14. "What I'm Saying Is I'm Good At Deconstruction."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgABOyTJJUM Who doesn't love a great explosion every now and then? These moments are few and far between in the WWE, usually being applied during a key event or certain point of significance. Normally occurring around the stage, caused by pre-set pyros, they're regulated to just smalls jumps of excitement. But how about rigging a tour bus full of gasoline and dynamite and setting it ablaze in an arena parking lot? Only in the Attitude Era could you see it happen. D-Generation X used the WWF as their playground for most of the Attitude Era, turning into one of the industry's most recognised factions. Not many people stood up to them, and not many compared to them. Except for Stone Cold Steve Austin. Delivering an upset to DX would take some close calculations, and the Texas Rattlesnake gave them an upset that was felt for quite some time, even after the Attitude Era's eventual end. Prior to Backlash 2000, Stone Cold teased his return by taunting the McMahon-Helmsley family and DX, in the form of leaving empty beer cans, cardboard cut-outs of Austin, and live rattlesnakes around for DX to discover. At that time The Rock and Triple H were to face off at Backlash for the WWF Championship, with Stone Cold to make his supposed return at the pay-per-view. Before their unpreventable face-off, The Rock guaranteed Triple H, Vince McMahon, and the rest of their cronies that Steve Austin would return before Backlash, on Smackdown. That night, the Texas Rattlesnake did indeed make his return, not in-ring but out in the parking lot, sitting inside an operating crane labeled Austin Deconstruction, a concrete barrier suspended up above D-Generation X's tour bus, the DX Express. Austin then proceeded to drop the barrier on the DX Express, having it implode and send flames and smoke up into the night sky, much to the shock and awe of Triple H, Vince McMahon, Stephanie and Shane, and the rest of DX. Typical of Austin and his repertoire of unpredictable attacks, he surely left an impression and continued his ways of striking without notice or warning. If there's anything that the wrestling industry hasn't learned over the years, it's how to keep Stone Cold Steve Austin away from anything that's engine-based.
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