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It's Stone Cold Steve Austin versus The
Rock for the world title.
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There can be only one.
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His popularity was so strong. And
honestly, it was so
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infectious because it motivated me and
drove me.
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It's what I wanted.
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Rock came up so fast and it's just the
complete opposite of Steve.
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There was competition.
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There's only one number one spot.
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I'm going to take it.
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We were rivals because he was trying to
get the top. I was the top.
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I was determined to stay on top.
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This rivalry has just escalated into a
war.
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When two legends collide, their rivalry
stays pinned in our minds forever.
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This is where we break down the
legendary stories behind the greatest
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of all time.
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I'm Freddie Prinze Jr.
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And this is WWE Rivals.
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The greatest book ever written is the
one titled The Rock vs.
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Stone Cold.
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And Stone Cold Steve Austin, two of the
most popular WWE superstars in sports
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entertainment history.
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In my mind, the two biggest draws of all
time. All due respect to Bruno, to
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Hulk, and Flair, and all the guys that
came along that drew a lot of money.
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These two guys were the hottest two
guys. We did more ratings.
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And it was the first time that wrestlers
became megastars in all of society.
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The Rock laid the smackdown on all their
candy asses.
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They were able to transcend into pop
culture. You literally were making fun
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wrestling yesterday, but then you come
into school with a 316 shirt.
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With my cousin Dwayne The Rock.
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He's so casual. My cousin Dwayne The
Rock. I guess.
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He speaks about Stone Cold, and he
speaks about...
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the way that they performed in front of
the audience. I mean, he has this bond
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and this connection with him that it
does, it chokes him up every single time
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starts to talk about it.
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This Austin Rock confrontation will be
great rivalries of all time. It's Ali
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Frazier. It's the Lakers and the
Celtics.
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It had so much longevity.
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There was so much electricity.
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It's amazing to me because on TV, I
never saw two people hate each other
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It took me a while to find out who I was
in the business.
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It turns out that who I was in the
business was me at a highly competitive
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level. All I did was up the intensity.
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From a Stone Cold character standpoint,
nothing was handed to him. He had to
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work his ass off for every single thing.
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Give me a hell yeah!
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because Stone Cold, we're going to crash
the party anytime I want to.
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The Stone Cold character defined the
era, defined the times of a more
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rebellious attitude all over the world.
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You can kiss my ass.
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You got a guy like Stone Cold Steve
Austin.
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On the ascension, on the rise, here I
was over here.
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My first couple of years in the
business, I didn't know if I was going
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it. No one knows.
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I don't remember the first time I met
Dwayne like where it was.
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I remember seeing him though.
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Now there's going to be the man right
there. That blue chipper right there.
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6 '5", 6 '4", whatever he is. Probably
already 275 back in.
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But you could see the gimmick was wrong.
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I know I've got a lot to learn here in
the World Wrestling Federation, but with
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your support and the great people of the
World Wrestling Federation behind me, I
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believe Rocky Maivia can accomplish
anything.
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He was so stereotypical in his delivery
of his promos, the content of his
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promos.
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I'm going to do the best that I can do.
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Thank you.
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And I'll make you and all my fans proud.
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Steve was kind of already breaking the
mold of what you'd expect to see on WWE
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television as far as language and
mannerisms.
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Austin 316 says I just whipped your ass.
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People were clamoring for Austin.
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So Rocky almost became like the, well,
no, this is the guy we don't want.
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You've kind of gone through a little
change here in our sport of professional
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wrestling, you know, with the fans and
how they perceive certain guys.
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And whether or not they smile or whether
they use the word ass like it's going
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out of style.
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It ain't nothing on my mind, but
whipping anybody's ass, it gets in my
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Steve Austin does what he wants, what he
wants.
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Steve's impact and the reason why he was
so successful is because he was
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authentic.
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You can rest assured and bet your bottom
dollar that Rocky Maivia will always
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give 110%. That's why I am the
Intercontinental Champion.
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Here I was, this guy who was happy and
happy to be there even when I lost.
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Fans can see through that. If you're not
authentic, then you're done.
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That's when they became visceral, and
basically you're fully... Rocky sucks!
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Rocky sucks!
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Rocky sucks!
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Rocky sucks!
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The crowd started yelling to him, die,
Rocky, die.
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When you try to be a baby -facing good
guy, someone's telling you, hey, you.
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Not good, right?
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Rock had injured his knee and had been
out for a little while, and the question
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came up, God, you bring him back.
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What do you do with him?
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We had a faction at the time, the Nation
of Domination.
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Hmm.
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There's The Rock. Great to see The Rock
back.
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What's he doing in the ring?
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Checking on the referee to make sure
he's okay.
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Look at that!
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What? Wait a minute.
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I remember getting a phone call from Jim
Ross, and he said, how do you feel
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about joining the Nation of Domination?
And we're going to turn you into a bad
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guy. You're going to become a heel. How
do you feel about that? I said, I love
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it.
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What?
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Whoa!
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The Nation of Domination was a group
that was really anti -establishment at
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time as well, but more anti -the
audience.
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In many ways.
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Audiences crapping on Rocky Maivia.
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Well, Rocky came back and crapped on the
audience.
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In return.
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I got three words.
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Die, Rocky, die.
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That's the gratitude I get from you
pieces of crap.
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I believed in the guy.
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Looks, size, rap, charisma, ability.
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I knew he had all those things.
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I was just able to be authentic.
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You're not a character. It's exactly who
you are, just with the volume turned
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way up.
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Rocky took it and ran with it.
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And people viewed him as this cocky,
arrogant person.
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As a human being, he wasn't. But he
would walk into a room and own it.
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It's interesting when you look at the
two characters, because they were both
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rebellious, they were both anti.
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And when the two come together, it's
like, all right, this is beautiful
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In the fourth quarter of 1997.
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That was really, really an exciting
time.
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Ladies and gentlemen, Stone Cold Steve
Austin.
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And we're looking for bad guys who Stone
Cold can work with.
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The nation comes out.
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And all of us are standing at the top of
the stage. And Steve basically says,
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All you got to do is bring your ass to
the ring or any one of them people up
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there. I'll stomp a mud hole in you and
walk you dry.
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Everyone's arguing who's going to go.
And then finally it's decided.
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The Rock is going to run down there.
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Steve and I had never had a wrestling
match before.
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So all this was.
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To just see, is there anything?
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And when you watch the audience
reaction.
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Stone Cold, Stone Rocky, my idea, out of
his boot.
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There's something there.
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Stone Cold through the crowd.
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It was a palpable buzz in that arena.
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A moment like that between Rock and
Austin is really confirming who you need
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put your time and effort into, and it
tells you what's working and what's not.
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Seeing Rock and Austin collide for the
first time, this is going to be special.
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If anybody wants to see Rocky Maivia get
his ass whipped, give me a hell yeah!
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That's about what I thought.
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The last thing The Rock needs is some
jabroni asking him questions when he's
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all the answers.
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You have to appreciate the growth,
right? The story. Who Rock was before.
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He didn't quite know as a fan that he
had the level of talent that he
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later in his career.
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Come on in here, Hulk Hogan.
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Dwayne with...
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Doing promo from, I mean, when he was
young. I'm sitting there with Anteata,
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mom, and we're cracking up at these
videos of him.
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He's cutting promos in the kitchen.
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He was practicing from when he was
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young. Before he even knew. Before he
even knew that he was going to become
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Rock.
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Steve Austin, your bottom line will
read.
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has been compliments of the Rock.
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With Rocky Maivia, we were working in
the ring with him. We knew how talented
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was. And now all of a sudden you have
this competitor come along to Steve.
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We see the snowball rolling at that
point going, oh, my God, this is
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unbelievable.
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Rocky, I'm calling all the shots, and
I'm going to tell you something right
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When you're walking through the airport
and your beeper goes off, you look down
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and it says 3 -1 -6. You know your ass
belongs to Stone Cold.
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In the beginning stages of Rock -Austin,
I remember them going after the
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Intercontinental Championship, and
you're going, something's going to
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here.
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Like, this is going to be a huge, huge
rivalry.
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My God, the rattlesnake right behind the
rock. Rock!
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Rock! Rocky's beeper just went off.
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And if that's it, 3 -16.
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Scott Paul is up with a 10 -0 advance on
Rocky Maravilla.
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Pretty much immediately.
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You know, we had chemistry, we clicked.
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Stone
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Cold
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Steve Austin was an incontinental
champion. It was just one of those
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where creatively he was getting ready to
go on his run for the WWE world title.
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So what am I going to do, Rock?
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is I'm going to forfeit the damn title
to you tonight because I got bigger fish
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to fry.
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So go ahead and take the damn thing
because I don't want it no more.
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He just gave me the Intercontinental
Championship.
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And then he wound up stunning me.
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Even in that, I just remember that
night. We all just remember that night
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there was something special.
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Stone Cold Steve Austin with the
Intercontinental Championship belt.
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Rock, when I gave this belt to you, I
did just that. You didn't have to earn a
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damn thing. So I'll see you a little bit
later.
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When I see a title get thrown off a
bridge, that's a big deal. I had never
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anything like that. And I heard that
title was never found.
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That's what I heard, too.
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I think the Urban Legend, the title was
never found.
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We did the intercontinental title stuff,
and it's only inevitable that as he
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continues down the road he's going down,
I continue what I'm doing. It's going
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to come back around. It's going to come
at a bigger, higher level.
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You got a guy as tough as Stone Cold.
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My hunger, my thirst to be the best, to
get to the top.
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The company finally picked me. I'm going
to do something with this.
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Nobody, especially Vince McMahon, tells
Stone Cold Steve Austin what to do, and
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that's the bottom line.
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Vince Walton, the rattlesnake, Stone
Cold Steve Austin.
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He's getting pulled in a thousand
different directions.
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Stone Cold Steve Austin is the man.
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So I stood with Vince, saw his ass, and
that's the bottom line.
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Stone Cold's popularity got to a point
where you had to experience it. And
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we were chatty, but at the same time,
there was still
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never animosity, but there was
competition.
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And at that time, he had a stack of
8x10s. You're welcome.
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He's signing away.
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So I remember he had jokingly signed a
picture to me.
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Hey, Rock.
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You might make it one day, kid. Keep
working hard.
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Stone Cold Steve Austin, number one.
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And I thought, oh, he's around with me.
But then I look and I realize that
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that's how he signed his autograph.
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Stone Cold Steve Austin, number one.
Thanks, Steve. You're welcome.
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I was number one. I believed I was
number one. And I signed that number one
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that picture so that the person
receiving that autograph knew I was
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as well.
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I said, one day I got to write number
one.
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He said, you got to earn that one.
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I said, I'm going to earn it.
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He said, well, you're not going to take
it from me.
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He can say a lot of things about rock,
but he was a study, and he was always
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trying new and different things.
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Why are you looking at the rock like
that? You're drooling.
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I appreciate it. I've never seen anybody
grow so much week to week.
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Know your role before the Rock lays a
smackdown on your candy ass, Jabroni.
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Then he becomes so good at being a bad
guy that he's a good guy.
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Whatever happened to Rocky Suck?
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You know, I think the evolution and the
development of this young athlete
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certainly has impressed a lot of fans.
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There ain't nothing that could ever
compare to being the people's champ.
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The business is very competitive.
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As hot as I was getting and he was kind
of coming up right behind me, I was very
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keenly aware of where he was and what he
was doing.
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He was trying to get the top, I was the
top.
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And I was determined to stay on top.
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I'll tell you this, you will always be
in my eyes some punk kid spitting out
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nursery rhymes.
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In the business, whenever a top guy is
watching someone who's on the rise and
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Steve looking at the rock and just kind
of, hey, you know, he comes out and
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raises an eyebrow, has a couple of cute
phrases, that don't mean he's over.
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That comment right then said to me,
rock's catching on, rock's over.
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Because the top guy now is noticing it.
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You know, you see somebody nipping at
his heels.
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It has been 10 years since the WWF has
had to crown a WWF champion via a
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tournament. The winner of this match is
the new man, either mankind or the
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people's champion, The Rock.
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And The Rock's rise to superstardom here
in the WWF is nothing short of
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extraordinary.
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In the world of the WWE, life moves at
light speed.
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Shark shooter!
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That's a shark shooter!
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You work your ass off, you have the
opportunity to become the guy.
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I'm going to quote the great Jim Brown.
That was sweet.
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Not only do you become world champion,
but now you align yourself with the
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company's top heel, Vince McMahon.
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And take the moniker of the people's
champion, you turn it corporate.
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I'm going to share with you guys my
crazy grandmother from Puerto Rico,
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Ramirez. She introduced me to
professional wrestling. And when The
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corporate,
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My grandmother hated the man to the
point where when my wife made a movie
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him, she stopped speaking to my wife.
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And when I asked her why, she said
because he had a choice and he chose
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corporate.
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That's the effect that this man was able
to have on people. That was the energy
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that came into this rivalry.
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That's just a match made in heaven
because if The Rock is going to side
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Vince, Vince is a corporation and I'm
anti -corporation, well then that's must
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see.
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You now have solidified Rock as someone
you want to hate because
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he has aligned himself with The Man.
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The World Wrestling Federation Champion.
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The Corporate Champion.
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The Rock.
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Unintelligent pieces of trailer park
trash.
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You're all no different from the biggest
piece of trailer park trash in Stone
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Cold, Steve Austin.
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It's the old saying of opposites
attract.
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They're about as far apart as I think as
anyone could possibly be.
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Steve's drinking beer.
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Rock is eating fat -free.
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Blueberry muffins.
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These guys are so different, but yet
they are exactly one in the same.
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Just in terms of, I want to be the best,
and nothing's going to stop me.
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Well, that doesn't surprise The Rock
that you're watching back there, Stone
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Cold, because there's something about
The Rock that draws you to The Rock.
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the smell of what The Rock is cooking.
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You better get your ass serious because
Stone Cold Steve Austin is going to
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check right in to this Smackdown hotel,
roll right in to Route 316, and burn
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that son of a bitch.
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Austin pulling into an arena in a giant
beer truck, it was just mind -blowing.
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It
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was
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just another groundbreaking piece to an
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already groundbreaking story at that
time, that rivalry.
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Rock was popular. Steve was popular.
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The matchup is epic.
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You wanted it to be on the grandest
stage.
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The only place to do it was
WrestleMania.
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You know, the very first WrestleMania
that we headlined was in Philadelphia.
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was my very first WrestleMania,
headlining WrestleMania.
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I was 26 years old and just wanted to do
a great job.
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I'll never forget that match.
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From a performance standpoint, he was a
motivating factor.
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He's very competitive.
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When you know you've performed to the
highest level and you deliver, it's just
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great feeling.
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It was just amazing to watch.
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And while most rivalries will culminate
at WrestleMania, it really was just
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getting started.
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Hey, redneck, piece of trash.
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Exactly. It's the great one. Does this
look familiar to you, Austin? Does it?
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It's your piece of trash title. It's the
bridge.
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There's the water, and it's a long way
down.
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You want the piece of trash? You come
get the piece of trash.
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They were raising the bar every single
week. You never knew what was going to
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happen next.
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The
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water
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cooler talk every week was, oh, my God,
did you see what happened on Monday
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night? The two people driving that
discussion.
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were rocking Oscar.
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That competitiveness drives greatness,
and they were trying
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as hard as possible to outdo the other.
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Watching
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those two perform,
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you feel it, and you feel that energy,
and you feel that passion.
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That's what they did. They made that
magic every freaking night. You know
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I'm saying? It's like they were breaking
their own record every single week.
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That rivalry spawned energy to the rest
of us.
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That's what made the product so great.
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They pushed each other.
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Man,
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there was a period there where
everything we did was a home run and a
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slam.
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This is the best job in the world.
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Every now and then you're just ready to
go home and just kind of kick back a
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little bit. But, you know, with the
schedule we got, you know, whether World
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Wrestling Federation works, as soon as
you say, hey, Vincent, it's time off,
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what you're doing is creating a window
of opportunity for someone else to step
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into. I'm right in the middle of a hell
of a run, so I'm going to finish this
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out of the ditch.
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Going into back end of 99, you know, I
started to have some...
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Side effects from getting dropped on my
head in 97 by Owen at SummerSlam.
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Everybody thought I broke my neck. I
didn't break my neck. I bruised my
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cord.
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A couple years later, I went and got
another MRI,
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and that's when we discovered I had a
bone spur growing into my spinal cord.
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Steve having surgery in 99 was...
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Scary time.
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Is Steve going to come back? And if
Steve does come back, at what level is
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Cold going to come back?
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Stone Cold was gone for a year.
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Where's my hero?
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And there's The Rock saying he's right
here.
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Okay, you're losing one of your biggest
attractions of all time in Stone Cold
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Steve Austin.
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However, you had another attraction in
The Rock. Okay, now it's time to put on
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the big boy shoes and you're going to be
the man.
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Since you've been on the shelf, The
Rock's popularity has really risen.
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I'd like to get in a damn ring with him
and just knock the hell out of him
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because that's the kind of relationship
man and The Rock have.
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Stone Cold was gone.
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Dwayne Johnson is now the top star.
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He
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competed
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against every other performer and said,
you can't do this better than I can.
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They are chanting The Rock's name.
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The Rock called himself the people's
champion, right? Because everybody
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wanted to be The Rock. But I feel
like...
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Austin was also the people's champion.
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Have Stone Cold
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back was a relief.
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The audience was just so happy, but the
audience had also grown to fall in love
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with The Rock.
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The Rock came around, Triple H came
around, Undertaker was always there. So,
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mean, when a guy goes down, it's like,
you know, chum in the water because
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that's just the way it is.
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And I respect it, but I wasn't keen to
watch who was going to try to fill my
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spot. I won the Royal Rumble, which gave
me the shot at the champ at
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WrestleMania. It turns out that the
champ is The Rock.
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What a WrestleMania man of Memphis is
going to be.
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And it was the two biggest and best
colliding again.
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Without a doubt, this is the most
eagerly anticipated main event in
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history. The backstage interview that
myself and The Rock did with Jim Ross as
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mediator. Do I want to beat you on a
personal level? Oh, hell yeah, I do.
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But on a professional level, which
bleeds over in my personal existence, I
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to beat you, Rock.
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I need it more than anything that you
can ever imagine.
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I needed that championship.
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I thought The Rock was coming up there.
I needed to stay here.
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So that was a shoot line for me, and he
never knew that.
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I got one reason, and one reason only to
go inside that ring, and that is to
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beat Stone Cold Steve Austin.
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It's just that simple.
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There was tension, but it was great
tension.
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It was important to me that I was the
one leading the pack.
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And here's to you, Rock.
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I didn't want to be second when I knew
first was available.
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And Steve Austin sure as hell didn't
want to be second.
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And here's to your ass getting whooped
at WrestleMania.
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Talking WrestleMania.
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And it's time for them to go.
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Steve was such a megastar, and Rock was
such a megastar.
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And then you put those two guys
together, and that's insane.
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You knew when those two touched, it was
just a perfect matchup.
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We're three days away from Austin versus
The Rock!
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It was a match that was, on so many
levels, a work, but super personal for
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super personal for me.
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The atmosphere in the arena at
WrestleMania 17 was through the roof.
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Everything was built to the highest peak
that it could be because I was super
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hot as a baby face.
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Rock was super hot as a baby face.
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It was just insanity.
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I blow the roof off the place.
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It's a very partisan Texas crowd.
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And he was white hot, don't get me
wrong, but I thought I got a little bit
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of a flashbulb.
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He blows the roof off the place to just
a little bit lesser degree.
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Here we go! It's on!
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They didn't waste any time, and nor did
we think they would.
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The second WrestleMania is very special
because we broke pay -per -view records.
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You can tell just how badly he won the
title.
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We were fighting.
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We were animals, we were pit bulls, we
were lions, we were all those things,
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those aggressive animals.
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The people hanging on every single move,
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waiting to see who was going to win this
match because it was damn near 50 -50
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throughout the whole thing.
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Vince McMahon!
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What the hell is he doing out here? He's
coming out to ringside.
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Austin now the clear -cut advantage.
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Reversed. Stunner! I don't believe it!
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But why is Vince McMahon out here? He's
coming out to ringside.
446
00:31:48,180 --> 00:31:50,180
And now detaining the referee.
447
00:31:50,980 --> 00:31:53,880
McMahon has no love lost for either The
Rock or Austin.
448
00:32:06,060 --> 00:32:11,360
At that time, from a character
standpoint, I'd actually felt like I was
449
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:14,800
starting to flatline just a little bit
because I'd been running so hot.
450
00:32:15,860 --> 00:32:17,760
What's a big man going to do with a
chair?
451
00:32:18,220 --> 00:32:19,600
I wanted to turn heel.
452
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:21,720
What the hell is this?
453
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:28,400
Stone Cold Steve Austin has sold his
soul for the WWF!
454
00:32:48,490 --> 00:32:55,430
surreal for a lot of people it was a
difficult image for people to absorb the
455
00:32:55,430 --> 00:33:01,290
turn only made the audience desire
having their hero back
456
00:33:01,290 --> 00:33:08,170
yes I wanted his spot but if I ever got
that top spot it was because
457
00:33:08,170 --> 00:33:10,930
I earned it it was also because he
helped me get there
458
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:15,580
One of the things that I can appreciate
about Steve and about our relationship
459
00:33:15,580 --> 00:33:19,960
is just that it's like with any
relationship, trust happened over time.
460
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:25,020
He started Trust Me More, which then
made our matches that much better.
461
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:30,120
There's the perfect synergy and the
clash of styles and the same type of
462
00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:31,120
respect.
463
00:33:31,340 --> 00:33:35,320
Whether it was a house show, a pay -per
-view, or Raw, whatever, we were out
464
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:37,460
there to, you know, bring the house
down.
465
00:33:38,300 --> 00:33:40,580
We got The Rock against Stone Cold Steve
Austin.
466
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,320
and we're going to go out there and do
our thing. It's going to be a great
467
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:48,480
match. Rock and Stone Cold were able to
go out, feed off the audience, and feed
468
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:49,480
off one another.
469
00:33:49,700 --> 00:33:52,080
The match would end.
470
00:33:53,060 --> 00:33:57,320
We would stay in the ring easily every
night for an additional 30 to 45
471
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:06,300
We would have these performances and
these
472
00:34:06,300 --> 00:34:08,780
monologues, and that's when the fun
would begin.
473
00:34:12,330 --> 00:34:13,530
We became really good friends.
474
00:34:16,750 --> 00:34:18,610
We're just firing on all cylinders.
475
00:34:20,489 --> 00:34:27,130
You can be great friends with somebody
in this business, but you can be really
476
00:34:27,130 --> 00:34:30,750
great friends with somebody in this
business when you draw money together.
477
00:34:31,489 --> 00:34:33,670
That bond gets real tight.
478
00:34:35,330 --> 00:34:39,730
Rarely do you have two stars that are
mega stars at the same time.
479
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:45,080
Every building we put Steve's name on,
he sold out against another guy who's
480
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:46,080
exactly the same.
481
00:34:46,860 --> 00:34:52,980
There was a tie for a while as to who
number one was, Stone Cold and The Rock.
482
00:34:53,380 --> 00:34:58,120
You can argue that they were
interchangeable in that number one spot.
483
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:03,820
In the world of wrestling where there is
no off -season.
484
00:35:05,740 --> 00:35:10,400
And guys tape up their injuries. They
play through pain every single night.
485
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:14,220
All the Monday night Raws, all the
Smackdowns.
486
00:35:14,940 --> 00:35:18,420
Steve played through a multitude of
physical issues.
487
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:22,800
I had a surgery to correct a few things.
There are still some things that are
488
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:23,800
going on.
489
00:35:24,220 --> 00:35:28,780
I could pass tests that I needed to
pass, but I could see what my body was
490
00:35:28,780 --> 00:35:32,920
turning into by the stress and the
beatings that I was placing on it. And
491
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:33,980
finally, I decided, man,
492
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:37,760
When is your body going to give you
enough signals that you need to get your
493
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:38,760
out of here?
494
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:42,720
It's a real heavy gamble that I don't
really want to take anymore.
495
00:35:44,720 --> 00:35:51,380
The one thing that The Rock has not
done, one thing, is whoop that bald
496
00:35:51,380 --> 00:35:52,860
candy ass at WrestleMania.
497
00:35:55,660 --> 00:35:59,780
WrestleMania happened to be around the
corner, and it was me and The Rock.
498
00:36:00,060 --> 00:36:01,640
I'm like, hey man, it's time.
499
00:36:02,720 --> 00:36:07,100
Everybody knows we got to... Big match,
the biggest match of my career, because
500
00:36:07,100 --> 00:36:11,120
what I'm finally looking to do is to
beat Stone Cold Steve -O. Now, I know
501
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:13,860
right over here signing autographs, but
I'm not going to pay attention to Stone
502
00:36:13,860 --> 00:36:16,180
Cold right now. He's not paying
attention to me.
503
00:36:16,980 --> 00:36:22,400
I remember finding out that it was his
last match, and I was honored and
504
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:23,400
privileged.
505
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:27,440
It's almost a shame I got to whip your
ass on Sunday. How many days?
506
00:36:29,230 --> 00:36:33,570
No, but I mean, that's what we're there
for. I mean, by the same token, you
507
00:36:33,570 --> 00:36:36,770
could whip my ass. Or as you would say,
whip my candy ass.
508
00:36:40,050 --> 00:36:42,130
Program! Get your program!
509
00:36:46,790 --> 00:36:50,910
It was very emotional.
510
00:36:51,350 --> 00:36:55,590
In this final match of this
extraordinary journey.
511
00:36:56,830 --> 00:36:57,830
Between...
512
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:00,420
Myself and Stone Cold Steve Austin.
513
00:37:02,940 --> 00:37:06,620
Welcome to WrestleMania 19!
514
00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:12,740
We had a few conversations prior to that
match at WrestleMania 19.
515
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:18,080
I wanted to give him the greatest
performance I possibly could.
516
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:22,080
first, from Miami, Florida, The Rock!
517
00:37:24,460 --> 00:37:26,420
And do right by the company.
518
00:37:27,070 --> 00:37:28,270
And do right by Steve.
519
00:37:31,850 --> 00:37:34,190
Glass breaks and I walk down there. It's
a pretty long walk.
520
00:37:43,490 --> 00:37:45,650
It's like, okay, man, I'm just going to
turn it on, rip it up.
521
00:37:46,250 --> 00:37:51,770
Who is the greatest of all time? One of
these two men, only time will tell.
522
00:37:59,100 --> 00:38:05,660
54 ,097 here in over 150 countries
around our world. You're seeing one hell
523
00:38:05,660 --> 00:38:06,780
match at WrestleMania.
524
00:38:08,740 --> 00:38:12,760
Stone Cold Steve Austin went out there
with a bad neck in his last match.
525
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:17,000
And the Steve that was on top at that
point had to work with tons and tons of
526
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:18,500
injuries. That's remarkable.
527
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:25,040
Anytime you step in a ring with The
Rock, he's going to give you everything
528
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:26,040
got.
529
00:38:27,970 --> 00:38:33,290
Russ Mania 19, I guess one of the
greatest of all time.
530
00:38:33,550 --> 00:38:34,790
It was very special.
531
00:38:36,610 --> 00:38:40,450
Hell, I'd beaten Rock on how many times
in the two previous Russ Manias.
532
00:38:42,830 --> 00:38:48,050
It was everything that you would want to
be the guy that you would pass the
533
00:38:48,050 --> 00:38:49,050
torch to.
534
00:39:35,530 --> 00:39:39,310
You know, I want to be the best at what
I do, and it's because of guys like
535
00:39:39,310 --> 00:39:45,130
Austin, specifically Steve Austin doing
what he does for me, that I'm able to
536
00:39:45,130 --> 00:39:46,130
accomplish that.
537
00:39:47,350 --> 00:39:51,710
After the 1 -2 -3, I pushed the referee
away. You can't hear this.
538
00:39:52,650 --> 00:39:55,070
And I said, I admire him.
539
00:39:55,690 --> 00:39:56,690
I respect him.
540
00:39:57,370 --> 00:39:58,450
I'm proud to call him my friend.
541
00:40:04,330 --> 00:40:06,030
business while I've ever offered you.
542
00:40:08,090 --> 00:40:09,090
Amen.
543
00:40:09,750 --> 00:40:12,730
I love The Rock, and The Rock loves me.
544
00:40:14,330 --> 00:40:20,270
It was a really, really cool moment. Two
big -ass, tough -ass guys telling each
545
00:40:20,270 --> 00:40:23,650
other that they loved the other one in
front of millions of people.
546
00:40:25,450 --> 00:40:29,910
When you see those two gentlemen in the
ring, one of the best rivalries in the
547
00:40:29,910 --> 00:40:32,790
history of this business, I mean, they
did three WrestleManias?
548
00:40:33,020 --> 00:40:35,680
You know the old saying that lightning
never strikes down twice.
549
00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:40,940
One of the moments when I was a kid that
I'll never forget is when the Beatles
550
00:40:40,940 --> 00:40:42,960
ran out on Shea Stadium.
551
00:40:44,100 --> 00:40:46,400
Brock and Stone Cold did it three times.
552
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:51,020
That smile on your face that just snuck
up, that little smile is like the way
553
00:40:51,020 --> 00:40:54,460
you're looking back at it. I think
people kind of knew at the time, you
554
00:40:54,460 --> 00:40:55,460
what, this is something special.
555
00:40:57,520 --> 00:41:03,380
To be able to see, like, my two people
champions go head -to -head, it's like
556
00:41:03,380 --> 00:41:07,020
that fantasy booking scenario that we
always dream about. The two guys who
557
00:41:07,020 --> 00:41:11,200
at the top of the industry, and the fact
that we got it for such a long time is
558
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:12,200
awesome.
559
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:16,980
It's really wonderful to come back and
see so many smiling faces tonight.
560
00:41:17,420 --> 00:41:19,320
For example, Stone Cold Steve Austin.
561
00:41:23,380 --> 00:41:25,500
We'll definitely think about that. One
more match.
562
00:41:26,860 --> 00:41:31,460
There will always be a bit of a rivalry
between Rock and Austin.
563
00:41:33,020 --> 00:41:38,600
I also think that there's a great deal
of love and respect for one another, for
564
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:40,500
what each did for the other's career.
565
00:41:49,700 --> 00:41:52,240
I mean, I was in a different zone back
here, man.
566
00:41:52,460 --> 00:41:55,020
No, it actually worked out better. You
were like, listen, you're going to be a
567
00:41:55,020 --> 00:41:57,900
hell of a talent. You take it. Yeah.
Take this with you.
568
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:05,000
All right. I'm going to go do your
thing. All right, brother. They had
569
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:06,820
special, and they knew it.
570
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:10,080
Your antagonist is only as good as your
protagonist.
571
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:14,460
They pushed each other to the limit.
572
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:26,060
I learned two top guys could go out
there and have as much fun as we did and
573
00:42:26,060 --> 00:42:30,200
hate each other as much as we appeared
to hate each other.
574
00:42:30,420 --> 00:42:31,420
What competition!
575
00:42:31,700 --> 00:42:32,800
What a rivalry!
576
00:42:33,180 --> 00:42:36,660
He brought out something in me and I
brought out something in him that made
577
00:42:36,660 --> 00:42:37,720
as good as we could be.
578
00:42:38,620 --> 00:42:42,740
And that's the bottom line because the
great one said so.
579
00:42:43,420 --> 00:42:46,580
We were fighting for the exact same
thing.
580
00:42:47,340 --> 00:42:53,400
And that was the number one top spot in
the company at a time when the company
581
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:56,720
was changing the way the game was
played.
582
00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:04,500
And we take a lot of pride in it being
the greatest rivalry the
583
00:43:04,500 --> 00:43:08,820
sports entertainment world has ever
seen.
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