Stone Cold

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Originally Posted by Vastardikai There were people high up in WCW who wanted to make Steve Austin WCW World Champion. If you listened to what the announcers and others were saying about him, the audience was well on their way to being conditioned to buying Austin as a Main Event Heel. Paul E. introduced Austin to the Dangerous Alliance as "The World's Greatest Athlete." Ventura was bigger on him than he was on Pillman in the Blondes. Flair himself told Austin that "Arn tells me you're going to be The Man one day" in a promo. Then Bischoff took over...

can't really blame Bischoff, even Austin himself doesn't blame him for firing him given the state of WCW and his injury. Plus it was only once he'd gone to ECW and cut "those promos" when it all started coming together. If he'd have stayed in WCW, I'd say there's at least a chance he never gets to "discover" those promos in himself/start heading down that path and maybe gets lost in the mix once the nWo struck gold. Best thing that ever happened to him was Bischoff firing him.