Se7en
01-25-2003, 11:05 AM
I don't get the WWE RAW magazine, so I'm not sure what it's schedule is - maybe some of you who are subscribers (if any of you are) can tell me if it's out to you guys yet (I believe it doesn't hit newstands until a couple weeks).
Word out now is that what I'm posting here is the basic subject of Austin's article. Like I said - I'm not a subscriber, so I'm not 100% sure if this is for real or not.
Assuming it's legit, here's what Austin has to say in his article:
Austin said HHH hasn't been pulling his weight with the company. He said just look at the numbers and ratings for the amount of time he is getting. He says HHH should drop 25lbs and get back to like he was in 2000.
He said the reason he left was because of creative. He wasn't happy with his character or how things were being written for him. He didn't like them writing promos for him and wanted to make them up himself. He said comedy doesn't sell and says Ric Flair wasn't doing comedy back in the NWA when he was at his peak. He says wrestling should move away from Hollywood and become more of a competition with less backstage. He says the 25 year old kids writing the show don't have a clue and the booking power needs to be given back to the workers.
He says Lesnar/Austin could have been huge and giving it away on free tv was the dumbest shit he has ever seen. He says Brock going over Austin that early would be idiotic and that he should be last for Brock Lesnar, not first.
He thought when he walked out that it would send a fuck you, this ain't right to Vince and that it would wake him up. He says he had no problem with sports entertainment before because they were making money and getting 6.5 ratings, but now ratings are down and they should go back to wrestling.
He says the writers aren't doing their job, which is making money, and they have never taken a bump and don't know what the business is about. He says if they do continue with the current booking style then wrestlers have no place in production meetings and mentions HHH.
Austin said what pissed him off the most was Rock getting on live tv and telling him to get the F out. Steve said he was already out so it was idiotic. He says he made Rock and Rock will tell you the same, so that hurt him alot.
Steve said he doesn't have a problem with Hall and Nash, but Hogan is and egomaniac and a manipulator.
He also talks about what brought him back, how the initia contact was made, what his first meeting with Vince was like a couple of months ago, and his thoughts on Debra.
If this is true - if he really did write all of this - than I pretty much have to agree with him 100%.
This is why I supported him 7 months ago when he walked. So many talked on and on about how much of an asshole he was for walking away.....I didn't. Cause he's RIGHT. He's pretty goddamn good at pointing out EXACTLY what is wrong with the WWE.
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Team Angle - YOUR reason to watch the WWE.
"I was here before the oceans turned black with life, and when the deserts are white with death I will remain."
---Saint Iago
Word out now is that what I'm posting here is the basic subject of Austin's article. Like I said - I'm not a subscriber, so I'm not 100% sure if this is for real or not.
Assuming it's legit, here's what Austin has to say in his article:
Austin said HHH hasn't been pulling his weight with the company. He said just look at the numbers and ratings for the amount of time he is getting. He says HHH should drop 25lbs and get back to like he was in 2000.
He said the reason he left was because of creative. He wasn't happy with his character or how things were being written for him. He didn't like them writing promos for him and wanted to make them up himself. He said comedy doesn't sell and says Ric Flair wasn't doing comedy back in the NWA when he was at his peak. He says wrestling should move away from Hollywood and become more of a competition with less backstage. He says the 25 year old kids writing the show don't have a clue and the booking power needs to be given back to the workers.
He says Lesnar/Austin could have been huge and giving it away on free tv was the dumbest shit he has ever seen. He says Brock going over Austin that early would be idiotic and that he should be last for Brock Lesnar, not first.
He thought when he walked out that it would send a fuck you, this ain't right to Vince and that it would wake him up. He says he had no problem with sports entertainment before because they were making money and getting 6.5 ratings, but now ratings are down and they should go back to wrestling.
He says the writers aren't doing their job, which is making money, and they have never taken a bump and don't know what the business is about. He says if they do continue with the current booking style then wrestlers have no place in production meetings and mentions HHH.
Austin said what pissed him off the most was Rock getting on live tv and telling him to get the F out. Steve said he was already out so it was idiotic. He says he made Rock and Rock will tell you the same, so that hurt him alot.
Steve said he doesn't have a problem with Hall and Nash, but Hogan is and egomaniac and a manipulator.
He also talks about what brought him back, how the initia contact was made, what his first meeting with Vince was like a couple of months ago, and his thoughts on Debra.
If this is true - if he really did write all of this - than I pretty much have to agree with him 100%.
This is why I supported him 7 months ago when he walked. So many talked on and on about how much of an asshole he was for walking away.....I didn't. Cause he's RIGHT. He's pretty goddamn good at pointing out EXACTLY what is wrong with the WWE.
<img border="0" src="http://Se7enRFNet.homestead.com/files/teamangle.jpg" width="300" height="100">
Team Angle - YOUR reason to watch the WWE.
"I was here before the oceans turned black with life, and when the deserts are white with death I will remain."
---Saint Iago