Jim Cornette on Why Steve Austin vs. Hulk Hogan Never Happened 

And that's how it should've ended

Then hogan would no sell it, pop up immediately and do a "no no" finger and then slam, big boot, leg drop, win like he always do.

And then Hogan would have just jumped and and no sold the Stunner.

Then see Hogan no-sell it like he did with so many finishers.

@@jordanhutton5787 hulk up big boot legdrop. Hulk's the bigger name the reason you even know of the name steve austin or wrestlemania. Hogan is going over brother

Austin: What???

@@davidcyr5327 damn you beat me to it

Austin: Fuck it (Takes off on ATV)

Vince 97: you have to put Bret over Hbk: doesnt work for me brother Vince: you haft to put hbk over Bret hart: doesn't work for me brother

@@rudymenchacaa9970 except of the times they both put each other over 😂

Throw the whole channel away

Mr. Pickles 3 : 16 Mr. Pickles is god ... That's all the sign slogans I can pun right now 😂

It should say wife beater.

@@luketemple1015 equal rights mean equal lefts

@@jamestipton1025 lmao you’re funny

Hogan was boo'd at the end of the Royal Rumble when the crowd cheered for Sid. That was the first time ever since Hogan was a heel a decade earlier that he'd been boo'd. My point is, he survived the booing and came back to fight Sgt. Slaughter and then Yokozuna and then off to the WCW and became HUGE again in the NWO and then again when he reappeared in early 2002 against The Rock.

@@Danimal77 Hogan cried about Sid getting cheers.

@LTopomcFly Not at all. Austin was getting cheered.

@LTopomcFly You are out of your mind, just don’t speak please. Prior to his heel turn, Austin’s pops and ovations were blowing anything the rock and triple H can think of out of the water. Sorry, Austin was a mega star and built the era your two little darlings, HHH and Crocky were apart of and basked in. It was Austin’s product.

@LTopomcFly WWF already turned the tide in 1998 with the war, that was off of Austin’s coattails. In 2001, Austin was still getting cheered even as a heel, and yes, 01 was a bad year after his heel turn because it was a bad decision to turn him heel and Austin admit that himself. If Austin stayed face, it wouldn’t have been as shitty. He made a poor decision to turn heel.

The Rock would flop and flip around like a fish selling for you if he liked you. Hogan at that point needed someone like him or hbk because of his limited ability at his age. Austin thez pressing Hogan on a hot opening would look awkward. Hogan couldn't keep pace with Austin.

didnt make him happy shid lol Austin only did it because he wanted to do something diff

@@blackout8777 also cause of the neck injury he had to limit his move set severely, he went from have technical wrestling skills that were not on the same level, but were close to the levels of people like Bret Hart, Mr Perfect etc... not the best, but he had a technical ring ability to him, but after the neck injury he started going more of the rowdy roddy piper route of kicking more ass than wrestling, though he still did some regular wrestling moves as low bump as possible. that mudhole stomping, corner punching, finger flipping, kick to the gut stunner style with a lou thez press added in to allow for some mounted punching was good to cover up his wrestling handicap. Even with that handicap he wrestles better than most of the wrestlers of today and Bret Hart and Stone Cold showed you did not need to fly all over the place to be over too... Shawn Michaels though did have a great performance art, and his sweet chin music pops were phenomenal as well as the people who sold it so well at the times... if only he could have trained Goldberg not to kick Bret in the head... yes I said it... ***gets speared through a wall***

@@aoisora1445 they were good but never anywhere near Bret Hart or Mr.Perfect's level

@@melvynsngltn27 Facts.

Bret would've made hogan look great

@@robertellion1873 Bret would gave given Hogan his best match ever.

Lol it wouldn't have been close to their biggest matchup ever🤣

Nah, a properly set up Sting VS Hart would have been. At least, in terms of quality of match.

Bret Hart is a ho hum average wrestler with virtually no personality. It would have been a snoozefest.

They would of fired Triple H before they fired Austin!

Top comment right here 😂

@@bennylegend7556 shut up man . He gave yokozuna his biggest Win Eever at the King of the ring ppv . He didn't slam him . He made him kick out of his finish . NO ONE HAS EVER PUT YOKO OVER THE WAY HOGAN DID .Not Bret Hart . Not Undertaker . No one .

Wrestlemania 9 was a perfect example of Hogans ego.

@@bennylegend7556 No its Not Ok . Hulk Hogan gave yokozuna his biggest Win Eever at the King of the ring ppv . He didn't slam him . He made him kick out of his finish . NO ONE HAS EVER PUT YOKO OVER THE WAY HOGAN DID .Not Bret Hart . Not Undertaker . No one .

@@Aizenborgman He should let Bret beat Yoko fair & square, not run-in with a black eye and make all about him, then had a program with Bret at Summerslam 93 and put him over.

ok but you could probably have a better hero than a professional wrestler.

@@planexshifter Are there any modern positive role models today you think I would want to call a hero?Steve Williams overcame allot of adversity to be where he is today, a real success story who drew allot of money in sports entertainment and I admire that, that's why call him a hero

@@planexshifter what kind of stupid comment is this ?

@@planexshifterhes a better hero than hogan

Wow. You’re cool.

As the face of WWF during the MNW years, no shot Austin was gonna lay down for Hogan. But Hogan wouldn't lay down for anybody, so nobody shouldve had to for him either.

@@efng21 he basically avoided the trap HBK fell into. Hogan agrees to 3 matches. He wins the first one, then flakes on the next two. Remember, the order of Hogan's existence goes: Wrestling politician=>Wrestler=>Human.

Wrong. He didn't wanted to put Hogan over, but Hogan was willing to lose to either Austin or The Rock, as he was told by Vince McMahon when the deal was done for him to come back. It was Austin's ego that prevented the match from happening.

@@captainjaber5610 nah, they could have worked something out. But Austin's ego certainly blinded him. He was in disbelief when Hogan and The Rock happened, seeing the people's reaction to it.

@@eduardopazhurtado3882 Hogan’s ego is the size of two mountains. Why would Austin ruin his own legacy and what he did for the company to make Hogan look good? Hogan can stick it and shove it the same way he’s done to so many people in the company. Him not getting his shot at Austin is karma.

couldn’t of been better said

And hogan refused to loose!

I agree with Cornette completely

@@mrwookie72 hogan is hogan, he can do whatever he wants

@Oh So Nicole neither of them look threatening. Steve Austin was a mid card nobody for 80% of his career

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Cornette was right though. Rock had to sell the hulk up and flexing.... Austin is not the character or personality to sell that kind of theatric. Hats off to Steve for sticking it to the guy. Hogan, to this day, is still bothered he never had a program with Austin.

@@captainjaber5610 Yeah you get it Cap . Hogan gonna always get all his shit in , especially the cheep pops for the flexing at the end when you gotta hear " Real American " for 2 hours .

Honestly, what kind of job do you and Cornette expect? A fucking squash match???? LOL

@@corymoore1530 So what?

@@kwrbt2979 No, but professionals don’t try to exploit the crowd. If the crowd is rooting for you, great... But don’t try to make the other guy look like a fool in the process or damage their reputation. That’s what Hogan always did and he exploited Rock in Toronto because he knew they were gonna be behind him there. Perfect example was at WMX7 with Austin and Rock, Austin knew the crowd was behind him in Texas but he didn’t exploit that during the match to hurt the Rock. He didn’t direct the cheers his way any further than they were.

@Abc Xyz so was Stone Cold

He was being gracious and political... he is still in good with WWE, so he makes nice with most of the talent and hogan.

You're wrong...in the interview with Hogan he did bring up WCW. He all but said he resented Hogan back then and that he now realizes all he needed to do was actually talk to hulk.

@@Rodshark75 shut up

Just because a wrestler is working you doesn’t mean you need to go along with it.

Not just the biggest draw, ONCE in a lifetime draw

josh mulligan rock was a bigger draw

Fay, really strong argument, hard to disagree with. Long term world popularity? For sure no comparison. Height of monday night wars? Gotta give it to stone cold

Exactly, being offered 25 grand for one night's work for OVW?! Nobody makes that kinda money even now!

@@joshmulligan950 Exactly. People who think Rock eclipsed Austin either didn't live through it, or just can't remember things clearly. No one, and I mean NO ONE was as hot as Austin was in 1998-99. Also, Rock's rise to top babyface happened when Austin was out nearly a year recovering from neck surgery. So again, Rock didn't 'beat' Austin out for anything (except Hollywood).

Reminds me when mr burns went on the radio 😂

I like to think that he just farted this time, because that was genuinely a good question.

This made me lol, good work

Corny shit out his Taco Bell lunch into his pants according to Meltzers dirt sheet

Warrior didn't panic either at their wrestlemania 6 encounter. he just got confused that he didn't stay down after the big splash. And it was pretty convincing that Warrior the character would be confused. Austin vs Hogan. the type of hulk up we would have had is similar to the one that Hogan had done with Million Dollar Man. He'd hulk up, but he wouldn't have stayed on his knees. He would have just bounced up on his feet and immediately puff up and point at Austin while Austin would shake his head and talk his smack while going for a punch for Hogan to counter punch and go into the next 2 punches, followed with the big boot and leg drop. And they would have gone straight to the same situation they had with Rock. Austin would have moved out of the way. Hogan's ass meets canvas. Hogan is in pain shaking while Austin continues his head swaying and talking trash as Hogan slowly gets back on his feet and turns around meeting a boot and another stunner for the 1-2-3.

Would have been pretty funny hogan hulking up then Austin just no selling and flipping the double bird back at him

Austin woulda just flipped Hogan the bird while he Hulked up lol

@@MrJonnyl123 That's how I would see it going.

Now if it was alliance cowardly heel Austin that works perfect lol

Tbf, you cant blame shawn for acting like that. It was supposed to be a 3 match series, with HBK winning one match and Hogan winning the others. Instead Hogan begs Vince to turn shawn heel and makes him lose a one and done match. Shawn was a prick, but unlike Hogan he changed his ways. All shawn did in the mid 00s was job. Hbk losing to Hogan in 05 is the equivalent of goldberg beating the fiend in Saudi Arabia. An old part time beating the full time wrestler in their prime.

Yeah he did and it was awesome, brother

Fuck Hogan. He didn’t want to do business the right way so Shawn said fuck’em.

@@travissecrist4693 Shawn of ALL people has no room to talk about "doing business the right way"

Imagine if that was 90’s Shawn Michaels that Hulk Hogan had to do business with.

Unsurprisingly given one happened and the other didn’t.

Rocky wasn’t that good

The Rock wasn't ever on the elite level of Hogan & Austin bottom line. After twenty years on top Hulk Hogan just hijacked the crowd from the Rock and went on to steal the entire show. That wouldn't have happened with Austin at any location. Once Hogan flexed for the crowd and they cheered him Austin would've flipped Hogan off and gain control of the crowd again.

@@matthewcollins8602 There is no way in hell that Austin would have out popped Hogan at Mania 18 in Toronto. Even Austin himself said he wouldn't want to get boo'd like Rock did. And as far as Rock not being elite like Hogan and Austin.. Well by mid 1999 Rock was on Austin's level. By 2000 he had surpassed him. Going into 2001 Rock was the face of the WWF. Look at the opening segment with the first XFL Program.. They went with Rock greeting the national Audience first. Then Taker, and third was Austin. Look at the ratings when Austin was out and Rock was in..Rock outdrew him. Mania 17 was in Texas imagine if it has been in Miami. I think as far as in ring popularity that Austin edged Rock out but outside the ring...The Rock is the biggest star in the history of professional wrestling.

@@ErikBrantley33 Austin wouldn't have been booed, especially in Canada, they love him there and is over as hell; but Toronto is without question also Hogan country, predominately. Your Rock argument over Austin is just inaccurate; Rock pretty much rode off of Austin's back and was thriving on a product Austin already brought to the damn top. Rock had nothing to prove or built, the platform was there. Austin and Hogan are both once in a lifetime megastars; you won't see them ever again. Rock can't say the same.

@@captainjaber5610 Austin may not have been boo'd in Toronto but he wasnt outpopping Hogan that particular night.I agree that Austin built it but Rock without a doubt got to Austin's level in terms of popularity by mid 1999. In fact there was even talks of turning him heel then because of it. I remember many nights that Rocky chants from the crowd over Austin chants. I gave you examples with the ratings and the XFL. The Rock,Hogan,and Austin are the top 3 biggest names in modern day wrestling history but Rock beats them both in terms of outside the ring success. The Rock was the highest paid actor of all time(in one year) in either 2018 or 2019. I personally think that Austin is the singe most popular(in terms of in ring)wrestler of all time. Interesting thought that in Pro Wrestling Illustrated Magazine that Austin only won the award once in 1998 But Rock won it in 1999(Austin came in 2nd) and 2000

Because he the 🐐🐐🐐🐐

Hogan pinned Rock clean in a tag match on Raw prior to Mania

I think Jim’s last point was actually more correct, they were in Toronto. This was back when wrestlers still dominated cities, and Hulk still ran the North East. If they were in Texas, then I’m sure Austin would have done it. But coming off a failed heel run, trying to establish himself as a baby face was important then. Austin against Hogan in Toronto would have been very bad for Austin. If the WM was in a Southern city, or Texas, then I think Austin would have more than likely done it, he could have had an easier time convincing Vince he should go over, although at the time I knew Hogan was losing to someone at WMX8, and he knew he’d have the fans.

I think he was conflating Hogan/Rock and Hogan/HBK.

@@irishwhammy exactly

Well they did work together as a team in WCW...so u kinda got to see it

YES👍👍👍🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯!!!!! They coulda got alot of miles outta that if done right!!

@@bizzlea887 technically, but NO

They did work the “Pillman’s got a gun” angle but then it ended with pillmans sudden passing

That would have been awesome

*literally

*virgins

That's Hogan Vs Andre

Facts

@@HellNation Thank you for correcting the OP. Hulk-A-Mania was an unstoppable force and Andre didn't let you move him unless he was ok with it.

soooooo true. rock is more versatile and his theatrics is what made that hogan match work even better than it was supposed to. Didn't he decide to switch the roles on the fly?

@@moeswagger2329, I believe so. He felt that the crowd was turning for Hogan, and Rock just turned into the swerve. Which is great, he read the crowd and it did the company great, and gave the crowd what they wanted.

The difference is Hurricane is like 5'10, barely 200 pounds. Hogan is like 6'6, 290 pounds.

If Hogan “hulked up” Austin would stick his fingers up and stunner his ass

@@YeTism and it would have been great.

No, it came down to the fact that Austin didnt want to do it. Simple.

PHB Music Yes because Steve Austin was never gonna sell a stupid ass Hulk Up

Austin vs Macho would have been better.

Ya, there were just way more parallels between Hogan and The Rock, AND since Rock could switch from heel to face to heel in a way Austin couldn't he was more suited for the job. I'm sure as well that the entire time Vince prob knew that the crowd was going to turn Hogan face, and with Austin just having turned face after that heel run it made even less sense

Tony ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SzFBnZUEmFc.html Austin pretty much lays out why he didn’t want to wrestle Hogan here

Everything Corny says that isn't an obvious compliment is like this

@doucheberry ....🤦🏻‍♂️ what in gods name are you talking about 😳 seriously, what?

@@badxradxandy Er.....wut

Yeah, what? What is this comment?

Man some of you are dense. The Rock is the biggest star on the planet and Hogan is a washed up ass, old ass wrestler. For starters.

And why didn't Brian Last correct him?

Surprised me too, didn't hogan put over rock at another ppv (no way out '03??) as well? Rock never actually layed down for hogan, hogan did the job twice

@@msv-yu9ui because The Rock was a big star and I also think it was more The Rock wanting something good and Hogan winning would have made the crowd happy, but the Rock swerving in against boos was actually brilliance... Also The Rock used the crowd booing for his heel turn "You guys are no longer allowed to sing along with the Rock" And the styles thing is true, Austin could not sell things like Hulk Hogan or Warrior... without breaking his own character... Some dream matches actually ruin potential good matches. The Shawn Michaels and Hulk Hogan thing was another story though... that was just bad business from both of them, though still a great match to some degree, but Michaels made it look too one sided that was the only down side

@msv 0598 The Rock lay down for Hogan on Raw in a tag match: m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rXuKrXzv_5I.html

@@msv-yu9ui yep, that happened. En route to Austin vs Rock and Hogan vs McMahon. So, Hogan put Rock over TWICE on PPV without ever "getting his win back". I guess Corny owes. Hogan a public apology.

That's his point when saying the job he did. Hogan stole the Rock's own fans and him letting the Rock beat him is hardly mentioned. Hogan wouldn't have been able to do that with Austin of course. A Hulk up and Austin gives him two middle fingers which would've been loved by the fans.

True

Hollywood was calling him anyway. He did everything he was asked to do in the business, losing when it mattered for the business, putting over new stars (Lesnar, Goldberg) at main events, had to share the spotlight with Austin at Backlash 2000 which was his first time as wwe champion as a face, no main event wm victories until 2012 (which he deserved) yet didn't hold any grudges. The Rock should've won the wwe title at Miami vs. Cena, instead of the cringey Punk. Summer of Punk should've never happened. Nobodh cared about Punk vs Jericho, HHH vs Taker at Miami anyway.

Rock had to turn heel to get his hand raised -- all the while Hogan gets cheered...... wouldn’t have worked with Austin

@@spikeannoyed Whether they booed Austin or not, Austin wasn’t selling any theatrics. He would have continued on with his character. I don’t agree with Cornette about Austin being booed massively, but either way, Austin won’t sell that.

Captain Jaber Agreed. I wouldn’t even want to see Austin selling the Hulk Up.

@@rickytpb2164 He never did and never will, this is why they didn't have a match and why Jim said in this interview, which Hogan marks will refuse to accept, "LOOK AT THE JOB HE DID", alluding to Hogan's match with the Rock. Rock was a character who would survive Hogan's theatrics, but Austin? Hell no. Austin would look extremely weak; considering everything he achieved in his career, Austin did the right thing to protect that. Why Hogan, who had nothing left to prove since he was the biggest name, didn't do the honors of doing a "complete" job is beyond me. Hogan should have just did a complete "job".

Captain Jaber I’m sure Austin hated selling the people’s elbow lmao but there was nothing he could do about that.

Whaaaaat?!

Austin would want return favours from Lesnar at some point. Lol! Rock vs. Lesnar was a mainstream attraction match that overshadowed everything and didn't need storylines, 3-match series etc. Even the build-up for Rock vs. Austin 2 was stupid. X7 main-event was more of a mainstream attraction match than any storyline involved with Rock seeking revenge etc. etc. Same goes for Rock vs. Hogan. Mainstream attraction matches do not need long storylines and series of matches.

Too little too late

Didn't he say he thought the styles would be a horrible match?

@@itsyourenotyour9101 Austin politely told Hogan he didn't want to work with him in a way Hogan would “understand”. Yes, you are correct, when Austin said styles, he meant neither him nor Hogan were selling their characters over the other. The same way Austin won’t sell the Hulk up, Hogan wasn’t selling the match to Austin’s style to make Austin look good. Hogan didn’t mind losing so to speak, but he ultimately wanted to get his character over as powerful as possible against Austin. That’s why Austin said he wasn’t doing any favors for him.

Or, check this out, he wanted someone’s else’s opinion on the matter? Crazy, right?!!

@@dickbicycle9304 Gotten to

"Why would someone ever want the opinion of an extremely well informed but neutral third party on one of the most interesting what-if scenarios the industry has ever seen?" Why, we got ourselves a real fuckin' Scooby Doo mystery here!

Hogan never beat up women either

@@johneaston918 and women never beat up men either?? most fights go fifty fifty, though either side can get out of hand at times... fighting is still human, not going over board and having enough restraint to not do things that leaves you in a permanently bad situation is another story...

Austin refused Brock Lesnar & Goldberg too

@@aoisora1445 do you know how stupid that comment sounds?

@@melvynsngltn27 the Rock the only guy who seemed to put everyone over

Yeah....and? What was wrong? He lost cleanly to the Rock.

I was quoting Jim. Cry harder about it.

They had one of the greatest matches ever and Hogan lost clean....pretty decent job I'd say...

I think he was making the point that he would’ve refused to lose clean to Austin.

Yea it was a clean win

Rock had to turn to win.

Rock ended up as a heel coming out of it to be able to win - hogan getting cheered as a baby face ! Austin wouldn’t have made sense turning “heel”

Jim is saying Hogan went over Rock which he did not. You are correct The Rock won the match.

@@septv9995 You’re misreading him. Hogan was pinned, but got himself over at the expense of The Rock and the storyline.

Unfortunately Goldberg made his WWE debut the night Stone Cold retired. If Goldberg had just come in a little sooner(perhaps during the Invasion storyline), then the match probably would've happened. The Undertaker vs Sting could've happened in 2015, but by the time Sting got to WWE, the Undertaker wasn't interested in a match with him because of their ages.

If they fought for real Austin would be toast. Severn was a beast at the time probably the toughest and best fighter of the mid-1990's in the World. Severn as NWA Champion was the most credible champion for a pro-wrestling organisation ever together with anytime Brock Lesnar is Champion of any pro-wrestling organisation.

Yo..lol

Bruh? Talk like a human

@@TL2354 what's wrong with that?

You wanna talk like a mulinyan I’ll send you to slip and fall school.

Rocky had to switch to heel in this match seeing as he was the biggest face in the company at that time it almost felt like a job, he had to put hogan over despite the clean finish

He didn’t mean job in the sense Rock lost. He meant how how Hogan jobbed to the Rock, this all goes back to the theatrics Austin was talking about.

Is he wrong? Hogan did not want to lose to the GOAT. YES the GOAT. Austin topped Hogan by 99. No one sold more merch, no one had a bigger ppv buyrate, let alone free cable tv on a constant basis. Austin also was the reason why the attitude era worked, and is without question the best era for wrestling, and the analytics dont lie. Hogan got over in an era where people thought wrestling was real, let alone an era where WWF went main stream, and he was there main face as a first.

At that point and time, he shouldn't have had to lose to Hulk.

@@charles616 Yeah, it makes no sense. Hogan was past 50 and the 80's were in the rearview mirror.

A lot of wrestlers had different styles and faced each other.

As the old saying goes... Hogan made Vince go National. Austin made Vince go Global. 'Nuff said. And that's the bottom line...

@@naturallawman2965 Hulk Hogan made Vince go global and #1 when people think WWF(WWE) They think of Hulk Hogan. Wrestlemania, Summerslam, PPV wrestling already existed long before Stone Cold

Piper lost to Hogan at SuperBrawl 1997 I think due to interference from Randy Savage.

You are delusional to think people would cheer for hh over Austin.. man after 1997 that would have never happened not even now.. you are high on something even I want to be high on

Rock is a traitor at best

Andre vs. Hogan at WM 3.

Rock should have never beat Cena. Or at least have a trilogy with Cena going over. That was such a dumb decision to have Rock win and then go 1-1.

@@hermonymusofsparta The guy never won a WrestleMania main-event, let alone the world title, prior to 2012. He still hasn't won the world/wwe title at WrestleMania. He deserved his mania moment of closing the show with a win and it was also in Miami. A/c to your logic, Austin should've lost at X7. The Rock has main evented 5 WrestleManias, lost 4 of them which were for the world championship: 1999- defending lost to Austin, 2000- lost to HHH in the end while chasing after winning the Royal Rumble, 2001- lost to Austin again while defending, 2013- lost to Cena while defending. The only WrestleMania main event victory he has had was against Cena at WM 28. It's also the highest grossing wrestling PPV of all time. Nobody cared about Punk vs Jericho or Taker vs HHH HIAC matches. People came to see the Rock in action and winning.

Austin’s character isn’t designed to sell the “theatrics” . Hogan saw Austin and rock as two different animals. Austin will never sell a hulk up or muscle flex. And Hogan made sure he did all of that before Rock grabbed the W. That’s why Jim said look at the “job” he did.

@@captainjaber5610 I totally understand that, what I'm trying to say is the only reason the match didn't happen is because Steve didn't want to work with Hulk. When Hulk came back to the WWE in '02 he wanted to work with Steve first instead of The Rock. Jim makes it sound like Hulk wasn't interested in working with Steve which is total non sense. Hulk was totally willing to do the job for Steve.

@@kyleolson279 He never insinuated that, he just said Hogan didn’t want to do the job in the sense of Austin making Hogan look strong. At the end of the day, who would the crowd root for and who puts their ego to the side and sells for the other. Austin doing it for Hogan would ruin his character. Austin never trusted Hogan, if he trusted Hogan, it would have happened, even in Toronto. Even if Toronto booed Austin, Austin would never sell it; he just got done being a heel in 2001 and it nearly killed him .

They were Bird and Magic. Just appreciate them both

And Toronto would definitely booed Austin too especially in 02 when Austin was on the way down

Rock was easily on Austin's level he even surpassed Austin from 2000 as a draw when Austin was out injured. I still put Austin higher than Rock cause he was the catalyst for the attitude era. To say Rock is not on Austin's level is ridiculous. I remember clearly how big Rock was during his prime.

@@AzAkh60 agreed I do to.. It's a shsme people still try to disrespect the great one, after all these years... He proved his greatness with his work in wrestling and Hollywood

@@fc775 Sometimes I wonder is it because of his race, not sure.

Austin was a coward

@@melvynsngltn27 Point on the doll where Austin hurt you.

I'm sure she regretted that.

I've always assumed Debra and JJ were probably dating when they came over, but never heard any confirmation from any wrestlers

They never dated Jarrett was married to his first wife at the time.

JJ was married at the time to his first wife who had just been diagnosed with cancer. He wasn’t dating Debra.

I get it, Hollywood Rock was a smartass.

He lost to Hogan as in, The rock was the Babyface and Hogan was heel, but when the match Was going on the crowd went with Hogan and Hogan started acting like the Babyface, so he switched it on the dime and the rock rolled with it and turned heel (with the crowd)

@@ctwishkeyprn2039 Did it really matter? It never hurt the Rock a bit. Mainstream attraction matches are supposed to end like that, winner gets his moment and then the winner puts over the loser by shaking hands, hugging and sharing the the moment together etc. It doesn't need long storylines like Austin-McMahon and the Corporation, the Rock vs. McMahon-Hemsley/DX, Sting vs. NWO, Taker vs. Orton, Orton vs. McMahons-HHH, Bryan vs. The Authority etc. and revenge and favours. Even the Rock vs. Austin 2 at WM X7 was a mainstream attraction match. There was no storyline involved around the Rock. WWF did it to make money and put an end to the attitude era.

The writers knew that Toronto crowd was going to be pro Hogan. Vince saw the cheers even from prior to WMX8 for Hogan; that's why he wanted to turn Hogan face. I am just not in the crowd that believes Austin would have been booed in Toronto against Hogan. I think it would be Pro Hogan, without question, but Austin would have had his fair share of pops and cheers.

@@captainjaber5610 strange thing is though... Hogan knew it was his crowd early but STILL played the heel. It wasn't until the end that he started doing 'classic Hulk' nostalgia moves (at Rocks request) that really jacked up the crowd. The crowd didn't *really* have a logical *reason* to root for Hogan until the match was over.

@@jonathanqpublic4549 Vince isn’t dumb, he knew they were gonna be pro Hogan and hence, the match shifted accordingly. The Hulk up wasn’t working with Austin’s character nor the flexing. Austin won’t sell that nor will Hogan sell Austin’s badass character.

Hogan was the star of the match, even though Rock had the pinfall.

@@TBrizzle01 so what, he got the clean win get over it.

Hogan also had the WWF machine at his back. I sometimes wonder if either could have made it to similar heights without the other.

LOL Nobody could stand Hogan in the 90s...He already had fuck off heat because people were sick of the super hero garbage....Hogan went to WCW and nobody gave a crap after the first 10 minutes of him being there, hence his heel turn. Even then Hogan was NEVER on Austin's level

@@lutherheggs451 your a idiot if you think hogan was never on Austin's level

Thank you! How did no one catch that?

@@septv9995 didn't he lose at No Way Out 03? Haven't seen it since then so can't remember who won that one honestly.

@@guess6635 the rock won that one as well he had help from Vince McMahon

"lose"

@@DannNotDaniel ah I see, gotcha.

Maybe if Austin was going against the Hart family like Canadian Stampede.

I disagree. Also a Canadian. We don't really boo Hogan here. Been watching since the early eighties. Hogan and the Harts are pretty much royalty here. Look at the pops Hogan got during the Rock match and the Raw after. Austin in his prime could get booed here...look at him at the Canadian Stampede...he wasn't gonna get pops over the Harts.

@@ferox965 Austin wasn't in his prime in 1997, The fan response for Austin at No Way Out 2003(Montreal erupted for Steve that night) was completely different than the Canadian Stampede one. They still cheered him at Canadian Stampede too; not every star in the world, including Hogan, will get every single fan in the arena cheering for him, there will always be detractors. And he did get popped over Owen at Canadian Stampede, but obviously he got booed because there were Owen fans. But no matter what happens, Austin won't get any majority in the USA ever booing him against Hogan.

​@@ferox965Canadian stampede happened at 1997 Austin wasn't main event man at that time

Instead he had a short match with Scott hall that he said he didn’t like anyways. Austin wasn’t a winner here. Hogan was. He was red hot after his match with Rock

@@jgeorge2693 Austin doesn’t care and never cared about wrestling Hogan. Hogan was dying to fight Steve and it was for that “check mark” as Cornette says. What they both say now is irrelevant, Austin wanted to screw Hogan and it worked. Karma is a bitch that he can’t work with arguably the biggest star in the business in Austin. Hogan got a taste of his own medicine.