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Podcast One presents The Steve Austin show Classics.

Heels with heat and baby faces that are over and cash registers that are full of money.

I've been kind of following a fishbone interviewing Jim Ross because the guys got such a damn history in the business

I'm trying to cover the highs and lows and everything in between here's what it's

all going to boil down to I always tell you guys exactly like it is I'm going to have to bring Jim Ross on

for some more episodes of the Steve Austin show because right now I'm going to get off this

page right now and I'm just going to talk purely wrestling booking angle psychology and promoters with Jim Ross.

Anyway without any further ado, Jim welcome back to the show.

Let's talk about Bill Watts and the magic of his booking and his psychology.

Well, the first thing, Steve, you know, cowboy was a great psychologist.

He was a big athlete.

He headlined the garden by his third year in the business

uh... brino san martino

uh... took bill under his wing they became tag-team partners

the inevitable turn

or bill became a villain occurred. They had three main events in a garden which at that time was very unusual and so Bill had a bill got over and then when he got over in New York thanks to

Bruno those matches and Bill's pro-mobility you know here's a 63 300

pound baby face turned heel

uh... then all the other promoters got word that

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