Creating A Wrestler - Stone Cold Steve Austin

Stone Cold Steve Austin is one of the most popular superstars to ever grace a WWF / WWE wrestling ring. When Steve Austin made his WWF debut, however, things didn't look so prosperous.
Austin was fired from WCW and he immediately travelled to Paul Heyman's ECW. It was in ECW where fans got a glimpse of what Steve Austin could really be, however his WWF debut was met with uncertainty as Steve transformed himself into "The Ringmaster". Austin didn't like his gimmick, he got inspired after watching a documentary on HBO, but the WWF struggled when coming up with a new name for Steve Austin (Fang McFrost, for example, was suggested by the WWF creative team).

With a little help from his ex-wife Jeanie Clarke, Steve was able to repackage himself as "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, and while the gimmick got off to a pretty unnoteworthy start, the real side of Stone Cold was unleashed during his feud with Bret Hart.

00:00 - Intro
01:30 - The Creation of "Stone Cold"
09:00 - The Characteristics of Stone Cold
15:07 - Stone Cold Career Highlights
20:33 - Evolution of Stone Cold Steve Austin
23:26 - Credits

#WWE #WWF #wrestling

[Aragon-pk]

Stone Cold was the symbol of Attitude Era. He was a badass, he didn't fear anybody and he kicked ass. You can imagine what matches he could've had if was never injured in 1997.

[spnge]

Stone Cold is easily one of the most important wrestlers of all time. Few wrestlers could define an era, let alone begin eras.

[lorettaallen]

I am going through a messy divorce and your channel is my favorite... sometimes you gotta just unwind with some classic wrestling bios, thanks for getting me to a happy place every time i watch

[AlphaProto]

Stone Cold Steve was an awesome heel. His early Stone Cold promos were awesome (Black and White barking dog promo).
They were so good that even though he was a heel he was getting a babyface pop.
Also WWF was pretty family friendly back in the 1990s. So when he was dropping cuss words it really shocked people.

[richarddowdjr.]

That Slaughter Stunner @14:15 was the best ever.

[JordanJMyers]

Glad I was a teenager during this amazing time. Stone Cold will always be my fav.

[mushroomsamba]

I was a teenager during the attitude era and it seemed like Stone Cold *was* the WWF. He seemed to pick up the entire company on his back (by extension the entire industry) and carry it to the forefront of pop culture. For anyone who wasn't around at the time it's hard to understate just how over Austin was.

[anthonyclark]

I hope HBK gets a Video in this Series. I know he's not everyone's favorite, but he is legitimately one of the Greatest to do it, and this Series is so good, I really want to see one about him. Nobody else could have made what he made out of being a Male Stripper Character. Yes, for those who don't know, HBK was definitely a Male Stripper Character, and no one could have done with that, what he did with it. Just ask Marcus Alexander Bagwell, and Scotty Riggs.

[brandonperkins]

Stunning?! Tossed it out the window! Stone Cold Steve Austin, one HELL of a wrestler, and a legend

[ignatiusjackson]

Dude, I was expecting the glass to shatter at the very beginning! 😂

[mikem]

My Mother died in 95, unexpectedly. I needed someone to live my life through. Fast forward a year later and the early Austin promos in November 96, I completely was fascinating with the Austin character.

[dorbur]

I can't finish this documentary... I keep going back to the stunner at 14:18 and can't breathe from laughing. SGT Slaughter... greatest bump ever.

[jenkinju]

The way Slaughter took that stunner has always been so epic to me

[djlune]

That kurt angle and Steve Austin cowboy hat segment took me out just because of the simple fact that Stone Cold was laughing when he saw the mini cowboy hat 😂😂😂😂

[sean]

Sp grateful to have grew up watching prime austin. You had to be there to truly understand

[BOABModels]

I got into WWF in 2000 when Austin was out injured - I knew of him as I played Smackdown! and of course he was mentioned on TV, but all of his rise was something from before. That's why I like these kind of videos - they show so much that I missed at the time.

[venomousnate]

With Stone Cold Steve Austin as the face of WWF back in the day, it was right place, right time. It was the era of the antihero in that time period. He had the right look and personality to go with it.

[DanXJ]

I think HHH is himself too. Would anyone say The Cerebral Assassin was a character after he ditched the Connecticut Blueblood gimmick?

[CMDHistoria]

Imagine if the “curtain call” doesn’t happen. HHH isn’t “punished” and SCSA doesn’t win KotR and doesn’t cut the 3:16 promo.

[bastih.]

I remember his first feud with the Rock over the IC title when he threw the belt in the river. I was shocked and thought "How is he allowed to do that?".