>singlehandedly killed the wrestling boom >invented the

>>2103975
Cuz he's a redneck just like me

Considering that the Attitude Era, which was the boom, was based around him, he also started that boom.

We'll call it 50/50 on that one.

>>2103975
Someone explain the whole Hulk Hogan/Austin thing.

>>2103975
>Implying that wasn't Gaytch
>The what? chants are cancer
>Debra deserved it

>>2103975
He started the boom so he has every right to kill it.
Which he didn't do, btw.

>>2103986
People here seem to think Hogan was what pushed Austin into the midcard in 2002.

>>2103986
You talking about their proposed match that never happened?

Basically
>Steve didn't want to job to Hogan
>Hogan didn't want to job to Steve

>>2103975
The fans killed it. Fucking faggot fans.

>>2104002
Why didn't Hogan want to job to Steve but jobbed to Dwayne?

>>2104002
>Hogan didn't want to job to Steve
That's not true. Hogan jobbed to Rock so why wouldn't he job for Austin? It was Austin that refused the match

>>2104018

>austin refused the match

Austin didn't want the shine taken off him from being in the ring with the biggest star of all time in hogan

>>2103986
Hulk Hogan turned Steve Austin into a midcarder because Steve was afraid of getting booed against Hogan in a match at wrestlemania and refused to wrestle Hogan

>>2104018
>Hogan jobbed to Rock
And it was one of the only clean jobs he did during his entire WWE return.

Who knows what convinced him?

>>2103975
Because it's fun to do impressions of him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMmAsqtGRmk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMtx9s9RTmc

>>2103975
his performance in the longest yard was great

>Does the n-word offend you... nigger?

>>2104052
That's how a white man plays the guitar!

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>>2104060

>>2104018

Because it was Toronto and Austin was smart enough to know they would never boo Hogan in Canada.

Hence why Rock was booed during the match

>>2104050
>stone cold et
Fucking love that shit

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hQhO1sPbEI

>Steve Austin is the biggest star in the history of WWE, I'm so tired of people saying Hogan is the biggest star of all time, it ends tonight.

>Hes a once in a life time performer and what makes him so great is that he cares about the fans and he cares about the business.

>>2104028
this

>>2103995
It's unironically true though. Go look at Austin's position on the card in the month or two before the nWo debuts then after until he walked out. He was going to job to Lesnar then be in a midcard feud with Eddie Guerrero right before he left, and before that he was in the midcard of all the PPVs

>>2104971
>It's a Ric Flair sucks up to someone that wasn't a bigger star in his prime episode

I'm shocked

>>2104050
I love andersons impressions of him

>>2104028

>Rock wrestles Hogan
>both get cheered
>Hogan super over
>Rock still super over

Stevetty shook

>>2103986
Hogan came back, was instantly more over and shoved Stevetty back into the midcard

>>2105057
>NWO raw debut
>Stone Cold 100% cheered
>NWO 100% booed

explain Hoganfag

>>2105062
>>2105057
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpjmZ8NOVYI

>>2105062
The two Kliqettys dragged him down

As soon as Hogan left them he got 5-10 minute standing ovations every week while Austin was fucking around with Big Show in the midcard

Hogan
>face of hulkamania
>basically the reason Wrestlemania exists today
>top guy in WWF
>top guy in WCW
>revolutionised the business with the nWo, started the attitude era
>returned to WWE and was top guy straight away
>never in the midcard
>still the most recognisable wrestler ever

Rock
>highest grossing top guy of all time in 2000
>was a bigger star than Austin in his prime
>highest grossing hollywood actor in the world today
>drew the highest buyrate of any Wrestlemania ever at wrestlemania 28
>despite being a much beloved face, still turned heel and got everyone against him showing how based he is
>never afraid of putting people over - put the fucking hurricane over
>despite putting people over and helping build the business, was always in the main event picture.

Stevetty
>jobber in WCW
>spent four years as a midcarder in WWE
>drew big in 1998 - only really because Hogan and the nWo created the right situation for him
>injury prone
>outdrawn by the Rock
>terrified of losing his spot - didn't do business with hogan or lesnar
>unlike Rock who was a GOAT heel or Hogan who changed the business with his heel turn, Stevetty's heel turn killed the attitude era
>only one out of himself, Rock and Hogan to be sent back to the midcard to feud with the likes of Big Show and Scott Hall
>got worked so hard by Hogan and his new status as a midcarder that he took his ball and went home like a crybaby
>not recognisable at all today - only one of the three who has to leech of WWE and do podcasts to get paid. Even Cena is more well known.

Debate any of this, Austincucks.

>>2105081
>>never in the midcard

Hogan is the GOAT but that's wrong, he put over Edge big time before he left in 2002 by teaming with him to win the tag titles

>>2105081
>Steve Austin
>4 years as a midcarder in WWF

Stay in school junior.

>>2105081
kek Stone Cuck Steve Austin obliterated

>>2105084
Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Based Hulk helping the business on his way out - at the exact same time Stevetty was at home crying.

>>2105081
Stevetty btfo

>>2105086
>ic title isn't the midcard

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>>2105081

>>2105094
>debuted in late 1995/early 1996
>won the WWF World Title in the main event of WrestleMania in 1998

4 years?

>>2105116
>1995-1998 midcarder
>2002 midcarder

>>2105117
Retard stevetty fan BTFO

>>2105117
Austin debuted right at the very end of December 1995 and was solidly upper-midcard to main event within a year.

Sorry your unfunny meme got debunked by reality.

>>2105143
>h-he didn't spend 4 years in the midcard, only 3.3 years!!!
Okay Steve.

Always found it funny that people called Stone Cold a mid carder in 2002.

Considering how pissed off Vince was that he walked out (they even brought the Rock out to bury Steve) a lot of drama for a mid carder leaving

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>mfw God Cold Steve Godstin will eternally blow Hogankek's to smithereens by drawing insanely more than Hogetty and all they can do is fume on 4chan

>>2105152
>it's a DSPoster

he looks like a typical Stevetty mark so no surprise

>>2105146
>main evented nearly half the PPVs of 1997
>"midcarder"

sure thing dumb underage fuck

>>2105156
Hey Steve

>>2105156
>2 out of 13 ppvs (not including multi-man matches or you could call Cesaro a main eventer - even with them it's only 4/13)
>almost half

>>2105232
UNDERAGE MILLENNIAL STEVETTY FAN BTFO

>>2104015
Because he recognized Johnson was a true icon, while nobody would give a fuck about Austin in a few years. He was right.

>>2104015
Based Austin cucked Hogan out of the biggest match of all time after cucking him out of his spot as the number one draw

>>2105081
>teenage years were spent chanting "WHAT" and "AUSTIN AUSTIN AUSTIN"
>Adult years were spent realising Hogan was always better

>>2105081
Unironically this

>>2105247
>Based Austin cucked Hogan out of the biggest match of all time

Rock vs Hogan still happened though

>after cucking him out of his spot as the number one draw

Other way around as Austin was turned into a midcarder with a meme chant like he was Fandango or something as Hogan came into the company

>>2105247
Austin cucked himself by turning heel thinking he was Hogan and could start a second boom, instead he killed his drawing power immediately as the next PPV lost 300k buys and he was dead in the water a year later

If he succeeded as a heel, it wouldn't even be a debate between him and Hogan. But he fell on his face, so he's the #2

>>2105255
>as the next PPV lost 300k buys
TBF Undercarder was the main event

>>2105255
Based Austin literally too GOAT to boo.

>lost 300K buys

A main event with Kane, HHH and The Undercarder couldn't draw? Shocker.

>>2105268
yes but as a face Austin dragged him to the record high Summerslam buyrate. His heel turn however killed wrestling in the mainstream and it still hasn't recovered, what was he thinking

>>2105270
He dragged all three of those no-draws previously to a good buyrate previously, he got too greedy turning heel and it failed

>>2105273
>got too greedy turning heel

If he was greedy he wouldn't have turned and instead stayed top babyface.

>>2105255
Hogan had Piper, Savage, Sting at his hottest, Goldberg, DDP, and Flair to play off of.

Austin had Bikertaker, Benoit/Jericho after Bikertaker flopped, and Angle. He had great matches against Angle and Benoit, but Hogan had more to work with.

>>2105288
Ratings were falling already at that time though, Austin felt something needed to change and Vince didn't have anything big planned

>"Worst call I've ever made other than refusing to job to Brock Lesnar at Atlanta. But, you know, that was my idea. Vince always likes to do something big at Wrestlemania. He didn't have anything big planned. So, me being The Rocket scientist that I am, I figured okay. You're a hot babyface, and if you turn heel, you're a hot ass heel to draw money like that.

>>2105289
Exactly, which makes the turn even more stupid

>>2105295
>ratings were falling
>during WrestleMania season
>after their competition went under

Doubt...

>>2105295
Honestly I think if Rock stayed around it would have worked, I guess the intention of Haitch/Austin beating the fuck out of Rock was to get huge heat on them but there was no babyface left to take that spot yet.

>>2105253
>>2105255
jajaja hogankeks BTFO

>>2105306
This

When your top babyface is a career midcarder like the Undercarder, a top heel is always going to flop.

>>2105305
https://www.twnpnews.com/information/wweraw2000.shtml
https://www.twnpnews.com/information/wweraw2001.shtml

They spent the majority of 00 in the high 5's-low 7's and by early 2001 they were in the low 4's-high 5's

The people who were still watching WCW at that time hated WWF/Vince, they weren't just going to start watching because WCW was gone

>>2105308
>Hollywood Hogan

Stevetty cucks literally getting brain damaged

>>2104002
Hogan was the one who wanted the match, which is telling. He knew he could bury Austin.

>>2105314
THIS

Who was Hogan's babyface? The fucking Giant? Stink didn't turn up until a while after Hogan's turn.

Hogan revolutionised the business, Steve killed it.

>>2105310
>comparing Nielsens from different nights

>>2105317
macho manlet randy savage may be the jannetty but he always drew huge money with hogan, much more than any of austins opponents in 2001 ever did

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>64 posts
>26 posters(now 27 with me saving this shit thread)

pathetic lads. You all should go, kiss your mother on the cheek, and say "Sorry i am a failure" next take the gun from your redneck dad and pull the trigger.

His podcast is annoying as fuck too, unlistenable unless there's a really cool guest

>>2105322
You first, tripfag.

>>2105322
>25 based Hoganbros posting the truth
>Steve himself getting buttblasted

God /asp/ is terrible with the worst wrestling taste in the world.

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>>2105322
this thread is mostly anti Austin there is only one person who is posting over and voer

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>>2105336
calm down Steve

Gentle reminder that Godstin drew more money in one year than Hogan did over most of his eight year run
Hogetty is a very distant second if you don't count the Rock

>>2105344
yes and so did WCW in 1997 and 1998, your point?

>Godstin

cringe

>>2105344
Hogan drew more money in WCW than Austin did in his life

>>2105347
>>2105348
>Hogettycucks absolutely fuming

Based Austin being the biggest drew in sports entertainment history

>>2105355
>Based Austin being the biggest drew in sports entertainment history

What did he mean by this?

>>2105344
>>2105355
Steve, don't you have to go beg Vince to interview Titus O'Neil or something?

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>"Austin surpassed all of Hogan's records... in terms of merchandising and licensing, and pay-per-view and live events. Without question the most popular performer we've ever had." - Vince McMahon, Owner of WWE.

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>>2105081

>>2105383
>Vince McMahon, who saw Hogan reject him and almost destroy his company

>>2105403
>Hogankeks making excuses in the face of facts

lmao
>Austin literally dwarfed Hogan's peak run in one year
Can't make this shit up.
Hogan is reddit's guy
Austin is /asp/'s guy

>>2105383
Good thing Hogan drew in three other promotions

>>Austin literally dwarfed Hogan's peak run in one year

>>2105347

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Reminder both Austin and Hogan are non-existent compared to pic related the GOAT.

prove me fucking wrong

>>2105412
>The WWF was already at it's peak when he became the guy