12 Stone Cold Steve Austin Moments That Were Genuinely Savage
4. Beating Up Lita With A Chair
And just like that, they were the best of friends...
Two-man power trip? Austin and Triple H working together on a nightly basis? On paper, it sounded like a good work, but the practicality was clunky and weird. It added to the many reasons why Steve turning heel was bad for business. Only two months ago, The Rattlesnake and The Game were destroying each other with unheard-of ferocity. That was cool. This really wasn't.
You decide whether the savagery of this act was effective kayfabe or just plain cringe. Lita was tough, and a true risk-taker. That didn't detract from the fact that seeing Stone Cold repeatedly smashing her on the back with a chair was kind of upsetting to watch. It was beneath everything he previously stood for and it was one of those moments that made fans pine for the good old days of beating up the boss.
Did it make the fans hate Stone Cold? Sure did. WWE obviously wanted an effective way of putting his horrid persona across, and they did it. Straight for the jugular as always.