Perhaps in desperation as WCW was taking over with the nWo, WWE ran this angle where the feuding Steve Austin and Brian Pillman were involved in a home invasion turned potential murder in late 1996. Unlike most professional wrestling angles, what made this stand out was its grittiness, filmed with poor lighting and badly maneuvered cameras, creating a news footage, documentary like feel. Pillman not only pulled a gun on Austin but clearly and audibly exclaimed "I'll kill that son of a bitch [...] get out of the fucking way!" as Raw left the air that night, an incident both McMahon and Pillman were forced to apologise for. Following Pillman's death in 1997, this is an angle WWE hasn't so much as hinted at ever since, perhaps out of respect for his family. Particularly now the company is PG, you're not going to see that change, making the scarce clips of it around the internet a necessity if you want to relieve when the Attitude Era truly began.
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