10 Worst Things Stone Cold Steve Austin Has Ever Done
7. He Bullied Tazz
Yet more from Austin's time as a sh*thouse heel in 2001, but these - as Stone Cold himself would say in 2002 before realising it wasn't getting over - had a little stink on them. Calculated and cruel, his verbal and physical assaults on Tazz during their time together in the Alliance were relentless and awfully realistic
Admittedly, some of the abuse Austin targeted towards Tazz bordered on guiltily hilarious - until it again all spilled over into indulgent territory, casting 'The Rattlesnake' not just as an unhinged leader a fading cause but that of a belligerent bully.
As semi-regular SmackDown announcer, Tazz was effectively the voice of the WCW/ECW Alliance, but Austin made jabronis out of all of them anyway with his schtick. The former ECW Champion was clearly grateful for the television time but presumably uttered an under-his-breath "FTW" when reading the script each week.
Chastised for one supposed infraction or another every time they met, he was pulverised in other segments without chance of being saved by one of his cowering colleagues. Contextually, there wasn't anything wrong with a b*stard being a total b*stard, but it would have been nice to see the former 'Human Suplex Machine' land the odd punch or two back from time to time.