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| Nubochanozep | May 8 2010, 03:33 PM Post #1 |
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Six Star Wrestling Hall of Fame Inductees: 1. Steve Austin 2. Shawn Michaels 3. Vince McMahon 4. Ric Flair 5. Hulk Hogan 6. Bret Hart 7. Triple H ![]() Accolades: Six time WWF Champion, WWE Hall of Fame, two time WWF Intercontinental Champion, WCW United States Champion, four time WWF World Tag Team Champion (w/ Michaels, w/ Dude Love, w/ Undertaker, w/ Triple H), WCW World Tag Team Champion (w/ Pillman), three time WWF Royal Rumble winner (1997, 1998, 2001), WWF King of the Ring (1996), WWF Million Dollar Championship, two time WCW World Television Champion, TWF Tag Team Champion (w/ Calfornian Stud) Career & Induction Summary: While defining wrestling greatness is always subjective, few will ever be able to match the numbers generated for PPV buy rates, television ratings, crowd attendance, and merchandise sales that were established when Stone Cold Steve Austin was, for all intents and purposes, the face of the professional wrestling industry. Steve Williams began training to become a professional wrester in late 1988 when he attended Chris Adam's training school. After training for only 5 months, Steve started his professional wrestling career by traveling the independent circuit. At the Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis, Tennessee while waiting for a scheduled match, Dutch Mantel informed Steve Williams that he could not go by the name Steve Williams because there was already a wrestler known by that name in the territory. Mantel gave Steve 15 minutes to come up with a new name. When unable to come up with a new ring name of his own, Dutch Mantel introduced the world for the first time to Steve Austin. Steve Austin made his U.S. national and global debut when he joined World Championship Wrestling. Austin was seen as a workhorse in WCW: as a man that was reliable to have a good match with almost anyone but was not seen as anyone with real drawing power. As "Stunning" Steve Austin, Austin would win both the WCW United States Title and WCW Television Title several times. Austin also found tag team success in WCW when he teamed with "Flyin" Brian Pillman to form the Hollywood Blonds tag team, a team that had only one run as Tag Team Champions before they were split apart. However, it was during his teaming as the Hollywood Blonds that Brian Pillman bought a set of matching gold necklaces for the duo to wear to the ring to improve their "Hollywood image". This is the same gold necklace that Austin continues to wear to this day as a memento to his late friend. In a less than storybook ending to his WCW career, Austin would find himself injured and unable to perform. While he was injured, Eric Bischoff informed Austin that his services were no longer required and proceeded to send his paperwork through the mail. While still injured, Austin received a call from Extreme Championship Wrestling's Paul Heyman asking Steve to join ECW. Unable to perform, Steve was given promo time and was told by Heyman to just say whatever he wanted. "Superstar" Steve Austin was born and was used as Austin's verbal rebuttal to being held back in WCW, primarily targeting Eric Bischoff and Hulk Hogan. In 1995, Steve Austin would move away from ECW to join the World Wrestling Federation. While Austin would find his highest career success here, his start in the WWF was very lackluster. Austin debuted as "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase's protege. He was given the Million Dollar Title and Ted DiBiase did all his speaking for him. Dubbed "The RingMaster", Steve Austin's first notable feud was against Savio Vega. The two worked a match against one another at WrestleMania XXII. Shortly afterward, Austin lost a match to Vega that would force Ted DiBiase to leave the WWF. Without DiBiase acting as his Manager, Austin requested a gimmick change. Austin wanted to base his gimmick on a serial killer known as the "Iceman". He was then presented with a list of names including "Fang McFrost", "Ivan the Terrible", and "Ice Dagger". Austin was going over this list with his then wife Jeannie when she suggested Austin drink his tea before it became stone cold. It was from this conversation that Stone Cold Steve Austin was born. As Stone Cold, Steve Austin found moderate mid-card success. But it wasn't until Austin started a feud with Bret Hart that his career truly reached the next level. Bret Hart had taken time off from the WWF -- most concluded it was due to real life tension with Shawn Michaels -- when Austin started calling him out. When Bret finally returned to the WWF, Hart and Austin would go on to have a string of matches that are considered classics to this day. The most notable of these matches occurred at WrestleMania 13 when a very rare double-turn was booked. Austin went into the match as a heel, Hart as a face. But by the end of the match, Bret Hart had left the match to a chorus of boos while Austin walked out with the arena chanting his name. Although Austin was a hot act in WWF at the time, he was still not seen as a major draw. Mick Foley documents in his book "Have a Nice Day" that Austin asked a merchandise personnel when a Stone Cold shirt was going to be made only for that person to tell Austin that they didn't think a Stone Cold shirt would sell very well. It was at the 1996 King of the Ring PPV that Steve Austin would first say the phrase that would not only prove that merchandise personnel wrong, but would go on to become one of the highest selling wrestling t-shirts of all time. Austin had defeated Jake "The Snake" Roberts in the final round of the King of the Ring PPV to win the KOTR title. Austin was informed that Jake had cut a religious based promo on him earlier and responded: "You can talk about your Psalms...talk about your John 3:16...Austin 3:16 says I just whipped your ass!". Almost instantaneously, "Austin 3:16" was a merchandise powerhouse. Just one year removed from his double-turn at WrestleMania13, Austin was scheduled to challenge HBK at WrestleMania XIV for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship. It was during this feud that Austin found himself in a face-to-face confrontation with special guest enforcer for the match Mike Tyson. During this confrontation, Austin proceeded to flip off Tyson, which led to Tyson pushing Austin and the two brawling. Mr. McMahon found this to be a public embarrassment and lashed out against Austin. Austin would go on to win the WWF World Heavyweight Title from HBK at WrestleMania XIV, with an assist from Mike Tyson. The Attitude Era in the WWF was officially started and the face of the era was Stone Cold. After winning the WWF Title, Vince MaMahon became personally involved with Austin. McMahon felt that Austin's cursing, beer drinking, and rude behavior was not the public image that he wanted his World Champion to present. Thus started the feud of a generation: Austin vs McMahon. This feud saw Austin battling against a whelm of superstars that McMahon thought would defeat Austin including The Undertaker, Kane, Mick Foley, the Big Show, and The Rock. While Mr. McMahon will always be considered Austin's greatest rival, The Rock will undoubtedly go down as arguably Stone Cold Steve Austin's greatest opponent. The two men battled for popularity, merchandise sales, and the WWF Championship. Together, the two headlined three WrestleManias (WrestleMania XV, WrestleMania X-Seven, and WrestleMania XIX). At WrestleMania X-Seven, Stone Cold Steve Austin would challenge The Rock for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship. Austin pledged that he was willing to do anything to defeat The Rock for the title and he did just that as he turned heel and joined his long time rival Mr. McMahon, whom had assisted Austin in victory. As part of this heel turn, Austin was paired with Triple H as the “Two Man Power Trip”. Unfortunately, a quad injury forced Triple H out of action and Austin was left without anyone to feud with or against. Kurt Angle rose to the challenge and started appearing in backstage segments with Austin and McMahon. Austin and Angle would often challenge for McMahon’s attention. This would eventually lead to a feud between the two that saw Angle re-perform Austin's beer attack on Vince, only with Angle using milk instead of beer, and Angle defeating Austin for the WWF World Title. WWF, at the time, was emerged in a ratings battle against rival company WCW in what was known as the Monday Night Wars. WWF was losing the battle for nearly 2 years straight. It was with Stone Cold Steve Austin as champion that WWF finally defeated WCW in the ratings battle and would eventually go on to run WCW out of business. After the collapse of WCW, WWF purchased the company and brought in several WCW performers to start an Invasion angle. It was during this storyline that Austin’s next great catchphrase was created: WHAT!?. What? Would go on to become so popular that it was chanted at every pause during any promo, even if Austin wasn’t performing and I is still often chanted by wrestling fans today. With the Attitude Era officially ending, WWF was renamed WWE (due to legal conflicts with the World Wildlife Foundation) and was creating new stars. One star WWE was investing heavily in was Brock Lesnar. WWE had scheduled a match where Brock Lesnar was to defeat Stone Cold Steve Austin on an episode of Raw. Austin took offense to this, as he felt that he shouldn’t be used as enhancement talent for an upcoming performer. Austin recounts that he asked to have the Lesnar vs. Austin match receive a proper build and be a PPV main event, which would have not only made the company money but would have helped get Lesnar over on the level that WWE wanted him. WWE instead opted to go with the unhyped one-off Austin vs. Lesnar match on an episode of Raw. Austin took offense to this and promptly walked out of World Wrestling Entertainment. When Austin returned, he was battling serious neck injuries and had two very injured knees. Austin would work his last official match against The Rock at WrestleMania XIX, which he lost. The night after this loss, Raw General Manager Eric Bischoff informed everyone that Austin was indeed injured and would no longer be allowed to wrestle. Austin moved on to being co-General Manager and would even perform a few brawl matches, but was never able to truly shine any non-wrestling roles. Stone Cold Steve Austin is a WWE Hall of Fame inductee and continues makes rare appearances for WWE. Austin was described by Vince McMahon as the greatest WWF/E superstar of all time and, according to Vince McMahon, holds the records for being the biggest draw in professional wrestling history. Incidentally, the bulk of Austin’s major success came within the last 5 years of his 20 year career. Stone Cold Steve Austin not only became the face of the WWF, but also became the face of the entire industry. It was with Austin's lead that wrestling saw a huge peak in popularity that has yet to be reached again to this day. Austin set records for Pay Per View buys, merchandise sales, television ratings, and crowd attendance. Austin helped paved the way to make wrestling mainstream once again. It is for these reasons that Stone Cold Steve Austin is proudly inducted as the very first inductee into the 6 Star Wrestling Hall of Fame. [/i] Written by Cybrus ![]() Accolades: Three time WWF Champion, WWE World Heavyweight Champion, three time WWF Intercontinental Champion, WWF European Champion, five time WWF/WWE World Tag Team Champion (w/ Diesel (2), w/ Austin (1), w/ Cena (1), w/ Triple H (1)), two time WWF Royal Rumble winner (1995, 1996), first WWF Grand Slam Champion, two time AWA World Tag Team Champion (w/ Marty Jannetty), two time AWA Southern Tag Team Champion (w/ Marty Jannetty), NWA Central States Tag Team Championship (w/ Marty Jannetty) Career & Induction Summary: Few wrestlers can lay claim to a career that even closely resembled the success, controversy and longevity that defined Shawn Michael’s career. The “Heartbreak Kid”, trained by Jose Lothario, began his career wrestling for Mid-South wrestling before progressing to the AWA with his tag team partner, Marty Jannetty. Michaels and Jannetty, known as “The Midnight Rockers”, tore through tag team divisions with their new high flying tandem tag team style, which re-defined how tag team wrestling was fought. They wrestled in-sync, tagged frequently, performed moves together and spent much of their matches high in the air – tag team wrestling took on a new dimension with the “Midnight Rockers” and not even a failed stint in the World Wrestling Federation could keep them from international success for long. Upon entering the World Wrestling Federation for the second time, “The Rockers” progressed through the tag team ranks and before long, they had accomplished all there was to accomplish as tag team wrestlers and a memorable split took place, with Michaels becoming a heel singles wrestler. Michaels had a new gimmick and a new manager (Sensational Sherri) and remarkably his singles career (as a smaller wrestler) took off. Michaels became a three time Intercontinental Champion while engaging in a highly memorable feud with Razor Ramon that culminated in their show stopping ladder match at Wrestlemania X, which remains one of a handful of matches to receive a Five Star rating from Dave Meltzer. Michaels won the 1995 Royal Rumble and faced off against Diesel at Wrestlemania XI, and then won the 1996 Royal Rumble to face off against Bret Hart where he won his first World Wrestling Federation Championship – the first of four title reigns. Despite this success, Michaels’ career was not without excessive controversy. He received a suspension from the WWF due to a positive test for steroids, he became disliked due to his backstage influence as a member of “The Kliq”, he lost his smile and was unable to have a rematch with Bret Hart at Wrestlemania 13 which led to a real life rivalry between the two wrestlers. This rivalry, which simmered throughout 1997 reached boiling point at Survivor Series 1997 where Shawn Michaels played an integral part in the infamous “Montreal Screwjob”. The screwjob handed Michaels his third WWF Championship run and Michaels stepped up his gimmick as leader of D-Generation-X – a key influence for the full blown introduction of the WWF’s “Attitude Era”. Michaels feuded with Ken Shamrock but more notably, he feuded with The Undertaker. It was in this feud that Michaels suffered a career ending back injury. Michaels feuded with Steve Austin despite his incredibly precarious physical condition, and lost the WWF Championship to Steve Austin at Wrestlemania XIV, which led to the in-ring retirement of Shawn Michaels. Michaels had back surgery and made sporadic appearances in the on-air role of WWF Commissioner from 1998-2000, before his real life drug problems led to his departure from the WWF. Between 2000 and 2001, Michaels reformed and he made a comeback to the WWF in 2002 for what was intended to be a one off match against Triple H. Upon realising that he could wrestle again, Michaels made a full comeback as a wrestler for the (now) WWE and won the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, which he lost one month later to Triple H. Now one of the WWE’s most senior performers, Michaels engaged in a variety of feuds with the likes of Triple H, Kurt Angle, Chris Jericho and Chris Benoit. These feuds often headlined Wrestlemania main events, and according to most wrestling fans, these performances were show stealing events. Shawn Michaels and Triple H reformed the extremely popular D-Generation X and feuded with the McMahons and other tag teams before an injury put Triple H on the sidelines for months. Michaels feuded with other wrestlers and notably he put an end to the career of Ric Flair, before losing to the Undertaker at Wrestlemania XXV and taking a half year hiatus. Michaels returned, once again reformed D-Generation X and won a Slammy Award for 2009 Match of the Year – the winning of this award led Michaels into the last program of his career against the Undertaker. Throughout the last months of 2009 until Wrestlemania XXVI, Shawn Michaels and The Undertaker slowly and masterfully built their feud up to the climax at Wrestlemania XXVI – a Streak vs. Career match which Shawn Michaels lost, leading to the end of his career as an active wrestler once and for all. The weight of Michaels’ in ring accolades speaks volumes concerning his considerable talent and skill as a performer, but his out of ring accomplishments and influence are not to be ignored. Shawn Michaels paved the way for smaller wrestlers to become credible World Champions, and he provided one of the sparks for the initiation of the “Attitude era”. He overcame personal demons and incredible controversy to stage one of the most successful comebacks in wrestling history and he managed to finish his 26 year, storybook career on a high. It is for these reasons that Shawn Michaels becomes the second inductee into the Six Star Wrestling Hall of Fame. Written by Nebuchanezzar ![]() Accolades: Chairman World Wrestling Entertainment, CEO World Wrestling Entertainment, WWF Champion, ECW World Champion, 1999 Royal Rumble winner (1999), Hollywood Walk of Fame, Madison Square Garden Walk of Fame. Career & Induction Summary: The wrestling business could not be the hugely successful international juggernaut that it is without Vince McMahon. This impressive feat is joined by McMahon’s successes inside the ring to create a very worthy addition to the Six Star Wrestling Hall of Fame. McMahon met his father, a second generation wrestling promoter of the Capitol Wrestling Corporation, when he was aged 12. Unhappy with a career in sales, McMahon joined his father’s promotion and rose through the ranks to become ring announcer. In 1982, when the now renamed World Wrestling Federation was being syndicated to over 30 television stations, McMahon purchased the promotion from his father and took control of the WWF thereby became North America’s most powerful wrestling promoter. At the time the WWF was a large, powerful, but ultimately regional promotion locked into North East of the United States. Not content with this, McMahon had the vision to go national. The time-honoured tradition of wrestling being a regional business was no concern of McMahon’s as he expanded his business across the country. Questionable ethics played little part in McMahon’s bid to control North American wrestling. In 1985, at the height of the Rock ‘n’ Wrestling Connection and aided by superstar Hulk Hogan, McMahon promoted Wrestlemania at Madison Square Garden and realised his dream. Clever use of closed circuit television and Pay-Per-View made Wrestlemania so successful that it catapulted the WWF and its stars into international superstardom. Eager to replicate his success, McMahon promoted Wrestlemania III in 1987 to a live crowd of 93,173: The largest in wrestling history. Despite the WWF’s runaway success, McMahon was forced to deal with a number of unforeseeable issues in the early nineties. A steroid scandal ravaged McMahon’s own personal reputation and as a result of the scandal some of his major stars defected to rival promotion, World Championship Wrestling (WCW). He responded by promoting new stars under the slogan “The New Generation” but audiences failed to respond. Despite these setbacks, McMahon achieved success in creating a weekly wrestling show that has gone on to become the longest running, weekly episodic television show in history. WWF Monday Night RAW was a revolution in wrestling television and bought live events to millions watching at home every week. Again, McMahon’s bid to remain number one was set back by WCW’s introduction of both a weekly television show and twelve Pay-Per-Views per year – a feature McMahon was forced to replicate. These difficulties saw McMahon and his WWF slip to the number two promotion. Realising he had to respond, McMahon allowed for the introduction of more adult oriented content. The “Attitude Era” begun and McMahon’s new stars including (but not limited to) Steve Austin began to fight back against WCW. On screen, McMahon ditched his announcing gimmick and became the villainous, hated WWF Chairman Mr. McMahon and engaged in a feud with Steve Austin. This feud escalated into a runaway success and became one of the greatest wrestling feuds of all time. The McMahon on screen was hated by all and his run ins with Steve Austin, The Rock, Mankind and Triple H were highlights of the late nineties. McMahon won the 1999 Royal Rumble and later became WWF Champion through his on screen character, which he still plays (albeit in a smaller role) to this day. While his on screen character was skyrocketing in popularity, McMahon dramatically expanded his business: He allowed the WWF to become a publicly traded company, introduced a new weekly show on network television, started a nightclub in New York City, ventured into book publishing and perhaps most significantly he started a new football franchise, the XFL. All of McMahon’s ventures were hugely successful with the sole exception of the XFL which, despite initial promise, folded after one season. In 2001 McMahon purchased his biggest rival, WCW, from AOL Time Warner. McMahon was once more firmly in control of the wrestling industry and the WWE (renamed after a legal dispute with a conservation organisation) expanded into the international and digital relams. WWE promoted events all over the world, WWE.com became an early and massively successful digital entity, his television shows underwent a brand extension and he began promoting movies with varying success. While ratings have slipped from the levels of the 1980’s and late 1990’s, McMahon remains firmly in control of the world’s largest and most successful wrestling company. Vince McMahon revolutionised professional wrestling on more than one occasion. He took a regional promotion to national, and then international success and has broken attendance, Pay-Per-View and television ratings records on countless occasions. He managed to achieve this while playing one of the most successful and captivating wrestling characters of all time. While one can question his business ethics, one cannot deny his tremendous success. Success of such magnitude that Vince McMahon is widely voted as the third inductee into the Six Star Wrestling Hall of Fame. Written by Nebuchanezzar Edited by Nubochanozep, May 14 2010, 02:42 AM.
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