SK's plea to SCSA

[Guest alfdogg]

This was at the beginning of his RAW rant:

 

- Get out, Steve. Get out while you can and stay out. Put your millions of dollars into a nice long-term investment plan, buy a house somewhere comfortable, and get out now while you’re still able to walk on your own two feet and still in control of your own career. Be unprofessional, be selfish, bite the hand that feeds you, let down the fans. I don’t care. I’m one of your biggest fans and you won’t let me down at all, because I can what’s coming if you stay, and it’s gonna be “Vince McMahon makes Steve Austin into the biggest martyr since Bret Hart”, and I don’t want to see that. I’ve already had one hero destroyed by a failing company, I don’t need another one. I don’t want another Dynamite Kid, a guy hanging on so long past his physical prime that he’s in a wheelchair and forgotten. I have tapes, I have memories. Find what makes you happy and do it, because obviously this company is no longer that thing, and I’d rather live without Austin than live with an unmotivated Austin. It was a good run, a great run, the best run…but it’s over, and I don’t want to be watching a humilated Rattlesnake in the midcard, fighting hasbeens and neverweres and waiting for the writers to come up with something good again. Because they won’t. And I can’t help but feel if you come back, we’ll all just be disappointed all over again. Or worse, we’ll be talking about where we were the day that Steve Austin got screwed.

[Guest cobainwasmurdered]

I agree with almost everything that SK said (I'm shocked too)

[Guest]

I can't believe that Keith is defending this guy and - by extension - his egotistical and unprofessional conduct.  Were this somebody else, Keith would be foaming at the mouth.  Because Keith is an Austin fan, is Austin automatically given a free pass on all of his misdeeds?

[Guest]

I don't think Keith was outright defending him one way or the other, despite saying he was an Austin fan. That wasn't really the point anyway, as he was going the way of saying that Vince will see Austin as the lamb, and will sacrifice him once the time is right. Can't say I disagree with him, and if it happens, Austin will most likely become a bitter fuck much like Dynamite is, and Bret was until recently.

 

Might as well give my opinion on the situation now. Simply put, I feel that Austin did the right thing by taking a stand and voicing his concerns, but what wasn't cool was walking out on the show. He could've found a better way to deal with the situation and put forth a better example.

[Guest]

I can't believe that Keith is defending this guy and - by extension - his egotistical and unprofessional conduct.  Were this somebody else, Keith would be foaming at the mouth.  Because Keith is an Austin fan, is Austin automatically given a free pass on all of his misdeeds?

I find it even more amusing that Keith thinks that his "advice" or "opinion" even matters to Austin. LOL

[Guest]

I can't believe that Keith is defending this guy and - by extension - his egotistical and unprofessional conduct.  Were this somebody else, Keith would be foaming at the mouth.  Because Keith is an Austin fan, is Austin automatically given a free pass on all of his misdeeds?

 

Questions like these prompted this follow-up with Mr. Keith:

 

Okay, look, just to clear up the stream of "You're a hypocrite" e-mails I've been getting about Austin, let me say this:

 

I do NOT support the actions of Steve Austin. They were selfish, unprofessional and inexcusable. As I said in the rant.

 

When I say that I'm encouraging Austin to leave, I mean that I'm encouraging him to LEAVE, as in, don't come back in two weeks once the WWF has caved in. If you're gonna bluff your way out of situations like this, then either Austin should have the balls to retire and be done with it, or the WWF should have the balls to fire him and set a good example for the rest. If the WWF is no longer what Austin wants to work for, then he should take his millions and fuck off.

 

If the WWF DOES take him back in two weeks and once again caves into his demands and books around him, when clearly they feel he is no longer the guy that they want as their main event star, then they're just as much at fault for encouraging this sort of behavior as Austin is for pulling it. If you don't want him as your #1 guy anymore, fine, tell him to his face that his role will be putting new guys over. But their approach seemed to be springing a job to Lesnar on him at the last minute.

 

So basically, both sides are being fucking morons, but Austin in particular should show some sack and make good on his desire to leave. What? Go home. What? Retire. What? RETIRE.

 

I found it depressing that it's come to this, which was what my opening paragraph was about, but they were gonna have to phase Austin out anyway, so might as well do it now and send a message at the same time.

 

I find it even more amusing that Keith thinks that his "advice" or "opinion" even matters to Austin. LOL

 

Just like how I laugh my ass off at all the people around who think their opinions are important.

[Guest RavishingRickRudo]

Here is what I don't get.

 

How come no one is pointing out that the WWF is acting very 'unprofessional'.  This booking-on-the-fly shit they've been doing for a while, the disorganization of pushes and storylines, where is the professionalism there?

[Guest RickyChosyu]

I can't believe that Keith is defending this guy and - by extension - his egotistical and unprofessional conduct.  Were this somebody else, Keith would be foaming at the mouth.  Because Keith is an Austin fan, is Austin automatically given a free pass on all of his misdeeds?

X-Pac and Nash walked out on Raw as a means to get their storylines re-written, did Keith jump on them?

 

Sorry, don't let facts get in the way of your rabbid Keith hate, or anything. I know how anoying rational thought can be sometimes.

[Guest AlwaysPissedOff]

I can't believe that Keith is defending this guy and - by extension - his egotistical and unprofessional conduct.  Were this somebody else, Keith would be foaming at the mouth.  Because Keith is an Austin fan, is Austin automatically given a free pass on all of his misdeeds?

X-Pac and Nash walked out on Raw as a means to get their storylines re-written, did Keith jump on them?

 

Sorry, don't let facts get in the way of your rabbid Keith hate, or anything. I know how anoying rational thought can be sometimes.

Amen.

[Guest Vyce]

I agree with Keith.

 

His initial statement, not that "I'd better say something condemning Austin, lest I draw the wrath of wrestling fanboys who will then refuse to buy my book (which is available at Amazon.com)!"

[Guest JHawk]

Fuck Austin AND the WWE.

 

Fuck WWE for not having the foresight to plan more tha a few das in advance.

 

Fuck Austin for walking out on the show on just a few hours notice.

 

And fuck WWE for thinking the answer for every goddamn crisis is more McMahon's on television.

 

I agree with Keith.

 

His initial statement, not that "I'd better say something condemning Austin, lest I draw the wrath of wrestling fanboys who will then refuse to buy my book (which is available at Amazon.com)!"

 

LMFAO!  Best line I've seen on here all day.

[Guest pinnacleofallthingsmanly]

Austin was right for not wanting to put Lesnar over yet. Does anyone in their right mind think Lesnar has gotten enough of a push yet? It would be a match that was thrown together out of nowhere, and Lesnar has feuded with the Hardys and Bubba Ray Dudley. How the hell does he go from that to going over Austin? What purpose would it have served? Austin was right last time when he didn't want to put Hall over, and I think he's right in this situation as well. I can't say that I agree with him walking out and forcing the writing team to do the whole show because whenever you work with a group of people, you have to be accountable with those people. Had the WWF booked things in advance, they would have had more time to rewrite the show. I can understand why they wouldn't want to tell the performers what's going to happen in the long run, but that doesn't mean they can't plan ahead instead of doing things at the last minute.

[Guest bob_barron]

Austin was not right in refusing to put over Brock.

 

Everyone whines about them making new stars- so they try to in Edge and Brock but everyone whines cause they meant other guys.

 

Austin's career is winding down, be a man and do the job.

 

Besides since Vince pays Austin huge sums of money to perform Austin should get off his ass and earn his paycheque.

[Guest AlwaysPissedOff]

What they are doing with Brock is basically shoving him down everyone's throat. He's not over, gets "Goldturd" chants, and is genuinely boring in the ring. To throw him out there and have him go over one of the biggest stars of the past 5 years is ridiculous. You just don't jump from feuding with Bubba Ray Dudley up to an established main eventer, the fanbase won't buy it for a second. Hell, they aren't even buying it now by the looks of things.

 

While I'm not condoning what action Austin DID take, what he was protesting against makes a hell of a lot of sense. Plus, no one has even said he refused to job to Lesnar, it was said he left because it's just more ultra-lame shock booking bullshit that WCW used to pull all the time. Hell, I'd bet that if they had built up to it, Austin would have had no problem in jobbing to Brock.

 

It's just my opinion and all, but it's amazing how some people over-analyze things around here.

[Guest cobainwasmurdered]

he sure as hell was right not to put brock  over. brock has no heat. doing that out of nowhere would have been moronic.

[Guest]

Austin was not right in refusing to put over Brock.

 

Everyone whines about them making new stars- so they try to in Edge and Brock but everyone whines cause they meant other guys.

 

Austin's career is winding down, be a man and do the job.

 

Besides since Vince pays Austin huge sums of money to perform Austin should get off his ass and earn his paycheque.

I think Austin's complaint is deeper than a job to Brock because if Austin would have jobbed it would have been via insane interference on the part of Heyman, Flair, Benoit and Eddy. As it is, Brock needs help to beat Buh Buh Ray Dudley.