DISC ONE
First of i want to say i have no idea why i did it chapter by chapter. BUT ANYWAYS
The Documentary: In my encounters with WWE produced DVDs (and in some cases, VHS tapes) highlighting the career of "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, one thing became clear: either the offering would be strictly kayfabe (wrestling terms for "in character") or a glossy overview padding a collection of noteworthy matches. The last big release was 2008's "The Legacy of Stone Cold Steve Austin" that finally highlighted Steve's early run in WCW as well as his short time in ECW, but for understanding the real Steve Austin, it would take until "Stone Cold Steve Austin: The Bottom Line on the Most Popular Superstar of All Time" to give fans not only a solid collection of matches to revisit but an exhaustive documentary that lets the man himself let you know how it went down, in a candid way only "Stone Cold" could get away with. Austin has had more than his fair share of DVDs, but the draw for me here (besides being blu-ray) was the documentary portion. I guess I am just a sucker for those.
1. Steve Williams was born in Austin, Texas in 1964 and then moved to Edna, Texas. He played baseball, ran track, and played football. The 2 big draws in Texas were football and then pro-wrestling. Austin remembers the day he flipped through the stations on TV and first saw Houston Championship Wrestling. He fell in love with the business, and so it began.
2. He went to North Texas University and made sure he always watched WCCW. He was drawn into the Von Erich/Freebird feud and he spent lots of time watching shows at the Sportatorium. He saw a commercial for Chris Adam’s Wrestling School and that was his start.
3. He progressed at a slow rate and he says that he basically sucked. Foley pops us to tell us he saw Austin at that wrestling school and everyone sucked, but he did notice this big blonde kid and he knew he would be somebody just based on his presence and charisma.
4. Steve had his first match and he basically says it sucked balls and that he was greener than goose shit. Nice! He got a call from Jerry Jarrett and he sent him to Nashville to work full time. Dutch Mantell was the booker and Jerry forgot to tell Dutch that Austin was coming.
5. We get the story of how Steve Williams became Steve Austin. Dutch told him he couldn’t be Steve Williams because already had a Steve Williams (Dr. Death). He gave Austin 15 minutes to come up with a name and he couldn’t, so off top of head Mantell tells you ok you will be Steve Austin. Steve didn’t like that because he didn’t want to be compared to Lee Majors and the 6 Million Dollar Man. Steve had that 1st match and he thought it went well and Mantell told him it sucked. Ha! He gave Austin the advice of sitting at the curtain and watching every match every night to learn. He then told him that he could call himself “Stunning” Steve Austin if he ever became a heel. Sure enough he gets shipped back to WCCW and this time he is going in as a heel.
6. There was a natural feud ready for him with Chris Adams and it involved their valets. They show an Austin promo against Adams and let’s say he has come a long way. The feud was big for Austin and he was named 1990 Rookie of the Year by PWI.
7. Paul Bearer shows up and he says that Austin clearly had the it factor who was a natural. We get hi-lights of Austin in the USWA and it’s night and day from what we saw at his peak in the WWE. He loved the USWA and says he learned so much because he asked questions from anyone and everyone. He learned to improvise because he was wrestling a lot of times in front of same people and had to tweak things or would get stale.
8. WCW shows some interest so Steve calls Dusty Rhodes and they agree to bring him down. Steve tells funny story about his first WCW match and as he waits in the back the announcer says “from Hollywood, California” and Austin is caught off guard and wonders who this guy is from Hollywood. Well, turns out it was Steve himself and he laughs about being from Hollywood with a Texas accent.
9. Again Foley says you knew this guy was going to be a big star and Arn Anderson says pretty much the same. His first title win comes against Bobby Eaton when he wins the TV Title. Austin praises Eaton and calls him one of his favorite guys. The TV Title and winning it from Eaton is still one of his proudest moments.
10. Dusty then promises him a big push with US Title and Harley Race as his manager. At that TV taping Brian Pillman tells him they need to come up with a finish as they are a tag team now. Austin calls bullshit and Dusty tells him things changed. Anderson says the company only saw Austin as a worker and blue collar guy when they were looking for marketable wrestlers. Damn! Think about that one for a second.
11. Austin and Pillman of course become one of the coolest and kick ass tag teams you will ever see. Eventually they decide to come up with a name and Pillman names them the Hollywood Blondes. Heyman mentions they were different personalities and had different styles, but that’s what made they work so well together. HHH says that since they were together they could push boundaries that would be harder to do if you were on your own. Foley says that team is where Steve started to show more of his true personality and we get footage from “Flair for the Old.” Tremendous! They got too over for the higher ups in WCW, so they were split up without any true blow-off to their feud.
12. Austin moved onto a higher plateau and that meant a feud with Steamboat. Austin calls Steamboat of the greatest ever. Everyone puts over the matches they had and HHH mentions he would often rush back from his match to get changed and find a seat to watch what Austin and Steamboat were going to do. Austin asks Steamboat at the time what he was missing to be a big time player and Steamboat tells him he isn’t missing anything.
13. Regal claims Austin was held back in WCW and we get Fall Brawl 94 footage where Austin gets beat by Duggan in 10 seconds for the US Title. Regal, Heyman, and Anderson all point out that Steve needed a true break.
14. Steve gets a call from WCW saying he needs to call Eric Bischoff. Steve mentions he knew something bad was going to happen. He calls Bischoff back and he gets story that based on what he makes that they are terminating the agreement. Austin says so you are saying that I am fired. In an interesting twist Austin says that he now understands why he was fired. At the time he was pissed, but now he doesn’t blame Bischoff because he wasn’t a real draw for the company and was getting paid a lot of money to be a solid worker that a lot of other guys could fill that spot for less money. Hearing him say he doesn’t blame Eric at all for firing him is kind of weird considering what was to come in ECW.
15. Speaking of which the first person to call Steve is Paul Heyman and they have roots to WCW and the Dangerous Alliance. Paul offers Steve a chance in ECW and Austin says he can’t due to injured arm. Heyman says he will pay him to come talk just once a week. He offered Steve a platform to air his frustrations, and boy did that pay off for both parties. Steve mentions that after all that happened in WCW he did develop some pent up frustration and that he needed to have a chip of his shoulder.
16. Jericho says that to get over you have to be somewhat of an asshole and stand up for yourself. They show various high points of his promos in ECW and just insane how good this stuff was. You could see that he was clearly finding his voice and character. The “Monday Nyquil” shit with Bongo is hilarious and everyone puts over how awesome the promos were.
17. They show the promo where Steve finally ditches the long hair and looks like The Ringmaster. Heyman says it as all Austin as he basically just put a camera on him and said go. Austin says that Heyman helped him a lot however, and helped him find his voice.
18. Now the WWE wants Steve and Joey Styles mentions that Austin in ECW was the start of the Stone Cold character. Styles mentions that apparently WWE officials never watched ECW as Austin was brought in as a utility guy called The Ringmaster who didn’t speak and instead had Dibiase as a mouth piece. Joey clearly has a point.
19. Vince says he saw Steve in WCW and was impressed with his mechanical skills, but didn’t see any charisma. The fact that he didn’t mention seeing Steve in ECW only backs up the point Joey Styles made. Austin says being called the Ringmaster blew, and he let Patterson know when they came up with the gimmick.
20. Brisco tells Vince that Austin hates the gimmick and thinks we’re playing with him. Vince then tells Brisco that if Austin can come up with something better to let them know. Steve says he was watching a special on serial killer Richard Kuklinski. He thought was something about the guy and how he had no emotion and was a cold, ruthless individual. He tells the office about his idea and they fax him a shit load of new names for the character. Austin lists off 3 of those names: Otto Von Ruthless, Ice Dagger, and Fang McFrost! “Man it don’t get any more suck ass than that.” –Steve Austin. He was shocked that the creative geniuses at WWE came up with these names. From what we have seen in recent years with the FCW guys shit hasn’t gotten any better. He wife at time told him he would think of something and to start drinking his tea before it became stone cold. Bingo!
21. The character started to grow and soon Dibiase went to WCW and now Austin was on his own. That was a blessing in disguise and things built towards the King of the Ring in 1996. They bring up HHH being the favorite to win, but having that killed due to the MSG Curtain Call. Austin was next in line and in his first match with Mero he busted him mouth and had to go to hospital to get stitches. When he returned for finals against Jake Roberts he asked Michael Hayes what Jake said in his promo. Hayes mentions all the religious stuff and Austin immediately thinks of John 3:16 because would be a sign you always saw at football games. Thus he thought of Austin 3:16 on the spot and knew where he was going with his promo after the match. Austin wins the King of the Ring and now gives the legendary promo and you can hear the audible reaction from the crowd when he first says “Austin 3:16 says I just whipped your ass.” That one promo changed the face of the WWE forever even if nobody knew it at the time.
22. The next day Austin 3:16 signs started popping up at RAW and Jericho says it greatest catchphrase in the history of the business. Austin now had a clear direction and he became a kick ass, trash talking heel that wouldn’t back down. Bret Hart took some time off and when he returned he handpicked Austin as his opponent for Survivor Series 96. Steve says that Bret told him he saw Austin coming before Austin saw him coming. The deliver a damn near perfect match at Survivor Series and a rivalry was born.
23. That leads to Steve screwing Bret out of the win at the 97 Royal Rumble and things just get building each and every week on RAW. This all lead to WrestleMania 13 and both guys new that they needed to switch places because of reaction Steve kept getting each passing week. Austin fucked up his knee a month prior and when he heard would be a submission match he was sure they were going to stink up the joint in Chicago.
24. Michaels, Punk, and Christian all put over how awesome the match was and that’s an understatement. Punk doesn’t feel they hated Bret as much as they loved Austin. Steve himself says the match wasn’t some prefabricated bullshit, but was a kicks ass pro-wrestling match. Austin put his trust in Bret as he promised to get Steve where they wanted to go. We get full color footage with Austin bleeding like a stuck pig and only makes me miss seeing blood (when called for) in a wrestling match. Even Bret mentions that blood had a purpose as it was to get more sympathy for Austin. Bret calls it artistically the greatest match he has ever had and nothing he’s ever done will tell a better story than what they did that night. Austin says what everyone now knows: That was the match that made his career, and the fans were ready for the Austin Era to begin.
25. Then we get to SummerSlam 1997 and the event that nearly killed any momentum as Owen accidentally drop Austin on his head with a seated tombstone piledriver. Austin says it was just a big gong sound going off in his ears and he felt on fire from the neck down. He didn’t want to lay there so he got the worst roll-up in history to win a match. Bret mentions that he told Owen he had to call the guy, but for whatever reason he never did and Bret thinks Owen did handle the situation wrong. He says that it soured the relationship Austin and Owen had from that point. Austin says that while he is a tough guy on that night he was 99% lucky and 1% tough. He started seeing any and every doctor to get the ok to return to the ring and he knew he was risking things, but he was so hot he wanted to take that chance.
26. While he can’t be in the ring wrestling, he can still stun the shit out of various WWE officials and cut promos. He being out of action and having the system against him only added to his character. The WWE was entering a new Attitude period and Austin’s character fit in perfectly.
27. He stuns JR, Slaughter, refs, and it all builds to a RAW from Madison Square Garden. Punk says he was looking forward to the day when he would eventually stun McMahon and that it didn’t disappoint. We see the very first Stunner on McMahon and the crowd goes insane. Jericho crushes the way Vince took the Stunner and compares it to how a water bottle would take the Stunner. Too funny! It was a pretty piss poor bump, but man is the boss so what do you want.
28. Next we have the Montreal Screwjob and suddenly Vince is most hated man in WWE and they turned that low point into what would become quite possibly the greatest feud they’ve ever had:
29. THE START OF Austin vs. McMahon.
30. Before we get to that though, there was another young guy getting noticed and catching fire at same time: The Rock. They had a great feud in late 97/early 98 over the IC Title and you could see that both these guys were money. Austin mentions that while they hung out in different circles they had a bond and always brought out the best in each other. Austin eliminates Rock to win the 1998 Royal Rumble and he was heading to WrestleMania XIV.
31. Mike Tyson was a special guest at the Rumble and Vince tells Austin that Tyson is coming in for WrestleMania XIV. The epic Tyson/Austin confrontation happens and Foley says it worked so well because Tyson was a big wrestling fan and was willing to do anything. As others have said Tyson was worth a hell of a lot more than he was paid. Austin tells a funny inside story about how Tyson pushed him so hard that a bunch of $100 bills fell out of Mike’s pocket so all the guys in his posse were doing whatever they could to pick up the cash. Austin mentions that if they could have done Austin vs. Tyson on PPV after that they would have set records for PPV buys that nobody could have touched. That’s an interesting discussion there.
32. The next day Tyson being in the WWE was all over the news and it got the WWE a lot of attention. HHH says it catapulted Steve to another level. With all that momentum things just kept building and everything was heading towards WrestleMania XIV. It seemed like a foregone conclusion that Austin was getting the title so they stacked the deck by having Tyson join DX. Jericho mentions that Shawn was almost the 3rd wheel in the build. I’m sure that thought may have crossed Shawn’s mind at that time as well.
33. This was the WrestleMania that kicked off the Attitude Era and the Austin Era. Shawn mentions that he knew Steve was the guy and that the belt needed to go to Steve. Wow, that’s seem totally different than what others have said about Shawn during that time. Steve himself says he didn’t think the match was that good, but at same time it was the night when he won his first World Title and it came by beating Shawn Michaels. He knew he was the main now and that the company was on his back.
34. McMahon mentions that Austin shattered all records in terms of sold out shows, merchandise, and PPV buys. He hit the main stream and we get clips of him doing talk shows and appearing on Celebrity Death Match. Austin says that Vince didn’t ask him to do a lot of media appearances other than the big market stuff, but Austin says he was the guy and knew he had certain responsibilities as the top guy. Again Vince mentions nobody has equaled what he has done in the business and he’s not sure if anyone will be able to duplicate what he did.
35. The talk shifts to the crowd reaction he would get when the glass broke and Foley says he never knew a crowd could react that way until he was in the ring with him. Lawler says basically the same thing, and there truly is a difference between an Austin pop and what other’s received.
36. Bret says he wasn’t a fan of the show when he left, but he was always a fan of Steve and made sure to follow what he was doing. The McMahon/Austin feud was now the centerpiece of the company, and that meant introducing more comedy into their rivalry. That brings us to The Stooges and Austin says he loved working with those two. Briscoe mentions that for all he has accomplished in the business he is now most famous for being a Stooge. Austin never took it easy on them, and says the Stooges took a beating on a weekly basis. They would joke about the stiff shots, but they are tough bastards and wouldn’t want it any other way.
37. Austin talks about the dilemma of feuding with a guy who isn’t a trained pro-wrestler and how they had to make that work. He puts over Vince being smart enough to know how to throw more gas on the fire. McMahon discusses how anyone with an attitude could relate to Austin and what he was going through with Vince.
38. Jericho brings up how Austin character morphed into a game that would drive any vehicle. The zamboni is discussed first and Austin says he was told a few minutes before the show how to drive the thing. Next they discuss “Bang 3:16” and Vince pissing his pants. Then we get to the classic stuff and what Lawler calls his favorite Austin/McMahon moment. Vince is in a hospital and hooked up to a heart monitor for a bruised ankle as Foley lets us know. They knew Austin was going to hit Vince with the bed pan, and Steve was kind of worried because it was pretty damn solid. Vince told him it would be fine, so while Mick does his bit with Vince, Austin is out in the hall trying to find the sweet spot. They show Vince getting clobbered with the pan, and Lawler says he had to take his headsets off so people couldn’t hear how loud he was laughing. Too funny!
39. Jericho’s favorite is the cement truck and Austin talks about how he had to hit a certain mark or bit would have been screwed up on live TV. Next up is the beer truck, and Austin says there were 30 gallons of beer in that truck and then turned to water. Everyone loved the beer truck, and Austin loves the sell job by Vince, Shane, and The Rock.
40. The Rock was now an equal to Austin as they headed towards WrestleMania XV. CM Punk says a guy like Austin comes once a generation, but there is an exception to every rule, and in this case you had Austin and Rock. Miz says he was a Rock guy in high school and he lost a lot of money to his friends by always betting on the Rock. Dude really bet cash on pro-wrestling? I’m not judging, but who the fuck takes Rock over Austin at WrestleMania XV.
41. Speaking of XV, Austin says he was going through a divorce at the time, and it pissed him off so much he forgot his vest and thus the reason he worse an Austin shirt for that match. Foley says he was happy to just be a small part of that match as a referee. Austin reiterates that he had to get through some personal problems to deliver that kind of match.
42. Austin’s body starts to take some punishment as we roll through 1999 and everything starts to catch up with his neck. He sees a doctor and is told he has some serious issues and while he could probably keep going it won’t be the best for him in the long run. He then makes the decision to have surgery and at Survivor Series he get’s written out of the WWE via a hit and run. Great idea in theory, but they kind of fucked up the pay-off as they got too smart for their own good. Austin has the surgery and the 1st person he sees when he wakes up is Jim Ross. JR was with him through every step and that’s when he found out how good of a friend JR was.
43. HHH mentions that while Austin’s injury was like chum in the water and everyone was trying to take over his spot. Austin started to heal a little and Vince called to let him know he had plans for when he makes his return. Austin didn’t know if he wanted to come back and take a chance with his neck, but things started to get better and he knew he was coming back better than ever. He still knew he was taking a chance, but he had to be more careful about getting dropped on his head and neck.
44. When Austin finally returned The Rock had assumed the role as the top guy in the company. Austin was nervous about being gone so long and was worried if crowd would accept him. I think it turned out well for him that first night. Austin wins the 2001 Rumble and the big match is Austin/Rock at WrestleMania X-7. The sit down interview between the two is one of the best things you will ever see and thankfully they skip over the stupid idea of having Debra manage Rock for a few weeks. Austin saying “I need to beat you Rock, I need to beat you more than you can imagine,” still gives me chills.
45. WrestleMania X-7 takes place in the AstroDome and Austin gets one of the loudest reactions you will ever hear. Heyman mentions with a big grin on his face that he had the best seat in the house for the match and as a wrestling fan nothing was better. Austin admits that he felt he was getting stale and it was his idea to turn heel since Rock was the new #1 good guy. He then admits he made a mistake and if he could he would have called an audible and stunned Vince after the match. They thought it might work, but it didn’t work as well as they wanted because the fans just didn’t want to boo Austin. Another interesting twist as Austin says it was his idea to align with HHH because he thought it would help fans boo him.
46. People did start to boo him some after weeks of killing the Hardys and Taker/Kane with chairs, but crowd just couldn’t hate him. The best part of the heel turn was it gave Austin a chance to work on new aspects of his character. At King of the Ring, Booker T debuts and injuries Austin when he puts him threw a table. The leads to all the backstage skits with Debra, Vince, Austin, and Angle! Fuck yes!
47. Austin calls it a fun time and only happened because his back was fucked up. Angle was also injured at the time (from same King of the Ring show) and these skits helped him as well. The cowboy hats are still hilarious and Jericho makes sure to point out that Angle was great in the skits as well. True that! Austin says the great part was seeing a legit gold medal wrestler, a bad ass, and a billionaire in these skits was the hilarious part. Austin singing for Vince is pretty fantastic as well. He knows he can’t sing with a damn, but as a heel it doesn’t matter and that’s what made it all the more fun. More fun stuff as he nearly causes Taker to break character during a motivational speech that Vince is giving right before Invasion.
48. Now we get to the origin of “What.” It started with Austin leaving a voice mail for Christian with him saying “what” after each question he asked. A few months later the “what” chants started on TV and Christian couldn’t believe he made it work. The point was that as a heel he would say “what” to shoot down any threats made by baby faces. When he went back to being a face it was just a way to piss off the heels and let the crowd have fun. Jericho says he always had fun with the chants and it never bothered him.
49. Heading to WrestleMania X-8, Austin felt he was losing momentum and that it should have been Austin/Hogan instead of Rock/Hogan. Damn right! No matter how awesome Rock/Hogan was, I would so give that up for Austin/Hogan because I feel Rock/Hogan still would have happened later. The point is Austin wasn’t pleased with creative, and only gets worse from there.
50. In June they let Austin know they want him to lose on RAW to Lesnar in a qualifying match for King of the Ring. Austin calls that decision horseshit because why would you throw away that match on a free RAW as a qualifying match for King of the Ring. Austin says he has no problem losing if it is right for business. I agree 100% with Austin on this one because who in their right mind thought it would be a good idea to give away Austin/Lesnar on free TV? That’s match that should have been saved for PPV and even Jericho even mentions giving that match away on free TV throws away 6 months of build and 6 months of revenue. I am just baffled at how fucking stupid that decision would have been.
51. HHH takes side of the company in respect that it was never a one man show and Austin shouldn’t have just walked out and went home. Austin says that he does regret the way he handled the situation and if he could he would haven’t no showed Atlanta. Again, Austin had a damn solid point, but I agree that taking his ball and going home wasn’t best way of handling things.
52. After a few months JR sets up Vince and Austin meeting in a hotel and they decided to work again. We are now in 2003 and Austin gets to beat the piss out of Bischoff at No Way Out. He enjoyed working with Eric and while the match was snug he didn’t take any liberties with Eric. That leads to WrestleMania XIX and we get Austin/Rock III. WrestleMania XIX is probably the most stacked card you will ever see and for whatever reason doesn’t get as much love as it deserves. Jericho/Michaels was a fucking mid card match on that show. Think about that one for a second.
53. Austin knew things we going to end for him, and the night before the show things start to go wrong. Austin starts having problems while at a gym with Nash, and when he gets back to the hotel he falls over in the hall. He sees a female official for the WWE and she calls an ambulance. Basically Austin spends the night before Mania in a hospital because his system was overloaded on energy drinks. He makes the PPV and while not as great as 2 years previously, it’s still Rock/Austin and it’s still kick ass. After Rock wins the match he pushes the ref away and pretends to talk trash to Austin, but really thanks him and lets him know that he loves him. Good deal! Seeing Austin and Rock both get choked up discussing this moment is pretty surreal and it shows how much each man things of the other. Rock is ever the class act as he leaves the ring to let Austin bask in the cheers in what was the last match of his career.
54. Austin becomes co GM of RAW with Bischoff and fun times ensue. Steve loved working with Eric and thinks they had a great natural chemistry with each other. They knew where they needed to go but did adlib most of what they said. He does feel that they were separated way too early and he is not sure why it stopped so suddenly.
55. After that ended Austin becomes the sheriff of RAW which is just a variation of every other authority figure we have ever seen. The main difference is that Austin gets to ride a 4 wheeler to the ring and obviously Austin was down with that idea. He also got to wear a cute little badge and Jericho says only Austin could get that over and still be a bad ass. Next we discuss how Austin always gave the live show a show after the cameras stopped rolling. This is some great stuff here as Austin has a blast with Lillian Garcia, cameramen, the fans, and whatever WWE Superstars happen to be there at the time. Foley says he thinks it was done because Austin couldn’t give them a show in the ring so he went above and beyond to entertain. Lillian Garcia looked like she was having a blast and I wish I was at some of these shows to see this stuff. The crew and producers had to tell Austin to wraps things up because things were going way to long, but Austin still kept going. The Beer Bashes follow and everyone has fun with those as well.
56. Punk calls Austin a license to print money no matter what he decides to do in the future. That leads to Austin getting into the movies. He mentions he was originally picked to do the Marine, but his agent told him wasn’t a good movie and would kill his career. Austin says that was a stupid decision as he didn’t have a career and he just passed on a starring role. Good point! Austin finally gets his own movie a few years later in The Condemned. Austin enjoyed the movie and various Superstars heap praise on him for it. Vince thinks Austin is more than action star and that he could do comedy and be a leading man.
57. Next WWE puts Austin as the head trainer of the newest version of Tough Enough. Everyone says was a perfect role for Austin as he was great off the top of his head. We get various clips of Austin verbally abusing the kids and pretty damn funny. For Austin it wasn’t a role and he was 100% there to help those kids. Bret mentions Austin was perfect guy because he was so direct and forward with the kids, and he has a lot he can teach.
58. Finally Austin gets inducted by Vince into the Hall of Fame the night before WrestleMania XXV and I am proud to say I was there to see it. This was first year they put a limit on how long guys could talk and it kind of pissed me off as I wanted to sit there for hours and hear stories, but sadly it didn’t happen.
No Mercy: 16th May, 1999 - Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. Undertaker vs. Triple H
Raw: 8th October, 2001 - Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. Kurt Angle
No Mercy: 21st October, 2001 - Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. Kurt Angle vs. Rob Van Dam
WrestleMania XIX: 30th March, 2003 - Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. The Rock
Special Features On Disc ONE (I totally forgot to add these)
-“The Autograph:” Austin tells story of going to a seminary about the school being run by Chris Adams. It was at the sportatoruim and as they wait for the seminar fans pour out after TV taping they start asking Austin for an autograph. He tells them he isn’t a wrestler yet, but fans don’t care so he signs a few autographs with his legal name: Steve Williams. At the seminar Adams keeps picking out Austin and harps that just because he played football doesn’t mean he can be a wrestler. It pisses Austin off so after the seminar he tells Adams that if he teaches him he will prove he can do this.
-“Hair Club:” He starts losing his long hair and he asks Chris Adams (his mentor) what he should do. He doesn’t have any answers so he calls The Hair Club for Men. Awesome! They want to put plugs in his hair and he hauls ass out of there.
-“The Rattlesnake:” He gets the nickname from Jim Ross and that’s all they really mention here.
-“Tangled:” HHH tells funny story about 1999 SummerSlam where Austin got so excited during the match he flipped over the rope and got tangled with his knee brace caught. He nearly fell on his head and HHH had to help the ref untangle him while both are nearly laughing during a PPV Main Event. Heh!
-“Punked:” CM Punk tells about his first meeting with Austin. He actually had a picture taken with Austin at a bar in Chicago when Punk was 15 and sported bright red, spiked hair. Thankfully they show the awesome picture and I am sure you can find it easily. Then at RAW anniversary show Punk sees Hogan and goes to introduce himself and shake his hand, but Hulk blows him off and walks away with his posse. Austin yells at Punk and calls him a straight edge rascal right after and gives Punk a hug. That’s a nice way of pissing on Hogan and putting over how cool Austin is at the same time.
-“The Stunner:” Michael Hayes invented the move in WCW and showed it to Austin one day and he decided to use it as his finisher. We get various clips of everyone taking the Stunner and who takes the best and worst. Austin puts over the way Scott Hall, Shane McMahon, and The Rock all sold the stunner. He gives the award to Rock and really not a surprise because Rock sold that thing like it killed him. I also agree with Hall and especially Shane taking kick ass Stunners. The worst it seemingly Vince as Austin never knew how he would react to the Stunner.
-Now we get another Stone Cold montage set to a Zakk Wylde’s “Bleed for Me.” This one is for those that probably thought the George Strait one was too soft and emotional.
Overall: FUCKING AMAZING documentary THIS IS MY 3RD FAVORITE DOCUMENTARY THE WWE HAS PUT OUT 1st being the ECW oen then the Bret one. The only thing that stops this from being a LEGIT 10/10 is the zero mention of the hhh/austin feud or even his little return at backlash '00. UP NEXT THE MATCHES
The four matches they had on this dvd was okay but i would of took out the angle/austin and 3 way from 2001 out and would of added the Summerslam 2001 match in instead. I understand why they put Rock/Austin III in the No Mercy '99 match is fucking awful and would of preferred another Hollywood blondes match hell even a different 00-01 match. AHHHHHHH IF ONLY BENOIT WAS STILL ALIVE.
