10 WWE Stars Who Survived The Worst Booking Ever

5. Steve Austin

You might be asking yourself how being handed Ted DiBiase as manager and the Million Dollar Title could be considered awful. If it was anyone other than Steve Austin, you might be right. Unfortunately for staunch 'New Generation' defenders everywhere, this was a load of old nonsense and should never have happened.

'The Ringmaster' sucked, and Austin knew it.

He had signed with the notoriously over-the-top WWF, and here they were asking him to play a mechanically-sound wrestler between the ropes. Austin was nothing flashy, the announcers claimed, but he knew how to out-wrestle his opponents. That was a death sentence in mid-90s WWF.

Being cast as a boots n' tights journeyman pro did nothing for Austin, so he worked hard to get himself out of the gimmick and into something more satisfying. He'd go on to become the biggest star in the entire industry as 'Stone Cold', thus proving that nobody with that amount of talent should settle for mediocrity.