Podcast 1 presents the Steve Austin Show Classics.

All right, should we talk about it?

Vince Russo last week we left off when we were talking about just starting to get the ball rolling with W.

And what it was going to take to spool this thing up and move forward.

So it was about the 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 Pyro 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 have opinions and you could talk to're blue in the face,

they're going to believe those opinions

and stick with those opinions regardless of 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 was a guy that just bit off of Vanda Hollyfield's ear, he's barred 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,

when I told you it took nine months to go from the three to the four that was nine months of getting the wrestling fans that were no longer watching wrestling.

So so now you were filling out that audience. Now it was how do you get the mainstream

crowd? How do you go above and beyond the wrestling crowd and by bringing in Mike Tyson and Vince doing that pay-per-view by

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