10 Early Internet Wrestling Outrages

10. Stone Cold's Beer BASHED

Stone Cold Steve Austin's favourite tipple is the Sierra Nevada Torpedo IPA - but at 7.2% ABV, he was hardly going to chug it inside of a WWE ring. He was Stone Cold Steve Steve, beer-swilling hero of the blue-collar workers - but he wasn't Michael Hayes. He needed to exercise some restraint, and he reigned supreme atop the pro wrestling world prior to the ascent of craft beer.

He couldn't drink non-alcoholic beer, for that would have ruined his image. A compromise was required.

He exercised too much restraint, for some people's tastes. Proving that some - many - of us are a pedantic bunch of f*cking morons who probably should not be allowed outside, the Wayback Machine will tell you that Austin was somehow a phoney for throwing back lite beer as part of his ceremonial 'bash'. Some early internet cave-dwellers begrudged Austin for, Jesus Christ, barely even working us.

He's not even that drunk, they whined, minutes after Austin had powered through his broken body to deliver seminal moments of, yes, predetermined athletic theatre.