Steve Austin ( Stone Cold ) Bio

 Steve Austin ( Stone Cold ) Bio 

Name                    :                   Steven James Anderson

Ring Name           :                   Steve Austin ( Stone Cold )

Birth Date            :                    18 Dec  1964

Birth Place           :                    Texas, USA  

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Steve Austin (conceived Steven James Anderson on December 18, 1964, later Steven James Williams), better known by his ring name "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, is an American on-screen character, media identity, maker, and resigned proficient wrestler who is marked to a legends contract for WWE.

He increased noteworthy standard fame in the WWE (then known as the World Wrestling Federation) in the late 1990s as "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, an ill bred, lager drinking wannabe who routinely challenged the foundation and his manager, organization director Vince McMahon; this persona of Austin's turned into the "blurb kid" of the Attitude Era, a blast period in WWF business in the late 1990s and mid 2000s and was one of the greatest elements in aiding the WWF win the evaluations war against their opposition, World Championship Wrestling (WCW). A few unmistakable industry figures, including McMahon, have since pronounced Austin to be the greatest star in WWF/E history, while focusing on that he surpassed the fame of Hulk Hogan. Austin additionally conceived the long-standing "What?" serenade in expert wrestling.

Austin held 19 titles all through his wrestling profession; he is a six-time WWF Champion, a two-time WWF Intercontinental Champion, and a four-time WWF Tag Team Champion, along these lines making him the fifth Triple Crown Champion in WWE history. He was likewise the victor of the 1996 King of the Ring competition, and in addition the 1997, 1998, and 2001 Royal Rumbles, making him the main three-time champ of the occasion. Besides, under The Ringmaster moniker, he was granted the unsanctioned Million Dollar Championship by the "Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase.

He has featured various pay-per-view occasions for the WWF, including three WrestleManias (XIV, XV, and X-Seven). He was compelled to resign from in-ring rivalry in 2003 because of a progression of knee wounds and a genuine neck harm. All through whatever is left of 2003 and 2004, he was highlighted as the Co-General Manager and "Sheriff" of Raw. Since 2005, he has kept on showing up, and was accepted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2009 by Vince McMahon. In 2011, Austin came back to WWE to have the reboot of the truth arrangement Tough Enough.

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Early life

Austin was conceived in Austin, Texas. His folks, James and Beverly Anderson, separated when he was around a year old. His mom, Beverly, moved to Victoria, Texas and wedded Ken Williams. Austin received his stepfather's surname and lawfully changed his name to Steven James Williams. He spent the greater part of his adolescence in Edna, Texas. After completing his tutoring from Edna High School, Austin got a football grant at Wharton County Junior College, trailed by a full grant at the University of North Texas.

Austin has three siblings, Scott, Kevin, and Jeff and one younger sibling, Jennifer. Kevin is not exactly a year more youthful and Austin has theorized in his self-portrayal that their dad may have left since he couldn't deal with having another kid so soon.

World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment/WWE

The Ringmaster

In late 1995, Austin joined the WWF after Diesel and Jim Ross persuaded WWF's proprietor Vince McMahon to contract him. Austin appeared on the January 8, 1996 release of Raw and his first match saw him get a win over Matt Hardy. Initially, Austin wrestled as The Ringmaster and was overseen by Ted DiBiase, who granted him with the Million Dollar Championship. However, Austin thought the Ringmaster thought was weak, thus requested a change. The WWF gave Austin a rundown with names including Otto Von Ruthless, Ice Dagger, Fang McFrost and Chili McFreeze. Austin soon shaved his head uncovered and grew a goatee,"The Ringmaster" Steve Austin; this prefix would be disposed of for his most renowned moniker, "Stone Cold", toward the beginning of March 1996. He crushed Savio Vega in his first WrestleMania appearance, at WrestleMania XII. At In Your House: Beware of Dog, Austin lost a Caribbean Strap match to Vega. In agreement to the pre-match stipulations, DiBiase was compelled to leave the WWF, giving Austin the chance to produce his own particular path. Austin later told host Dok Hendrix that he had deliberately lost the match so as to free himself of DiBiase, who in actuality was set out toward opponent advancement WCW.

Austin 3:16

Austin's ascent to fame started at the 1996 King of the Ring. He started utilizing his trademark completing move, the Stone Cold Stunner; with this new system, he won the King of the Ring tournament. After vanquishing Marc Mero in the semi-finals, Austin crushed Jake "The Snake" Roberts in the finals. The Stunner appeared on June 8, 1996 on Superstars when he crushed middleman Jason Arndt, who later got to be known as Joey Abs an individual from the Mean Street Posse. At the time, Roberts was depicting a conceived again Christian, so after the match, Austin cut a now well known promo amid his crowning ordinance, telling Roberts, "You stay there and you pound your Bible, and you say your supplications, and it didn't go anyplace! Discuss your Psalms, discuss John 3:16... Austin 3:16 says I just whipped your can!". "Austin 3:16" at last got to be a standout amongst the most prevalent catchphrases in wrestling history, and along these lines the motto got to be one of the top of the line T-shirts in WWE stock history. It is likewise credited as the notable minute that started the WWF's "State of mind Era".

Austin talked about Bret Hart, testing him continually and insulting him constantly. Hart at long last acknowledged Austin's test and came back to the WWF in October 1996. At Survivor Series, in a match to decide the main contender to the WWF World Heavyweight Championship, Hart stuck Austin when Hart utilized the turnbuckle to inspire himself in reverse while secured in the Million Dollar Dream and stuck Austin, this match would go ahead to make the establishments for the possible year-long quarrel between the two. The match came hot on the heels of an episode communicate live on Raw, which saw Austin "break into" Brian Pillman's home, with Pillman holding a weapon. Amid the 1997 Royal Rumble match, Austin was initially wiped out by Bret Hart, however the authorities did not see it, and he snuck once again into the ring and killed Hart by tossing him over the ropes, winning the match himself. This prompted the first-historically speaking pay-per-view headliner of Austin's WWF vocation at In Your House 13: Final Four, after Shawn Michaels endured a knee harm and left the WWF World Heavyweight Championship all of a sudden empty. Austin was killed ahead of schedule from the four-path match at In Your House 13 for the title in the wake of harming his own particular knee, however was included in the completion which saw Hart win his fourth WWF World Heavyweight Championship, which he lost the following night on Raw to Sycho Sid because of Austin's obstruction, proceeding with his quarrel with Hart. At WrestleMania 13, Hart vanquished Austin in a Submission match with Ken Shamrock as a unique official. Amid the match, Austin had been cut and was draining abundantly from his face, yet despite everything he declined to tap out when Hart secured his Sharpshooter. Austin at long last went out from blood misfortune, still held in the Sharpshooter, and lost the match. After the chime Hart kept on holding the Sharpshooter on Austin who, regardless of his injuries, rejected any help back to the locker room, therefore turning Hart heel and Austin babyface in an uncommon twofold turn. However, Austin depicted a screw-up rather than a conventional babyface. Austin inevitably got his requital on Hart in the headliner of In Your House 14: Revenge of the 'Taker, in a match to decide the main contender to The Undertaker's WWF World Heavyweight Championship. Austin won when Hart was precluded because of help from The British Bulldog, procuring him a title match against The Undertaker at In Your House 15: A Cold Day In Hell. Austin confronted Hart at the end of the day in a road battle on the April 21 scene of Raw, harming his adversary's leg with a steel seat amid the session. The match was ruled a no-challenge. He continued to beat Hart while he was on a stretcher in the back of a rescue vehicle. At A Cold Day In Hell, Austin had The Undertaker down with the Stunner however, occupied by auspicious impedance with respect to Brian Pillman, Stone Cold's old label accomplice, who rang the ringer before Austin got the spread, Undertaker then nailed Austin with a Tombstone Piledriver and accomplished the triumph off the distraction.

Amid this time, Austin figured out how to win the WWF Tag Team Championship on two separate events. On May 26, 1997, Austin and Shawn Michaels crushed Owen Hart and The British Bulldog for the title. They held the title until July 14, preceding Michaels was compelled to clear due to an injury. That same night a competition was held to figure out who might confront Austin and an accomplice of his deciding for the empty title. Hart and Bulldog won the competition, with Austin declining to pick an accomplice and wrestling the previous label group champions by himself. Late in the match, an appearing Dude Love turned out to offer help and Austin turned into a two-time label group champion. Austin proceeded with his quarrel with the Hart family, getting to be entangled in a warmed contention with Owen Hart, who stuck a diverted Austin and secured triumph for The Hart Foundation in the ten-man Tag Team match headliner of In Your House 16: Canadian Stampede, where Austin was joined forces with Ken Shamrock, Goldust, and The Legion of Doom.

At SummerSlam, Austin and Owen Hart confronted each other with Hart's WWF Intercontinental Championship hanging in the balance and an additional stipulation that Austin would need to kiss Hart's bottom on the off chance that he lost. During the match, Hart bungled a piledriver and dropped Austin on his head, bringing about a real broken neck and transitory loss of motion for Austin. As Hart slowed down by teasing the group of onlookers, Austin figured out how to creep over and pin Hart utilizing a move up to win the Intercontinental Championship. An obviously harmed and bewildered Austin was served to his feet by various officials and prompted the back. Because of the seriousness of his neck damage, Austin was compelled to surrender both the Intercontinental Championship and the Tag Team Championships. On September 22, 1997, on the first-historically speaking Monday Night Raw to be communicate from Madison Square Garden, Owen Hart was giving a discourse to the fans in participation. Amid his discourse, Austin entered the ring with five NYPD officers taking after, and ambushed Hart. As it looked like Austin was going to battle the officers, Vince McMahon kept running into the ring to address Austin regarding why he couldn't be "physically" ready to contend. Subsequent to telling McMahon that he regards the way that he and the WWF minded, Austin assaulted McMahon with a Stone Cold Stunner, leaving McMahon in stun. Austin was then captured on charges of trespassing, ambush, and striking a cop. This denoted the start of the Austin-McMahon competition. Austin was sidelined until Survivor Series. Be that as it may, then he showed up, one being at Badd Blood where he was included in the completion of a match amongst Hart and Faarooq, which was the last match in a competition for the Intercontinental Championship. Austin hit Faarooq with the Intercontinental Championship belt while the ref's back was turned, making Hart win the match. Austin's intention was to keep the Intercontinental Championship around Hart's abdomen, as showed when he meddled in Hart's matches on the October 20 and 27 scenes of Raw. Austin recovered the Intercontinental Championship from Hart at Survivor Series.

With Hart off the beaten path, Austin set his sights on The Rock, who stole Austin's belt on the November 17 scene of Raw after Austin endured a beating by his Nation of Domination stablemates. In the weeks to come, The Rock started pronouncing himself to be "the best damn Intercontinental Champion ever". The Rock kept ownership of the belt until D-Generation X: In Your House, when Austin crushed him to hold the title and recover his belt. As Austin had utilized his pickup truck to help in his triumph, McMahon requested him to safeguard the title against The Rock the following night on Raw. In a demonstration of rebellion in the wake of relinquishing the title to The Rock, Austin hurled the belt into a New Hampshire river.

Fight with Vince McMahon

With Bret Hart's flight for WCW, Austin and Shawn Michaels were the top stars in the organization. Austin won the 1998 Royal Rumble, finally disposing of The Rock. The following night on Raw, Austin interfered with Vince McMahon in his presentation of Mike Tyson, who was showing up, over the complaint of McMahon alluding to Tyson as "the baddest man on the planet". Austin flipped off Tyson, which prompted Tyson pushing Austin much to McMahon's humiliation, who started to freely object to the possibility of Austin as his champion. Tyson was later reported as "the uncommon implementer" for the headliner at WrestleMania XIV, despite the fact that he gave off an impression of being adjusting himself to WWF World Heavyweight Champion Shawn Michaels' steady D-Generation X. This prompted Austin's WWF World Heavyweight Championship match against Michaels at WrestleMania XIV, which he won with assistance from Tyson, who turned on DX by making the most of the choosing three against Michaels, and later hit him with his thump out punch. This got to be Shawn Michaels' last match until 2002 as he had endured two authentic herniated circles and another totally smashed because of The Undertaker in a Casket match at the Royal Rumble. With Michaels' nonappearance and winning the WWF title, the Austin Era was introduced.

On the Raw after Austin won the WWF World Heavyweight Championship, Vince McMahon gave him another title belt and cautioned Austin that he didn't affirm of his insubordinate nature and that things should be possible "the easy way or the most difficult way possible". Austin gave his answer as another Stunner. This prompted a section a week later where Austin had promised a couple days earlier in a meeting to "get it done" with McMahon, showing up in a suit and tie, with a radiating McMahon taking a photo of himself and his new corporate champion. The whole thing was a trick by Austin who throughout the section continued to remove the suit, tell McMahon it was the last time he would see Austin dressed this way, punch his supervisor in the "corporate grapefruits," and take another photo of both of them while McMahon was multiplied over in torment. In April 1998, it showed up Austin and McMahon were going to fight out their disparities in a genuine match, however the match was announced a no-challenge when Dude Love showed up. This prompted a match between Dude Love and Austin at Unforgiven: In Your House, where Austin hit McMahon with a steel seat, then the next month they had a rematch at Over the Edge: In Your House for the WWF Championship. Austin figured out how to hold the title in spite of McMahon going about as the arbitrator and his "Corporate Stooges" (Gerald Brisco and Pat Patterson) as timekeeper and ring broadcaster, separately.

McMahon kept on doing all that he could to demolish Austin, and he at long last scored a major triumph for his side at the 1998 King of the Ring tournament. There, Austin lost the WWF Championship to Kane in a First Blood match after the Undertaker interceded and hit him with a seat while the ref was weakened, regardless of Stone Cold having thumped Kane oblivious and defeated a before mediation by Mankind. Austin further incensed McMahon by winning back the title the following night on Raw. Austin likewise rose successful against The Undertaker at SummerSlam. Accordingly, McMahon set up a Triple Threat match at Breakdown: In Your House, where The Undertaker and Kane stuck Austin in the meantime. McMahon chose to clear the WWF Championship and grant it in light of a match between The Undertaker and Kane, in which Austin was the visitor official. Austin declined to mean either man and assaulted both towards the end of the match. McMahon later discharged him, in spite of the fact that Austin got revenge by capturing McMahon and dragging him to the center of the ring at "gunpoint", which wound up being a toy firearm with a parchment that read "Blast! 3:16". Likewise the fragment was exceptionally "humiliating" to McMahon as it demonstrated he was scared to the point that he urinated his jeans. Amid that fragment, McMahon additionally discovered that Stone Cold was later re-marked by his child, Shane McMahon. In the elimination rounds of the Survivor Series competition to grant the empty WWF Championship, Austin lost to Mankind, after Shane betrayed Austin. The following night on Raw, Judge Mills Lane decided that The Rock needed to protect his recently won WWF Championship against Austin that night, as stipulated in the new contract Austin had marked two weeks before with Shane. The Undertaker meddled and hit Austin with a scoop, acquiring Austin an exclusion triumph. But since the title would not change hands through preclusion, The Rock still kept the title. At Rock Bottom: In Your House, Austin crushed The Undertaker in a Buried Alive match after Kane Tombstoned The Undertaker into the grave. With this triumph, Austin met all requirements for the 1999 Royal Rumble.

Austin's next complete opportunity to correct reprisal on Mr. McMahon came amid the 1999 Royal Rumble match. On Raw, McMahon drew Austin's entrance number with the conspicuous expectation of screwing him over. Austin drew section number one, while McMahon attracted number two because of WWF Commissioner Shawn Michaels. Amid the Rumble match, McMahon slipped out of the ring and into the group as Austin pursued him down. It ended up being a trap as McMahon drove Austin into the anteroom restroom where he was trapped by individuals from The Corporation. Austin was harmed and taken away in a rescue vehicle. With Austin gone and not in the Rumble match, McMahon joined the declare table in calling the match. Later on, in any case, Austin returned in an emergency vehicle and re-entered the Royal Rumble, conveying a Stunner to the Big Boss Man and dispensing with him. With the help of the Corporation and a very late obstruction from The Rock, Austin was disposed of by McMahon himself, and McMahon won the 1999 Royal Rumble. With McMahon turning down his main contender spot against The Rock, WWF Commissioner Michaels granted Austin the title shot amid Raw the following night. At St. Valentine's Day Massacre, Stone Cold got a one-on-one match against McMahon in a Steel Cage match, with the WWF Championship opportunity at WrestleMania XV at stake. During the match, Paul Wight made his presentation, getting through from under the ring and assaulting Austin. Wight's assault impelled Austin into the side of the enclosure constraining the confine to give way and dropping Austin to the floor in the first place, making him the victor. Austin crushed The Rock at WrestleMania XV to win his third WWF Championship.

Austin confronted The Rock in a rematch at Backlash, in which Shane McMahon was the official. Amid the match, Vince McMahon drew nearer the ring, just to hand Austin back his 'Smoking Skull' belt and remove Shane from the procedures. Austin won the match when another arbitrator made the most of the. The Undertaker, be that as it may, won the WWF Championship from Austin at Over the Edge. Because of occasions rotating around Vince McMahon, Stephanie and Linda McMahon made Stone Cold the Chief Executive Officer of the organization. Vince and Shane McMahon tested Austin to an impairment stepping stool match at King of the Ring with the CEO title on hold, which the team of father and child won. The following night on Raw, nonetheless, Austin made it clear that while he was the CEO of the organization, he could have a title shot whenever and spot to be controlled without anyone else's input. Austin made the WWF Championship coordinate that night on Raw and crushed The Undertaker to win his fourth WWF Championship. Be that as it may, after he won it, The Undertaker came and hit him with the title belt, prompting a First Blood match between the two at Fully Loaded, where Mr. McMahon stipulated that if Austin lost he could never have the capacity to wrestle for the WWF Championship again, and if Austin won he could never see McMahon again. Austin won after obstruction from X-Pac, hitting The Undertaker with a TV camera and gave McMahon a farewell Stone Cold Stunner.

Harm and return

Austin clutched the WWF Championship until SummerSlam when he lost it to Mankind in a Triple Threat coordinate additionally highlighting Triple H. Austin would get his rematch at No Mercy against Triple H, yet he lost after The Rock unintentionally hit him with a heavy hammer that was implied for Triple H. At the point when Survivor Series moved around, Triple H was still champion. Austin was set up for a Triple Threat match for the WWF Championship against Triple H and The Rock. Be that as it may, Austin was keep running around an auto in the stopping lot. Big Show would supplant Austin in the match and would win the WWF Championship. Austin then experienced neck surgery by Dr. Lloyd Youngblood, because of Austin's damage from the piledriver at SummerSlam. He was away for a nine-month recovery, with the auto edge as his explanation behind leaving.

In April 2000, Austin showed up at Backlash, assaulting Triple H and Vince McMahon to help The Rock recover the WWF Championship. Austin then showed up through satellite on SmackDown! in September as him declaring his arrival at Unforgiven. At Unforgiven, Austin made his official return alongside his new signature melody, "Glass Shatters" by Disturbed. The organization, in the interim, attempted to discover who ran him down at Survivor Series the past year. Rikishi at last confessed to being the driver since "he did it for the Rock." Rikishi felt that Austin involved the top spot in the organization and with him out of the picture, Rock, a kindred Samoan, would have the capacity to climb to the highest point of the organization. At No Mercy, Austin had returned to confront Rikishi in a No Holds Barred match. Amid the match, Austin motioned he was going to drive his truck into Rikishi, who at that point was a bleeding mess. Before he might, he be able to was ceased by authorities, the match being considered no challenge and Austin was (kayfabe) captured and later safeguarded by Commissioner Mick Foley. Amid an impairment match against Rikishi and Kurt Angle, Triple H caught the evident aim of cooperating with Austin. In the wake of clearing the ring, Triple H crushed his heavy hammer over Austin's head, and uncovered it was really him behind the entire plan, formulated to shield the WWF Championship from Austin and end his profession. At Survivor Series, Triple H had plotted to run Austin down again amid their match (in this way rehashing the occasions of the earlier year's Survivor Series), however his plot fizzled when Austin lifted Triple H's vehicle with a forklift, then let it drop 20 feet, bringing about Triple H to yell "My goodness!" just before the auto was discharged. Additionally, in December, Stone Cold Steve Austin contended in a six-man Hell in a Cell match at Armageddon for the WWF Championship, against Triple H, The Undertaker, Rikishi, Kurt Angle and The Rock. At last, Austin gave The Rock a shocker and was going to stick him when Triple H came in the way and got a shocker; Angle exploited the circumstance and stuck The Rock and grabbed the triumph, subsequently holding the WWF Championship. After the match, Austin conveyed a shocker to Angle, while he was praising his triumph.

Austin won his third Royal Rumble in January 2001, last killing Kane. His competition against Triple H finished at No Way Out in a Three Stages of Hell match, with Triple H beating Austin two tumbles to one. At the same occasion, The Rock vanquished Kurt Angle for the WWF Championship, which means Austin was set to confront The Rock at WrestleMania. In the weeks paving the way to WrestleMania, hostility developed amongst Austin and The Rock, originating from Austin's significant other, Debra, being appointed to be The Rock's chief by Mr. McMahon. Debra would then be calmed of that part subsequent to neglecting to keep a fight amongst Rock and Austin. At WrestleMania X-Seven, Austin confronted The Rock for the second time. Prior to the match started, it was reported that the match had been made no exclusion. Halfway amid the match, Mr. McMahon advanced toward ringside. McMahon then kept The Rock from sticking Austin on two separate events and gave Austin a steel seat to hit The Rock with. Austin then hit The Rock a few times with the seat and stuck him to win the WWF Championship. With the triumph, Austin turned into a five-time WWF Champion. After the match Austin celebrated by shaking hands with Mr. McMahon, a man he once considered his foe, and offering a brew to him, shockingly turning heel interestingly since 1997. This choice has been exceptionally reprimanded by numerous, including Austin himself. Since Austin was such a top-level face numerous concur that it look bad to turn him heel. The following night on Raw, in the wake of prodding a speedy face turn, the heel turn proceeded. He additionally modified his character significantly throughout the following couple of months, in a planned turn from the defiant and insurgent character adored by the fans, Austin turned into a whiny, unpredictable primadonna who might gripe relentlessly when he felt he was not getting the admiration from the fans and wrestlers that he merited. He additionally built up a fixation on McMahon, putting it all on the line to awe him and notwithstanding going so far as to embracing him and bringing him presents. McMahon, however obviously uncomfortable and watchful by the consideration, was still thankful to have Austin with him rather than against him. Amid a Steel Cage match with The Rock in a rematch for the title, Triple H came down to the ring with a heavy hammer and together with Austin violently assaulted The Rock and put him out of activity. Austin further established his heel turn the next Thursday on SmackDown! while, amid a meeting with Jim Ross about his activities at WrestleMania, thought Ross was decrying their kinship and after that continued to assault and severely ambush Ross. Austin and Triple H turned into a group and called themselves The Two-Man Power Trip.

Austin and Triple H were the top heels in the organization, and quarreling with The Undertaker and Kane. In the wake of overcoming Kane and The Undertaker for the WWF Tag Team Championship at Backlash, they held the label group titles, the WWF Championship (Austin), and the Intercontinental Championship (Triple H) at the same time. At Judgment Day, Triple H lost his Intercontinental title to Kane. At that point, the next night on Raw, Austin and Triple H wrestled against Chris Jericho and Chris Benoit with the label group titles on hold. Halfway through the match, Triple H tore his quadriceps muscle. As arranged, the group lost the label group titles toward the end of the match when Triple H coincidentally hit Austin in the stomach with a heavy hammer yet the harm to Triple H, which kept him out for the rest of the year, constrained the WWF to go in another course.

Austin authoritatively separated The Power Trip on that week's SmackDown!, censuring Triple H for his damage and for hitting him with the heavy hammer. He kept on adjusting himself to McMahon and started fighting with Jericho and Benoit independent from anyone else, with Kurt Angle joining the gathering as Triple H's substitution. For the vast majority of the following month prompting King of the Ring, he continually succumbed to a twofold accommodation including Jericho's Walls of Jericho and Benoit's Crippler Crossface, Austin did not wrestle as he was nursing a harm, but rather kept on fighting with the dominant label group champions, in the end costing them the titles on the SmackDown! going before King of the Ring against the Dudley Boyz. Austin crushed Jericho and Benoit in a Triple Threat match, regardless of impedance from the appearing Booker T. Stone Cold would endure a back damage amid the match after Booker T dropped Stone Cold through the Spanish declare table, as uncovered in his The Bottom Line DVD.

The Invasion

Subsequent to King of the Ring, Austin was left without a quarrel as Benoit was lost for the following year after neck surgery and Jericho proceeded onward to different things. He started a little spat with Angle over who was McMahon's greatest supporter. In the interim, the buy of World Championship Wrestling (WCW) by McMahon started to hold up under natural product as The Invasion started. McMahon was not ready to battle off the attacking WCW wrestlers, and when they shaped an organization together with a gathering of Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) graduated class that were marked to the WWF and both Shane and Stephanie McMahon were currently adjusted against their dad, McMahon's realm started to disintegrate and he had zero assistance from his two greatest stars at the time. Austin made it realized that he was against collaborating with Angle, whom Austin saw as both a danger to his WWF Championship, and in addition an irritating tag-along.

At long last, a baffled McMahon got Austin out and requested that he bring "the old Stone Cold" back, going similarly as requesting that Austin give him a Stone Cold Stunner, so he could adequately commander a group of WWF wrestlers in a ten-man label group match at the up and coming InVasion pay-per-view in July. A sad Austin at first won't, however on the accompanying version of Raw he came back to his old ways and hit Stunners on each individual from the Alliance, turning face once more. At that point, at InVasion, Austin captained the WWF group comprising of himself, Angle, Jericho, and The Undertaker and Kane against the group of WCW's Booker T and Diamond Dallas Page and ECW's Rhyno and The Dudley Boyz. Late in the match, in any case, as Angle had Booker in the lower leg lock, Austin turned on Angle by Stunning him and joined the Alliance, turning Austin heel once again. The motivation behind why Austin did this was he felt McMahon was preparing Angle to assume control over his detect, that he was attempting to reach The Rock to return, and that he himself was "overlooked" when McMahon demanded he come back to the old Austin. Austin was promptly made the Alliance's new pioneer and started to fight with Angle over his WWF Championship.

Additionally, amid this time, Austin would start his "What?" catchphrase, which he would say arbitrarily while giving a promo. The catchphrase in the end would begin to wind up prominent towards the end of the Invasion, is still utilized by fans right up 'til the present time.

Austin lost his title to Angle at Unforgiven by submitting to the lower leg lock, yet started baiting Angle for a rematch in the wake of asserting his hand was under the ropes (which it was). Austin got that rematch on the October 8, 2001 scene of Raw and won the title after WWF Commissioner William Regal sold out Angle and joined the Alliance. Austin then started quarreling with Alliance part Rob Van Dam, who was the main individual from the Alliance to be cheered by the fans regardless of the awful strategies of the gathering. Austin confronted Angle and Van Dam at No Mercy soon thereafter and won by sticking the last mentioned.

On the October 29, 2001 scene of Raw, Angle joined the Alliance and turned into the second most effective wrestler in the gathering. Survivor Series was coming up, and it was eventually chosen to have a victor take-all Survivor Series label match with the triumphant group turning into the surviving element. Austin was captained group Alliance, which comprised of Angle, Shane McMahon, Van Dam and Booker T, against Team WWF which was captained by The Rock, who had given back the week taking after Austin's treachery of the WWF at InVasion. The Rock's group included Jericho, Kane, The Undertaker, and Big Show. Before Survivor Series, Austin and Rock revived their contention at the UK-just pay-per-view Rebellion and Austin effectively shielded his WWF title with assistance from Angle.

At Survivor Series, Austin was one of the last two wrestlers in the match, with The Rock being the other, and was the final trust in the Alliance to survive. Late in the match, Austin endeavored to win the match with the Rock Bottom, the Rock's completing move, yet neglected to procure a three check. He then kicked out of his own Stone Cold Stunner, which the Rock nailed on him, and assaulted two officials including Alliance ref Nick Patrick. With the authorities down, Angle raced to the ring and grabbed Austin's title belt. He then entered the ring and hit Austin with it, double-crossing the Alliance and empowering The Rock to arrive in a desperate predicament on Austin for the pin and the triumph. With that, the InVasion finished, the Alliance was compelled to disband, and Austin's future in the organization was being referred to.

Inevitably, McMahon chose he was going to strip Austin of the title and honor it to Angle for his activities. Just before he could, Ric Flair came back to the WWF surprisingly since his 1993 takeoff and reported he was currently half proprietor of the organization. Austin returned minutes after this declaration and assaulted Angle and McMahon for their activities. He was then given his title belt by Flair and celebrated with him in the ring, turning him confront by and by.

Pizazz then chose that Austin would go head to head against The Rock, who was still possessing the previous WCW World Heavyweight Championship (which was renamed the World Championship), at the up and coming Vengeance pay-per-view in December to bring together the titles. Notwithstanding, since Austin was all the while quarreling with Angle and Rock had an uncertain fight with Jericho over his own particular title, McMahon overruled Flair and said that both men would wrestle their individual opponents for their separate titles at Vengeance, with the victors to confront each other and the champ of that match to be delegated Undisputed WWF Champion. Austin won his first match by crushing Angle with the Stone Cold Stunner and confronted World Champion Jericho in the unification match. Austin lost the match after McMahon and Booker T meddled and lost his title. Promptly after, Austin and Booker T started quarreling which would prompt different battles in unusual venues, for example, a congregation confession booth, a bingo lobby, and a market.

Last quarrels, walkout, and retirement

Starting 2002, despite the fact that Austin's character stayed with the WWF's most well known wrestlers as top face, his up and coming storylines in the development to WrestleMania were to some degree flawed contrasted with those of his earlier years. In the 2002 Royal Rumble, Triple H made his hotly anticipated come back from harm, with him and Austin two of the last four members in the ring alongside Kurt Angle and Mr. Great. Austin was disposed of by Kurt Angle, be that as it may he in the blink of an eye backtracked in the ring and hit every one of the three with a steel seat. A couple days after the fact on Raw, he vanquished Kurt Angle to win a shot at Chris Jericho's Undisputed WWF Championship at No Way Out.

In the development to No Way Out, McMahon had re-marked the New World Order (nWo), who began a fight with him after (kayfabe) Austin declined a lager blessing tailing them costing him his match against Jericho. Issues in the backstage imagination were however then apparently starting to surface. Austin was accounted for as being miserable with respect to Hulk Hogan's arrival to the WWF, and was accounted for as declining to lose to Hogan in a proposed match at WrestleMania X8, while Hogan purportedly advised McMahon the same in regards to losing to Austin. As of late, Austin has this to say in regards to why the match never occurred: "I promise you, if my head had been at somewhat better place, then by all rights, a [match] ought to have happened", Austin told JR. "Physically and rationally where I was at, I could go. I think Hogan most likely would have been a stage or two behind that. That wasn't worthy to me, and I would not like to back myself off. I say that with all due admiration to Hulk Hogan, since he had a hellacious run. That was my point of view once upon a time. I didn't think we could deliver". Consequently, the match was re-charged as The Rock crushing Hogan, while Austin vanquished Scott Hall, peaking his fight with the nWo.

In an astonishment quarrel, the following night on Raw, Austin declined to show up and took a week-long break without the organization's assent, asserting depletion. McMahon asserted his activities created anger among fans who had paid to see him that night. Austin returned on the April 1, 2002 scene of Raw, the first of the new "brand augmentation" time. The show was fixated on which give he would hint with, and he at last picked Raw. Austin entered a quarrel with The Undertaker that brought about a main contender's match for the Undisputed WWF Championship at Backlash, which Austin lost regardless of having his foot on the rope when he was stuck. He would later be double-crossed by Big Show, who went ahead to rejoin the nWo, and Ric Flair. Austin then vanquished Big Show and Flair in an impairment match at Judgment Day.

In a meeting on WWE TV by phone in May 2002, Austin dazed the organization and fans by propelling a verbal assault on the course the organization was heading in and slated the inventive group for not utilizing him the way he felt they already did. The observers attempted to keep Austin's sentiments on a nonpartisan wavelength, prompting the WWE apologizing to fans for the upheaval and expressed it was not some portion of Austin's present or forthcoming storylines. McMahon reacted a week later on the same show playing down the upheaval, asserting that Austin was just the sort of wrestler who was once in a while hard to work with.

The WWE rehired Eddie Guerrero for Austin to fight with, while likewise preparing Austin for a quarrel with Brock Lesnar. Austin, in any case, vetoed any matches that would bring about him losing to Lesnar and at last left the company. Austin later clarified that he thought hot-shotting a youngster made Austin look powerless and did not give Lesnar a legitimate stage for such a major win over a star of the size that Austin held. Further fanning the flares amongst Austin's developing number of spoilers was a very much advanced household question occurrence amongst Austin and his better half Debra.

On June 3, taking after the debate with Debra, Austin showed up for WWE on Raw. After Austin no-demonstrated the scene of Raw the next week, his storylines were dropped. Austin exited once more, openly expressing he felt awful storylines were introduced to him by the innovative group. This time his takeoff was for good. McMahon, alongside long-term Austin supporter and genuine companion Jim Ross, covered Austin on WWE programming, alluding to him as "taking his ball and going home" since he wasn't getting his direction, while likewise disclosing to the fans that neither he nor Ross could influence Austin to alter his opinion. McMahon demanded that Austin owed a conciliatory sentiment to every one of the fans over the world, particularly the individuals who paid exclusively to see him that night.

McMahon toasted to Austin's vocation with a lager expressing gratitude toward him for all his diligent work in any case. That night, Austin's passage topic was played amid an in-ring portion by Ric Flair, however it was transitioned to Eddie Guerrero's topic and he entered the field. The Rock additionally showed up on Raw that night, regardless of being drafted to SmackDown!, and reported his dissatisfactions towards Austin and tossed a container of brew at McMahon. Austin's stock kept on offering incredibly in the weeks taking after his takeoff, however with not a single indication of an arrival likely in sight, the organization quit promoting his character, his stock, and expelled his profile from WWE.com. This period was recorded in a scene of WWE Confidential.

For the rest of 2002, Austin stayed under the radar and did not show up. It was accounted for however before the year's over, Austin and McMahon met and determined their disparities. He then consented to come back to the organization in mid 2003. In a meeting with WWE Raw Magazine, he declared profound misgiving over the circumstance that prompted his flight and the path in which he had left, and more profound misgiving over erroneous hypothesis in regards to his charged feelings of spite held against other WWE wrestlers, asserting he had no issue with Scott Hall rejoining the organization. In any case, he conceded regardless he held solid reservations about his singles match with Hall at WrestleMania just enduring seven minutes and groped the work to the match did not experience his or Hall's fans desires, and was irritated by hypothesis proposing he couldn't help contradicting Kevin Nash re-joining the organization, demanding he and Nash have dependably been great companions. In a meeting with Vince McMahon on his podcast in 2014, Austin uncovered interestingly that McMahon had fined him $650,000 upon his arrival, however Austin could bring down the sum to $250,000.

He admitted he had a noteworthy break with Triple H's part in the organization upon his arrival in 2002, yet demanded starting 2003 they determined their issues. What's more, he guaranteed a brief question with The Rock was determined rapidly upon his arrival, and that none of his debate with the ability program proceeded or had significant impact in his flight. In February, Austin returned at No Way Out in a short match against Eric Bischoff. Austin would wrestle one and only match amongst then and WrestleMania in another short match against Bischoff on Raw, yet was then vanquished by The Rock at WrestleMania XIX, who returned about the same time as an egotistical, "offer out" scalawag, which, eventually, turned into Austin's last official match in WWE. It was additionally uncovered in the narrative The Mania of Wrestlemania (based around the WrestleMania XIX occasion) that the letters "OMR", signifying "One More Round", were put on his coat for his match against The Rock.

The night after on Raw, Bischoff "terminated" Austin on therapeutic grounds. The following morning, Austin gave a meeting on WWE.com reporting his retirement from wrestling, despite the fact that he expressed that he and Vince McMahon had achieved an assention seeing him just show up in non-wrestling parts on a week after week premise. In reference to Bischoff discharging him on Raw that week, he said that despite the fact that shooting was for storyline purposes, he conceded the therapeutic issues read out on Raw were genuine and for the most part related back to his harm maintained at SummerSlam 1997 in a match with Owen Hart, and had started to truly torment him since late 2001. He admitted wrestling against the guidance of his specialists up to his takeoff in 2002, which constrained him to stop wrestling, and refered to this as the sole reason regarding why he all of a sudden withdrew, with specialists prompting an ungainly or brutal move performed on him could have brought about Austin being for all time impaired or bringing about death.

Co-General Manager and Sheriff of Raw

The next week, Austin started his non-wrestling profession with the WWE and started a crisp storyline when he was brought back by Linda McMahon as the Co-General Manager of Raw. He proceeded with this storyline for the rest of the year, as yet indicating wrestling moves including the Stone Cold Stunner and a few trades of punches and kicks, albeit restricting normality of these being performed. On the November 17, 2003 scene of Raw, Austin was "let go" from Raw as the consequence of a stipulation in a match at Survivor Series where Austin's hand-picked group of wrestlers neglected to beat Bischoff's group of wrestlers. After Survivor Series, Mick Foley would turn into the new Co-General Manager of Raw, and started a (kayfabe) request to have Austin re-instated. Austin immediately came back to WWE TV before the end of 2003 when he was a piece of the Tribute to the Troops taped live before U.S. troops in Iraq, posturing and shocking Mr. McMahon. He at long last returned on Raw on December 29 as its "Sheriff", giving a Stone Cold Stunner to Eric Bischoff and rehiring Shawn Michaels, who had recently been "terminated" by Bischoff.

Austin showed up on and off as 2004 started, coming full circle in him being the extraordinary visitor ref for the famous match between Brock Lesnar and Goldberg at WrestleMania XX in which fans cheered for Austin and scoffed both Lesnar and Goldberg because of both men declaring their takeoffs from the organization taking after the occasion. At that point, on April 17, WWE put out a public statement on their site asserting that Austin and WWE were not able settle long-running contract debate and had again gone separate ways.

Sporadic appearances

Austin showed up on WWE programming in a year at WrestleMania 21 where he was defied by Roddy Piper in Piper's Pit, until Carlito hindered to affront both. This brought about Carlito getting a shocker from Austin and Piper tossing him out of the ring. The section finished with Austin and Piper celebrating with lager until Austin gave Piper a shocker also. Austin was included in the finishing up portion at ECW One Night Stand in which he had a lager bash with the ECW locker room and fought with the counter ECW trespassers, drove by Eric Bischoff. He returned at Raw Homecoming, conveying shockers to Vince McMahon, Shane McMahon, Stephanie McMahon and Linda McMahon. An edge including Jim Ross being let go prompted a match in which Austin consented to face Bischoff's substitution, Jonathan Coachman, at Taboo Tuesday, with the stipulation of Ross recapturing his declaring work if Austin wins and Austin losing his own particular occupation in the event that he loses. Austin hurt his back preceding the match, and couldn't wrestle unless he was intensely sedated, so the match was wiped out. To disclose away his inability to show up at Taboo Tuesday, Vince McMahon said on Raw that Austin had been included in a mischance, in this way keeping him from contending. Batista substituted for Austin, vanquishing Coachman alongside Vader and Goldust. The stipulation was dropped because of Austin not competing.

He came back to WWE quickly to face John "Bradshaw" Layfield in a brew drinking challenge at the March 5, 2006 scene of Saturday Night's Main Event. Austin won by preclusion as he saw JBL deceiving by pouring the brew down his garments. JBL tossed some brew in Austin's face and attempted to flee, yet Chris Benoit rapidly tossed JBL back in the ring. Austin gave a shocker to JBL. Austin drafted Bret Hart into the WWE Hall of Fame on April 1, 2006.

Austin came back to WWE programming (showing up on Raw, ECW, and SmackDown!) in March 2007, incompletely to advance his featuring part in the arrival of WWE Films' generation, The Condemned. On March 31, 2007, Austin drafted Jim Ross into the WWE Hall of Fame. At WrestleMania 23, Austin, as an exceptional visitor arbitrator, directed the match between Bobby Lashley and Umaga. The stipulation for the match was that if Lashley lost, Donald Trump's head would be shaved, and if Umaga lost, Mr. McMahon's head would endure the same destiny. Throughout the occasion, Austin conveyed shockers to Umaga, Vince McMahon, Shane McMahon, and Donald Trump. Lashley won the match, and Trump, Austin and Lashley then shaved Mr.McMahon's head. Stone Cold finished by dazzling McMahon, and in addition Donald Trump. He then showed up in a video on the June 11 scene of Raw as a feature of "Mr. McMahon's Appreciation Night", where he shared his considerations on his past quarrels with McMahon. Austin showed up on the August 18, 2007 scene of Saturday Night's Main Event, as a conceivable ill-conceived offspring of Mr. McMahon and staggered McMahon and Jonathan Coachman. He then showed up at SummerSlam to assistant Matt Hardy in fighting Montel Vontavious Porter in a Beer Drinking Contest. The match finished in a no challenge after Austin gave a brew to MVP and gave him the Stone Cold stunner. Austin showed up at Cyber Sunday, where he visitor refereed a World Heavyweight Championship match amongst Batista and The Undertaker, which Batista won. On the November 5 scene of Raw, Austin showed up to go up against Santino Marella for reprimanding The Condemned. The contention finished as Marella got a Stone Cold Stunner from Austin, who then strolled backstage just to come back with a Budweiser lager truck to hose down Marella and his valet Maria with beer. On the Raw fifteenth Anniversary uncommon, Austin returned after Vince McMahon was assaulted by Mankind and the Undertaker. Soon after, McMahon got a Stone Cold shocker and Austin got out all WWE stars in participation to the ring to commend the fifteenth commemoration of Raw. The show shut as Austin, Triple H and Hornswoggle poured lager on McMahon, who was thumped out outside the ring.

On October 26, 2008, at Cyber Sunday, Austin was the exceptional visitor arbitrator amid a match amongst Batista and Chris Jericho for the World Heavyweight Championship. In the middle of the match Stone Cold told an escaping Jericho that in the event that he was checked out or excluded, Batista would win the title. Over the span of the match, Batista incidentally thumped Austin down. At the point when Austin recouped, Randy Orton, who had turned out as the third arbitrator, thumped Austin withdraw, just to get a Stone Cold Stunner when Austin recuperated. In the long run Batista won the match by hitting his mark Batista Bomb on Chris Jericho, driving Austin to give the three tally, making Batista the new World Heavyweight Champion.

On the January 12, 2009, scene of Raw, Austin was reported to be the primary individual from the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2009. He was drafted by his long haul on-screen rival Vince McMahon, who alluded to Austin as "The Greatest WWE [wrestler] ever". Amid the enlistment, there were "one more match" serenades, to which Austin said he was formally shutting the entryway on his wrestling vocation and beginning another part in his life. After the Hall of Fame presentations at WrestleMania XXV, Austin's signature music hit, and he re-entered the ringside range wearing a vintage "Austin 3:16" shirt driving an ATV. He then celebrated with a brew bash with the fans and with long-lasting companion Jim Ross.

Austin came back to the organization on the March 15, 2010 scene of Raw as its visitor host. On that scene, he directed an agreement marking between Vince McMahon and Bret Hart for their match at WrestleMania XXVI. In the same scene, Austin got together backstage with his long-term rival Shawn Michaels, who asked Austin whether he trusted that Michaels could end the Undertaker's undefeated WrestleMania streak in their forthcoming match. Austin answered "Hellfire better believe it I think you can beat the Undertaker, yet I don't believe you're setting off to, The streak is going to go 18–0". Michaels lost the match extending the Undertaker's streak to 18–0 and constraining Michaels to resign.

In mid 2011, Austin was declared as the head coach and host for the recovery of Tough Enough. On the March 7 scene of Raw, Austin interfered with the agreement marking of the extraordinary visitor official to the Michael Cole and Jerry Lawler match at WrestleMania XXVII, initially booked to be John "Bradshaw" Layfield; Austin assaulted Layfield and marked the agreement instead. Although Lawler won by accommodation, the Anonymous Raw General Manager turned around the choice and precluded Lawler, guaranteeing that Austin had "violated his power". He showed up on Raw the next night with the cast from Tough Enough, while likewise getting into a fight with The Miz and Alex Riley. On the June 6 scene of Raw, Austin seemed live close by old opponent Vince McMahon to proclaim Andy Leavine as the champ of Tough Enough. He likewise served as the Special Guest Referee at night's label group headliner, John Cena and Alex Riley versus The Miz and R-Truth, shocking Miz and helping Cena. Nonetheless, the Anonymous Raw General Manager tolled in and the GM's ringside mouthpiece Michael Cole reported that since Austin had manhandled his power as ref, The Miz and R-Truth had won by means of preclusion. Austin did not warmly embrace the GM upsetting his choice and Cole likewise got a Stunner, which was taken after with another Attitude Adjustment politeness of Cena. Austin and Cena shut the appear, celebrating with a brew bash. Austin showed up as the exceptional visitor GM on the "WWE All-Star" version of Raw. Amid the appear, Austin decimated the Anonymous Raw General Manager's portable workstation by running over it with his ATV.

On April 3, 2014, it was uncovered on WWE.com that Austin would show up at WrestleMania XXX. Austin showed up with Hulk Hogan and The Rock in the opening segment.

Austin showed up on the October 19, 2015 scene of Raw, advancing the Undertaker versus Brock Lesnar match at Hell in A Cell and the WrestleMania 32 event. Austin again showed up on Raw the next week, where he advanced the WWE 2K16 video game.

Austin, close by Shawn Michaels and Mick Foley showed up at WrestleMania 32 to defy The League of Nations, where Austin conveyed a Stunner to Rusev and King Barrett. While Austin was celebrating with Michaels, Foley and The New Day, Xavier Woods attempted to persuade Austin to hit the dance floor with them in festivity. While Austin reluctantly at initially moved along, he later reacted by hitting Woods with a Stunner.

Individual life

Austin dated Kathryn Burrhus all through secondary school and school, and the two wedded on November 24, 1990. In any case, Austin sought after an association with Jeanie Clarke ("Lady Blossom"), with whom he was working. His marriage to Burrhus was immediately abrogated on August 7, 1992, and Austin and Clarke wedded on December 18, 1992. Together, they have two girls, Stephanie (conceived in 1991), and Cassidy (conceived in 1996). Cassidy lives with her mom in England, while Stephanie lives in Los Angeles. Austin likewise embraced Jade, Clarke's little girl with previous spouse Chris Adams. Austin and Clarke separated on May 10, 1999. Jade lives in the U.S. with her significant other and son.

On September 13, 2000, Austin wedded Debra Marshall.

In December 2007, the Wrestling Observer bulletin reported that Austin legitimately changed his genuine name (Steven Williams) to his wrestling name Steve Austin. In late 2009, Austin wedded his fourth spouse, Kristin, with whom he parts his time between Marina Del Rey, California and Tilden, Texas, where he claims the Broken Skull Ranch.

Titles and achievements

Genius Wrestling Illustrated

Fight of the Year (1998, 1999) versus Vince McMahon

Match of the Year (1997) versus Bret Hart in an accommodation match at WrestleMania 13

Most Hated Wrestler of the Year (2001)

Most Popular Wrestler of the Year (1998)

New kid on the block of the Year (1990)

Wrestler of the Year (1998, 1999, 2001)

Positioned No. 1 of the main 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 1998 and 1999

Positioned No. 19 of the main 500 singles wrestlers of the "PWI Years" in 2003

Positioned No. 50 of the main 100 label groups of the "PWI Years" with Brian Pillman in 2003

Proficient Wrestling Hall of Fame

Class of 2016

Texas Wrestling Federation

TWF Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with The California Stud

Big showdown Wrestling

WCW World Television Championship (2 times)

WCW United States Heavyweight Championship (2 times)

WCW World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Brian Pillman

NWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Brian Pillman

World Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Entertainment/WWE

Million Dollar Championship (1 time)[a]

WWF Championship (6 times)[b]

WWF Intercontinental Championship (2 times)

WWF Tag Team Championship (4 times) – with Shawn Michaels (1), Dude Love (1), The Undertaker (1), and Triple H (1)

Ruler of the Ring (1996)

Imperial Rumble (1997, 1998, 2001)

Undisputed WWF Championship #1 Contendership Tournament (2002)

WWE Hall of Fame (Class of 2009)

Fifth Triple Crown Champion

Slammy Award (2 times)

The right to speak freely (1997)

Best Original WWE Network Show – Stone Cold Podcast (2015)

Wrestling Observer Newsletter

5 Star Match (1992) with Rick Rude, Arn Anderson, Bobby Eaton, and Larry Zbyszko versus Dustin Rhodes, Nikita Koloff, Sting, Ricky Steamboat, and Barry Windham in a WarGames match at WrestleWar

5 Star Match (1997) versus Bret Hart in an accommodation match at WrestleMania 13

Best Box Office Draw (1998, 1999)

Best Gimmick (1997, 1998)

Best Heel (1996)

Best on Interviews (1996–1998, 2001)

Best Non-Wrestler (2003)

Fight of the Year (1997) versus The Hart Foundation

Fight of the Year (1998, 1999) versus Vince McMahon

Match of the Year (1997) versus Bret Hart in an accommodation match at WrestleMania 13

Most Charismatic (1997, 1998)

New kid on the block of the Year (1990)

Label Team of the Year (1993) with Brian Pillman as The Hollywood Blonds

Wrestler of the Year (1998)

Most noticeably awful Worked Match of the Year (1991) with Terrance Taylor versus Bobby Eaton and P.N. News in a Scaffold match at The Great American Bash

Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (Class of 2000)