Steve Austin

Austin 316 says, I just whooped your ass.

And that's the bottom line, because Stone Cold said so.

If you smell what The Rock is cooking.

I got one word for you.

And eventually when he started actually wrestling and teaming with the blade, you know, I reached out to him.

When I was living in that, we were living in L.A. and I was like, hey, you know, I work with Steve Austin.

Do you want to maybe be on Steve Austin show? And I pitched, you know, Andy and the blade to Steve.

And he was like, yeah, let's let's do it.

And they came in.

Yeah.

You know, and Andy was like.

beyond the fucking moon because it's Steve Austin

It's not you, Uncle Paul.

It's not the man who has the bottom line, Steve Austin.

I see part of Holy's head shaved in the mask here.

I think that's always been part of his aesthetic, but it's really evident and apparent seeing him in this state of mind.

I mean, Savio Vega.

Draws wins on takedowns.

You can order a new Stone Cold Steve Austin shirt that ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-bad to the bones one for $25 plus shipping and handling in 1998 money.

That is American currency if this was the Canadian dollar in 1998, which I think was crap like it is today.

You get one thing that gets over, and then they just start doing it forever and ever, and it's just kind of like, come up with something new.

I know The Rock and Steve Austin have the same catchphrases every single week, but when they cut promos, it was always new material, it felt

like.

They would say some random shit, and if that would stick, they would say it next week, and then they would move on to something else.

The one former champion that he's not going to wrestle.

If he ever does go to WWE, he needs to have Stone Cold Steve Austin's entrance.

glass shattering

I get it no because here's the thing Steve Austin is a generational talent that will never see anything like again and Jack Perry is a little guy who stinks

Other than that, it was a few things scattered in here and there, but then there was a lot of retro stuff.

A lot of people had Stone Cold, had some rock shirts, and you saw, of course, flares and things like that.

But there

wasn't...

It's the same regardless of who she's facing, but it seems that WWE's trying to force this, and she's doing a good job with it, but I feel like if you don't want to try to force the fans to do something they don't want to do, just trying to keep her character...

In the same mold, though, I also understand wanting to get people to boo her against Bianca, who's not an expendable opponent.

So, I mean, I wonder, like, would that be the way to go? Maybe like this kind of like this stone cold Britt Baker type with Becky Lynch.

Of course, they're two polar opposites, but in terms of like the characters never changing, that's what with Becky.

which was the first semi-final match.

As you pointed out, there was no quarter-finals in here, so we had Stone Cold Steve Austin against Mark Merrow.

This was probably one of the best, if not the best, match of the night.

Mark Merrow is, you know, it's not his debut pay-per-view, is it? Because I'm pretty sure he was on the previous In Your House before this, but

Bad from WCW, but he's now Mark Merrow.

And he's got his wife with him, who later on gets all the attention.

But here he has a solid match with Steve Austin.

He does a move up midway through the match, which busts open Austin's lip.

Yeah, we're recording on Tuesday, September 15th.

In one of the most consequential moves in wrestling history that nobody would have thought would be of any consequence at all, Eric Bischoff fired Stone Cold from WCW.

Stone Cold was injured.

I think it was a bicep injury or tricep.

I think it was something to do with his arm, if I remember right.

But don't quote me on that.

And Eric Bischoff had told Stone Cold already, kind of like, I don't really see.

You're not a money guy.

The name got a big pop, although Dave says I was confused.

Was Sting fighting for Canada and family values against Americans like Stone Cold? Later in the show, Samoa Joe did an interview and brought up that Sting never works house shows and that even though he makes more money than everyone else, which Bob joked about at the beginning of the show.

Okay.

It's match time, baby.