Podcast One presents the Steve Austin Show Classics.

All right, you're talking to Vince Russo last week we left off when we're talking about

just starting to get the ball rolling with WWF and what it was going to take to

spool this thing up and move forward.

So it was about a nine-month process.

Things started getting hot and heavy.

What, you've got to refresh my mind because, man,

I remember so many parts of what I did back in the day, but not the specifics. So what did we

start doing back in the day when we really started moving the needle? You know, Steve,

I'll tell you what moved the needle. And I don't know, and this isn't a cheap plug.

I don't know if you saw this article I wrote on Pyrro and Ballyhoo, my website.

But I wrote an article of who was really successful for the attitude era.

Okay.

When I go back and I look at that now, you know, and again, you know, Steve, here's, this is what people don't understand because they, they, they have opinions and you could talk to your blue in the face. They're going to believe those opinions and stick with those opinions regardless of what you, what you say. But again, if you really want to go back to the genius of

Vince McMahon to me being in the middle of it the turning point was when Vince had the insight

to hire Mike Tyson for that pay-per-view because here here was a guy that just bit off of Andy Halleyfield's ear.

He's bored from boxing.

The entire world is talking about it.

Vince has a vehicle on pay-per-view.

Connect the dots.

And that's what Vince did.

And when Tyson came in, what that did, Stephen,

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