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🗓️ 4 March 2020
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Stone Cold Steve Austin finally has the title belt. And with it, he ushers in a new era for the WWF. But there’s a catch. To stay at the top, he’ll need to join forces with his biggest competition: The Rock.
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0:00.0 | It's March 1998 at the Fleet Center in Boston, home of WrestleMania 14. |
0:14.3 | 19,000 wrestling fans are trying to pick up their collective jaw off the floor. |
0:20.4 | They're shocked. |
0:21.6 | They can sense that they're about to witness wrestling history. |
0:26.0 | Stone Cold Steve Austin just pinned Shawn Michaels who was counted out by none other than |
0:31.8 | guest ref Mike Tyson. He starts a dramatic three counts slamming the mat to end the match. |
0:38.5 | The crowd chance along as Iron Mike bangs. |
0:42.0 | One, two, three, it's over. |
0:46.3 | Stone Cold has just won his first WWF World Championship. |
0:56.6 | Steve Austin has been waiting for this moment all of his life, all the way back to when he was a |
1:01.8 | kid in Edna, Texas. After getting fired from his first big wrestling job battling back from what |
1:07.9 | could have been a career ending neck injury and pouring every ounce of himself into his wrestling |
1:13.6 | persona, he's the top guy in all of wrestling. The crowd cheering him right now has been waiting |
1:20.4 | for this since Steve Austin delivered that Austin 316 sermon back in 1996. He's their guy. |
1:28.0 | Now he's their champ. |
1:31.2 | This should all be making Steve happy, very happy. The victory is historic enough, |
1:37.2 | something most wrestlers will never experience and he knows this is just the beginning of his push |
1:43.1 | to the top. It's the true start of his reign, but he's not happy at all. |
1:49.1 | Outwardly, Steve is celebrating and putting on a show for the fans. He's standing on the ropes, |
1:55.5 | holding the title belt up for his adoring congregation, high-fiving Tyson, but he's absolutely |
2:03.1 | steaming on the inside. Steve isn't happy, he's not satisfied because he knows he won't become |
2:10.6 | the best wrestling top guy in history by settling for good enough. The cheers are nice, but he knows |
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