Steve Austin's WrestleMania Matches Ranked - From Worst To Best
7. Vs. Scott Hall - WrestleMania X8
In answer to the question posed at the introduction: yes, yes he did. The New World Order made their debut in the World Wrestling Federation in February 2002 at the No Way Out PPV, and that was about as good as it got for them. The group was thrust into major storylines straight away, but the long-desired Hulk Hogan/Steve Austin match wasn't to be. Hogan was to go up against The Rock, with Austin left to deal with Scott Hall and Kevin Nash. The whole thing came with a huge side order of underwhelming. Austin's mood and relationship with the company at the time was't the greatest, something that is easy to understand given the dark holes in his personal life at the time. Hall wasn't doing too great himself, openly stating now that at the time his 'fake life' was all that was keeping him going. It didn't bode well for their big 'Mania showdown. The match itself was just sort of there. A year earlier Austin was in the main event of arguably the greatest wrestling show of all-time. This match was middle of the card nothingness, and the efforts of both men did justice to its position. It went under about ten minutes, and Austin easily picked up the win despite the distraction of Kevin Nash on the outside. With Hogan's forced face turn later in the show, the nWo in WWE was pretty much dead in the water, a month after first showing back up in 'New York'.
Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.
