10 INSANE Risks WWE Took With Their Biggest Stars
1. Stone Cold Steve Austin & Sable
Chasing numbers through any method they could in the heat of a wrestling war they were mostly losing, WWE's experimental 1997 was and is a thing of hideous beauty.
Such was the case in May when, on a sardonic hunt for a potential tag team partner, Stone Cold Steve Austin stormed in on a half-naked Sable.
The aims were threefold and cynical; A white hot 'Rattlesnake' was so dismissive of earnestly needing a partner that he was willing to - gasp -pick a woman?!?!?!?!?! Hilarious, eh? That she had to cover herself with a cannily-placed Austin 3:16 shirt surely helped shift a few thousand more of those. And of course, the tease of accidentally seeing some f*cking t*ts because the goddamned horniness of everything was really starting to get out of hand by then.
It was trivial nonsense not that becoming of what Austin was building for himself, and his abrupt and aggressive nature in this specific environment doesn't scan great through the modern lens.
A year later, they'd share the screen one more time in throwaway scene Bruce Prichard still fondly recalls on his podcasts to this day. The company were never able to revisit the strange fascination, and that's perhaps for the best.