10 Awesome Wrestlers Who Had Terrible Managers

4. Steve Austin (Ted DiBiase)

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A few weeks into his WWE run, Steve Austin was probably regretting not listening to Robert Fuller's advice. For the umpeenth time in his career - his ten minutes of seasoning in ECW notwithstanding - Austin's employers had seriously misunderstood the talent at their disposal, Vince McMahon seeing his 'Stunning' acquisition as nothing more than a mid-card workhorse.

Willfully ignorant of Austin's scathing, too-hot-for-TV digs of WCW down in Philadelphia, McMahon entrusted 'Million Dollar Man' Ted DiBiase to do the talking for Austin - now trading under the prosaic nom de plume of The Ringmaster.

One of the reasons Eric Bischoff let the future megastar slip from his hands was because he thought the Texan was tough to work with. McMahon probably had similar thoughts, when the renegade Ringmaster requested relief from his moribund gimmick after one part of the equation had already been solved. WCW had discovered that The Million Dollar Man himself had a price in May 1996, and paradoxically, Austin's prospects suddenly became a lot richer.

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