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- If you want to see Stone Cold, give me a hell yeah.

[crowd yells "Hell yeah."]

[Stone Cold Steve Austin's music]

- Stone Cold Steve Austin.

- Austin 3:16 says I just whipped your ass.

- As the face of the Attitude ERA, this beer drinking, mudhole

stomping, hell raise and sob propelled WWE

to the very top of Sports Entertainment.

- The Austin era has begun.

- A legend inside the squared circle

who personified rebellion, grit and unrelenting determination.

- Oh, yeah.

Austin got McMahon.

- Relive every glass shattering moment in every can of whoop ass

- Stunner, stunner.

It's Austin 3:16 greatest moments.

- And that's the bottom line

'cause Stone Cold said so.

[Greatest Moments' music]

- Acknowledge me.

- My God.

Stone Cold with a beer bath.

- This is surreal.

- Look at this.

He slammed him.

- Welcome, everyone, to WWE's Greatest Moments,

a celebration of those core memories

from Sports Entertainment's vast, incredible history.

I'm Michael Cole, and on this edition,

we relive the most memorable, controversial,

hell raising antics of a true one of one folks.

A man etched in wrestling's Mount Rushmore.

The Texas Rattlesnake.

WWE Hall of Famer Stone Cold Steve Austin.

- Give me a hell yeah.

[crowd yells "Hell yeah."]

- Stone Cold Steve Austin has had his fair share of rivals,

but none quite as notorious as the boss, Mr. McMahon.

Stone Cold and Mr. McMahon's on screen hatred for one another

created some of the most memorable moments

in WWE history.

- Oh yeah.

Austin got McMahon.

- And our number ten selection marks the very beginning

of this iconic rivalry.

- Go into Madison Square Garden,

coolest places you could ever work.

If you can get over in front of The Garden crowd,

you can get over anywhere.

- Welcome everyone to the war zone.

Madison Square Garden is sold out.

- I remember watching this at home.

Stone Cold Steve Austin was stunning.

Everybody left and right.

- Get Ahold of yourself.

- There was one guy left for him to stun-

the boss,

the owner.

- What is the matter with you?

They were poking me with the stick.

I can't do this.

I can't do that.

You're going to be a corporate this-

You can't do that.

- You got to work within the system.

That's all you got to do.

- And out of the blue-

You can kiss my ass.

Oh, God.

Hit that sumbitch with the Stone Cold Stunner

and the roof came off Madison Square Garden.

The roof probably came off every single house that was watching

Monday Night Raw that night.

- There's something obviously very intriguing about seeing

somebody go after the authority

and beat the hell out of their boss.

- He took it and he's laying there.

He's doing that quivering thing with his eyes.

It was the greatest thing in the world.

- Here comes the cops.

Arrest him.

- I think that was kind of just like a preview

of what was to come with Austin versus the boss.

- There ain't nobody safe,

when Steve Austin's in town.

- The rivalry between Stone Cold Steve Austin and Bret The Hitman

Hart was known for its intensity and at times, brutality.

- Remember it's a street fight.

Anything goes.

Oh.

- Their battles inside the squared circle would eventually

spill over outside the ring.

And there is no safe place to hide.

Not even in an ambulance.

- Get an mbulance.

He's broke his leg.

Look at his knee.

- That's the thing about Brett's rivalry with Austin.

It had a level of intensity that felt very real.

- Oh, watch your knee, you idiot.

- They both brought out the best in each other,

but Austin was like the king of grit.

- Okay.

Let's go Tracy.

- Don't you say one word.

Don't you say one-

- I told you, we're going straight to hell.

- Come on, let's go.

Where are we going?

[yelling]

- My God.

Oh, no.

Oh my God.

Look at this.

- Everything about it made the audience go,

"Wow, that-that was real.

That was real."

- Hey hey hey.

- He's insane.

Oh, God.

- Hey.

Come on.

- Stone Cold and Davey-

It was so well done and nobody saw that coming.

- Get him the hell out of here.

- Get him out of here.

- Get him back.

- No, No.

- Get him off.

- I think there's somewhere in there, Davey goes,

"We're going to kill him" or something like that at the end.

- I'm going to kill him.

- You can't say stuff like that,

but it's like it was just so intense.

- This is shocking.

[sirens]

- Our next moment takes us to the year 2022,

after 19 years away from the ring,

Steve Austin had one more can of whoop ass to open.

His opponent, Kevin Owens.

- Kevin Owens, I want to thank you for waking something up deep

inside me that I've kept buried for 19 years.

- I don't want to talk.

I'm looking for a fight.

- If you want Stone Cold Steve Austin

to compete in a match tonight against this sack of [bleep].

Give me a hell yeah.

[crowd yells "Hell yeah."]

- I think it's actually going to happen.

19 years in the making.

- I hadn't done any kind of work that was wrestling related,

so I didn't know mechanically what I could do.

[bell rings]

- There's the bell.

Here we go.

Austin and Owens teeing off.

- They have a full badass match.

- Look at the fire in the eyes of Steve Austin.

- And again, they're

beating the tar out of each other.

- Oh, God.

That is it.

Austin's not getting up.

- I wouldn't do that, me today,

an active performer,

you know, who's relatively healthy.

There's no chance.

- Look at Stone Cold.

Still fighting, still swinging.

Still fired up.

- Look out.

- Oh, no.

Oh, yes.

- Oh.

- Kevin Owens laid out on a commentary table.

- The pressure wasn't on him like it was back in the day.

He was just going out there having a good time,

and it just reminded you of the Texas Rattlesnake,

and that ass kicking sumbitch.

- Austin looking to return the favor.

- He put on a clinic.

And if that was the last time we ever see him,

it would be a hell of a way to go out.

- Stunner.

Stunner.

[crowd cheers]

[bell rings]

[crowd cheers]

- That was one of the loudest pops I've heard.

It was just so much fun as a fan to be able to witness

that one more time.

- That was a perfect place and a perfect way to end his career.

- Come out here and headline a WrestleMania

in Dallas, Texas, where I started,

where I stopped,

just means the world to me.

I had a [bleep] blast.

- Stone Cold Steve Austin was WWE's resident wild card.

- Ladies and gentlemen,

the new Intercontinental Champion, The Rock.

- And when the Texas Rattlesnake clashed with his fierce

rival over championship gold-

- Austin, Stone Cold stunner.

- Steve Austin's got plans for the belt.

All you got to do is tune in next week.

- Nothing was off limits.

- Okay.

According to The Rock's Rolex-

Stone Cold Steve Austin,

your time is up.

I remember it was Monday night Raw,

and I was part of the Nation of Domination.

I was on a path to take on Steve Austin.

And now Stone Cold Steve Austin, you've managed to do something

that you shouldn't have done and that's piss The Rock off.

So now The Rock and the Nation,

are coming to get my intercontinental belt.

- Well, as you can see, it's a beautiful night.

We've got the moon shining bright up here.

You've got the cars going back and forth over there.

But you ain't got no one on this bridge but Stone Cold Steve

Austin with the Intercontinental Championship belt.

Rock, when I gave this belt to you, I did just that.

You didn't have to earn a damn thing.

It hurts me to do this, but I really don't give a damn about

you or the WWE.

So I'll see your little belt later.

- Oh my.

- No.

There goes the belt.

- And that's the bottom line, because the 3-1-6 said so.

- Off the bridge.

Nobody was doing anything like that back then.

- Intercontinental title

is sleeping with the fishes tonight.

- There was a natural chemistry there, and I brought out the

best in The Rock, and he brought out the best in me.

Let him swim out there and find the damn thing.

I really don't give a damn what he does.

- Moving on to our number six moment, one of the most iconic

moments in Raw history when the baddest man on the planet,

Iron Mike Tyson, stepped foot into a WWE ring.

Only problem was,

he was stepping into Stone Cold Steve Austin's ring.

- Ladies and gentlemen, Iron Mike Tyson.

- This is big, ladies and gentlemen.

- Mike Tyson-

The mainstream guy was one of the greatest boxers of all time.

- Mike Tyson in a WWE ring.

- At WrestleMania in this very ring-

- Yeah.

- -Iron Mike Tyson.

- Mike Tyson in the middle of the ring,

and I'm thinking,"Okay, crash.

Here comes Stone Cold's music."

[Stone Cold Steve Austin's music]

- Mike Tyson is standing in Stone Cold's ring.

- Here comes old Stone Cold,

who's hotter than fire,

come down here and say, "Hey, what's going on in my ring?"

There's going to be some eyes glued to that TV.

If you don't understand what I'm saying.

I always got a little bit of sign language.

So here's to ya.

- Tyson and Austin.

Tyson and Austin.

My God.

My God.

Austin and Tyson have hooked it up.

- You watch those agents hold me down.

I was going after Mike Tyson's ass.

- I told you it was going to happen.

I knew it would happen.

- The media attention surrounding,

it was absurd

- Iron Mike Tyson is back in the fight,

this time on a wrestling mat.

- It was just, um, chaos.

- It was very important in what happened with my career

and in the business.

Because, man, once you do business with Mike Tyson,

the world is watching.

- It is absolutely chaotic.

This is pandemonium.

- In 1998, Stone Cold Steve Austin was chasing

his first WWE Championship,

which was held by The Heartbreak Kid Shawn Michaels.

Setting the stage for a showdown at the showcase

of the Immortals, with Mike Tyson serving

as special guest enforcer.

- If you get in my face at WrestleMania,

I'll knock your damn lights out.

And that's the bottom line.

- With three combustible elements all in the ring

at the same time.

This WrestleMania 14 main event was as explosive as it got.

- Nobody has ever, ever outperformed Shawn Michaels

in a big match situation.

- Oh, no.

- Austin catapulting Michaels.

- Look out.

- Oh, my God.

- Shawn's the best in the world when the bell rings.

Dude's top notch.

- Stone Cold right out here.

- And look out.

- Oh, God.

Iron Mike Tyson put Austin back in the ring.

- Uh oh.

- Referee Mike Chioda-

and the elbow.

- Yes.

- Michaels going for another kick.

Austin-

He got him

The stunner.

Mike Tyson in, Austin is the champion.

Mike Tyson waving the 3:16.

Tyson-

Right hand.

Down goes Michaels.

- You get to that culmination

of winning the championship at WrestleMania.

That's really when things took off.

- Will you ever forget WrestleMania 14?

- No matter what,

Stone Cold Steve Austin would never miss an opportunity to get

his hands on the boss of WWE.

Try as he may, there was no place for Mr. McMahon

to find refuge-

Not even in the hospital.

- There you see Mr. McMahon via satellite.

- He needs to be sedated.

Can you get a nurse in there?

- Stone Cold's outside the arena,

outside the ring segments to me

were always extra exciting as a kid.

- What the?

- It's grape juice.

- I want apple juice.

- Sorry, I'll go get you some right now.

- I don't want any visitors.

- He's really big and he's threatening the staff.

- Turn that frown upside down.

Vince, it's me.

- He's laid up in the hospital,

You got, uh,

Mankind giving him Socko puppet shows.

- What the hell are you doing?

- Mr. Socko.

- Please.

- Mr. Socko.

- Please leave.

Please.

[whistle]

- Damn it, leave.

- Is it normal?

- Vince, it looks real good.

Looks real good.

Looks just fine to me.

How about you, doctor?

- Oh, I'll take it from here, nurse.

- No no no no no no no no.

[yelling]

- I reached back to that bedpan, and I clocked him

with everything I had.

A delicate thing to do to knock the [bleep] out of him

and not kill him.

What else do we got for an emergency?

- No.

- Everybody clear.

[yelling]

- The chaos.

That's the only word I can sum it up as.

Who doesn't love a little bit of chaos?

- The Rattlesnake has struck.

- An unforgettable moment in the heated rivalry between

Mr. McMahon and Stone Cold.

But before Stone Cold was stunning the boss,

the Texas Rattlesnake, was making a name for himself

in the 1996 King of the Ring tournament.

- Are you ready for the King of the Ring?

- So we go to Milwaukee, the MECCA Arena.

I'm going to wrestle Jake The Snake Roberts in the finals.

One of the guys that came up to me and he goes,

"Hey, kid, I just want you to know Jake Roberts,

he cut a religious based promo on you."

- How can I lose if I just go out there and know the power

above is reaching down and lifting me up?

- We go out there and we have the match,

myself and Jake.

- Stone Cold Steve Austin wasting no time going for the

ribs of Jake The Snake Roberts.

- Steve Austin, tremendous talent, tremendous character,

hard worker.

- This is the final, ladies and gentlemen.

The winner of this matchup will be the 1996 WWE

King of the Ring.

And the stunner applied again.

One, two.

And he got him.

- Austin is one of the brightest shining stars in the entire WWE.

This may be only the beginning for that young man.

- After the match, I go over there to do the interview

with Michael Hayes.

You sit there and you thump your Bible and you say your prayers

and it didn't get you anywhere.

Talk about your Psalms.

Talk about John 3:16.

Austin 3:16 says, I just whipped your ass.

- That was an authentic, honest reaction.

Like, "Oh God, did he just say that?"

- I didn't know what kind of holy [bleep] moment that was,

but it was.

All of a sudden there was Austin 3:16 signs,

and we realized that there might be something here.

And that's the bottom line, because Stone Cold said so.

In 1999, Stone Cold Steve Austin was set to face The Rock

for the WWE Championship at WrestleMania 15.

But a week before their big match, Stone Cold had a big

surprise for The Rock and the Corporation

on Monday Night raw.

[Stone Cold Steve Austin's music]

- Uh-oh.

What?

What?

- Wait a minute.

What the hell?

King, It can't be.

- Look at this.

- King.

- Is he?

Look.

He's coming to the ring with a beer truck.

- Austin-

The beer truck.

- Boy, I came through there,

And as soon as people saw that beer truck,

they went absolutely ape [bleep].

- What a reaction.

[laughing]

- It's just a hell of a sight.

- Stone Cold Steve Austin is going to take his ass to

Philadelphia, check right in to the SmackDown hotel, roll right

in to room 3:16 and burn that son of a bitch to the ground.

[crowd cheers]

- The beer truck was something else, you know, to drive an

actual, like, complete truck in the building and then just spray

beer all over everyone from the guys in the ring

to people in the front row.

If you're talking about entertainment,

really can't get much more entertaining than that.

- Ah, Stone Cold, it's beer.

- Stone Cold with a beer bath.

Beer bath on the corporation.

- Vince trying to swim in the middle of the ring,

and the beer there-

It was just a great time, and people just ate it up.

- He's drowning Mr. McMahon in beer.

- The fact that we're talking about it now, 20 plus years

later, tells you the impact that a segment like that had.

- And that's the bottom line 'cause Stone Cold said so.

- Coming in at our number one moment, perhaps the greatest

match in the career of the Texas Rattlesnake.

- Everybody in that [bleep] damn

dressing room knows that I'm the best there is,

the best there was, and the best there ever will be.

- It will be Stone Cold Steve Austin challenging

Bret The Hitman Hart in a brutal "I quit" match

from WrestleMania 13 in Chicago.

- A submission match is not my kind of match.

Do I know a whole lot of wrestling holds?

Hell no I don't.

But I'll beat the hell out of you till you do say "I quit".

- Bret Hart is the guy that can wrestle with a broomstick.

And then you put together Stone Cold with him.

It's one of these things that's going to be remembered forever.

- Look out.

Here we go.

- Here we go.

- Austin just tackles him,

and they just start throwing punches.

And that's how the match started.

- WrestleMania 13 with Steve Austin,

and I go in and get the chair.

It's going to blow the roof and blow the minds

of all the wrestling fans.

- Bret Hart now is like an animal out of control.

- He's like a shark.

He smells that blood.

He's going right-

Look at that.

- Austin will not surrender.

He will not submit.

- Just the impact of the blood dripping on the mat.

Steve trying to push his way out of it.

The visual of that-

I knew that it was going to be special.

- Austin trying to reach that rope.

[bell rings]

- Austin the never gave up, but he passed out with the pain.

- That match was such an important event in my career,

laying there in a pool of my own blood with my eyes closed.

The satisfaction that we had just accomplished

a great match which will stand up for the rest of time.

- Boy, what a bloodbath.

Steve Austin did not give up.

- What incredible storytelling.

The iconic image of Stone Cold refusing to give up

cemented Austin as one of the WWE's toughest competitors,

and in the process, launching his run as one of the best

to ever lace up the boots.

Well, that'll do it for this edition

of WWE's Greatest Moments.

We hope you enjoyed this look back at the unforgettable career

of the Texas Rattlesnake, Stone Cold Steve Austin.