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stolenfromthenet{at}yahoo.com (Evad Seltzer) wrote:
| The book starts and ends with the ordeal surrounding Austin's trip to
| the hospital the day before his potential retirement match against The
| Rock at last year's Wrestlemania in Seattle. After the heart problem,
| brought on by a combination of stress and consumption of Ephedra
| drinks

What kind of drinks?

I see the government banned it as of two weeks ago:

	http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/30/ephedra/

Looks like it was the latest diet ingredient.

 
| Adams apparently tried to take advantage of
| Austin when he was paying his dues for companies like the USWA.

Sexually?  Or like every other promoter/trainer will take advantage
of wrestlers?


| After learning his craft in the smaller territories, Austin gained
| national exposure working for WCW as member of the Hollywood Blondes

They were blonds, not blondes, FWIW.


| with Brian Pillman. He explained how it became second nature for him
| to turn something that was doomed to fail into success.

>From what I remember of that era, Pillman really made the gimmick.
Austin just seemed to be thrown into the "other tag team member"
position, where he seemed out of place.  The team would have done as
well if not better with any random jobber thrown in, IMHO

| With the bad taste of being fired from WCW over the phone by Eric
| Bischoff still lingering

Although the truth probably lies somewhere between, I'm guessing
Bischoff's story is slightly closer to the truth.  I think Bisch
stated that Austin refused to show up for work, and when Eric called
him at home, he talked to Steve's wife--and he could hear Steve in
the background saying "tell him I'm not here".  I don't blame him
for firing Austin.


| The book implied that during his tenure in ECW, the mannerisms and
| characteristics of Stone Cold started to evolve.

So he should send half of his cash to Paul Heyman. :-)


| Austin says he was unhappy with his initial character coming in, so
| with the help of his ex-wife Michael Hayes

Ewwwwww.


| It's amazing
| to find the evil chairman proves to be a caring human being and friend
| when the cameras are off by helping to pay off Austin's house without
| asking anything in return.

The $8,000,000 Austin was making at his peak (including merchandise)
wasn't enough to pay for his house by himself?  Geez.  Maybe I
should work for Vince.


| One of its flaws: Austin is the one telling the stories, but it isn't
| a genuine autobiography because he enlisted writing help.

Well duh.  Welcome to the world of literature.  95% of
autobiographies are ghost-written, whether they say "as told to.."
on the cover or not.  If Austin had written it himself it would
probably be all out of order and full of holes.  There's a reason
there are professional writers and why amateurs don't generally put
out good material without help.

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