Drop the Cow: Since Austin's active career with WWE ended, any appearance he makes is just buildup until he inevitably Stone Cold Stunner(s) everyone in the ring, whether it makes any sense or not. The crowd always goes crazy for this. Arrive. Stunner. Leave. Important Haircut: His hairline was deteriorating rapidly in the nineties, but he still tried to be a long-haired blond (e.g. the vanilla of pro wrestling) who preened about his looks all the time. Not so as Stone Cold. It's gotten to the point where, when Austin gave commentators Booker T and Josh Matthews stunners while celebrating with them after Michael Cole's defeat at WrestleMania 27, Josh and Booker actually got mad at Michael Cole for getting them so excited over his defeat that they'd be dumb enough to get in the ring with Austin in a beer bash, knowing the end result. Commuting on a Bus: While his days as a full-timer are long over, Austin has never truly left the WWE. He's returned as a special guest on Raw and pay per views on countless occasions to drink beer and deliver Stunners. He managed to almost single handedly turn the tide in a WWE-Alliance street-style fight by just showing up and beating the hell out of any Alliance member he saw with a broken pool cue.

Odd Couple: With Kurt Angle and Vince McMahon during the start of the Invasion storyline. It's often considered some of the funniest promos in WWF history. And that’s not all, because the Hulk has got something else for y’all,” Volkanovski added, at which point Whittaker stood up and tore off his shirt, a la Hulk Hogan, while Volkanovski walked around firing the double bird salute. Austin: I'll tell you why, because Stone Cold said so! And that's the bottom line, why?! BECAUSE OL' STONE COLD SAID SO! And that's the damnedest bottom line I ever bottom-lined!

The sixth match of the event was a Chicago Street Fight between the Legion of Doom ( Hawk and Animal) and Ahmed Johnson and Nation of Domination ( Faarooq, Crush and Savio Vega). All the two teams hit each other with many foreign objects. The match continued inside the ring and outside the ring in the same fashion. Finally, Animal hit Crush with a 2x4 and then pinned him to win the match. [6] Main Event [ edit ] The Undertaker, who won the WWF World Heavyweight Championship from Sycho Sid Whenever the crowd chants "asshole" at a heel he's facing, he'll say "I don't know how good your hearing is, but you got about [insert number of fans in attendance] calling you an asshole!" Before the event aired live on pay-per-view (PPV), Billy Gunn faced Flash Funk at Free for All. [6] Gunn defeated Funk by pinning him following a tornado DDT. Establishing Character Moment: Austin's coronation as the 1996 King of the Ring, where he bad-mouthed Jake "the Snake" Roberts trying to recover from his alcoholism, became the basis of the Stone Cold character.

His infamous submission match against Bret Hart showed, even if he’s brash and uncouth (or maybe even because of it, he’s the toughest SOB in the WWE to the point that he’d rather pass out from blood loss than tap out. Flipping the Bird: The Stone Cold Salute, which he does to both foes who piss him off and the audience (who return in kind). He actually gets over by flipping off the very people who support him.

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Anti-Hero: One of the first extremely popular ones in wrestling. He was a Sociopathic Hero when he first turned as he still kept all his Heelish aspects and acted like a complete jerk to the fans, although he lightened into an Unscrupulous Hero during his nicer periods. Leave it to Dillon Brooks to make an dramatic entrance ahead of the Memphis Grizzlies' win over the Los Angeles Lakers Tuesday. Rebellious Spirit: Stone Cold Steve Austin's feud with Vince McMahon marked the first time someone had stood up to the boss. It was basically a blue collar worker doing what many want to but realistically cannot.

Stone Cold" Steve Austin (born Steven James Anderson, December 18, 1964; later Steven James Williams) is a professional wrestler who wrestled for Jerry Lawler's USWA, WCW, ECW and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (among others) before signing with the WWF in 1995, under whom he'd wrestle almost exclusively for the rest of his career. The main feud heading into WrestleMania 13 was between The Undertaker and Sycho Sid, with the two battling over the WWF Championship. At In Your House 13 in February, Bret Hart last eliminated The Undertaker in the Final Four match to win the vacant WWF Championship. [6] Hart's reign, however, lasted only one day as he lost the title the next night on Monday Night Raw to Sycho Sid after interference by Stone Cold Steve Austin, one of the other participants in the Final Four match (the other was Vader, who had no further involvement in the ongoing storyline). [6] Due to being the runner-up to the title at Final Four, Undertaker was made the number one contender and was booked to challenge Sycho Sid for the title at WrestleMania. However, on the March 17 edition of Raw Is War, Sid defended the title against Hart in a steel cage match, with the winner defending his title at WrestleMania. During the match, both Undertaker and Austin interfered. Undertaker came out to help Sid because he wanted to wrestle Sid for the title while Austin helped Hart because he wanted to make his scheduled submission match with Hart a title match. Sid won the match and retained his title and as a result, Sid vs. Undertaker remained the main event of WrestleMania. [6] Bret Hart faced Stone Cold Steve Austin in a Submission Match at WrestleMania Known as “Stunning” Steve Austin, the antihero of WWE was markedly different from his WWE self. At first glance, Austin was a capable in-ring technician but seemingly devoid of charisma and his character was that of a generic heel. Austin turned this into an art form. Even as "Stunning" Steve Austin, his finisher, the Stun Gun, essentially involved dropping his opponent's throat onto the top rope. In the WWF, he took it up to eleven, using chairs, vehicles and, at one point, shooting Scott Hall with a net gun.

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Pre-WWE, he used the Stun Gun (drop-your-opponent-throat-first-on-the-top-rope, aka Eddie Gilbert's Hot Shot). If Austin tosses someone a beer. Expect them to get stunned, always. Whether they be fellow wrestlers, authority figures, or even commentators. DTA! But if Austin hands a defenseless referee like Earl Hebner a beer, they're safe. After all, sharing a beer with the working man, is one of Austin's defining characteristics. Villain Song: His 2000 theme song, "Glass Shatters" by Disturbed became this after his Face–Heel Turn, with the lyrics telling his opponents that they're "next in the line for the kill" and how he's breaking their limits. It's an awesome video and if you haven't watched it yet, then we definitely advise you to get on Youtube immediately. Stone Cold E.T. became a viral sensation in 2012, but unfortunately, there hasn't been a successful Stone Cold impersonator since. The world needs another Stone Cold E.T. which begs the question: could the next amazing Stone Cold impersonator be you?

When Bischoff and Three Minute Warning were about to beat the hell out of an 85-year old Freddie Blassie (with the implication that they were going to kill him), Austin came to the old man's aid and got him out of harm's way. When the Dudley Boyz arrived and started battling Three Minute Warning, Stone Cold stayed at Blassie's side and made sure that Three Minute Warning wouldn't do anything to him. The reasons for his departure from WCW are well known, as the upper management saw nothing marketable about him. However, his stint in WCW was nowhere as terrible as people believe. His WWE career was obviously better, but the work of Stunning Steve Austin is nothing to scoff at.Funetik Aksent: Played for Laughs, as Austin would refer to the McMahons' hometown of Greenwich, CT (which is pronounced "Greh-niche") as if it were pronounced "Green-witch." He even helped his arch-enemy Vince McMahon by rescuing his daughter Stephanie from the Corporate Ministry.