There wouldn't even have been a WWF anymore without Austin, there wouldn't have been a The Rock either, end of story.
Austin saved the company.
Austin saved the company.
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Mr. Tomlinson has just threatened Leslie Varney, a female publisher whom he has been attacking on Twitter from behind a block for more than a year, to be sued into poverty with a lawsuit that will presumably be funded by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
- Mr. Tomlinson's 2021 lawsuit was funded in secret by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, a 501(c)(3) charity, to the tune of $100,000 without the knowledge or consent of their donors or members. They also agreed to pay any sanctions in case he lost (which he did).
- All parties involved signed NDAs so that the general public would never know.
- To this day, SFWA has never acknowledged its funding of the lawsuit, and actively instructs the few people in the know to ignore all inquiries into it.
- Is the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America funding Mr. Tomlinson's lawsuit against the Milwaukee Police? If they are, the general public probably wouldn't know due to their history of funding expensive lawsuits in secret.
- You can use IRS form 3949-A to report SFWA's activity if you reasonably believe that it is illegal for a 501(c)(3) charity to secretly fund frivolous nuisance lawsuits for one of its members.
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- Mr. Tomlinson's feud started after members of the now-defunct Reddit site r/opieandanthony got his Twitter account suspended, causing him to threaten some bored trolls who never heard of him with a libel lawsuit. The trolls responded predictably.
- Mr. Tomlinson has been instructed many times by friends, family, police, and attorneys to stop engaging with his trolls, and that continuing to provoke them will cause him to be trolled even more. Mr. Tomlinson wilfully ignores this advice
- He would eventually file a defamation suit against 60 anonymous people which was dismissed with Mr. Tomlinson being ordered to pay $34,762.25 for opposing parties' attorney fees.
- He ended up paying $83,736.99 due to his unsuccessful attempts to dodge the court-ordered judgement, for which he faced jail time and contempt charges.
- He also filed 2 frivolous restraining orders against people who had engaged in First Amendment-protected behavior (one for texting him and another for attending his contempt of court hearing), both of which were dismissed.
- Early on in the lawsuit, Mr. Tomlinson vandalized his own motorcycle and submitted a false police report blaming the people he was suing.
- He accidentally sent surveillance video of the alleged vandal (himself) to a troll.
- Mr. Tomlinson has never shown this video footage during any of his media tours, and desperately tries to scrub it from the internet.
- Mr. Tomlinson claims that the surveillance video was initiated by his "motion-activated" camera, which only collects "30 seconds at a time", despite the video being 32 seconds long and beginning several seconds before the "vandal" enters into the frame.
- On 13 April 2023, the individual responsible for calling the fake emergences (SWATs) to Mr. Tomlinson's house, a SWAT-for-hire dealer named "Torswats", revealed that Mr. Tomlinson ordered the SWATs to his own house because he wanted to get in the news and sue the MPD for money.
- Torswats would repeat these allegations in private chats which were not intended for public view.
- Mr. Tomlinson has gone on multiple news tours since the SWATtings started in order to promote his victimhood brand, utilizing the services of Lenora Claire.
- He also recently sued the MPD for money.
Let's settle this shit right now, funsters.
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Who was the feller who done called that negro a nigger?
He was a solid worker pre neck injury but not a technician. He just resorted to brawling after getting hurt and was very limited beyond that.
It's amazing he was even able to do anything after having his neck turned into puddy. I remember when they were working that into the storyline and had him cutting promos with the neckbrace on.
There's a lot of things that had to happen to get to that point. If the Curtain Call didn't happen, HHH would've won the King of the Ring and Austin's famous 3:16 promo wouldn't of happened. That was the start of the Attitude Era when there hasn't been someone like that ever in Wrestling. Bret Hart knew what he was and wanted to work with him because he saw he was the future. In their match, Bret won but that match did more for Austin losing than Bret winning.
WWF was never going to fail, with or without Austin. WCW was being run by the inmates, the NWO angle was stale but still sold merch and Hogan always needed to be the center of attention. The Screwjob really helped, despite losing Bret there was a crazy buzz surrounding the controversy, and all of it was spiraling to the Mr. McMahon character. Someone else could have played the antihero to Vince.
Not to mention (similar to what we see now with WWE/AEW) there were always going to be guys jumping ship from one company to another. WCW would open the checkbook for guys like Bret and not know how to use them, while guys like Jericho & Benoit who were being held down by backstage politics would be fresh faces in the WWE upper midcard.
That’s true, when Steve Austin is discussed they really don’t mention how awful the “ringmaster” gimmick was.
Back when he was feuding with that nobody Savio Vega. That gimmick was short lived thank god, funster.
The limited work he did due to his injury actually worked really well for Steve Austin, I remember he was able to not wrestle often - just come out, cut promos, do shit with McMahon, maybe a stunner etc - so when he did actually wrestle it was a big deal, probably why he so over with the audience, you tuned in to see what he would do and have to order the PPV to watch him wrestle.
Over exposure would've watered him down for sure.
His match with Michaels was the drizzling shits purely because Michaels was faking his back injury and didn't wanna take a loss, funster.
Tyson's fast count makes me wince to this day. Dumb rascal.
Austin’s match with Bret at Wrestlemania was one of the best examples using blood to really make it memorable.
That image is one of the defining shots of the 90s, funster.
Not that stupid shit of myself and Flair cutting foreheads.
It always fun to me when you tell people they actually blade their foreheads for real. If they bleed from the forehead - planned. Any other part of the head? Someone messed up
Didn’t steve austin blow up vince’s car one time?
Austin needed to do his time in ECW so he could rip off Sandman’s style before reaching his true potential. The guy Bischoff fired isn’t the same guy WWE received.
Such a fascinating industry.
From what I gathered, and the tapes I saw in the early days, Steve Austin was a great technical wrestler, with a look, but rarely able to show his promo abilities. That's the man Bischoff fired, which I don't fault him for - I do fault him for firing him via answering machine while he was injured, though.
The fact is that firing lit Austin up. When he went to ECW, Heyman was at his creative peak, and luckily had a history with Steve. So they let him go wild and do his own thing, allowing Austin to be creative by tapping into his anger. Those were great promos and I recommend anyone interested in that kind of history to track them down.
Austin hit a wall when he was saddled with The Ringmaster gimmick, which stifled him until he was finally allowed to be himself again. As was mentioned here, Bret saw real talent and wanted to push him, and that's probably the best handled program of the modern age in that it both took it's time and didn't overstay its welcome. The story was always there in the background, and the blowoff worked: Austin transcended to the Main Event, and the former biggest Babyface in the company became a massive heel to America, and a God every where else in the world.
If a sincere documentary is ever done about Steve Austin, warts and all, I'd absolutely watch it.
You see a little bit of how he carries himself on the mic that would be his whole Stone Cold gimmick, colostomyster.