Austin walks out of the WWE

[Guest muzanisa]

I'm still in two minds whether it's a work or shoot. Austin should be fired for his behhaviour but if you were working for Macmahon  having watched Bret Hart in Montreal despite having creative control written into his contract get screwed over like that. If in the last five years you had watched him get continually trashed by Vince including cutting footage of the incident to make it look like Vince and Shane had waved goodbye from the ramp, had seen his family used against him and even his brothers death had lead to Vince sayinng that that had unbalanced Bret. If you worked for a company that employed Mick Foley and you saw your boss trash his wife and let him walk away without being on goood terms after being one of the principle people in savinng that companny annd payinng a high physical price for it. If your boss hired a group of people who are acknowledged as the biggest group of arseholes in the entire industry and then watched them bitch and whine and get their own way as soon as they got in the door. If your boss hired a nostalgia act that he knew you hated and had held you downn in your previous company. Would you  trust Vince to handle you correctly in your last four weeks workinng for him if you gave notice?

If Austin had given notice I would expect his character to get completely buried and the stunner to be killed as a finisher. Considering that it's the most over move in wrestling and his character still has earning potential in the millions I wouldn't give notice either.

[Guest buffybeast]

I'm still of the mindset that this thing is a work.  I now believe that this whole thing may have started as a shoot, that Austin was legitimately unhappy and left.  but I think now the WWF is trying to make an angle out of it.

 

I've always felt that if something is discussed on tv, then it is a work.  I still believe that.

[Guest Ash Ketchum]

I'm begining to think the same thing.

[Guest]

Vince and Co. are simply playing both sides. If Austin comes back, they can easily turn this into a work; if Austin doesn't come back, then they can say we've been telling ya all along that this was happening. Anything said on Confidential tomorrow will be as carefully rehearsed and worded as the statement on the WWE website.

[Guest]

This might be a small thing, but notice how in WWE's "statement" they keep calling him by his nickname. If this was "official" business and not a work, I doubt they'd keep calling him the full out "Stone Cold Steve Austin".. remember when they fired Mr. Perfect? In the statement they called him Curt Hennig. In fact, now that I think about it, they've always used real names in news releases like that..

[Guest]

Vince and Co. are simply playing both sides. If Austin comes back, they can easily turn this into a work; if Austin doesn't come back, then they can say we've been telling ya all along that this was happening. Anything said on Confidential tomorrow will be as carefully rehearsed and worded as the statement on the WWE website.

I said the same thing in an earlier thread. I also believe that the Brock/Heyman thing is kinda "shootish." Brock's whole push has the feel of a silent slam on Austin. Kind of a "we don't need you, look what I have now!" Kind of thing. If it turns into a work then Austin can come back, fued with Brock and reclaim his title as "number one man in wrestling." If Austin doesn't return, then Vince scores big by pushing Brock as the "replacement for Austin."