 What's good Josh the boy Ross back again with another video so I'm finally checking out how Adam with book Steve Austin's he'll turn I know you guys had been asking me to check this out for quite some time It's just it been so many other videos. I had been trying to check out as well But I was gonna make my way to checking this out. I love is how he would book series He has some pretty good like like fantasy Booking ideas that I will actually love to us to have seen a lot of these Actually play out on television. So this one should be a good one. We all know Stone Cold Steve Austin's he'll turn Really didn't work. He tried he gave it his best effort for him turning kill at WrestleMania 17 it it didn't work because he was still too over Like when he started aligning himself with the two-man power trip with Triple H That kind of started to take off just a little bit like he was doing some pretty Evil stuff, but once again, he was still super over so and they didn't really get to the point of Nuclear heat like I think they wanted to so It was just one of those type of things where it's like it's Stone Cold at the end of the day. Yeah, it's Stone Cold That's all you could really say like he was still gonna be beloved by so many fans So we're gonna check that's check this out. See how you would have did this and I'm looking forward to it I know He's gonna, you know probably come up with some creative ideas. What are the worst decisions? WWE has ever made now. I'm not talking about business decisions the XFL WWE World Restaurant tour diesel is WWE champion ranked quite highly there Nor do I mean patterns of decisions like Cena wins lol Roman wins lol or putting part-timers over there up and comers Those are all cumulatively very bad, but each individual choice is relatively harmless I mean which single decisions made by the WWE have had the most significant impact on their creative product For the worst I can think of three that stand head and shoulders above them all NXT 2.0 taking Monday Night Raw to three hours and the 2001 He is spot-on the NXT 2.0 Just that whole that whole brand switch just reeks of Monday Night Raw light or smackdown light It just doesn't reeks of what we what we used to love with the black and gold Making Raw three hours was one of the worst things they could have ever did It's still one of the worst things it needs to be two hours. Three hours is just too long, bro Just make it two hours there and then you know arguably some people can say Turning Stone Cold Steve Austin Hill was not the right move. He'll turn of Stone Cold Steve Austin I mean you knew that would be the last one in that three Because that's the title of this video. I'm out of hailing from parts fun No Stone Cold Steve Austin. Have you heard of him? He's the snake boy. Not that snake boy The other snake boy. There we go. That's a snake boy the Brattlesnake boy Steve Austin debuted in WWE in 1996 after a cup of coffee in ECW where he ended up after being fired by Eric Bischoff via fax machine because he didn't think Steve Austin had much more of an upside in the wrestling business. It's never fun to watch your dad make a mistake It's never fun to watch your dad cry It's never fun to watch your dad be loaded into a garbage truck where he'll presumably be crushed and killed Anyway, WWE debuted Austin as the ringmaster because they're dumb too, but for long he changed his name to Stone Cold Steve Austin a trash-talking heel so called because of his lack of empathy who won King of the Ring created Austin 316 had a Hugely underrated match with Bret Hart at Survivor Series 96 won the Royal Rumble 97 year after debuting had a hugely Rated match with Bret Hart at WrestleMania 13 turned face in the process then began WWE's Process of slowly heating up Austin for his inevitable coronation at the next year's WrestleMania a journey that almost Ended in tragedy when at SummerSlam 97 and a botched pile driver from Owen Hart Austin compressed his neck a single move which unwittingly Started a ticking clock on the rest of the rattlesnakes career now despite wrestling on borrowed time Austin had one of the best Actually really sure runs when you think about it in wrestling history after being crowned WWE champion His feud with Vince took the company ahead in the ratings of a WCW 1990 his few events was legendary That's why he's pretty much my all-time favorite wrestler His feud with Vince McMahon single-handedly Took them over the hump of Okay, now WWE they or WWF at the time. They're onto something now The WCW was killing them in the ratings But this is what started helping them because of this feud because people could relate because Stone Cold was so over Because people hate events This is what catapulted them to new heights 86 was an amazing year for the company Not only did they have a white hot feud presiding over the main event But their mid card was generating triple H and the rock two men who would also lead the company deeper into its Beloved era now the rock ascended first capturing the title by the end of the year at Survivor Series 1999 a year later Austin's neck issues caught up with him and he left to have surgery returning full-time 10 months later now a lot happened in those 10 months in the big dubby dub Dubbed a doo-dub the rock triple H and to a lesser extent the big show had all been crowned WWE champion with rock and trips firmly cemented as co-faces of the company when he returned Austin wasn't the only player in town and honestly That's why the Atutera was good a diversity of huge draws rather than just one star that has to be protected at all costs cough John Cena cough Roman Reigns Cough Hulk Hogan Austin was still crazy popular Do not get me wrong But wasn't carrying the company on his back anymore that fact coupled with a general feeling that he'd accomplished all he could as a Face led Steve Austin to want to turn heel which he did a WrestleMania X7 shaking hands with the devil himself Vincent Kennedy Mahon the man he'd spent the entirety of 1998 and most of 99 Feuding with he joined forces with triple H the man who'd organized him being hit with a car They formed the two man the two-man power trip when you think about it this dude from a story point Like storyline standpoint. He aligned himself with the guy that hit him track the end of his career Said fuck it We good, bro. It was all a misunderstanding Power trip won all the gold triple H went out with an injury and Austin pivoted into an unstable whiny heel desperate for Respect then Steve Austin checks notes fell in love with Vince McMahon Subjugating himself for Vince's amusement making himself look foolish This is Steve Austin remember the guy's intense cool factor took the company to one parallel heights in 98 Look, there. He isn't a cowboy hat Then the alliance happened Austin briefly returned to the old stone cold in one of the biggest pops in raw history WWE saw that pop and thought can't have that better turn him heel again got to think of the business after all Austin turned heel again at the Invasion pay-per-view joined the alliance changed his music to a generic piece of trash Alliance into that winner-take-all match a survivor series and afterwards he just kind of turned face because he didn't want to kiss Vince McMahon's bear asshole. That is enough to turn the man face So why didn't the heel turn work? WWE took one of the most lucrative and again coolest characters and slowly stripped him of everything that made him great attitude Music merch crowd connection and crucially crucially did it at a time where there wasn't anyone perfectly positioned to take his place When they struck gold and turned the super hot super baby face rock heel at Survivor Series 98 They had super baby face stone cold ready to fight him the night after mania x7 The rock was written off TV and had to go and become I believe it was a beetle Duke I forget exactly what the movie is about triple H But they stapled him to Austin to make people actually boo him as if Vince McMahon Stephanie McMahon beating up Jim Ross The Hardys leader with a fucking chair Undertaker was the person they eventually picked to be the main face to go up against Austin But he was just coming off the worst in ring year of his career in 2000 Like the fans really didn't like Undertaker in 2000 like they actually vote I think in the Wrestle Observer Newsletter Awards. He was voted the fans least favorite Personality Kane was never really treated like a main event player There's just jingle had been champion, but he was just entering into his program with Chris Benoit I mean the fact that at backlash the pay-per-view after Wrestlemania X7 all the gold had to be on the line That kind of illustrates the problem here the hole left by the rock of Importance that people were struggling to fill also the fact is that people didn't want to boo Austin when people are tired Said this people they liked him too. He was so over. They didn't want to boom It was hard to boom because it's like I mean, I like Austin like why I want I don't want to pull him Character being in a role they will tell you with their voices and with their wallets and neither of those things were the case So WWE essentially just created a huge problem for themselves Fixing a problem that didn't exist beyond Austin creatively wanting to push himself and he did some really good stuff Don't get me wrong kumbaya for the fact that this isn't stone cold Steve Austin is really funny He had some great matches with angle the two-man Patrick versus Jericho Benoit as one of Raw's best matches ever But none of these things justify the fact that WWE at a time when they only had one Tentpole super draw super baby face turned him heel without a good enough plan to follow it up and Torpedo their pay-per-views and weekly shows in the process. It is something that should never ever ever Ever ever ever ever have happened. It's one of their worst decisions of all time There's no chance would ever be a good idea and under no circumstances should someone actually attempt it That's what you're about to do Let me have a go All right, let's see what he does with this heel turn man. I'm very interested to see how he would do it What's going on? I Sure Austin turning heel was a terrible idea, but don't worry WWE make terrible creative decisions all the time you can find out about each and every one of them first by Subscribing to our other wrestling channel wrestle talk for daily Wrestling news videos get on over give them a subscribe and turn those notifications on for up to the minute breaking wrestling news What people want from me and sure I choose the topic for this video each month But what do you want from me Austin should a stunned Vince McMahon? Raw the next night turn back face tricking Vince McMahon and maybe be a tweener going up against the rock Austin as a Heel after Maniac 7 is a bad idea because of the specific circumstances surrounding it Now if I could wave a magic wand and just keep the rock around between Mania and Summerslam, then sure It's a fine idea delay the count of crabs movie run Super babyface rock vs. Super heel Austin at backlash keep that momentum going that judgment day throw face triple H into the mix Having given him enough time to turn all sorts of stuff You can do we're taking some of the biggest feuds of the last few years and inverting the heel face alignment, but I Can't do that. I Simply can't do it. I'm a senator Anakin No, while a lot of these videos are fueled by wish fulfillment, you know They should hide this guy or this person not being in this match means he might not have gotten injured I also feel like I have to sort of stick to some sort of realistic brief. Austin has to turn heel I have to let the rock go and be the ugly bug Brahma bull And this all has to go down a WrestleMania X7 because these are the Fundaments of the Austin heel turn and why it didn't work So we start a WrestleMania X7 and earlier in the night Shane beats Vince clean as a whistle But after the match Vinnie Mack is carted out by medical officials and taken to a local medical facility He's gone from the WrestleMania card and we do not see him again for the rest of the night backstage before the main event We see Austin on the phone Michael Cole with his absolutely horrendous frosted tips. How could you die your hair? So blonde Michael you look stupid and look you've got a dark beard as well with dyed blonde hair You're f***ing idiot Cole comes up to him asks him, you know, what's this all about and Austin says it doesn't matter The only thing that matters is that after coming back to the WWF. This is the time where he will finally Finally Be crowned world champion. Nothing else matters to him not his health and his life Not as pride. The only thing he cares about is becoming world champion and that's the bottom line because I Said so the main event of the night rock versus Austin and the match plays out pretty much as it didn't Yeah, like Austin starting hard trying to hit rock with the championship cutting the rock open There's a rabid look in Austin's eyes and J. R. And Heyman play up the fact that he hasn't been champion for a year and a half He needs this to prove that he hasn't lost everything that made him stone coal Steve Austin where is the limit? Austin would push himself to to get what he wants Austin hits the stun God what a stunt but rock kicks out. Austin is beside himself He gestures to the back and that's when he comes out not Vince McMahon, but rather Eric Bischoff the man who fired Austin from WCW the man who just seen world championship wrestling go out of business the man Who's WCW wrestlers have been sitting in the stands all night Bischoff comes down And much like Vince did helps Austin beat rock for the two shake hands in the center of the ring Okay weeks after Vince crushed his competition Vince is now hospitalized and his bitter rival Eric Bischoff is in his ring Shaking hands with his top champion. What the hell does this mean for the company? Next night on Monday night I know Austin explains it's W. He doesn't know these people a damn thing and more than that He doesn't know the WWF a damn thing now survive a series 1999 Austin was run down on Vince's watch and the come he just kept on going during Austin's time away He saw the WWF move on and he realized that I'm liking where this is going I'm liking the fact that he's playing up the storyline of I got hit and you motherfuckers just kept going like it was nothing like A motherfucker didn't just try to kill me with a vehicle. Yeah, it was just nothing. I like that I like that a lot after almost giving his life for the company seeing his neck Broken in that company's ring the company to naturally give a rat's ass about me So he doesn't give a rat's ass about the company So he's bringing in the only person who hates the WWF and Vince McMahon more than he does Eric Bischoff Bischoff enters and if 2001 proved nothing else is that WWF fans are Tribal tribal enough to turn Vince into a baby face by everything at Manurex seven enough to completely erase all of Austin's heel Working one night and turn him into the old stone cold again I think the only real way to turn Austin heel that doesn't a align him with the man He's feuded with four years and be aligned him with the man who literally planned his murder And in fact honors both of those feuds is to have him be Anti-WWF Bischoff boasts that the only reason the WWF is still in business because he fired Steve Austin in the first Place it's almost like he felt pity for the poor WWF fans after WCW kicked their ass for 83 straight weeks And so he sent them Steve Austin for which Austin Thanks him from the bottom of his heart Austin holds up the WWF title This is the symbol of this company and this company's a piece of trash First time since coming back Austin is world champion, but this is not the world championship I want he drops it in a trash can and as he does so Shane McMahon comes down to the ring carrying a briefcase turns out that Shane had a silent partner in Purchasing WCW and that someone was Eric Bischoff creating a I hesitate to use this word But an alliance of Austin Bischoff and Shane McMahon three people unified in one thing. They Justified in hating Vince McMahon, but now they're being total dicks about it The best kind of villainy Shane McMahon opens up the briefcase. He's brought to the ring and inside is the big goal WCW's world champ. That's it holds it up This is the symbol of excellence in this business This is the belt held by the true wrestling great Harley race Dusty Rhodes Ric Flair to sum up in early 2001 You have WCW going out of business WWF acquiring WCW Shane Hospitalizing his dad and suddenly the stage has been cleared for Austin Bischoff and Shane to rule over Vince's company with an iron Fist that's when you bring out the rock and build their rematch in a main event of Monday night raw in that rematch I'm sure keep it a cage. Why not? That's when you cement Austin's turn by having him cripple the people's champion However, at the end of that match Triple H does come down to the ring sledgehammer in hand and he clears house because Triple H is the cerebral ass asshole. He also cares about the WWF more than anyone else He's Vince's son-in-law and by God. He really likes the WWF big eagle championship He held it often enough Bischoff and Austin managed to get out of the ring But Shane gets hit with a pedigree and that is the feud heading into backlash heel off He is really that that's a nice He's that's a nice double turn there. It makes sense, bro It's very creative It works if you're gonna have Stone Cold be a heel you don't align him with the guy that tried to run him over and Vince McMahon, you don't line him with them. You align him with someone that hates Vince just as much That makes so much sense. I like this is Bro, Adam should definitely be on WWE creative Grant, I don't know if they would actually take his opinion seriously But he definitely should have a job at WWE because this is actually really creative Austin versus face Triple H Playing off their huge feud of the year that got amazing chemistry together And but now this time Triple H is trying to fight to bring the WWF championship back to the WWF Now backlash the numbers game captures up to Triple H and many Bischoff shenanigans or Bischoffigans which sounds like a great name for a biscuit after those Austin retains the championship now after backlash Austin Dedicates himself to destroying all of the WWF's most beloved faces So yes, he can attack the Hardy boys from behind lay them out beat people down Go feral attack people like Undertaker and came with a lead pipe He tells the locker room that no one is safe typical Steve Austin DTA But now on the side of evil we built towards judgment day and one final match between Triple H and Steve Austin This time hell and I shall Bischoff wants to cripple Vince's company to make WWF feel like its time is running out Bischoff agrees to the cell stipulation for judgment day on one condition that Triple H's career is on the line Couple of reasons for this is to give Triple H that time off because booking alternatives to real-life serious injuries makes me feel a bit weird But also this is a lot of Triple H Steve Austin matches three major pay-per-view matches between the two in the space of half a year Now I mean the reason this is happening is that trips is the biggest Non-rock star in the company at the time But at least this way all the matches should feel different three stages of hell a world championship match with alignment switch Then Hell in a Cell with a career on the line and judgment day Austin nails Triple H with a title hits him with not one Not two but three stone cold stunners and pins the game banishing him from the Austin is systematically removing things we love that's so good big belt basically Austin is Thanos He's deleting half of the WWF roster in this story line. I like that. I like that a lot One of the biggest stars of the attitude era and all while remaining some semblance of a badass There is no need for a cowboy hat here after Triple H That's when we pivot to Steve Austin versus Kurt Angle now as we saw in real life shouldn't be too hard to turn Kurt base He's very much Mr WWF having never worked for Bishop also King of the Ring is the next pay-per-view and no one's had more success of that show in Recent years and Kurt Angle in fact We don't even have to lose the precious angle versus Shane McMahon Street fight after angles feud with Chris Benoit A judgment day the two can shake hands finally having earned each other's respect angle will turn face that way an angle Becomes a number one contender and that's when Austin Shane and Bischoff Attack Bischoff announces that since King of the Ring is Kurt's special event And since he's used to working multiple times in a night sure He'll get Steve Austin one-on-one for the world championship But first he has to go through Shane in a street fight Earlier on the card Angle beat Shane but his injuries catch up to him in the main and Austin pins in clean to retain the WCW world championship now the next pay-per-view is the last one before SummerSlam What was the invasion pay-per-view, but now in fact it's fully loaded Austin Braggs about how he's our stopper boy Now he will systematically beat every single piece of trash in the company until there is no more WWF just him Steve Austin the only professional wrestler in the world who's worth even half a damn And that's when you run Austin versus all of the WWF main event scene in the main event are fully loaded Austin versus Angle versus Undertaker versus Kane Eric Bischoff is really starting to get above his station Austin is legit pissed being put into a match with four people who want to skin him and wear him as a Gordy shape belt buckle there's dissension in the ranks of the Alliance during the main event are fully loaded Bischoff Accidentally clock Steve Austin with the belt which almost costs him the title But for the fact that it's a fatal four-way So someone else breaks up the pin and in the chaos Austin manages to hit Kane with a stunner and pin him to retain the Championship as Austin celebrates in the ring after the match if you're some man The pop that that would have had oh Boy would have been stupid The rock returns to set up rock versus Austin the rematch at SummerSlam And as well that's a story that is gonna bring a closed circle to Austin as a heel the rock and Steve Austin Cut promos on each other in the build up to SummerSlam The rock reminds Stone Cold that it's always been the two of them rock and Austin Austin and rock the two Central pillars of the WWF in the actually dear reminding Austin of the man He used to be he shows him footage of himself as the ringmaster tells Austin Yes, you helped to build this place, but this place also built you Vince McMahon Maybe a no-good monkey-ass Jabroni But he never sent Austin's ass packing via a fax or stole a promotion From his daddy rock tries to cause further dissension between Austin Bischoff and Shane And it starts to work with Austin hitting Shane McMahon with a stunner, but Refusing to hit one on Bischoff not yet the main event of SummerSlam Austin versus rock And while the first one was Austin's journey to becoming a heel this time It's his journey back to becoming a face Realizing that Bischoff is the greater evil and coming to terms with his place in the WWF at this stage of his life In the end the rock hits Austin with the rock bottom and pins him to become the new WWF champion the WCW belt is discarded the rock brings back the big eagle He's celebrating with it when he comes face to face with Austin who extends a hand Wish the rock shakes Bischoff runs into the ring to get an Austin's face What the hell are you doing Austin drops him with the stunner turning face Once more the next night on Raw Eric Bischoff vows This isn't over and that's when hearkening back to a certain video. I made about the invasion all those years ago That's when Bischoff brings in the NWO You can just buy out the contracts and you can bring him in and make you can make the money back with a few crazy High-paper people like it's not hard Bischoff and the NWO invade the WWF And that's when Vince makes a huge return as a baby face announcing also that he's rehired Triple H the next pay-per-view is invasion the main event Austin rock Triple H versus Hollywood Hogan Scott Hall and Kevin that would be sick Use the Austin heel turn to set the stage for a delayed invasion storyline That'll culminate a WrestleMania 18 introducing the bigger bad That is the NWO all while hopefully not losing much main event momentum between mania x7 and summer slam while the rocks away Becoming the pincer prince or whatever Austin can turn heel that are enough just about main event talent to feud with there's an actual reason for it happening and it builds into something that Desperately needed fixing so that is how I would book Steve Austin's 2001 heel turn I still think it shouldn't have happened. Yeah, just ride with Austin as your top face people like him They buy his merch. They're happy to see him. What why fix what isn't broken? But here is my Fix of them breaking what wasn't broken And Yo, not mad at it. I like that that was very creative very like It it works in that time period. I could have seen that happening It's much better than the the invasion angle like this this works It was an invasion angle, but it seemed much more fluid much more natural. I enjoyed that That was pretty cool. That was oh man Once again, I'm gonna say this again. Adam is fantastic at booking some of these these scenarios and it just you can visualize Some of this stuff happening and I thought that was fantastic. Yo, so y'all haven't already go subscribe to parts fun No, man. Check check out some of their other content other videos. This was this was great This was very great. Also comment down below. Let me know. Would you guys have preferred This heel turn to the one we got that actually happened. Would you guys prefer? Stonecoats he'll turn to have to at least happen this way. Let me know down below But I appreciate all the love and support on the channel road to 90k appreciate y'all kicking me. See y'all next