WINNING STREAK OVER RAW IN
854
00:25:09,651 --> 00:25:11,386
THE TELEVISION RATINGS.
855
00:25:11,386 --> 00:25:16,825
WWE WAS BEHIND THE CURVE, AND
856
00:25:16,825 --> 00:25:18,260
VINCE MCMAHON WOULD NEED TO
857
00:25:18,260 --> 00:25:19,961
EMBRACE A CHANGING CULTURE TO
858
00:25:19,961 --> 00:25:23,231
KEEP PACE WITH WCW.
859
00:25:23,231 --> 00:25:24,866
RIGHT THEN, IN THE THICK OF
860
00:25:24,866 --> 00:25:25,867
THINGS, IT WAS THE MONDAY NIGHT
861
00:25:25,867 --> 00:25:26,802
WARS.
862
00:25:26,802 --> 00:25:28,403
IT WAS MONDAY NIGHT RAW VERSUS
863
00:25:28,403 --> 00:25:31,239
MONDAY NITRO.
864
00:25:31,239 --> 00:25:32,474
THEY WERE DOING SOME
865
00:25:32,474 --> 00:25:33,675
OFF-THE-WALL, CRAZY,
866
00:25:33,675 --> 00:25:35,477
FLY-BY-THE-SEAT-OF-THEIR-PANTS
867
00:25:35,477 --> 00:25:36,445
STUFF, AND THEY WERE KICKING OUR
868
00:25:36,445 --> 00:25:37,946
--.
869
00:25:37,946 --> 00:25:39,448
BUT, STONE COLD WAS COMING AND I
870
00:25:39,448 --> 00:25:40,882
WAS LEADING THE CHARGE ON THAT
871
00:25:40,882 --> 00:25:43,118
GIG.
872
00:25:43,118 --> 00:25:44,119
STEVE AUSTIN ...
873
00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:45,320
OH!
874
00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:46,455
OH MY GOD!
875
00:25:46,455 --> 00:25:47,856
THE SICKENING THUD OF THE STEEL
876
00:25:47,856 --> 00:25:49,224
CHAIR ON THE CRANIUM OF THE
877
00:25:49,224 --> 00:25:50,659
UNDERTAKER.
878
00:25:50,659 --> 00:25:52,327
[BLEEP]
879
00:25:52,327 --> 00:25:53,962
LIKE THAT, YOU [BLEEP]
880
00:25:53,962 --> 00:25:54,729
?
881
00:25:54,729 --> 00:25:55,664
I WAS BREAKING OUT OF THE
882
00:25:55,664 --> 00:25:57,098
PACK, BREAKING FROM THE MOLD.
883
00:25:57,098 --> 00:25:58,400
I WAS GOING OUT ON THAT LIMB.
884
00:25:58,400 --> 00:25:59,167
YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO PUSH ME OUT
885
00:25:59,167 --> 00:25:59,968
ON THAT LIMB.
886
00:25:59,968 --> 00:26:01,169
I WAS GOING THERE.
887
00:26:01,169 --> 00:26:02,237
I LOVED THIS GUY.
888
00:26:02,237 --> 00:26:05,740
HE WAS TOUGH AND HE WAS MEAN AND
889
00:26:05,740 --> 00:26:08,443
HE WAS COOL!
890
00:26:08,443 --> 00:26:10,412
THE CULTURE HAD CHANGED.
891
00:26:10,412 --> 00:26:12,247
IT BECAME THE AGE OF THE
892
00:26:12,247 --> 00:26:14,950
ANTIHERO, AND NOBODY PERSONIFIED
893
00:26:14,950 --> 00:26:17,052
AN ANTIHERO MORE THAN STONE COLD
894
00:26:17,052 --> 00:26:21,389
STEVE AUSTIN.
895
00:26:21,389 --> 00:26:22,691
WRESTLING FANS WOULDN'T CHEER
896
00:26:22,691 --> 00:26:23,992
FOR THE GOOD GUYS ANYMORE.
897
00:26:23,992 --> 00:26:25,660
STEVE WAS JUST SMART ENOUGH TO
898
00:26:25,660 --> 00:26:28,028
UNDERSTAND AT THE TIME THAT HE
899
00:26:28,028 --> 00:26:28,763
WAS ON TO SOMETIME.
900
00:26:28,763 --> 00:26:30,198
IT ALL KIND OF CAME TO FRUITION
901
00:26:30,198 --> 00:26:31,533
AT THE RIGHT TIME, AT
902
00:26:31,533 --> 00:26:36,071
WRESTLEMANIA XIII.
903
00:26:36,071 --> 00:26:38,139
WHOA!
904
00:26:38,139 --> 00:26:40,275
STEVE AUSTIN IS 6'2", 252.
905
00:26:40,275 --> 00:26:41,910
SAID THERE'S NOT A HUMAN BEING
906
00:26:41,910 --> 00:26:43,578
WALKING THE FACE OF THE EARTH
907
00:26:43,578 --> 00:26:46,481
THAT CAN MAKE HIM SAY, "I QUIT!"
908
00:26:46,481 --> 00:26:47,649
HE WAS GAINING MOMENTUM, BUT
909
00:26:47,649 --> 00:26:49,050
IT WAS THAT MATCH AT
910
00:26:49,050 --> 00:26:50,685
WRESTLEMANIA XIII WITH BRET
911
00:26:50,685 --> 00:26:52,821
HART, THE "I QUIT!"
912
00:26:52,821 --> 00:26:53,989
MATCH THAT EVERYBODY WENT,
913
00:26:53,989 --> 00:26:55,490
"WOW!"
914
00:26:55,490 --> 00:26:56,625
PITTED AGAINST THE FACE OF
915
00:26:56,625 --> 00:26:59,027
WWE, AUSTIN'S NEVER-SAY-DIE
916
00:26:59,027 --> 00:27:00,662
ATTITUDE ...
917
00:27:00,662 --> 00:27:02,330
OH!
918
00:27:02,330 --> 00:27:03,431
WHAT A WAR!
919
00:27:03,431 --> 00:27:05,133
WOULD SOLIDIFY HIM AS A FAN
920
00:27:05,133 --> 00:27:09,170
FAVORITE.
921
00:27:09,170 --> 00:27:11,773
STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN ...
922
00:27:11,773 --> 00:27:12,941
HELLO!
923
00:27:12,941 --> 00:27:14,109
LOOK AT THAT THERE.
924
00:27:14,109 --> 00:27:15,176
HERE WE GO!
925
00:27:15,176 --> 00:27:16,311
THE MATCH COULD BE THROUGH.
926
00:27:16,311 --> 00:27:17,612
SHARPSHOOTER!!
927
00:27:17,612 --> 00:27:18,780
SHARPSHOOTER ...
928
00:27:18,780 --> 00:27:20,382
THE SHARPSHOOTER!
929
00:27:20,382 --> 00:27:21,616
HE'S ALMOST GOT IT -- A
930
00:27:21,616 --> 00:27:22,684
SHARPSHOOTER!
931
00:27:22,684 --> 00:27:24,252
HE'S GOT IT ON!
932
00:27:24,252 --> 00:27:26,388
AUSTIN CAN'T REACH THE ROPES!
933
00:27:26,388 --> 00:27:27,622
AND HE'S PUSHING UP AND HE'S
934
00:27:27,622 --> 00:27:28,857
SCREAMING, AND YOU CAN JUST SEE
935
00:27:28,857 --> 00:27:30,892
THE PAIN ON HIS FACE.
936
00:27:30,892 --> 00:27:33,261
AND THAT'S WHEN IT REALLY
937
00:27:33,261 --> 00:27:35,130
COMES, THE BLOOD COMES THROUGH
938
00:27:35,130 --> 00:27:36,431
MY EYES AND STARTS POURING
939
00:27:36,431 --> 00:27:37,499
THROUGH MY TEETH.
940
00:27:37,499 --> 00:27:39,301
STEVE!
941
00:27:39,301 --> 00:27:40,869
WILL HE GIVE UP?
942
00:27:40,869 --> 00:27:41,736
OH!
943
00:27:41,736 --> 00:27:43,004
IT WENT FROM, "OH, COOL,
944
00:27:43,004 --> 00:27:43,838
AUSTIN, HE'S THIS TOUGH GUY, I
945
00:27:43,838 --> 00:27:44,839
HOPE HE DOESN'T TAP OUT," TO,
946
00:27:44,839 --> 00:27:45,874
"DON'T!
947
00:27:45,874 --> 00:27:46,841
DON'T TAP OUT!
948
00:27:46,841 --> 00:27:48,376
YOU'RE BETTER THAN THIS!"
949
00:27:48,376 --> 00:27:49,511
STEVE!
950
00:27:49,511 --> 00:27:51,580
DO YOU GIVE UP?
951
00:27:51,580 --> 00:27:53,348
IF YOU DO NOT ANSWER ME, I WILL
952
00:27:53,348 --> 00:27:55,216
STOP THE FIGHT.
953
00:27:55,216 --> 00:27:56,084
THAT'S IT.
954
00:27:56,084 --> 00:27:57,152
GET OFF.
955
00:27:57,152 --> 00:27:58,820
THAT'S IT.
956
00:27:58,820 --> 00:28:00,322
[ BELL RINGING ]
957
00:28:00,322 --> 00:28:01,790
HIS BODY PASSED OUT FROM PAIN
958
00:28:01,790 --> 00:28:08,496
BECAUSE HE WOULD NOT QUIT, AND
959
00:28:08,496 --> 00:28:13,000
ANYBODY WATCHING THAT FELT THAT
960
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:13,268
MOMENT.
961
00:28:13,268 --> 00:28:14,536
MAN, I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYONE
962
00:28:14,536 --> 00:28:16,137
SO GUTSY, BUT HE WOULDN'T
963
00:28:16,137 --> 00:28:18,173
SUBMIT.
964
00:28:18,173 --> 00:28:20,976
SO OBSTINATE, SO STUBBORN, SO
965
00:28:20,976 --> 00:28:21,810
PROUD ...
966
00:28:21,810 --> 00:28:22,811
MAN, THAT WAS A SPECIAL NIGHT
967
00:28:22,811 --> 00:28:23,678
FOR ME.
968
00:28:23,678 --> 00:28:25,280
IT WAS DAMN NEAR AN ORGASM TO
969
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:26,448
FEEL THAT GOOD AFTER A MATCH.
970
00:28:26,448 --> 00:28:28,750
I MEAN, IF I'D HAVE A CIGARETTE,
971
00:28:28,750 --> 00:28:29,584
I'D PROBABLY HAVE SMOKED IT.
972
00:28:29,584 --> 00:28:31,453
[ CROWD CHEERING: AUSTIN!
973
00:28:31,453 --> 00:28:32,554
AUSTIN!
974
00:28:32,554 --> 00:28:33,722
]
975
00:28:33,722 --> 00:28:34,689
THE MATCH REALLY KICKED OFF
976
00:28:34,689 --> 00:28:36,091
THE AUSTIN ERA, BECAUSE STEVE
977
00:28:36,091 --> 00:28:37,492
AUSTIN, IT WAS A TURNING POINT
978
00:28:37,492 --> 00:28:38,460
FOR HIM.
979
00:28:38,460 --> 00:28:39,661
IT WAS BASICALLY LIKE, "LOVE ME
980
00:28:39,661 --> 00:28:40,795
OR HATE ME, BLOOD OR GUTS, WIN
981
00:28:40,795 --> 00:28:42,797
OR LOSE, I'M NOT GOING
982
00:28:42,797 --> 00:28:45,500
ANYWHERE."
983
00:28:45,500 --> 00:28:46,434
STILL TRAILING IN THE
984
00:28:46,434 --> 00:28:49,137
RATINGS, WWE HAD FOUND A
985
00:28:49,137 --> 00:28:51,072
POSSIBLE SOLUTION TO WCW'S
986
00:28:51,072 --> 00:28:54,909
SUCCESS.
987
00:28:54,909 --> 00:28:55,977
I WAS GETTING HOTTER AND
988
00:28:55,977 --> 00:28:57,078
HOTTER.
989
00:28:57,078 --> 00:28:58,613
I WAS BECOMING SO BULLETPROOF
990
00:28:58,613 --> 00:29:00,448
AND SO POWERFUL AND SO STRONG,
991
00:29:00,448 --> 00:29:01,950
AND THE MOMENTUM WAS HAPPENING
992
00:29:01,950 --> 00:29:04,119
SO FAST, AND GOD DANG IT, JUST
993
00:29:04,119 --> 00:29:07,589
WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT COULDN'T GET
994
00:29:07,589 --> 00:29:08,390
ANY HOTTER, WE ROLL INTO
995
00:29:08,390 --> 00:29:09,958
SUMMERSLAM.
996
00:29:09,958 --> 00:29:11,893
IT WAS AT SUMMERSLAM WHERE
997
00:29:11,893 --> 00:29:14,129
STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN'S CAREER
998
00:29:14,129 --> 00:29:19,167
WOULD TAKE A DRAMATIC TURN.
999
00:29:19,167 --> 00:29:20,602
AND LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
1000
00:29:20,602 --> 00:29:21,369
YES, WE'RE LIVE!
1001
00:29:21,369 --> 00:29:22,637
SUMMERSLAM FROM THE CONTINENTAL
1002
00:29:22,637 --> 00:29:24,439
AIRLINES ARENA.
1003
00:29:24,439 --> 00:29:26,474
ON AUGUST 3RD, 1997, STONE
1004
00:29:26,474 --> 00:29:28,710
COLD STEVE AUSTIN WAS COMPETING
1005
00:29:28,710 --> 00:29:31,079
TO BECOME THE WWE
1006
00:29:31,079 --> 00:29:32,914
INTERCONTINENTAL CHAMPION.
1007
00:29:32,914 --> 00:29:35,116
WHAT A TREMENDOUS MATCHUP!
1008
00:29:35,116 --> 00:29:36,484
BUT HIS METEORIC MOMENTUM
1009
00:29:36,484 --> 00:29:39,587
WOULD COME TO A SCREECHING HALT
1010
00:29:39,587 --> 00:29:41,890
IN ONE FRIGHTENING MOMENT.
1011
00:29:41,890 --> 00:29:43,391
LET'S SEE WHAT AUSTIN CAN DO
1012
00:29:43,391 --> 00:29:46,828
WHAT HE'D BEEN ...
1013
00:29:46,828 --> 00:29:48,930
NO!
1014
00:29:48,930 --> 00:29:57,539
HOW 'BOUT THAT?
1015
00:29:57,539 --> 00:29:58,540
A GUT-WRENCHING TOMBSTONE!
1016
00:29:58,540 --> 00:29:59,174
HEY, JUST STOP!
1017
00:29:59,174 --> 00:30:01,041
WHAT I FELT, IT SOUNDED LIKE
1018
00:30:00,842 --> 00:30:01,576
BIG GONGS.
1019
00:30:01,576 --> 00:30:02,877
IT WAS LIKE, "BAM!"
1020
00:30:02,877 --> 00:30:04,479
IT WAS MY HEAD HITTING THE MAT.
1021
00:30:04,479 --> 00:30:05,914
I'M AFRAID AUSTIN WAS HURT.
1022
00:30:05,914 --> 00:30:07,882
IF YOU LOOK AT MY EYES, THE
1023
00:30:07,882 --> 00:30:08,983
LIGHTS ARE THERE, BUT THERE
1024
00:30:08,983 --> 00:30:10,585
AIN'T NOBODY HOME.
1025
00:30:10,585 --> 00:30:11,786
I COULDN'T FEEL ANYTHING FROM MY
1026
00:30:11,786 --> 00:30:14,823
NECK DOWN.
1027
00:30:14,823 --> 00:30:15,590
I WAS THINKING, OH, I WAS NEVER
1028
00:30:15,590 --> 00:30:16,825
GONNA WALK AGAIN.
1029
00:30:16,825 --> 00:30:17,726
ACCIDENTS OCCUR.
1030
00:30:17,726 --> 00:30:19,260
THAT WAS AN ACCIDENT.
1031
00:30:19,260 --> 00:30:21,563
SO, MY FIRST THOUGHT, REALLY,
1032
00:30:21,563 --> 00:30:23,531
WAS, OBVIOUSLY, STEVE'S SAFETY
1033
00:30:23,531 --> 00:30:25,166
AND WHAT SORT OF INJURY HE HAD
1034
00:30:25,166 --> 00:30:26,334
SUSTAINED.
1035
00:30:26,334 --> 00:30:27,168
AUSTIN DROPPED RIGHT ON HIS
1036
00:30:27,168 --> 00:30:29,270
HEAD!
1037
00:30:29,270 --> 00:30:32,440
MY ANTERIOR DELTS ARE BURNING
1038
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:34,075
LIKE FIRE, BUT THERE WAS NO WAY
1039
00:30:34,075 --> 00:30:35,710
I WAS GONNA LAY THERE AND LET
1040
00:30:35,710 --> 00:30:37,312
SOME AMBULANCE OR A BUNCH OR
1041
00:30:37,312 --> 00:30:38,646
PARAMEDICS CARRY ME OUT OF THAT
1042
00:30:38,646 --> 00:30:40,782
RING.
1043
00:30:40,782 --> 00:30:43,118
SO, I STARTED TO BE ABLE TO MOVE
1044
00:30:43,118 --> 00:30:44,986
A LITTLE BIT, AND I FEEL LIKE
1045
00:30:44,986 --> 00:30:46,187
[BLEEP]
1046
00:30:46,187 --> 00:30:47,956
.
1047
00:30:47,956 --> 00:30:49,224
IT TOOK EVERY BIT OF STRENGTH I
1048
00:30:49,224 --> 00:30:53,795
HAD IN MY BODY TO HIT HIM WITH
1049
00:30:53,795 --> 00:30:55,029
THE WORST ROLL-UP IN THE HISTORY
1050
00:30:55,029 --> 00:30:56,464
OF THE BUSINESS.
1051
00:30:56,464 --> 00:30:57,699
AUSTIN DRIVING.
1052
00:30:57,699 --> 00:30:59,000
NO ...
1053
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:02,670
A KICK OUT!
1054
00:31:02,670 --> 00:31:03,838
AND THOSE PEOPLE HAD PAID
1055
00:31:03,838 --> 00:31:05,106
THEIR MONEY TO SEE ME GET THE
1056
00:31:05,106 --> 00:31:06,241
BELT, AND I'LL BE DAMNED IF I
1057
00:31:06,241 --> 00:31:07,842
WASN'T GONNA LEAVE THAT RING
1058
00:31:07,842 --> 00:31:09,677
UNTIL I HAD THAT BELT.
1059
00:31:09,677 --> 00:31:11,112
NARROWLY AVOIDING PARALYSIS,
1060
00:31:11,112 --> 00:31:13,181
STEVE AUSTIN HAD SUSTAINED A
1061
00:31:13,181 --> 00:31:16,317
BRUISED SPINAL CORD.
1062
00:31:16,317 --> 00:31:18,086
ON THE HEELS OF HIS GREATEST
1063
00:31:18,086 --> 00:31:19,654
SUCCESS TO DATE, THE FUTURE OF
1064
00:31:19,654 --> 00:31:21,422
BOTH WWE AND THEIR RISING STAR
1065
00:31:21,422 --> 00:31:22,857
WERE IN JEOPARDY.
1066
00:31:22,857 --> 00:31:25,293
WE ALL FELT FOR STEVE AND
1067
00:31:25,293 --> 00:31:26,261
WERE ALSO HOPING HE WAS GONNA BE
1068
00:31:26,261 --> 00:31:27,195
ABLE TO COME OUT OF THIS IN SOME
1069
00:31:27,195 --> 00:31:28,062
WAY.
1070
00:31:28,062 --> 00:31:29,330
HE IS TOUGH.
1071
00:31:29,330 --> 00:31:33,868
HE'S TOUGHER THAN A GOVERNMENT
1072
00:31:33,868 --> 00:31:39,307
MULE, BUT HE IS HURT.
1073
00:31:39,307 --> 00:31:41,309
I REMEMBER GOING TO THE BACK,
1074
00:31:41,309 --> 00:31:44,078
AND I WAS IN A WORLD OF HURT.
1075
00:31:44,078 --> 00:31:45,713
DO YOU NEED SOME ICE?
1076
00:31:45,713 --> 00:31:47,182
WHERE'S THE AMBULANCE PEOPLE?
1077
00:31:47,182 --> 00:31:48,550
WHERE ARE THE AMBULANCE PEOPLE?
1078
00:31:48,550 --> 00:31:49,918
I'VE ALWAYS CONSIDERED MYSELF
1079
00:31:49,918 --> 00:31:52,620
TO BE A TOUGH SON OF A -- , AND
1080
00:31:52,620 --> 00:31:53,354
I AM.
1081
00:31:53,354 --> 00:31:54,689
BUT ON THAT NIGHT, I THINK I WAS
1082
00:31:54,689 --> 00:31:56,925
ONE PERCENT TOUGH, AND I WAS 99
1083
00:31:56,925 --> 00:31:59,127
PERCENT LUCKY.
1084
00:31:59,127 --> 00:32:01,229
YOU'LL BE ALL RIGHT.
1085
00:32:01,229 --> 00:32:02,564
I ESCAPED WITH MY LIFE AND
1086
00:32:02,564 --> 00:32:04,199
THE ABILITY TO WALK AND DO
1087
00:32:04,199 --> 00:32:05,600
EVERYTHING ELSE, AND I HAD
1088
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:06,835
MONDAY NIGHT RAW THE NEXT NIGHT.
1089
00:32:06,835 --> 00:32:10,238
HAVING ALREADY OVERCOME
1090
00:32:10,238 --> 00:32:12,540
ROADBLOCKS THROUGHOUT HIS
1091
00:32:12,540 --> 00:32:14,576
CAREER, AUSTIN'S RELIEF WOULD
1092
00:32:14,576 --> 00:32:16,578
MANIFEST ITSELF INTO
1093
00:32:16,578 --> 00:32:21,316
DETERMINATION.
1094
00:32:21,316 --> 00:32:23,418
HE'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE
1095
00:32:23,418 --> 00:32:25,053
TONIGHT!
1096
00:32:25,053 --> 00:32:27,889
AUSTIN SHOULD BE IN A HOSPITAL
1097
00:32:27,889 --> 00:32:28,790
BED.
1098
00:32:28,790 --> 00:32:29,858
I DON'T NEED NO DOCTOR'S
1099
00:32:29,858 --> 00:32:30,658
APPROVAL.
1100
00:32:30,658 --> 00:32:31,893
THE FACT THAT YOU DUMPED ME ON
1101
00:32:31,893 --> 00:32:33,661
MY HEAD LAST NIGHT DON'T MEAN A
1102
00:32:33,661 --> 00:32:35,730
DAMN THING TO ME.
1103
00:32:35,730 --> 00:32:36,664
MY NECK, YOUR NECK, HIS NECK, I
1104
00:32:36,664 --> 00:32:39,033
AIN'T STOPPING.
1105
00:32:39,033 --> 00:32:40,835
I LISTENED TO ALL THE DOCTORS,
1106
00:32:40,835 --> 00:32:41,669
MAYBE I WAS TAKING A CALCULATED
1107
00:32:41,669 --> 00:32:43,872
RISK, BUT I AIN'T NO DAMN
1108
00:32:43,872 --> 00:32:45,039
QUITTER.
1109
00:32:45,039 --> 00:32:47,041
NEVER HAVE BEEN, AND I WAS GONNA
1110
00:32:47,041 --> 00:32:49,544
KEEP GOING FARTHER AND FARTHER
1111
00:32:49,544 --> 00:32:50,545
DOWN THE DAMN ROAD.
1112
00:32:50,545 --> 00:32:52,080
DESPITE HIS DESIRE, STONE
1113
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:55,783
COLD'S INJURY LEFT WWE OFFICIALS
1114
00:32:55,783 --> 00:32:57,919
NO CHOICE BUT TO FORCE STEVE
1115
00:32:57,919 --> 00:32:59,988
AUSTIN TO THE SIDELINES.
1116
00:32:59,988 --> 00:33:02,090
DON'T YOU KNOW THAT YOU'RE
1117
00:33:02,090 --> 00:33:06,461
NOT PHYSICALLY ABLE TO COMPETE?
1118
00:33:06,461 --> 00:33:08,796
YOUR DOCTORS SAY YOU'RE NOT
1119
00:33:08,796 --> 00:33:09,831
READY.
1120
00:33:09,831 --> 00:33:11,299
IT CHANGED STEVE'S LIFE AND
1121
00:33:11,299 --> 00:33:14,535
ALSO, IN SOME WAY, HELPED
1122
00:33:14,535 --> 00:33:16,304
DEVELOP HIS CHARACTER, BECAUSE
1123
00:33:16,304 --> 00:33:19,440
IF STEVE COULD NOT PERFORM,
1124
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:20,475
INITIALLY, BECAUSE OF THIS, THEN
1125
00:33:20,475 --> 00:33:22,810
WHAT COULD WE DO WITH STEVE?
1126
00:33:22,810 --> 00:33:23,845
YOU GOT TO WORK WITHIN THE
1127
00:33:23,845 --> 00:33:25,647
SYSTEM.
1128
00:33:25,647 --> 00:33:28,816
THAT'S ALL YOU GOT TO DO.
1129
00:33:28,816 --> 00:33:30,351
THE BARRIERS FORCED UPON HIM
1130
00:33:30,351 --> 00:33:32,220
BY VINCE MCMAHON WOULD ONLY
1131
00:33:32,220 --> 00:33:34,522
INTENSIFY HIS ANTI-AUTHORITY
1132
00:33:34,522 --> 00:33:36,824
PERSONA AND SET THE TABLE FOR
1133
00:33:36,824 --> 00:33:38,459
STEVE AUSTIN TO BECOME ONE OF
1134
00:33:38,459 --> 00:33:40,028
THE BIGGEST NAMES IN SPORTS
1135
00:33:40,028 --> 00:33:42,430
ENTERTAINMENT HISTORY.
1136
00:33:42,430 --> 00:33:44,399
I APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT
1137
00:33:44,399 --> 00:33:46,134
YOU AND THE WORLD WRESTLING
1138
00:33:46,134 --> 00:33:49,938
ENTERTAINMENT CARE, AND I ALSO
1139
00:33:49,938 --> 00:33:52,874
APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT ...
1140
00:33:52,874 --> 00:33:56,477
HELL, YOU CAN KISS MY --.
1141
00:33:56,477 --> 00:34:06,521
AND THE ROOF CAME OFF OF THAT
1142
00:34:06,521 --> 00:34:08,756
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN.
1143
00:34:08,756 --> 00:34:09,724
THE ROOF PROBABLY CAME OFF EVERY
1144
00:34:09,724 --> 00:34:11,192
SINGLE HOUSE THAT WAS WATCHING
1145
00:34:11,192 --> 00:34:13,995
MONDAY NIGHT RAW THAT NIGHT.
1146
00:34:13,995 --> 00:34:16,097
AUSTIN IS GOING DIRECTLY TO
1147
00:34:16,097 --> 00:34:19,934
JAIL, AND VINCE MCMAHON IS OUT.
1148
00:34:19,934 --> 00:34:21,703
THAT WAS A PRETTY
1149
00:34:21,703 --> 00:34:26,207
REVOLUTIONARY MOMENT THAT
1150
00:34:26,207 --> 00:34:28,343
SIGNIFIED KIND OF A CHANGE IN
1151
00:34:28,343 --> 00:34:30,645
DIRECTION IN WWE OVER THE LAST
1152
00:34:30,645 --> 00:34:32,613
15 YEARS, SINCE AUSTIN DID
1153
00:34:32,613 --> 00:34:34,248
STUNNER VINCE MCMAHON.
1154
00:34:34,248 --> 00:34:35,450
A LOT OF OUR SHOWS REVOLVE
1155
00:34:35,450 --> 00:34:37,618
AROUND AN AUTHORITY FIGURE
1156
00:34:37,618 --> 00:34:40,455
GETTING BEATEN UP BY ONE OF THE
1157
00:34:40,455 --> 00:34:41,556
BIG STARS.
1158
00:34:41,556 --> 00:34:42,457
IT WAS SOMETHING THAT WORKED SO
1159
00:34:42,457 --> 00:34:43,224
WELL BACK THEN THAT IT'S REALLY
1160
00:34:43,224 --> 00:34:44,325
HAD AN IMPACT ON THE SHOW EVER
1161
00:34:44,325 --> 00:34:45,760
SINCE.
1162
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:46,861
IN ADDITION TO HIS ACTIONS,
1163
00:34:46,861 --> 00:34:49,263
IT WAS STONE COLD'S
1164
00:34:49,263 --> 00:34:50,932
WORKING-CLASS MENTALITY THAT
1165
00:34:50,932 --> 00:34:52,300
HELPED HIM CONNECT WITH THE
1166
00:34:52,300 --> 00:34:53,601
GROWING AUDIENCE.
1167
00:34:53,601 --> 00:34:55,403
GIVE ME A HELL YEAH!
1168
00:34:55,403 --> 00:34:56,204
[ CROWD CHANTING: HELL YEAH!
1169
00:34:56,204 --> 00:34:57,872
]
1170
00:34:57,872 --> 00:34:59,240
EVERYBODY KNOWS SOMEBODY WHO
1171
00:34:59,240 --> 00:35:00,875
GOES TO WORK, PUNCHES A CLOCK,
1172
00:35:00,875 --> 00:35:02,443
GETS THE JOB DONE TO THE BEST OF
1173
00:35:02,443 --> 00:35:03,277
HIS ABILITY, AND GOES HOME AND
1174
00:35:03,277 --> 00:35:05,847
DRINKS BEER.
1175
00:35:05,847 --> 00:35:07,181
THAT WAS STEVE AUSTIN.
1176
00:35:07,181 --> 00:35:10,051
HE WAS VERY MIDDLE CLASS, BLUE
1177
00:35:10,051 --> 00:35:11,119
COLLAR, AND I THINK HE
1178
00:35:11,119 --> 00:35:13,087
REPRESENTED A LOT OF PEOPLE.
1179
00:35:13,087 --> 00:35:16,224
HE HAD AN ATTITUDE THAT
1180
00:35:16,224 --> 00:35:18,426
REFLECTED OUR COUNTRY AT THE
1181
00:35:18,426 --> 00:35:20,695
TIME, WHERE PEOPLE WERE SICK AND
1182
00:35:20,695 --> 00:35:23,431
TIRED OF BEING TOLD WHAT TO DO,
1183
00:35:23,431 --> 00:35:25,133
AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT
1184
00:35:25,133 --> 00:35:30,138
ANYMORE.
1185
00:35:30,138 --> 00:35:33,674
FOLLOWING STONE COLD'S LEAD,
1186
00:35:33,674 --> 00:35:34,976
THE WWE LOCKER ROOM HAD EMBRACED
1187
00:35:34,976 --> 00:35:36,611
A COMPANY-WIDE CHANGE IN
1188
00:35:36,611 --> 00:35:38,813
DIRECTION IN WHAT WOULD BECOME
1189
00:35:38,813 --> 00:35:41,549
KNOWN AS THE ATTITUDE ERA.
1190
00:35:41,549 --> 00:35:43,451
HOWEVER, DESPITE THE INCREASE IN
1191
00:35:43,451 --> 00:35:46,454
MONDAY NIGHT RAW'S RATINGS, THE
1192
00:35:46,454 --> 00:35:49,090
COMPANY WAS STILL TRAILING IN
1193
00:35:49,090 --> 00:35:50,191
ITS HEAD-TO-HEAD BATTLES WITH
1194
00:35:50,191 --> 00:35:52,760
MONDAY NITRO.
1195
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:54,495
WCW HAD BEEN DEVELOPING A
1196
00:35:54,495 --> 00:35:57,465
RESPONSE TO STONE COLD IN BILL
1197
00:35:57,465 --> 00:35:59,500
GOLDBERG, AN AWE-INSPIRING
1198
00:35:59,500 --> 00:36:02,170
MONSTER, WHOSE INTENSITY HELPED
1199
00:36:02,170 --> 00:36:05,073
KEEP NITRO AHEAD IN THE RATINGS.
1200
00:36:05,073 --> 00:36:06,374
WHAT A FORCE!
1201
00:36:06,374 --> 00:36:07,708
WHAT A MAN!
1202
00:36:07,708 --> 00:36:08,609
I DON'T KNOW IF MAN'S THE
1203
00:36:08,609 --> 00:36:09,844
RIGHT WORD.
1204
00:36:09,844 --> 00:36:11,412
THIS GUY LOOKS MORE LIKE A
1205
00:36:11,412 --> 00:36:12,480
MACHINE TO ME.
1206
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:13,514
HE'S A MONSTER.
1207
00:36:13,514 --> 00:36:14,649
STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN WAS
1208
00:36:14,649 --> 00:36:15,583
HOT.
1209
00:36:15,583 --> 00:36:16,984
OF COURSE, WCW NEEDED SOMETHING
1210
00:36:16,984 --> 00:36:19,187
THAT WAS JUST AS EXPLOSIVE, AND
1211
00:36:19,187 --> 00:36:20,354
GOLDBERG HAPPENED TO BE THE GUY
1212
00:36:20,354 --> 00:36:23,424
TO FILL THE BILL.
1213
00:36:23,424 --> 00:36:26,294
SO QUICK AND SO INTENSE!
1214
00:36:26,294 --> 00:36:27,462
IT WAS NO SMALL COINCIDENCE
1215
00:36:27,462 --> 00:36:29,530
THAT HE LOOKED LIKE STEVE AUSTIN
1216
00:36:29,530 --> 00:36:30,465
A LITTLE BIT.
1217
00:36:30,465 --> 00:36:33,768
AUSTIN WAS A BAD --; GOLDBERG
1218
00:36:33,768 --> 00:36:37,171
WAS A BAD --.
1219
00:36:37,171 --> 00:36:38,639
AND EVERYONE'S REALLY GETTING
1220
00:36:38,639 --> 00:36:40,074
BEHIND THIS GUY.
1221
00:36:40,074 --> 00:36:43,177
THEY LIKE HIS STYLE.
1222
00:36:43,177 --> 00:36:44,679
I'D GO INTO WORK, AND I'D
1223
00:36:44,679 --> 00:36:46,347
GRAB MY TIME CARD, AND I'D PUNCH
1224
00:36:46,347 --> 00:36:47,215
IT.
1225
00:36:47,215 --> 00:36:48,616
WHEN I GOT OUT OF THE RING, I'D
1226
00:36:48,616 --> 00:36:50,585
PUNCH IT, AND I'D GO HOME.
1227
00:36:50,585 --> 00:36:51,652
WELL, PUT ANOTHER MARK IN
1228
00:36:51,652 --> 00:36:53,020
THAT WIN COLUMN FOR THAT MAN
1229
00:36:53,020 --> 00:36:55,223
RIGHT THERE: GOLDBERG.
1230
00:36:55,223 --> 00:36:59,227
WAS IT SOMETHING TO WHERE I
1231
00:36:59,227 --> 00:37:02,028
ENVISIONED MYSELF BEING THE NEXT
1232
00:37:02,028 --> 00:37:02,096
STEVE AUSTIN?
1233
00:37:02,096 --> 00:37:04,198
ABSOLUTELY NOT.
1234
00:37:04,198 --> 00:37:06,200
WITH WCW SUSTAINING THEIR
1235
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:08,503
RATINGS LEAD, VINCE MCMAHON
1236
00:37:08,503 --> 00:37:12,005
WOULD INCORPORATE A POP CULTURE
1237
00:37:12,005 --> 00:37:13,641
ICON TO GAIN BOTH WWE AND THEIR
1238
00:37:13,641 --> 00:37:15,543
FASTEST-RISING STAR MAINSTREAM
1239
00:37:15,543 --> 00:37:18,179
NOTORIETY.
1240
00:37:18,179 --> 00:37:21,415
THE BADDEST MAN ON THE
1241
00:37:21,415 --> 00:37:23,751
PLANET, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
1242
00:37:23,751 --> 00:37:30,291
IRON MIKE TYSON!
1243
00:37:30,291 --> 00:37:31,058
VINCE GETS THE BIG IDEA TO
1244
00:37:31,058 --> 00:37:31,626
BRING IN MIKE TYSON INTO THE
1245
00:37:31,626 --> 00:37:32,260
PICTURE, AND I SAID, "GOD DANG."
1246
00:37:32,260 --> 00:37:33,728
I SAID, "THAT'S BAD --."
1247
00:37:33,728 --> 00:37:36,264
AT WRESTLEMANIA, IN THIS VERY
1248
00:37:36,264 --> 00:37:43,437
RING, IRON MIKE TYSON WILL ...
1249
00:37:43,437 --> 00:37:48,843
[ ROCK MUSIC ]
1250
00:37:48,843 --> 00:37:51,479
YES, INDEED.
1251
00:37:51,479 --> 00:37:53,681
MIKE TYSON IS STANDING IN STONE
1252
00:37:53,681 --> 00:37:57,451
COLD'S RING.
1253
00:37:57,451 --> 00:37:58,553
THERE'S 50 PEOPLE IN THE
1254
00:37:58,553 --> 00:37:59,687
RING.
1255
00:37:59,687 --> 00:38:00,855
THEY'RE SQUARED AWAY, THE
1256
00:38:00,855 --> 00:38:02,323
BADDEST MAN ON THE PLANET
1257
00:38:02,323 --> 00:38:05,259
AGAINST THE BAD -- FROM WWE.
1258
00:38:05,259 --> 00:38:07,328
I DON'T KNOW HOW GOOD YOUR
1259
00:38:07,328 --> 00:38:08,963
HEARING IS, BUT IF YOU DON'T
1260
00:38:08,963 --> 00:38:10,965
UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M SAYING, I
1261
00:38:10,965 --> 00:38:12,533
ALWAYS GOT A LITTLE BIT OF SIGN
1262
00:38:12,533 --> 00:38:15,069
LANGUAGE.
1263
00:38:15,069 --> 00:38:17,104
SO, HERE'S TO YA.
1264
00:38:17,104 --> 00:38:18,439
WHOA!
1265
00:38:18,439 --> 00:38:19,473
WHOA, HERE WE GO!
1266
00:38:19,473 --> 00:38:20,541
HERE WE GO!
1267
00:38:20,541 --> 00:38:21,809
HERE WE GO!
1268
00:38:21,809 --> 00:38:23,244
TYSON AND AUSTIN!
1269
00:38:23,244 --> 00:38:25,646
TYSON AND AUSTIN!
1270
00:38:25,646 --> 00:38:27,348
ALL HELL HAS BROKEN LOOSE!
1271
00:38:27,348 --> 00:38:28,583
I'M ADDICTED TO CHAOS, BACK
1272
00:38:28,583 --> 00:38:30,251
THEN, AND THAT'S WHAT THIS WAS:
1273
00:38:30,251 --> 00:38:31,419
CHAOS.
1274
00:38:31,419 --> 00:38:34,020
AND IT WAS ON AND POPPIN'.
1275
00:38:34,020 --> 00:38:36,390
COME ON!
1276
00:38:36,390 --> 00:38:37,725
VINCE HIT A GRAND SLAM WITH
1277
00:38:37,725 --> 00:38:39,560
THAT IDEA.
1278
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:41,429
MAN, THAT WAS INSTRUMENTAL AND
1279
00:38:41,429 --> 00:38:43,231
HUGE IN CONTINUING TO SEPARATE
1280
00:38:43,231 --> 00:38:45,299
OURSELVES IN THE MONDAY NIGHT
1281
00:38:45,299 --> 00:38:48,436
WARS FROM WCW.
1282
00:38:48,436 --> 00:38:51,906
SCHEDULED TO APPEAR AT 1998'S
1283
00:38:51,906 --> 00:38:54,342
WRESTLEMANIA AS A SPECIAL GUEST
1284
00:38:54,342 --> 00:38:55,476
ENFORCER, MIKE TYSON
1285
00:38:55,476 --> 00:38:56,577
SUCCESSFULLY DREW NATIONAL
1286
00:38:56,577 --> 00:38:58,613
ATTENTION TO WWE, AND MONDAY
1287
00:38:58,613 --> 00:38:59,914
NIGHT RAW'S RATINGS CONTINUED TO
1288
00:38:59,914 --> 00:39:02,717
INCREASE.
1289
00:39:02,717 --> 00:39:04,585
THE GROWING NUMBER OF VIEWERS
1290
00:39:04,585 --> 00:39:06,087
WITNESSED AUSTIN'S MOMENTUM LIFT
1291
00:39:06,087 --> 00:39:08,589
HIM TO A CHAMPIONSHIP
1292
00:39:08,589 --> 00:39:10,057
OPPORTUNITY ON THE COMPANY'S
1293
00:39:10,057 --> 00:39:11,325
BIGGEST STAGE.
1294
00:39:11,325 --> 00:39:12,827
AND IF YOU DON'T KNOW, YOU
1295
00:39:12,827 --> 00:39:14,061
SHOULD KNOW: MY NAME IS STONE
1296
00:39:14,061 --> 00:39:15,863
COLD STEVE AUSTIN, AND I'VE BEEN
1297
00:39:15,863 --> 00:39:18,199
BUSTING MY -- FOR EIGHT YEARS TO
1298
00:39:18,199 --> 00:39:21,034
GET THIS OPPORTUNITY TO WRESTLE
1299
00:39:21,034 --> 00:39:23,003
FOR THE WWE TITLE AT A
1300
00:39:23,003 --> 00:39:25,239
WRESTLEMANIA.
1301
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:26,807
THE FOLLOWING CONTEST IS
1302
00:39:26,807 --> 00:39:28,776
SCHEDULED FOR ONE FALL, AND IT
1303
00:39:28,776 --> 00:39:31,178
IS FOR THE WORLD WRESTLING
1304
00:39:31,178 --> 00:39:35,483
ENTERTAINMENT CHAMPIONSHIP!
1305
00:39:35,483 --> 00:39:36,717
IT WAS INEVITABLE.
1306
00:39:36,717 --> 00:39:37,885
THIS IS GONNA BE STONE COLD'S
1307
00:39:37,885 --> 00:39:38,552
MOMENT.
1308
00:39:38,552 --> 00:39:39,487
HE'S GONNA WIN.
1309
00:39:39,487 --> 00:39:40,755
HE'S GONNA BE THE CHAMP.
1310
00:39:40,755 --> 00:39:43,023
HE'S GONNA BE THE GUY.
1311
00:39:43,023 --> 00:39:44,425
THAT MATCH WAS A YEAR-LONG
1312
00:39:44,425 --> 00:39:47,094
BUILD OF STEVE AUSTIN BEING THE
1313
00:39:47,094 --> 00:39:49,630
MOST POPULAR CHARACTER ON WWE
1314
00:39:49,630 --> 00:39:50,931
TELEVISION, AND NOW, HE WAS
1315
00:39:50,931 --> 00:39:52,867
FINALLY WINNING THE WWE
1316
00:39:52,867 --> 00:39:54,468
CHAMPIONSHIP.
1317
00:39:54,468 --> 00:39:56,304
AUSTIN BACK UP SOMEHOW.
1318
00:39:56,304 --> 00:39:57,605
OH, AUSTIN DUMPED HIM.
1319
00:39:57,605 --> 00:39:58,506
AUSTIN GOING FOR THE STUNNER,
1320
00:39:58,506 --> 00:39:59,874
AND MICHAELS COUNTERS.
1321
00:39:59,874 --> 00:40:03,244
MICHAELS GOING FOR ANOTHER KICK.
1322
00:40:03,244 --> 00:40:04,478
AUSTIN ...
1323
00:40:04,478 --> 00:40:05,513
HE GOT IT!
1324
00:40:05,513 --> 00:40:06,447
THE STUNNER!
1325
00:40:06,447 --> 00:40:07,548
MIKE TYSON IN!
1326
00:40:07,548 --> 00:40:09,083
AUSTIN IS THE CHAMPION!
1327
00:40:09,083 --> 00:40:11,218
STONE COLD!
1328
00:40:11,218 --> 00:40:13,020
STONE COLD!
1329
00:40:13,020 --> 00:40:14,121
STONE COLD!
1330
00:40:14,121 --> 00:40:15,423
[ CROWD CHEERING ]
1331
00:40:15,423 --> 00:40:16,991
THE WINNER OF THIS BOUT AND
1332
00:40:16,991 --> 00:40:18,592
NEW WORLD WRESTLING
1333
00:40:18,592 --> 00:40:20,494
ENTERTAINMENT CHAMPION: STONE
1334
00:40:20,494 --> 00:40:26,233
COLD STEVE AUSTIN!
1335
00:40:26,233 --> 00:40:27,501
I CAN'T EXPLAIN THE DAMN
1336
00:40:27,501 --> 00:40:28,836
FEELING THAT NIGHT, MAN, TO BE
1337
00:40:28,836 --> 00:40:30,371
THERE IN BOSTON AND TO WIN YOUR
1338
00:40:30,371 --> 00:40:32,973
FIRST WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP.
1339
00:40:32,973 --> 00:40:34,675
THAT WAS VERY SPECIAL TO ME --
1340
00:40:34,675 --> 00:40:36,544
FOR ME, FOR THAT COMPANY TO SAY,
1341
00:40:36,544 --> 00:40:39,547
"HERE'S OUR GUY, NOW.
1342
00:40:39,547 --> 00:40:40,681
WE'RE PUTTING THE LOAD ON HIS
1343
00:40:40,681 --> 00:40:42,116
BACK."
1344
00:40:42,116 --> 00:40:43,250
AND I'LL NEVER FORGET THAT THERE
1345
00:40:43,250 --> 00:40:44,352
WAS JIM ROSS ON COMMENTARY
1346
00:40:44,352 --> 00:40:45,353
SAYING ...
1347
00:40:45,353 --> 00:40:46,754
STONE COLD'S EIGHT-YEAR
1348
00:40:46,754 --> 00:40:48,789
JOURNEY HAS BEEN CULMINATED WITH
1349
00:40:48,789 --> 00:40:52,026
WWE GOLD!
1350
00:40:52,026 --> 00:40:53,694
THE AUSTIN ERA HAS BEGUN!
1351
00:40:53,694 --> 00:40:55,429
STONE COLD'S UNFORGETTABLE
1352
00:40:55,429 --> 00:40:57,631
NIGHT AT WRESTLEMANIA HAD
1353
00:40:57,631 --> 00:41:00,868
LAUNCHED A NEW ERA IN WWE, AND
1354
00:41:00,868 --> 00:41:05,773
IT WOULDN'T BE LONG BEFORE THE
1355
00:41:05,773 --> 00:41:08,075
BALANCE OF POWER SHIFTED IN THE
1356
00:41:08,075 --> 00:41:10,177
MONDAY NIGHT WAR.
1357
00:41:10,177 --> 00:41:11,712
AND IT REALLY WAS THE
1358
00:41:11,712 --> 00:41:13,013
BEGINNING OF THE AUSTIN ERA, AND
1359
00:41:13,013 --> 00:41:15,249
IT WAS SUCH A DEFINING MOMENT OF
1360
00:41:15,249 --> 00:41:16,384
SAYING, OKAY, THIS IS WHERE WWE
1361
00:41:16,384 --> 00:41:18,386
WAS.
1362
00:41:18,386 --> 00:41:23,391
NOW, HERE'S WHERE IT'S GOING.
1363
00:41:23,391 --> 00:41:25,159
I WOULD LIKE TO CONGRATULATE
1364
00:41:25,159 --> 00:41:27,027
THE NEW WORLD WRESTLING
1365
00:41:27,027 --> 00:41:29,630
ENTERTAINMENT CHAMPION, WHO HAS
1366
00:41:29,630 --> 00:41:31,632
A -- AN ATTITUDE, NO DOUBT ABOUT
1367
00:41:31,632 --> 00:41:33,434
THAT, NOT ONE NECESSARILY THAT
1368
00:41:33,434 --> 00:41:34,635
ALL OF US HERE IN THE WWE
1369
00:41:34,635 --> 00:41:36,203
APPRECIATE: STONE COLD STEVE
1370
00:41:36,203 --> 00:41:39,039
AUSTIN.
1371
00:41:39,039 --> 00:41:42,243
[ CROWD CLAPPING ]
1372
00:41:42,243 --> 00:41:44,111
I REALLY DON'T CARE WHAT
1373
00:41:44,111 --> 00:41:44,912
VINCE MCMAHON SAYS, WHETHER HE
1374
00:41:44,912 --> 00:41:46,347
WANTS ME AS A CHAMP OR NOT.
1375
00:41:46,347 --> 00:41:49,216
NOW, VINCE MCMAHON ...
1376
00:41:49,216 --> 00:41:50,651
I SEE YOU WITH YOUR LITTLE LOOK
1377
00:41:50,651 --> 00:41:51,452
ON YOUR FACE.
1378
00:41:51,452 --> 00:41:52,253
YOU CAN SIT THERE AND YOU CAN
1379
00:41:52,253 --> 00:41:53,154
JERK THE CARPET OUT FROM UNDER
1380
00:41:53,154 --> 00:41:53,921
ME.
1381
00:41:53,921 --> 00:41:54,889
YOU CAN THROW AS MUCH
1382
00:41:54,889 --> 00:41:55,823
BUREAUCRATIC RED TAPE, ANYTHING
1383
00:41:55,823 --> 00:41:56,557
YOU WANT AT STONE COLD STEVE
1384
00:41:56,557 --> 00:41:57,558
AUSTIN.
1385
00:41:57,558 --> 00:41:58,559
AS A CHAMPION, I AM NOT GONNA BE
1386
00:41:58,559 --> 00:41:59,493
MOLDED.
1387
00:41:59,493 --> 00:42:00,628
I AM NOT GONNA BE BROKEN.
1388
00:42:00,628 --> 00:42:01,929
AND IF THAT MEANS THAT I GOT TO
1389
00:42:01,929 --> 00:42:04,432
RAISE HELL EVERY SINGLE MONDAY
1390
00:42:04,432 --> 00:42:05,199
NIGHT, YOU CAN BET THAT'S WHAT
1391
00:42:05,199 --> 00:42:06,434
I'M GONNA DO.
1392
00:42:06,434 --> 00:42:08,202
YOUR NIGHTMARE HAS JUST
1393
00:42:08,202 --> 00:42:09,937
HAPPENED.
1394
00:42:09,937 --> 00:42:11,472
STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN'S
1395
00:42:11,472 --> 00:42:13,207
ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT PERSONA HAD
1396
00:42:13,207 --> 00:42:14,975
MADE HIM THE MOST POPULAR
1397
00:42:14,975 --> 00:42:17,778
SUPERSTAR IN WWE.
1398
00:42:17,778 --> 00:42:19,146
THE COMPANY POSITIONED HIM
1399
00:42:19,146 --> 00:42:20,481
AGAINST MONDAY NIGHT RAW'S
1400
00:42:20,481 --> 00:42:22,049
RECENTLY ESTABLISHED TOP
1401
00:42:22,049 --> 00:42:24,084
VILLAIN: MR. MCMAHON, THE
1402
00:42:24,084 --> 00:42:26,053
ONSCREEN PERSONA OF THE WWE
1403
00:42:26,053 --> 00:42:30,925
CHAIRMAN.
1404
00:42:30,925 --> 00:42:36,430
NOW, LISTEN TO THIS CROWD.
1405
00:42:36,430 --> 00:42:38,032
RECOGNIZING THAT STEVE
1406
00:42:38,032 --> 00:42:40,000
PERFECTLY FIT THE DEFIANCE OF
1407
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:42,369
THE WORKING CLASS AND THE FACT
1408
00:42:42,369 --> 00:42:46,841
THAT THE WORKING CLASS, YOU
1409
00:42:46,841 --> 00:42:47,708
KNOW, WAS PUT DOWN.
1410
00:42:47,708 --> 00:42:49,109
THEY WERE DOMINATED BY THEIR
1411
00:42:49,109 --> 00:42:50,144
BOSS SOMETIMES OR, AT LEAST,
1412
00:42:50,144 --> 00:42:50,945
FELT SO.
1413
00:42:50,945 --> 00:42:51,912
HE WAS THAT CHARACTER.
1414
00:42:51,912 --> 00:42:53,514
AND THEN MINE STARTED TO
1415
00:42:53,514 --> 00:42:55,416
DEVELOP, AS WELL, IN TERMS OF
1416
00:42:55,416 --> 00:42:56,684
BEING MR. MCMAHON.
1417
00:42:56,684 --> 00:42:58,285
WELL, WE CAN EITHER DO THIS THE
1418
00:42:58,285 --> 00:43:02,021
EASY WAY, OR WE CAN DO THIS THE
1419
00:43:02,021 --> 00:43:02,323
HARD WAY, MR. AUSTIN.
1420
00:43:02,323 --> 00:43:06,460
SO, THE TWO OF THEM WERE A
1421
00:43:06,460 --> 00:43:07,661
NATURAL CLASH.
1422
00:43:07,661 --> 00:43:09,530
NOBODY, ESPECIALLY VINCE
1423
00:43:09,530 --> 00:43:12,366
MCMAHON, TELLS STONE COLD STEVE
1424
00:43:12,366 --> 00:43:13,834
AUSTIN WHAT TO DO, AND THAT'S
1425
00:43:13,834 --> 00:43:16,504
THE BOTTOM LINE.
1426
00:43:16,504 --> 00:43:17,738
STEVE WOULD'VE MADE IT TO
1427
00:43:17,738 --> 00:43:19,907
HEIGHTS WITHOUT MR. MCMAHON, BUT
1428
00:43:19,907 --> 00:43:21,141
WITH MR. MCMAHON, IT SEEMED TO
1429
00:43:21,141 --> 00:43:23,544
EMBELLISH HIS CHARACTER
1430
00:43:23,544 --> 00:43:25,145
CONSIDERABLY.
1431
00:43:25,145 --> 00:43:26,480
OH!
1432
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:28,315
OH, MY GOD!
1433
00:43:28,315 --> 00:43:31,018
HE DID IT AGAIN!
1434
00:43:31,018 --> 00:43:32,186
STONE COLD JUST STUNNED THE
1435
00:43:32,186 --> 00:43:33,320
OWNER OF THE WWE.
1436
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:34,588
A PERFECT STORM: AUSTIN
1437
00:43:34,588 --> 00:43:37,057
CREATED THE PERFECT REBEL.
1438
00:43:37,057 --> 00:43:38,792
VINCE HAD CREATED THE PERFECT
1439
00:43:38,792 --> 00:43:40,794
EVIL GENIUS
1440
00:43:40,794 --> 00:43:42,730
GET-RICH-AT-EVERYBODY'S-EXPENSE
1441
00:43:42,730 --> 00:43:44,832
BOSS.
1442
00:43:44,832 --> 00:43:47,301
WWE'S NEWEST RIVALRY
1443
00:43:47,301 --> 00:43:49,336
CONTINUED TO ATTRACT MORE
1444
00:43:49,336 --> 00:43:50,271
VIEWERS.
1445
00:43:50,271 --> 00:43:51,372
IF YOU WANT TO SEE
1446
00:43:51,372 --> 00:43:52,673
AUSTIN/MCMAHON, GIVE ME A HELL
1447
00:43:52,673 --> 00:43:54,775
YEAH!
1448
00:43:54,775 --> 00:43:55,609
[ CROWD CHEERING: HELL YEAH!
1449
00:43:55,609 --> 00:43:56,977
]
1450
00:43:56,977 --> 00:43:58,746
WHEN THE CHAMPION AND THE CEO
1451
00:43:58,746 --> 00:44:00,381
WERE SCHEDULED TO FACE OFF IN
1452
00:44:00,381 --> 00:44:02,383
THE RING ON MONDAY NIGHT RAW,
1453
00:44:02,383 --> 00:44:04,051
THE MAIN EVENT WOULD LEAD THE
1454
00:44:04,051 --> 00:44:05,753
COMPANY TO ITS FIRST RATINGS
1455
00:44:05,753 --> 00:44:08,188
VICTORY OVER MONDAY NITRO IN 84
1456
00:44:08,188 --> 00:44:13,127
HEAD-TO-HEAD MATCH UPS.
1457
00:44:13,127 --> 00:44:14,295
I DON'T THINK THAT WE
1458
00:44:14,295 --> 00:44:15,462
NECESSARILY THOUGHT WE WERE
1459
00:44:15,462 --> 00:44:16,830
GOING TO SURPASS WCW, ALTHOUGH
1460
00:44:16,830 --> 00:44:19,400
WE WERE CREEPING UP.
1461
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:20,501
IT WAS GREAT THAT, THAT
1462
00:44:20,501 --> 00:44:22,469
PARTICULAR NIGHT, WE DEFEATED
1463
00:44:22,469 --> 00:44:25,706
WCW IN THE RATINGS.
1464
00:44:25,706 --> 00:44:30,311
HERE WE GO, BABY!
1465
00:44:30,311 --> 00:44:32,212
I KNEW THAT THE FUTURE OF OUR
1466
00:44:32,212 --> 00:44:40,754
BUSINESS WAS GONNA CHANGE.
1467
00:44:40,754 --> 00:44:42,890
WHAT IS GOING ON?
1468
00:44:42,890 --> 00:44:46,160
SOMEONE'S JUST DRIVING THROUGH.
1469
00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:48,462
WOO, HELL YEAH!
1470
00:44:48,462 --> 00:44:49,129
DON'T LET HIM IN HERE!
1471
00:44:49,129 --> 00:44:49,997
NITRO AND RAW WOULD CONTINUE
1472
00:44:49,997 --> 00:44:56,103
TO TRADE VICTORIES IN THE
1473
00:44:56,103 --> 00:44:57,905
RATINGS HEADING INTO THE SUMMER
1474
00:44:57,905 --> 00:45:01,342
OF 1998, AND THE ONGOING FEUD
1475
00:45:01,342 --> 00:45:03,544
BETWEEN STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN
1476
00:45:03,544 --> 00:45:04,945
AND MR. MCMAHON WAS AT THE
1477
00:45:04,945 --> 00:45:06,814
FOREFRONT OF ALL WWE
1478
00:45:06,814 --> 00:45:08,449
PROGRAMMING.
1479
00:45:08,449 --> 00:45:09,516
I AIN'T THROUGH WITH YOU,
1480
00:45:09,516 --> 00:45:10,317
VINCE.
1481
00:45:10,317 --> 00:45:11,785
I AIN'T THROUGH WITH YA, NOT
1482
00:45:11,785 --> 00:45:13,153
YET, BY A LONG SHOT.
1483
00:45:13,153 --> 00:45:14,088
THERE WAS JUST ANTICS EVERY
1484
00:45:14,088 --> 00:45:15,689
WEEK THAT YOU CAN LOOK FORWARD
1485
00:45:15,689 --> 00:45:16,590
TO, AND YOU BASICALLY, LIKE,
1486
00:45:16,590 --> 00:45:17,725
TUNE IN AT ALL TO SEE WHAT STONE
1487
00:45:17,725 --> 00:45:18,726
COLD STEVE AUSTIN WOULD DO TO
1488
00:45:18,726 --> 00:45:19,860
MR. MCMAHON.
1489
00:45:19,860 --> 00:45:20,794
IT LOOKS JUST FINE TO ME.
1490
00:45:20,794 --> 00:45:21,629
HOW 'BOUT YOU, DOCTOR?
1491
00:45:21,629 --> 00:45:22,696
OH, I'LL TAKE IT FROM HERE,
1492
00:45:22,696 --> 00:45:23,897
NURSE.
1493
00:45:23,897 --> 00:45:24,999
OH, NO!
1494
00:45:24,999 --> 00:45:25,966
NO, NO!
1495
00:45:25,966 --> 00:45:27,101
GET HIM OFF!
1496
00:45:27,101 --> 00:45:28,636
AND HAVING THE WORLD KNOW:
1497
00:45:28,636 --> 00:45:29,737
THIS IS YOUR BOSS, AND YOU CAN
1498
00:45:29,737 --> 00:45:30,638
STICK IT TO HIM EVERY SINGLE
1499
00:45:30,638 --> 00:45:32,840
NIGHT.
1500
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:34,508
YOU GOT THIS JUSTICE EVERY
1501
00:45:34,508 --> 00:45:35,809
SINGLE TIME HE WAS OUT THERE
1502
00:45:35,809 --> 00:45:41,482
PLAYING OFF OF MR. MCMAHON.
1503
00:45:41,482 --> 00:45:42,483
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THAT,
1504
00:45:42,483 --> 00:45:43,217
HUH?
1505
00:45:43,217 --> 00:45:44,018
MR. MCMAHON PLAYED THE
1506
00:45:44,018 --> 00:45:45,119
PERFECT BAD GUY, YOU KNOW?
1507
00:45:45,119 --> 00:45:46,086
HE COULD SNEAK IN HIS VICTORIES.
1508
00:45:46,086 --> 00:45:49,456
STONE COLD, SCREW YOU!
1509
00:45:49,456 --> 00:45:51,291
YOU'RE FIRED!
1510
00:45:51,291 --> 00:45:53,093
THERE WAS NO LONG-RANGE PLAN
1511
00:45:53,093 --> 00:45:54,662
AS FAR AS WHERE WE WANTED TO GO.
1512
00:45:54,662 --> 00:45:56,030
WHERE WE WANTED TO GO WAS HIGHER
1513
00:45:56,030 --> 00:45:57,564
AND HIGHER BUT JUST TO KEEP THE
1514
00:45:57,564 --> 00:45:59,133
MOMENTUM.
1515
00:45:59,133 --> 00:46:01,902
JR!
1516
00:46:01,902 --> 00:46:04,438
OH, MY GOD!
1517
00:46:04,438 --> 00:46:06,206
OH, GOD!
1518
00:46:06,206 --> 00:46:08,142
AUSTIN IS LOADING MCMAHON'S CAR
1519
00:46:08,142 --> 00:46:12,346
WITH CEMENT.
1520
00:46:12,346 --> 00:46:16,183
YOU WANT MORE OF THAT?
1521
00:46:16,183 --> 00:46:17,484
STONE COLD GETS TO BEAT UP
1522
00:46:17,484 --> 00:46:18,786
HIS BOSS EVERY DAY.
1523
00:46:18,786 --> 00:46:19,820
PEOPLE IDENTIFIED WITH THAT, AND
1524
00:46:19,820 --> 00:46:21,622
THEY LOVED IT.
1525
00:46:21,622 --> 00:46:23,223
WHO DIDN'T WANT TO SHOOT
1526
00:46:23,223 --> 00:46:24,458
THEIR BOSS A BIRD AND KICK HIM
1527
00:46:24,458 --> 00:46:25,659
BETWEEN THE LEGS?
1528
00:46:25,659 --> 00:46:27,094
WHO DIDN'T WANT TO DRINK A BEER
1529
00:46:27,094 --> 00:46:28,328
AFTER THEY HAD A LONG, HARD DAY
1530
00:46:28,328 --> 00:46:30,264
AT WORK?
1531
00:46:30,264 --> 00:46:32,399
THEY HAD A GREAT STORY LINE.
1532
00:46:32,399 --> 00:46:34,501
IT FELT VERY REAL.
1533
00:46:34,501 --> 00:46:36,670
BOTH THOSE GUYS DID A GREAT JOB,
1534
00:46:36,670 --> 00:46:38,005
AND THEY WERE DOING SOME PRETTY
1535
00:46:38,005 --> 00:46:39,907
SPECTACULAR THINGS.
1536
00:46:39,907 --> 00:46:43,077
STEVE, TAKE IT EASY NOW.
1537
00:46:43,077 --> 00:46:44,978
OH, MY!
1538
00:46:44,978 --> 00:46:46,947
IT'S A TOY!
1539
00:46:46,947 --> 00:46:48,348
STONE COLD VERSUS MR. MCMAHON
1540
00:46:48,348 --> 00:46:49,516
WAS PROBABLY MOST IMPORTANT, AS
1541
00:46:49,516 --> 00:46:50,551
FAR AS MAKING PEOPLE WANT TO
1542
00:46:50,551 --> 00:46:51,919
TUNE INTO MONDAY NIGHT RAW TO
1543
00:46:51,919 --> 00:46:53,520
SEE WHAT THE HELL THESE GUYS
1544
00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:54,621
WERE GONNA DO TO EACH OTHER
1545
00:46:54,621 --> 00:46:55,889
NEXT.
1546
00:46:55,889 --> 00:46:57,124
BUSINESS WAS ABSOLUTELY CRAZY.
1547
00:46:57,124 --> 00:46:58,492
IT DIDN'T MATTER WHERE WE WERE,
1548
00:46:58,492 --> 00:46:59,293
WHAT DAY OF THE WEEK, EVERYTHING
1549
00:46:59,293 --> 00:47:00,894
WAS SOLD OUT.
1550
00:47:00,894 --> 00:47:03,029
AND MAN, WHEN YOU LOOKED IN THAT
1551
00:47:03,029 --> 00:47:03,297
CROWD ON MONDAY NIGHT RAW, IT
1552
00:47:03,297 --> 00:47:04,298
WAS JUST NOTHING BUT STONE COLD
1553
00:47:04,298 --> 00:47:06,333
STEVE AUSTIN SIGNS, AND THINGS
1554
00:47:06,333 --> 00:47:07,601
KEPT GETTING HOTTER AND HOTTER.
1555
00:47:07,601 --> 00:47:13,607
I WOULD VENTURE TO SAY, MONEY
1556
00:47:13,607 --> 00:47:14,408
WISE, PROBABLY THE TOP EVER IN
1557
00:47:14,408 --> 00:47:16,043
THE HISTORY OF THE INDUSTRY.
1558
00:47:16,043 --> 00:47:18,312
I MADE A LOT OF MONEY BECAUSE OF
1559
00:47:18,312 --> 00:47:23,717
STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN.
1560
00:47:23,717 --> 00:47:25,119
MONDAY NIGHT RAW'S RATINGS
1561
00:47:25,119 --> 00:47:28,789
WERE REACHING AN ALL-TIME HIGH.
1562
00:47:28,789 --> 00:47:31,358
AS THE COMPANY WAS PROFITING
1563
00:47:31,358 --> 00:47:32,926
FROM ITS TWO MOST POPULAR
1564
00:47:32,926 --> 00:47:34,161
CHARACTERS, THE REST OF THE WWE
1565
00:47:34,161 --> 00:47:36,096
LOCKER ROOM WOULD BE INFLUENCED
1566
00:47:36,096 --> 00:47:38,499
BY THE AUSTIN/MCMAHON RIVALRY.
1567
00:47:38,499 --> 00:47:39,933
YOU TAKE CARE OF YOUR OWN
1568
00:47:39,933 --> 00:47:41,602
BUSINESS.
1569
00:47:41,602 --> 00:47:44,036
TO HELL WITH STONE COLD STEVE
1570
00:47:44,036 --> 00:47:46,373
AUSTIN.
1571
00:47:46,373 --> 00:47:47,508
HE WAS THE ATTITUDE, YOU
1572
00:47:47,508 --> 00:47:49,877
KNOW?
1573
00:47:49,877 --> 00:47:52,379
AND I THINK EVERYBODY ELSE IN
1574
00:47:52,379 --> 00:47:54,248
THE COMPANY AT THAT TIME JUST
1575
00:47:54,248 --> 00:47:56,583
FED OFF OF THAT ENERGY.
1576
00:47:56,583 --> 00:47:58,485
WHEN STEVEN AUSTIN'S STAR
1577
00:47:58,485 --> 00:48:00,587
TOOK OFF, THERE WERE A LOT OF
1578
00:48:00,587 --> 00:48:01,722
GUYS WHO WERE WONDERING HOW THEY
1579
00:48:01,722 --> 00:48:03,724
COULD TAKE A LITTLE PIECE OF
1580
00:48:03,724 --> 00:48:04,925
THAT AND USE IT IN THEIR OWN
1581
00:48:04,925 --> 00:48:07,294
CHARACTERS.
1582
00:48:07,294 --> 00:48:08,695
WHAT A MAN!
1583
00:48:08,695 --> 00:48:10,764
LOOK AT THE ROCK'S EYES!
1584
00:48:10,764 --> 00:48:13,367
DID YOU ...
1585
00:48:13,367 --> 00:48:14,468
LOOK AT THE EYES!
1586
00:48:14,468 --> 00:48:15,235
NO!
1587
00:48:15,235 --> 00:48:16,170
OH, LOOK!
1588
00:48:16,170 --> 00:48:18,037
MCMAHON'S GOING ...
1589
00:48:18,037 --> 00:48:18,138
HE'S HURTING HIM!
1590
00:48:18,138 --> 00:48:19,072
THEY WERE ALL PUSHING THE
1591
00:48:19,072 --> 00:48:21,007
ENVELOPE, AND IT GOT TO A POINT
1592
00:48:20,741 --> 00:48:21,775
WHAT CAN I DO TO TOP STONE COLD
1593
00:48:21,775 --> 00:48:22,543
STEVE AUSTIN?
1594
00:48:22,543 --> 00:48:23,310
AND SO, IT WAS A GREAT
1595
00:48:23,310 --> 00:48:24,111
COMPETITION BETWEEN THE
1596
00:48:24,111 --> 00:48:25,078
SUPERSTARS.
1597
00:48:25,078 --> 00:48:25,779
THAT'S WHY THE SHOWS WERE SO
1598
00:48:25,779 --> 00:48:26,947
COMPELLING.
1599
00:48:26,947 --> 00:48:27,714
THAT'S WHY THERE WERE SO FUN TO
1600
00:48:27,714 --> 00:48:28,682
WATCH.
1601
00:48:28,682 --> 00:48:30,050
EVERYBODY WAS TRYING TO OUTDO
1602
00:48:30,050 --> 00:48:31,285
EVERYBODY ELSE.
1603
00:48:31,285 --> 00:48:32,519
ALL OF THOSE ELEMENTS, THEY
1604
00:48:32,519 --> 00:48:34,087
ALL HAPPENED AT THE RIGHT TIME,
1605
00:48:34,087 --> 00:48:35,522
AT THE RIGHT PLACE, AND IT WAS A
1606
00:48:35,522 --> 00:48:39,025
VERY WELL-CRAFTED, WELL-DESIGNED
1607
00:48:39,025 --> 00:48:40,594
TEMPLATE, AND ONCE THE AUDIENCE
1608
00:48:40,594 --> 00:48:43,130
VOTES, IT'S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO
1609
00:48:43,130 --> 00:48:45,899
GET 'EM BACK.
1610
00:48:45,899 --> 00:48:48,669
THANKS TO THE SUCCESS OF
1611
00:48:48,669 --> 00:48:50,103
AUSTIN AND AN EVOLVING TALENT
1612
00:48:50,103 --> 00:48:52,172
POOL, MONDAY NIGHT RAW WAS
1613
00:48:52,172 --> 00:48:53,841
BEGINNING TO PULL AWAY FROM
1614
00:48:53,841 --> 00:48:54,775
MONDAY NITRO IN THE RATINGS BY
1615
00:48:54,775 --> 00:48:57,344
THE FALL OF 1998.
1616
00:48:57,344 --> 00:48:59,446
THE COMPANY'S BIGGEST STORYLINE
1617
00:48:59,446 --> 00:49:01,481
CONTINUED TO FUEL RAW AND TOOK
1618
00:49:01,481 --> 00:49:03,784
ON AN ADDED ELEMENT BY
1619
00:49:03,784 --> 00:49:05,686
INCORPORATING ANOTHER RISING
1620
00:49:05,686 --> 00:49:08,655
SUPERSTAR.
1621
00:49:08,655 --> 00:49:09,623
WOO!
1622
00:49:09,623 --> 00:49:10,824
WHAT THE HELL?
1623
00:49:10,824 --> 00:49:12,059
THEY WERE IN ON IT ALL ALONG!
1624
00:49:12,059 --> 00:49:13,327
ALL THREE OF THEM!
1625
00:49:13,327 --> 00:49:16,096
THEY SCREWED US ALL!
1626
00:49:16,096 --> 00:49:17,431
AT THAT TIME, I WAS ON THE
1627
00:49:17,431 --> 00:49:21,033
RISE AS BEING ONE OF THE TOP TWO
1628
00:49:21,033 --> 00:49:23,035
GOOD GUYS IN THE COMPANY.
1629
00:49:23,035 --> 00:49:23,470
THE OTHER ONE WAS STONE COLD
1630
00:49:23,470 --> 00:49:24,404
STEVE AUSTIN.
1631
00:49:24,404 --> 00:49:25,539
NOT ONLY DO YOU BECOME WORLD
1632
00:49:25,539 --> 00:49:26,874
CHAMPION, BUT NOW YOU ALIGN
1633
00:49:26,874 --> 00:49:28,242
YOURSELF WITH THE COMPANY'S TOP
1634
00:49:28,242 --> 00:49:30,377
HEEL: VINCE MCMAHON.
1635
00:49:30,377 --> 00:49:31,812
IT WAS A RECIPE FOR PHENOMENAL
1636
00:49:31,812 --> 00:49:34,581
SUCCESS.
1637
00:49:34,581 --> 00:49:37,851
HE'S ALWAYS BEEN MY CHAMPION,
1638
00:49:37,851 --> 00:49:41,588
THE CORPORATE CHAMPION, LADIES
1639
00:49:41,588 --> 00:49:44,791
AND GENTLEMEN: THE ROCK!
1640
00:49:44,791 --> 00:49:47,127
[ CROWD BOOING ]
1641
00:49:47,127 --> 00:49:48,295
ROCK ALIGNS HIMSELF WITH
1642
00:49:48,295 --> 00:49:49,696
VINCE MCMAHON AND BECOMES A
1643
00:49:49,696 --> 00:49:51,665
CORPORATE CHAMPION, AND I KNEW
1644
00:49:51,665 --> 00:49:53,901
RIGHT THEN THAT OUR PATHS WERE
1645
00:49:53,901 --> 00:49:54,768
GONNA CROSS, AND IT WAS JUST
1646
00:49:54,768 --> 00:49:57,938
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT.
1647
00:49:57,938 --> 00:49:59,539
STEVE AUSTIN'S RIVALRY WITH
1648
00:49:59,539 --> 00:50:01,742
MR. MCMAHON EVOLVED INTO A
1649
00:50:01,742 --> 00:50:03,076
BATTLE WITH HIS CORPORATE
1650
00:50:03,076 --> 00:50:05,479
CHAMPION, THE ROCK.
1651
00:50:05,479 --> 00:50:07,915
BY POSITIONING THE COMPANY'S TWO
1652
00:50:07,915 --> 00:50:10,083
MOST CHARISMATIC SUPERSTARS
1653
00:50:10,083 --> 00:50:12,753
AGAINST ONE ANOTHER, WWE'S
1654
00:50:12,753 --> 00:50:16,223
POPULARITY CONTINUED TO GROW.
1655
00:50:16,223 --> 00:50:18,058
I'M GONNA BEAT YOUR CORPORATE
1656
00:50:18,058 --> 00:50:19,927
-- RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT
1657
00:50:19,927 --> 00:50:22,629
RING: ONE, TWO, THREE!
1658
00:50:22,629 --> 00:50:24,064
YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE NEXT
1659
00:50:24,064 --> 00:50:25,532
CHAMP, AND THAT'S THE BOTTOM
1660
00:50:25,532 --> 00:50:30,237
LINE 'CAUSE STONE COLD SAID SO.
1661
00:50:30,237 --> 00:50:31,571
THERE WERE TWO NAMES THAT
1662
00:50:31,571 --> 00:50:33,307
MOST EVERYBODY GRAVITATED
1663
00:50:33,307 --> 00:50:34,675
TOWARDS, AND THAT WAS THE ROCK
1664
00:50:34,675 --> 00:50:36,677
AND STEVE AUSTIN, AND AS A FAN
1665
00:50:36,677 --> 00:50:38,645
WATCHING, IT WAS FUN, BECAUSE
1666
00:50:38,645 --> 00:50:40,414
THEIR PERFORMANCES WERE SECOND
1667
00:50:40,414 --> 00:50:41,481
TO NONE.
1668
00:50:41,481 --> 00:50:43,051
YOU CAN JUST WALK YOUR CANDY
1669
00:50:43,051 --> 00:50:45,085
-- DOWN KNOW YOUR ROAD
1670
00:50:45,085 --> 00:50:48,021
BOULEVARD.
1671
00:50:48,021 --> 00:50:49,189
THE ONLY THING YOU WILL BE DOING
1672
00:50:49,189 --> 00:50:50,891
IS CHECKING YOUR -- INTO THE
1673
00:50:50,891 --> 00:50:56,863
SMACKDOWN HOTEL.
1674
00:50:56,863 --> 00:50:58,932
THE CHEMISTRY BETWEEN MYSELF
1675
00:50:58,932 --> 00:51:01,501
STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN WAS AND
1676
00:51:01,501 --> 00:51:04,905
IS VERY, VERY SPECIAL.
1677
00:51:04,905 --> 00:51:06,206
I COME OUT HERE AND I SIT
1678
00:51:06,206 --> 00:51:07,607
HERE AND LISTEN TO YOU SPIT YOUR
1679
00:51:07,607 --> 00:51:09,409
LITTLE NURSERY RHYMES ABOUT
1680
00:51:09,409 --> 00:51:11,878
JABRONI AVENUE OR KNOW YOUR ROAD
1681
00:51:11,878 --> 00:51:13,080
BOULEVARD, YOU [BLEEP]
1682
00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:15,549
.
1683
00:51:15,549 --> 00:51:17,117
YOU BETTER GET YOUR -- SERIOUS,
1684
00:51:17,117 --> 00:51:19,619
BECAUSE STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN
1685
00:51:19,619 --> 00:51:21,688
IS GONNA TAKE HIS -- TO
1686
00:51:21,688 --> 00:51:24,591
PHILADELPHIA, CHECK RIGHT INTO
1687
00:51:24,591 --> 00:51:26,927
THE SMACKDOWN HOTEL, AND ROLL
1688
00:51:26,927 --> 00:51:29,629
RIGHT IN TO ROUTE 3:16 AND BURN
1689
00:51:29,629 --> 00:51:31,565
THAT SON OF A -- TO THE GROUND!
1690
00:51:31,565 --> 00:51:35,369
WOO!
1691
00:51:35,369 --> 00:51:37,270
STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN
1692
00:51:37,270 --> 00:51:38,138
VERSUS THE ROCK: I'M BUYING A
1693
00:51:38,138 --> 00:51:39,573
TICKET.
1694
00:51:39,573 --> 00:51:40,640
THE BRAHMA BULL AND THE
1695
00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:43,410
RATTLESNAKE HOOKING IT UP HERE.
1696
00:51:43,410 --> 00:51:44,478
I BROUGHT OUT THE BEST IN THE
1697
00:51:44,478 --> 00:51:45,946
ROCK, AND HE BROUGHT OUT THE
1698
00:51:45,946 --> 00:51:47,114
BEST IN ME.
1699
00:51:47,114 --> 00:51:48,415
AND ANYTIME WE STEPPED IN THE
1700
00:51:48,415 --> 00:51:50,450
RING, IT WAS ON.
1701
00:51:50,450 --> 00:51:51,685
AUSTIN WITH THE ELBOWS.
1702
00:51:51,685 --> 00:51:53,286
THE STUNNER!
1703
00:51:53,286 --> 00:51:55,188
THE STUNNER!
1704
00:51:55,188 --> 00:51:58,125
[ CROWD CHANTING: ONE, TWO,
1705
00:51:58,125 --> 00:51:59,192
THREE!
1706
00:51:59,192 --> 00:51:59,926
]
1707
00:51:59,926 --> 00:52:01,194
[ BELL RINGING ]
1708
00:52:01,194 --> 00:52:03,029
AUSTIN WINS!
1709
00:52:03,029 --> 00:52:04,531
AUSTIN WINS!
1710
00:52:04,531 --> 00:52:05,932
STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN AND
1711
00:52:05,932 --> 00:52:08,268
THE ROCK WERE AT THE FOREFRONT
1712
00:52:08,268 --> 00:52:10,337
OF WWE PROGRAMMING, AND MONDAY
1713
00:52:10,337 --> 00:52:11,905
NIGHT RAW WAS ROUTINELY
1714
00:52:11,905 --> 00:52:14,007
OUTDRAWING NITRO BY THREE
1715
00:52:14,007 --> 00:52:15,642
MILLION VIEWERS A WEEK BY THE
1716
00:52:15,642 --> 00:52:19,379
SUMMER OF 1999.
1717
00:52:19,379 --> 00:52:20,847
BUT AFTER BEING SO
1718
00:52:20,847 --> 00:52:22,315
INSTRUMENTAL TO WWE'S
1719
00:52:22,315 --> 00:52:25,018
RENAISSANCE, AUSTIN WOULD BE
1720
00:52:25,018 --> 00:52:26,219
FORCED TO WALK AWAY FROM ACTIVE
1721
00:52:26,219 --> 00:52:27,421
COMPETITION AT THE INDUSTRY'S
1722
00:52:27,421 --> 00:52:31,158
PEAK.
1723
00:52:31,158 --> 00:52:32,259
GOING INTO THE BACK END OF
1724
00:52:32,259 --> 00:52:33,693
'99, I WAS ON FIRE.
1725
00:52:33,693 --> 00:52:36,129
I WAS HAULING --.
1726
00:52:36,129 --> 00:52:36,797
THE BUSINESS WAS CRAZY, AND I
1727
00:52:36,797 --> 00:52:38,365
STARTED TO HAVE SOME SIDE
1728
00:52:38,365 --> 00:52:39,266
EFFECTS FROM GETTING DROPPED ON
1729
00:52:39,266 --> 00:52:41,835
MY HEAD IN '97.
1730
00:52:41,835 --> 00:52:43,703
STONE COLD'S NECK INJURY WAS
1731
00:52:43,703 --> 00:52:45,305
A LOT MORE SEVERE THAN ME WE HAD
1732
00:52:45,305 --> 00:52:46,773
THOUGHT.
1733
00:52:46,773 --> 00:52:48,408
IT WAS GETTING STEADILY WORSE,
1734
00:52:48,408 --> 00:52:49,576
TO THE POINT WHERE WE WEREN'T
1735
00:52:49,576 --> 00:52:51,978
GONNA HAVE STONE COLD AS A
1736
00:52:51,978 --> 00:52:53,513
WRESTLER.
1737
00:52:53,513 --> 00:52:54,581
I WENT TO A DOCTOR, AND THEY
1738
00:52:54,581 --> 00:52:56,116
STARTED DOING SOME TESTS ON ME.
1739
00:52:56,116 --> 00:52:58,385
SO, I HAD A BONE SPUR GROWING
1740
00:52:58,385 --> 00:53:00,587
DIRECTLY INTO MY SPINAL CORD.
1741
00:53:00,587 --> 00:53:01,822
DR. LLOYD YOUNGBLOOD, A
1742
00:53:01,822 --> 00:53:03,390
NEUROSURGEON HERE IN SAN
1743
00:53:03,390 --> 00:53:04,324
ANTONIO, TOOK A LOOK AT ME, TOLD
1744
00:53:04,324 --> 00:53:05,992
ME WHAT HE WAS GONNA DO.
1745
00:53:05,992 --> 00:53:07,427
HE WENT IN THERE AND DID THE
1746
00:53:07,427 --> 00:53:08,695
JOB.
1747
00:53:08,695 --> 00:53:10,097
HE TOOK A BONE OUT OF MY HIP AND
1748
00:53:10,097 --> 00:53:11,264
PUT IT IN THERE.
1749
00:53:11,264 --> 00:53:12,999
DOCTORS ESTIMATED AUSTIN
1750
00:53:12,999 --> 00:53:13,900
WOULD BE OUT OF ACTION FOR A
1751
00:53:13,900 --> 00:53:17,604
YEAR OR MORE, BUT DESPITE WWE
1752
00:53:17,604 --> 00:53:21,040
LOSING THEIR FRANCHISE
1753
00:53:21,040 --> 00:53:22,576
SUPERSTAR, WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
1754
00:53:22,576 --> 00:53:24,411
WRESTLING WAS UNABLE TO BUILD
1755
00:53:24,411 --> 00:53:27,013
MOMENTUM, AS GOLDBERG'S RISE TO
1756
00:53:27,013 --> 00:53:28,949
PROMINENCE HAD DERAILED WITH HIS
1757
00:53:28,949 --> 00:53:31,017
OWN INJURY.
1758
00:53:31,017 --> 00:53:32,953
MONDAY NITRO WOULD CONTINUE TO
1759
00:53:32,953 --> 00:53:35,255
FEATURE OLDER TALENT AND STORY
1760
00:53:35,255 --> 00:53:36,590
LINES IN HOPES OF REIGNITING
1761
00:53:36,590 --> 00:53:38,592
PAST SUCCESS.
1762
00:53:38,592 --> 00:53:39,459
THERE WAS NEVER ANYTHING
1763
00:53:39,459 --> 00:53:40,260
FRESH.
1764
00:53:40,260 --> 00:53:41,394
GUYS THAT STARTED TO GET STEAM
1765
00:53:41,394 --> 00:53:42,829
BEHIND THEM, THEY WOULD CUT THEM
1766
00:53:42,829 --> 00:53:44,197
OFF AT THE KNEES.
1767
00:53:44,197 --> 00:53:45,532
THOSE GUYS WERE PRETTY MUCH,
1768
00:53:45,532 --> 00:53:49,769
LIKE, BURIED.
1769
00:53:49,769 --> 00:53:51,104
HE'S THROWING HIM IN THE
1770
00:53:51,104 --> 00:53:53,974
DUMPSTER!
1771
00:53:53,974 --> 00:53:58,645
THE ROCK IS HERE!
1772
00:53:58,645 --> 00:53:59,746
THERE HE IS!
1773
00:53:59,746 --> 00:54:03,316
THE WWE CHAMPION.
1774
00:54:03,316 --> 00:54:04,918
WWE WAS WITHOUT THEIR TOP
1775
00:54:04,918 --> 00:54:07,320
DRAW, BUT OTHER SUPERSTARS
1776
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:09,122
STEPPED INTO THE SPOTLIGHT, AND
1777
00:54:09,122 --> 00:54:12,325
RATINGS CONTINUED TO SOAR.
1778
00:54:12,325 --> 00:54:13,560
HOLY COW, LIKE, OUR TOP GUY
1779
00:54:13,560 --> 00:54:14,961
IS DOWN.
1780
00:54:14,961 --> 00:54:16,296
WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO?
1781
00:54:16,296 --> 00:54:17,430
WELL, WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO IS,
1782
00:54:17,430 --> 00:54:18,832
WE'RE ALL GONNA STEP UP AND TRY
1783
00:54:18,832 --> 00:54:20,567
TO NOT LET IT FALTER AT ALL.
1784
00:54:20,567 --> 00:54:22,102
AND WITH ME GONE, ROCK AND
1785
00:54:22,102 --> 00:54:23,803
TRIPLE H WERE HAVING THEIR BEST
1786
00:54:23,803 --> 00:54:24,971
YEARS, AND THOSE GUYS BOTH
1787
00:54:24,971 --> 00:54:26,473
CARRIED THE COMPANY.
1788
00:54:26,473 --> 00:54:28,108
THEY BOTH STEPPED UP AND KNOCKED
1789
00:54:28,108 --> 00:54:29,409
IT OUT OF THE PARK.
1790
00:54:29,409 --> 00:54:32,078
IT'S A PEOPLE'S ELBOW FROM
1791
00:54:32,078 --> 00:54:34,414
THE ROCK.
1792
00:54:34,414 --> 00:54:35,916
THANKS TO THE DEPTH OF VINCE
1793
00:54:35,916 --> 00:54:37,717
MCMAHON'S TALENTED ROSTER, RAW
1794
00:54:37,717 --> 00:54:39,419
HAD BEATEN NITRO EVERY WEEK FOR
1795
00:54:39,419 --> 00:54:41,588
NEARLY TWO YEARS BY THE FALL OF
1796
00:54:41,588 --> 00:54:45,325
2000.
1797
00:54:45,325 --> 00:54:46,593
EVERYBODY WAS DOING WHATEVER
1798
00:54:46,593 --> 00:54:47,460
THEY WANTED.
1799
00:54:47,460 --> 00:54:48,361
THEY DID THEIR OWN THING.
1800
00:54:48,361 --> 00:54:49,829
THEY CROSSED LINES.
1801
00:54:49,829 --> 00:54:52,966
OH, MY GOD ALMIGHTY!
1802
00:54:52,966 --> 00:54:54,434
THE ENTIRE ROSTER TOP TO
1803
00:54:54,434 --> 00:54:58,605
BOTTOM, YOU WERE EXCITED FOR.
1804
00:54:58,605 --> 00:55:02,242
WWE WAS SHOWING NO SIGNS OF
1805
00:55:02,242 --> 00:55:03,143
SLOWING DOWN WHEN STEVE AUSTIN
1806
00:55:03,143 --> 00:55:08,548
RETURNED.
1807
00:55:08,548 --> 00:55:09,950
THE RATTLESNAKE IS BACK!
1808
00:55:09,950 --> 00:55:11,384
IT'S BEEN ALMOST A YEAR SINCE
1809
00:55:11,384 --> 00:55:12,485
AUSTIN WAS BACK IN THE RING.
1810
00:55:12,485 --> 00:55:14,054
THE BOYS ALL WELCOMED ME BACK
1811
00:55:14,054 --> 00:55:14,688
WITH OPEN ARMS.
1812
00:55:14,688 --> 00:55:16,122
I FIT RIGHT BACK INTO THE STORY
1813
00:55:16,122 --> 00:55:18,258
LINE.
1814
00:55:18,258 --> 00:55:19,960
WITH STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN
1815
00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:22,362
BACK ON MONDAY NIGHT RAW, THE
1816
00:55:22,362 --> 00:55:24,331
COMPANY'S DOMINANCE CONTINUED
1817
00:55:24,331 --> 00:55:26,733
INTO THE NEW MILLENNIUM.
1818
00:55:26,733 --> 00:55:28,301
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING
1819
00:55:28,301 --> 00:55:31,036
WOULD SOON CLOSE ITS DOORS IN
1820
00:55:31,036 --> 00:55:32,839
MARCH OF 2001, AS VINCE MCMAHON
1821
00:55:32,839 --> 00:55:35,175
DECLARED HIMSELF VICTORIOUS IN
1822
00:55:35,175 --> 00:55:37,944
THE MONDAY NIGHT WAR.
1823
00:55:37,944 --> 00:55:39,145
YOU HAVE TO GRAB YOUR
1824
00:55:39,145 --> 00:55:40,814
COMPETITION BY THE THROAT, AND
1825
00:55:40,814 --> 00:55:42,315
YOU'VE GOT TO SQUEEZE THE LIFE
1826
00:55:42,315 --> 00:55:44,284
OUT OF YOUR COMPETITION, JUST
1827
00:55:44,284 --> 00:55:48,521
LIKE I DID TO WCW.
1828
00:55:48,521 --> 00:55:50,523
HAVING LED WWE TO THE TOP OF
1829
00:55:50,523 --> 00:55:52,892
THE INDUSTRY, STONE COLD STEVE
1830
00:55:52,892 --> 00:55:54,661
AUSTIN CONTINUED TO HEADLINE
1831
00:55:54,661 --> 00:55:56,296
MONDAY NIGHT RAW UNTIL HIS
1832
00:55:56,296 --> 00:56:00,333
RETIREMENT IN 2003.
1833
00:56:00,333 --> 00:56:03,002
ONCE REGARDED AS AN UNMARKETABLE
1834
00:56:03,002 --> 00:56:04,471
AFTERTHOUGHT, STEVE AUSTIN HAS
1835
00:56:04,471 --> 00:56:06,373
REVOLUTIONIZED SPORTS
1836
00:56:06,373 --> 00:56:10,042
ENTERTAINMENT AND WALKED AWAY AS
1837
00:56:10,042 --> 00:56:11,177
PERHAPS THE GREATEST SUPERSTAR
1838
00:56:11,177 --> 00:56:13,346
OF ALL TIME.
1839
00:56:13,346 --> 00:56:16,015
STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN, IT
1840
00:56:16,015 --> 00:56:17,917
CAN BE ARGUED, SAVE THE WWE FROM
1841
00:56:17,917 --> 00:56:19,419
GOING OUT OF BUSINESS.
1842
00:56:19,419 --> 00:56:20,920
STEVE AUSTIN IS THE ONE WHO
1843
00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:22,956
BROUGHT THE WWE OUT OF THE DARK
1844
00:56:22,956 --> 00:56:24,924
AGES OF THE 1990S AND REALLY
1845
00:56:24,924 --> 00:56:26,693
BROUGHT US INTO THE ATTITUDE
1846
00:56:26,693 --> 00:56:27,927
ERA.
1847
00:56:27,927 --> 00:56:29,396
HE REPRESENTED A LOT A LOT OF
1848
00:56:29,396 --> 00:56:31,064
THE PEOPLE THAT WERE WATCHING.
1849
00:56:31,064 --> 00:56:31,998
HE CERTAINLY REPRESENTED HOW
1850
00:56:31,998 --> 00:56:33,133
THEY FELT ABOUT THEIR BOSSES,
1851
00:56:33,133 --> 00:56:35,034
ABOUT THEIR JOBS, ABOUT THEIR
1852
00:56:35,034 --> 00:56:35,402
SITUATIONS.
1853
00:56:35,402 --> 00:56:36,670
HE BROUGHT UP THE ENTIRE
1854
00:56:36,670 --> 00:56:37,570
COMPANY.
1855
00:56:37,570 --> 00:56:38,838
TO ME, HE WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT
1856
00:56:38,838 --> 00:56:40,974
MEMBER OF THE ATTITUDE ERA.
1857
00:56:40,974 --> 00:56:42,642
WHEN YOU GO BACK AND YOU LOOK
1858
00:56:42,642 --> 00:56:44,711
AT THE MONDAY NIGHT WAR, AND YOU
1859
00:56:44,711 --> 00:56:48,448
REALIZE NOW JUST HOW MANY GREAT
1860
00:56:48,448 --> 00:56:49,949
STARS WERE A PART OF THAT
1861
00:56:49,949 --> 00:56:53,019
ATTITUDE ERA, BUT THE MINUTE YOU
1862
00:56:53,019 --> 00:56:54,621
SAY THE WORD ATTITUDE, THERE'S
1863
00:56:54,621 --> 00:56:58,224
ONE PERSON YOU THINK OF.
1864
00:56:58,224 --> 00:56:59,426
I DON'T NEED YOU TO DO THIS
1865
00:56:59,426 --> 00:57:00,226
DAMN JOB.
1866
00:57:00,226 --> 00:57:01,361
THIS IS STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN.
1867
00:57:01,361 --> 00:57:02,862
KEVIN KELLY AIN'T WORTH A DAMN,
1868
00:57:02,862 --> 00:57:03,797
AND AS YOU CAN SEE, I'M JUST A
1869
00:57:03,797 --> 00:57:05,432
LITTLE PISSED OFF.
1870
00:57:05,432 --> 00:57:07,400
STEVE AUSTIN GAVE ATTITUDE TO
1871
00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:11,471
THE ATTITUDE ERA, AND FOR A
1872
00:57:11,471 --> 00:57:15,208
DECADE, HE CHANGED THE BUSINESS.
1873
00:57:15,208 --> 00:57:16,843
AND AT THE TIME, YOU COULD
1874
00:57:16,843 --> 00:57:18,678
PUT STEVE'S NAME ON ANY ARENA IN
1875
00:57:18,678 --> 00:57:19,779
THE WORLD, AND WE SOLD OUT
1876
00:57:19,779 --> 00:57:20,880
IMMEDIATELY.
1877
00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:22,148
I MEAN, HE GOT THAT HOT.
1878
00:57:22,148 --> 00:57:23,783
IT WAS AN UNBELIEVABLE TIME.
1879
00:57:23,783 --> 00:57:25,085
HE GAVE US TREMENDOUS
1880
00:57:25,085 --> 00:57:26,886
TELEVISION RATINGS, HAD PEOPLE
1881
00:57:26,886 --> 00:57:28,922
ALL OVER THE GLOBE TALKING ABOUT
1882
00:57:28,922 --> 00:57:30,790
WWE AGAIN, AT THAT LEVEL, FOR
1883
00:57:30,790 --> 00:57:33,259
THE FIRST TIME IN 15 YEARS.
1884
00:57:33,259 --> 00:57:35,161
WE HAD HULK HOGAN, AND THEN
1885
00:57:35,161 --> 00:57:36,162
WE SAY, THERE'S NEVER GONNA BE
1886
00:57:36,162 --> 00:57:37,430
ANOTHER HULK HOGAN.
1887
00:57:37,430 --> 00:57:38,565
AND THEN, ALONG COMES STONE COLD
1888
00:57:38,565 --> 00:57:40,233
STEVE AUSTIN.
1889
00:57:40,233 --> 00:57:41,801
STONE COLD WOULD BECOME THE
1890
00:57:41,801 --> 00:57:43,470
GREATEST SINGLE STAR IN THE
1891
00:57:43,470 --> 00:57:46,106
HISTORY OF OUR BUSINESS, BY FAR.
1892
00:57:46,106 --> 00:57:48,775
STEVE SOLD OUT MORE ARENAS,
1893
00:57:48,775 --> 00:57:49,976
SET MORE PAY-PER-VIEW RECORDS,
1894
00:57:49,976 --> 00:57:50,977
MORE MERCHANDISING RECORDS, YOU
1895
00:57:50,977 --> 00:57:51,911
NAME IT.
1896
00:57:51,911 --> 00:57:53,413
WHATEVER THE RECORD WAS TO BE
1897
00:57:53,413 --> 00:57:55,648
BROKEN, HE SHATTERED IT.
1898
00:57:55,648 --> 00:57:57,650
HE WAS, AND STILL IS, THE
1899
00:57:57,650 --> 00:57:59,452
GREATEST SUPERSTAR THAT THE
1900
00:57:59,452 --> 00:58:02,255
WORLD HAS EVER SEEN.
1901
00:58:02,255 --> 00:58:03,690
MY DAD ALWAYS TOLD US, "DON'T
1902
00:58:03,690 --> 00:58:06,259
EVER DO ANYTHING HALF- -- ED."
1903
00:58:06,259 --> 00:58:07,727
ANYTIME I'VE EVER DONE
1904
00:58:07,727 --> 00:58:08,561
SOMETHING, I WANT TO BE THE BEST
1905
00:58:08,561 --> 00:58:09,462
AT IT.
1906
00:58:09,462 --> 00:58:10,196
I WAS NEVER THE BIGGEST, THE
1907
00:58:10,196 --> 00:58:11,264
BEST LOOKING, THE BEST BUILT,
1908
00:58:11,264 --> 00:58:12,332
HAD THE BEST GENETICS.
1909
00:58:12,332 --> 00:58:13,767
I WAS NEVER THE BEST WRESTLER.
1910
00:58:13,767 --> 00:58:15,268
I WAS NEVER THE BEST OF
1911
00:58:15,268 --> 00:58:16,469
ANYTHING, BUT GOD DANG, I BUSTED
1912
00:58:16,469 --> 00:58:17,370
MY -- TO BE AS GOOD AS I COULD
1913
00:58:17,370 --> 00:58:19,072
BE.
1914
00:58:19,072 --> 00:58:20,740
THERE IS NO ONE THAT HAS EVER
1915
00:58:20,740 --> 00:58:23,076
LACED THEIR BOOTS ANY MORE
1916
00:58:23,076 --> 00:58:24,978
INTENSE, ANY MORE WITH A WILL TO
1917
00:58:24,978 --> 00:58:27,947
WIN, THAN STONE COLD STEVE
1918
00:58:27,947 --> 00:58:30,950
AUSTIN.
1919
00:58:30,950 --> 00:58:31,718
I HAD TO RIDE OFF INTO THE
1920
00:58:31,718 --> 00:58:34,019
SUNSET A LITTLE BIT SOONER THAN
1921
00:58:33,887 --> 00:58:34,988
EVERY BIT OF IT.
1922
00:58:34,988 --> 00:58:36,823
I HAD A HELL OF A RIDE.
1923
00:58:36,823 --> 00:58:38,625
THERE'S ONLY ONE TEXAS
1924
00:58:38,625 --> 00:58:41,094
RATTLESNAKE, AND THERE'LL NEVER
1925
00:58:41,094 --> 00:58:44,029
BE ANOTHER LIKE HIM.
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