Stone Colds gonna come down here, and i'm gonna do what i want when i want! (Stone Cold Steve Austin)

Member Name: mmmbuffy

Product:	Stone Cold Steve Austin
Date:	04/08/01 (427 review reads)
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Advantages: foul mouthed, beer drinking, one tough SOB

Disadvantages: coward, paranoid

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Stone Cold Steve Austin is one of the most dynamic personas in the WWF today, no, scratch that, in history. His real name is Steve Williams, I guess the Austin is to make the 'Texas rattlesnake' seem more Texan. He is 6"2' and weighs in at 241 pounds and is the current WWF Champion, 'nuff said.

In a time where the WCW were beating the WWF in the Monday night ratings war, Stone Cold Steve Austin was the secret weapon, the 'nuclear device' so to speak that the WWF had up its sleeve.

WCW were at one point the number one brand in sports entertainment, and the WWF were simply getting beat because WCW were buying all of the WWF's top talent, leaving them having to rack their brains as to how to beat WCW once and for all. With the WCW buying all of the WWF's top stars, I guess they didn't realise that they had a gold mine in potential merchandising, and so let go one of their wrestlers who went by the name of 'Stunning' Steve Austin, and let him go for being 'unprofitable'. Ha, that turned around and bit them right in the ass.

Austin then went to the WWF and became Stone Cold Steve Austin. Now, most people get it confused and think that Austin became good when he entered the WWF, the truth is Austin has always been a great wrestler, the only difference is that the WWF used him better.

Austin entered the WWF at the perfect time, a time where the WWF were making some serious changes to try to win back the ratings. The WWF were trying a whole new 'attitude', they were quitting with the old good guy, bad guy wars, and starting with a more rebellious outlook for their characters. I feel Stone Cold Steve Austin is the personification of the WWF's new 'attitude'. He has the perfect r
ebellious, foul-mouthed, don't take no $h1t from no one attitude which the fans really love, I mean, how often is it that a guy can beat the hell out of his boss and not get fired. There is one advert on WWF programming advertising the whole 'attitude' thing, I want to quote Stone Colds advert because I feel it shows his 'attitude' perfectly:

"Stone Cold Steve Austin is going to come down here, and I'm going to do what I want when I want, and it will be THE very worst day of your life. This is the way I think, this is the way I am, and I ain't gonna change for you or nobody and there's not a damn thing you can do about it."

Okay, I'm not sure whether that is it exactly, next time it is on I'll take note and update it, but you can get a picture of it from that. I think that the WWF is only as big as it is now because of Stone Cold.

Stone Cold has only one finisher, and that is the Stone Cold Stunner. This is such a great move because it so simple, and it can be done to anyone, large or small, all day long. What he does is he flips the bird (gives 'em the middle fingers), a quick kick to the stomach which bends the opponent over, he turns he back to them, hooks he right arm over their head, holding it firmly to his shoulder, and sits down. This is very effective as it provides a large blow to the jaw, which effectively knocks his opponent out. It can be said that it is the best, and most effective finisher in the WWF. It is also another example of the WWF's 'attitude', as he gives them the middle finger before he does it, and oh yeah, the crowd go absolutely nuts when he does it.

Austin also has some great rebellious gimmicks (things wrestlers do that no other do, such as The Rocks "If ya smelllllll, what The Rock is, cookin"). First off is his tendency to give the middle finger, he gives it to everyone, to Vince McMahon, but not only that, to the fans as we
ll. This is such a simple, yet greatly effective gimmick showing his rebellious gimmick. Another is his "hell yeah" phrase, he usually says it to get a response from the crowd, for example, "if you want me to whip Vince's ass give me a hell yeah", to which the crowd respond, "hell yeah".

Another is his Bud, he likes to drink Bud after a match that he wins, he gets a guy to throw him two Buds after he has won and drinks them in the ring, great stuff. Finally is his Austin 3:16 gimmick. This has been the source for millions of dollars in merchandising, in fact it is the best selling merchandise ever in the WWF, I'm not sure but it could be the best ever selling merchandise in anything. Now there is some confusion as to where Austin 3:16 originated, I've heard all sorts of stories such as it was his prison number, well no, it wasn't his prison number or anything like that. In Jake the Snake's Bible preaching days, he was talking about John 3:16 (or something) from the Bible, when Austin interrupted and said something followed by, "well Austin 3:16 said I just whooped your ass".

Wait, I'm forgetting something, what is it? oh yeah, how could I forget his big 'go home' line (something which the character ends his interview, like The Rocks "if ya smelll"). Whenever he finishes an insult on someone or something along those lines, he ends it with, "and that's the bottom line, coz' Stone Cold said so".

He has recently adopted newer gimmicks that he uses in his new 'cowardly' attitude. One of these is, "ok, you can have your title shot, I'll take you on any time, any where, just not tonight". Once again, I don't think those are the exact words, but you get what I mean.

I used to watch wrestling about 8 years ago then I stopped, and have only just been watching it again from the time Austin was hit by a car, so I don&
#39;t know too much about the old Stone Cold. However, another gimmick that he has been using a lot, that I don't think he did use is, "look at ya, look at ya, you're pathetic", he tends to use this towards title challengers.

The difficult thing about writing opinions of wrestlers is that some wrestlers change their characters, so what I write now may not be any good in a matter of weeks. Austin is one character that has changed three times since he has been back from a neck injury. Just to explain that Austin injured his neck so the WWF made a great story line, which involved one of the, if not the most dangerous stunt ever tried in live sports entertainment. Austin was hit by a car, in which a wrestler known as Riqishi was driving, which was orchestrated by another wrestler, HHH, to create a great rivalry.

When Austin first came back he was the original foul-mouthed, beer-swilling, don't take no crap from no one Stone Cold, the one who revolutionised sports entertainment, the one the fans can't get enough of. Then, he aligned himself with one of his old time enemies, Vince McMahon, all for the WWF Championship, 'screwing' The Rock, and as you can imagine, it ain't going to go down to well with the fans if you 'screw' the 'peoples champion'. This caused the first Austin change, he went from being as described at the start of the paragraph, to being a suck up, that's right, a big stylee brown-noser. This prompted him to give Vince hugs all the time.

The second change was only recently, and it involves the current story line with the WCW/ECW vs. WWF. Vince needed a leader, someone to lead team WWF, a five man team into the pay-per view main event at Invasion, and Stone Cold was the man to do that. However, not the suck up Stone Cold, on one episode of Smackdown! Vince asked, no, begged Stone Cold to return to his old ways, he even begged him to give him the Stunner. All Austin could
do was leave the arena, head down. Then on the next Raw Austin was at a bar, so Vince went to see him to explain why he needed the old Stone Cold, and I guess it worked. Austin didn't react at first, and Vince left, but later that evening team WWF were getting whooped by the WCW/ECW team, and I mean seriously, completely outnumbered. Austin was listening earlier to the WWF locker room getting some inspiration from a WWF hero from another time (I forget who), I guess this struck something in Austin, because he went into a bit of a rage and headed back to the arena. He gets out of his pick-up to find two WCW/ECW guys beating on some WWF guys, so Austin takes them out, he then proceeds into the arena to find two more WCW/ECW guys, so beats them to. And when the fans heard the sound of glass breaking across the sound system (that's the beginning of Austin?s music) they went nuts, seriously, the sound must have been deafening, the old Stone Cold was back! He started walking down to the ring, where team WWF were getting slaughtered, then began running, got in and cleared house, he gave half of them the Stunner, I swear, if you are a fan and didn't see it, it was truly amazing. A great example of why the WWF is so good.

This third change however, only lasted for a week, as the next Sunday at Invasion, he would change again. The main event was an inaugural brawl, a five-man tag match between team WWF and the alliance. This was the formidable team of Kane, Undertaker, Chris Jericho, Kurt Angle, and the old Stone Cold, against DDP (Diamond Dallas Paige), Booker T, and former WWF superstars Rhyno, and the Dudley Boyz. What a match, it was all but over when Angle locked his ankle lock on Booker T, but wait, Stone Cold made his most recent change, he became even worse than when with McMahon, he broke the ankle lock, and hit Angle with the Stunner. Now Austin is a paranoid guy who needs constant reassurance from his new owners, and as if that isn't bad en
ough, for the first time in history, the WWF title is in the hands of another company. Oh, Kurt Angle incidentally after being screwed is now a fan favourite.

I don't think there is too much doubt that Austin will once again be the old Stone Cold, being the most profitable character ever in the history of wrestling it is only a matter of when, not if.

And that's the bottom line, coz' mmmbuffy said so!!!
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