What was biggest deck the Corporation stacked against Stone Cold Steve Austin?

[Barnett115]

Biggest stack against Austin was the Royal Rumble where:

1. Vince made Austin the #1 entrant
2. The entire Corporation was entrants and Austin was their main focus
3. For all the non Corporation members there was a $100,000 bounty reward if they eliminate Austin
4. Vince HIMSELF was in the Rumble to take out Austin

That was a long night for Austin.... and oh yeah that was the night Vince started using his iconic "No Chance In Hell" theme song

I didnt know that this was the story behind Vince's theme song

 

[DaylitoJames]

I didnt know that this was the story behind Vince's theme song

Before that night he always came out to no music. That rumble's tagline was "No Chance In Hell" based on the way Vince was stacking the deck and they made the theme based on that

 

[NOSaintsFan02]

I tried breaking this storyline down into about 3 sentences but that really wouldn't do it justice. So read this instead http://taimapedia.org/index.php?title=The_Higher_Power_Angle

Besides the un-needed commentary, that was good until the end.

• The Raw before the St. Valentine's Day Massacre PPV has no clean finishes whatsoever. This includes Austin competing in a Gauntlet Match against the entire Corporate Ministry, who break up everyone else's pinfalls before Austin lays waste to everyone with Stone Cold Stunners. The St. Valentine's Day Massacre PPV itself ends with Steve Austin vs. Vince McMahon in a Steel Cage Match. At the end of the match, WCW defector Paul Wight (The Giant) comes from out under the ring to chokeslam Austin through the cage -- which causes Austin to win the match. (Paul Wight would be rechristened The Big Show just a couple of weeks later.)
  • For years, Vince had criticized WCW's booking of The Big Show. He said that only his company knew how to book giants. This meant that Austin would go over Big Show in their first major encounter. And all throughout 2002. See also: the booking of The Great Khali, Matt Morgan, Nathan Jones, A-Train, Rodney Mack, Goldberg...

• After St. Valentine's Day Massacre, the entire Corporate Ministry angle just... Disappeared. Thank God.
  • Undertaker took an extensive break from the WWF following the end of this angle. He reappeared more than a year later as The American Badass, but that's a story for another section.
  • Mideon hung around for a while and eventually became Naked Mideon, whose gimmick was wrestling in a thong, wrestling boots, and a fanny pack.

This is completely wrong and is going to confuse a lot of people. St. Valentine's Day Massacre was not the end of the Corporate Ministry. The Corporate Ministry didn't even form yet when St. Valentines Day Massacre took place.

 

[Big Meat 5000]

Yo thats the difference between bosses vs wrestler stories now. Vince really did stack it even worse every month vs Austin. This dude had a first blood match with a nikka who had on a mask and only exposed one arm

was just watching this match on the network & was thinking the same shyt. :bookerlol:

 

[boriquaking]

I'm gonna say at Breakdown '98.

There was a triple threat match for the WWF title with Taker, Austin, Kane.....but Taker & Kane were not allowed to pin one another ....so basically it was a handicap match. And of course the Stooges(Brisco,etc) had to interfere as well.

In the end Austin was pinned by both Kane & Taker simultaneously.

That fued was exactly why i started to watch wrestling.

I remember there being a few handicapped tag matched the weeks before too if im not mistaken.

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Biggest stack against Austin was the Royal Rumble where:

1. Vince made Austin the #1 entrant
2. The entire Corporation was entrants and Austin was their main focus
3. For all the non Corporation members there was a $100,000 bounty reward if they eliminate Austin
4. Vince HIMSELF was in the Rumble to take out Austin

That was a long night for Austin.... and oh yeah that was the night Vince started using his iconic "No Chance In Hell" theme song

NO CHANCE

THATS WHAT YOU GOT

This was a goat "YOURE fukkED AUSTIN" moment

 

[Lord Scion]

The biggest one was the gauntlet match he was in, the one where the iconic photo with Vince in Austin's face at the lower turnbuckle originated

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Besides the un-needed commentary, that was good until the end.


This is completely wrong and is going to confuse a lot of people. St. Valentine's Day Massacre was not the end of the Corporate Ministry. The Corporate Ministry didn't even form yet when St. Valentines Day Massacre took place.

Yeah that is straight up wrong

 

[richaveli83]

Good times.

 

[llt23]

Just a reminder that Vince Russo penned this shyt.

 

[Riley Escobar]

1999 WWF was mostly trash, filled with random ass storylines that never went anywhere (we never found out who lifted the briefcase at KOTR 1999), inexplicable booking decisions (the whole Higher Power shyt, Vince being revealed as the dude was straight up nonsensical) and barely any memorable matches

Real talk...most of Raw in 1999 was fukking GARBAGE

Rewatching every Raw from that year in order, it shows. Now I'm 12/13 years older I still love it, but love it because it's garbage.

Yeah I know that it was their most profitable year in history or something and they had ratings through the roof, but it really shows how awful the writing was, especially post-Wrestlemania.

Rock and Austin were obviously doing their thing, but even back then every week was the same thing, the same catchphrases, the same old shyt. The crowd's were fukking hyped, and who could blame them? Wrestling was massive, but in terms of advancing stories, there wasn't much. Owen Hart was off TV for like a month, came back a week before Over The Edge as the Blue Blazer (with NO explanation) and got an IC title match at it for no reason.

The Ministry of Darkness was pure piff, but when they merged with the Corporation it made absolutely no sense, and neither did Vince being revealed as the Higher Power. All people remember from that segment is the "IT WAS ME AUSTIN!" line that Vince does with his trollface on, but it basically rendered the entire last six months obsolete.

Every week there were loads of DQ finishes, random backstage brawls and multi-man interference for NO reason. Titles changing hands like it was going out of fashion. Some of the random gimmicks and stables that came out were either or ...but usually both.

• The Union
• Beaver Cleavage that turned into Chaz the wifebeater
• Meat
• D'Lo causin Terri to have a "miscarriage" then saying to the doctor "WAS SHE REALLY PREGNANT? THIS AIN'T KAYFABE DOC, SHOOT AT ME"
• Dr Death coming back as a ninja for a week and throwing Bart Gunn off the stage
• The briefcase being raised at KOTR 1999 and never finding out who did it
• Austin being thrown in the Detroit river then coming back next week with it barely being mentioned again

That's my Russo

Seriously, Raw in 1999 was the absolute definition of #fukkery

 

[FunkDoc1112]

The biggest one was the gauntlet match he was in, the one where the iconic photo with Vince in Austin's face at the lower turnbuckle originated

The very first Raw I ever watched...

 

[CM_Burns]

Breakdown 98 because of how unstoppable Kane and Taker were in kayfabe at the time.

And the kotr briefcase thing didnt need an explanation, Vince just rigged it. Who it was specifically doesnt matter much.

The higher power twist was stupid and was the beginning of wrestllings drop in popularity imo. It made no logical sense and was just jumping backwards into something we'd seen for over a year.

 

[Piff Huxtable]

Yo thats the difference between bosses vs wrestler stories now. Vince really did stack it even worse every month vs Austin. This dude had a first blood match with a nikka who had on a mask and only exposed one arm

Vince crazy for that one

 

[cozy carl]

Yo thats the difference between bosses vs wrestler stories now. Vince really did stack it even worse every month vs Austin. This dude had a first blood match with a nikka who had on a mask and only exposed one arm

:Bookertlol: