User:Dean27/Test feuds

Infobox
 * Timeframe: April 1998 - July 1999
 * Promotion: World Wrestling Federation
 * Main card: "Stone Cold" Steve Austin & Vince McMahon
 * Under card: Dude Love, Pat Patterson, Gerald Brisco, Sgt. Slaughter, The Big Bossman, The Undertaker, Kane, Shane McMahon, The Rock, Paul Wight

Austin v McMahon was the Storyline, which turned the Monday Night War in favor of the WWF. It was the storyline, which was the symbol of the Attitude era. It was the storyline that saved the WWF from collapsing in a serious crisis. The McMahon - it was the most successful WWF storyline of all time.

The blockbuster feud began at a time when the WWF was on the ground: the WCW had replaced the League as the most successful US promotion and the WWF spurned several of its biggest stars - last Bret Hart, a departure whose scandalous circumstances many WWF Fans from the league and their boss Vince McMahon alienated. Austin, had previously mutated with the hard-hitting of the top-heel to the audience favorite, crystallized in the difficult time as a hope-bearer of the staffed league. His character as a ruthless, cursed, unadulterated Redneck-Outlaw inspired the fans in a way that had not been experienced since the wedding of Hulk Hogan - and to face him the WWF boss as a personal counterpart, turned out to be an ingenious move.

Decade, McMahon had been a play-by-play commentator in the background and never talked about his role behind the scenes in the WWF storylines. This had gradually changed in 1997, and it was just after the Montreal Screwjob that the McMahon's real aversion to capitalizing on the storyline had been capitalized. Because McMahon also had the necessary rhetorical talent and skills, a new, unused Heel figure was created - at least as much as Austin himself was in Austin's rise to the highest spheres.

The number one stunner
The trouble between Austin and McMahon began with a RAW issue before the Survivor Series 1997. At the said show there was an attack from Austin on his then rival Owen Hart, who had previously hurt Austin before the Summer Slam at the neck. The officials of the league could not control Austin, so finally even policemen entered. When the Austin did not get to grips, McMahon rose from his commentary console and tried to help his part to soothe the mind. He appealed to Austin to get upset before he went to prison for his temper. Austin told McMahon that he would appreciate this advice - and missed McMahon, his own boss, the Stone Cold Stunner.

It was an unprecedented process: it was the first time the WWF boss had been attacked by an employee - and from Austin's point of view it was not the best idea to look at the situation in which he was. Austin still suffered from the neck injury inflicted by Owen, and it was in McMahon's hand whether he would ever allow him to return to the ring. McMahon also made it clear to him when he confronted him the week after the stunners. McMahon stated that Austin had three options: he would have to give him a medical release, a disclaimer that would release the League from the cost of the potential consequences of the match for Austin's health, or he would be released.

Austin finally signed the form, could compete against Owen and defeated him, but the problems between McMahon and Austin stopped. As much as the fans loved Austins unpredictability, the WWF boss met her as suspiciously. With increasing anger, he saw that Austin simply did not say anything - either from him, or from the WWF commissioner Sgt. Slaughter, who also often got a stunner when he had an arrangement for Austin that did not suit him.

Unprecedented temperament
The next trouble between McMahon and Austin was after the In-Your-House pay-per-view D-Generation X, where Austin defended his IC title against Rocky "The Rock" Maivia. McMahon was disturbed by the chaos that Austin was doing there. He came to the ring with a pickup truck, threw Rocky's companions from the Nation of Domination against the truck, and eventually, inadvertently, missed the Stunner.

McMahon was so active again and asked Austin to defend the title again against Rocky, to make clear conditions - but Austin had simply no desire. McMahon took the conclusion and recognized Austin the title, which he was now to surrender to Rocky. Austin did the same, just to give Rocky the stunner, of course, and take the belt back. What brought McMahon even more to the palm: When he then ran into the ropes, let the suspension Vince of the apron on which he stood. McMahon got an anger outburst and several officials, especially his confidants Pat Patterson and Gerald Brisco, had to stop him from going to Austin. So the WWF boss had never been experienced.

The fact that Austin thrown the IC belt into a river the next week, and announced that he was going to be a bigger one at the Royal Rumble after a World Title match, did not help to reduce tensions. An uncontrollable as Austin as a World Champion - that was not a thought with which McMahon could befriend himself. He had to deal with it, as Austin won the Royal Rumble to secure a title match at WrestleMania, where he was to meet reigning champion Shawn Michaels.

Austin ruins the production
At the RAW, McMahon proudly presented Oskar the prominent star guest, who was to lead this match as Special Guest Enforcer: boxing superstar Iron Mike Tyson. But this beautiful production struck Austin, who came under the cheers of the fans to the ring and Tyson klarmachte, that he would consider himself a tough guy, but he should not be stupid. The confrontation escalated in a handful between Austin and Tyson, which had to be stopped by Securitys and McMahon drove the wrath in the face. "You ruined it," he repeated the Rattlesnake several times.

In the run-up to WrestleMania, McMahon then slipped out the remark that he would not like Austin to represent the WWF as a champion. He spoke of a PR nightmare, which led Austin to suppose that McMahon would spin behind the scenes To prevent his win at WrestleMania. After Tyson joined Michaels' D-Generation X, Michael saw that as confirmation that McMahon, Michaels, and Tyson had conspired against him, defiantly declaring that they would not take advantage of the title Nevertheless.

Austin kept his word: he defeated Michaels at WrestleMania - and Tyson was not an obstacle, but a help. The shot in the DX was a distraction maneuver, Tyson was on Austin's side, and in the end made a fair count for Austin's triumph.

The lesson misses its goal
McMahon had to get used to the idea that Austin represented his company as a champion. At the next RAW, he had to hand over the newly designed belt to him and congratulate him on his triumph - with a visible malaise. McMahon first tried to get a little at Austin, explained that he had been misunderstood before WrestleMania, that he would not hate him and that he would be proud of his performance. He said that the two could be a good team: the combination of Austin's power and charisma and his intelligence and visionary power could make Austin one of the most successful champions in history.

Austin, however, made it clear that he did not plan to let McMahon tell him that he would continue to let go of hell wherever he went-and that McMahon's problem would be if he did anything he did. McMahon said Austin would have to learn to adapt to the two good business partners. Austin had to understand that - on the light or the hard way, with which he had to be forced to his happiness. Austin made clear which tour he preferred: he missed McMahon the Stunner. He was supposed to learn what McMahon meant by the hard tour: he was alerted by the police and had Austin taken away in handcuffs.

The week after, McMahon announced under Buhrufen that after 24 hours he had ordered Austin to be released from police custody. Austin would have learned his lesson and would now be a teamplayer. He announced that the fans would now see a new and improved Stone Cold Steve Austin. The audience did not really believe his eyes, when Austin then came to the ring instead of in his usual casual outfit to the ring and let himself be instructed by McMahon not to pose as usual in the Ringecken for the fans. Austin explained that he had learned in prison that he could not outmane McMahon and suggested McMahon to be photographed with him in his new outfit. Austin smiled at McMahon's side with a friendly smile, then opened the door to him to pick it up, because it would be the last time he'd wear a suit. He tore the fine twine, told McMahon that he would not let anything go and missed him in the groin - and shot as a highlight still a photo of the writhing Vince.

McMahon's first ring appearance
So, after all, it was clear that Austin and McMahon were not going to get along, there was still a question to be answered. After McMahon told Austin that he had not chosen a challenger, Austin had a different idea: he asked McMahon to go into the ring himself and try to take the title. And McMahon was so angry now that he took the challenge and got into the ring for the first time in history, even if his son Shane wanted to stop him.

McMahon started the match with an earful against Austin, then quickly grab the microphone and remind Austin that he once said he could beat him with an arm on his back. He wanted Austin to stand by his word. Austin let himself be allowed to tie his right arm to his back. Before the actual fight, however, Mick Foley's alter ego Dude Love - Austin's former day team partner - came to the ring and asked the question, if not all could simply get along with each other. When McMahon Love wanted to make sure he could not find anything here, Love threatened him to go. When Austin then intervened, however, he suddenly got the Mandible Claw - and the match with McMahon was no longer possible.

Love seemed to have allied himself with McMahon, who then declared him Austin's challenger at Unforgiven - but he was telling him that he and Love would be stuck under a blanket. Love continued to argue that he wanted to create a little peace, and then felt himself attacked by Austin. On the other hand, the fans were still thinking of an emotional promo from Foley to WrestleMania, in which he reproached the audience for calling them to Austin, in a moment when he'd just given Cactus Jack his last. Were there really no deeper problems? Or had Foley simply joined with McMahon to be able to live an aversion to Austin?

The dude can not do it
At Unforgiven burned a hard fight between Austin and Love, in which also McMahon tried several times to interfere. The ring judge went to the match k.o., so that Love wanted to put a chair to use. Austin took him off, and with it the attacking McMahon k.o. And missed the Stunner. Because the referee was still out of the game, Austin quickly counted the cover himself and declared himself the winner. Gerald Brisco, however, declared Love the victor by disqualification because Austin had attacked an official in McMahon.

McMahon stepped in front of the audience the next night, explaining that he could fire Austin for his actions from the previous day, but that he would not do it because that was too good for him. Instead, he thundered Austin to defend his title against TAFKA Goldust - with Brisco as the host wrestler. The obvious attempt to take Austin away from the title as McMahon knocked the title belt in an accident from Brisco - the match ended without a result.

The fact that McMahon gave Goldust the title chorus also fueled Foley, the McMahon the week after his dude-love outfit for the feet, and explained that under the circumstances would no longer make him a horror - that he and McMahon Previously under a blanket, became apparent at the latest here. McMahon replied to Foley that he had not done his job at Unforgiven and did not need to complain about it. He instead challenged him to prove in a match against his best friend Terry Funk that he would be worthy of another title chance. Foley defeated Funk in a tough match and then went on to the hardcore icon - which satisfied McMahon.

Backgammon
McMahon presented Dude Love as a top contender on Austin's title the following week - with a new look in shorts, shaved and with a Wall Street Journal under his arm. He also announced that Brisco would be guest resident, Patterson Gastringsprecher, and he would be Gastringrichter of the match between Austin and Love at Unforgiven. For the same evening, McMahon himself was a team-mate of Austin in a match against The Rock and D-Lo Brown - only talking to attack Austin with Brisco, Patterson, the nation and other heels.

To escape Austin's revenge, McMahon banished him from the arena the next week, which of course had no use. Austin smuggled into the arena and challenged McMahon and his helpers to fight. McMahon then set up a street fight between Austin and Patterson and Brisco, with Sgt. Slaughter as the ring judge. The fight ended as it was foreseen - in the chaos: In the end, Love and an Austin mask masked McMahon attacked the Rattlesnake.

This attack gave Austin the opportunity to make a perfidious revenge, because now he was the one who could have McMahon arrested by police officers-and could dictate the conditions for a retreat of his ad. Austin demanded an apology from McMahon - and that he could have a special Enforcer for the match against Love, who could keep an eye on McMahon's ring judge performance. Austin chose the Undertaker.

Next hope bearer Kane
In fact, the deadman was the scales of the scales: he held McMahon's partisanship, and after McMahon was knocked out in the heat of the fight, he took care of Patterson and Brisco, who wanted to prevent a substitute judge counting the pinfall for Austin. He switched off both with a chokeslam through the commentary desk. Austin Dude Love then missed the stunner and clawed McMahon's hand three times to keep his title in a curious way.

Out of rage over Austin's title defense, McMahon fired at RAW Dude Love - and then had to think about a new top contender. The Undertaker in a worked shoot promised that he should finally give him a chance, whereupon McMahon put him in a number-one contendership match with his hostile brother Kane - the McMahon obviously favored. Kane also won the match when Foley intervened in the form of his old Mankind personality and cost his old archenemy the victory.

Kane was now the man who was to take Austin's title - and to be sure that would happen, McMahon made a match between Austin and Kane at the King Of The Ring match that Kane clearly pretended Should be the first First Blood match of the WWF history: Who first brought his opponent to the bleeding would be the winner. That Kane could hide every blood with his whole-body suit and mask, McMahon was, of course, just right. And McMahon talked so hard to Kane that with his victory he would leave his difficult past behind him, that Kane even agreed to set himself on fire if he did not win the title.

Austin is the title - but only briefly
It was not like this: Austin lost the match and the title after the Undertaker accidentally hit Austin with a chair in an intervention after Mankind interfered, causing a place wound. This caused a tantalizing tense between Austin and the Taker, who willingly stoked McMahon by submitting the attack to the deadman. But McMahon got a bad news the day after the King Of The Ring. For Austin called for a backlash against Kane - and against McMahon's will he gave it to him. Austin won the match with the Stunner and took the title back to McMahon's horror.

McMahon was now building Undertaker Austin the title again. The fact that he was not green was no longer important, it was McMahon's obsession to bring Austin to the belt. He made the Taker the top challenger on Austin's title, gave him a title match at the SummerSlam and continued to work to sow discord between the two. So he put the two before the slam at Fully Loaded in a day team title match against the now reigning Kane and Mankind - with the goal that the unequal partnership would not go well and the two would separate further.

In fact, before the pay-per-view there were further tensions between Austin and the Taker, which were mainly based on the suspicion that the deadman and his brother Kane would have been reconciled and put under a blanket. The Taker felt so accused of this accusation that he threatened to leave Austin alone at Fully Loaded. In the event, McMahon threatened Austin, then named Jobberkönig Brooklyn Brawler as a replacement partner. The Taker came and won the titles with Austin - which did not diminish the tensions but to the joy of McMahon.

Purpose with the Brothers of Destruction
Austin and the Taker finally lost the title again to Mankind and Kane - and it should actually turn out that the Taker and Kane again were in league. The Taker, however, insisted on taking on the role of Austin at the SummerSlam against Austin, and defeated the Rattlesnake.

McMahon was now no longer willing to endure Austin as a champion for a second longer than usual - and announced a master plan to dethrone Austin to the next Pay Per View breakdown. He made a triple threat match between Austin, Kane and the Taker, and he linked it with the special clause that the Taker and Kane were forbidden to pound each other. He guaranteed a change of title. McMahon tied up the Brothers of Destruction in a purposeful community: they were to protect him from the break-up before Austin - and they also agreed on the title chances. So Austin got a double chokeslam from them when he wanted McMahon - what the Taker said with the words that Austin should not take it personally: It was all about business.

Even though the Taker and Kane could not always protect McMahon so well: In the case of Breakdown, Austin did not have the mighty pair of brothers that dominated Austin - and only had the problem that they did not agree Pinfall at Austin. Ultimately, the two solved the problem by joining together after a double chokeslam over Austin. Austin was defeated - but who was to be a champion was unclear. McMahon did not care. He grabbed the belt - which Austin had meanwhile re-designed for himself with a skull logo - and marched triumphantly with it.

No rest in the hospital
McMahon announced the next RAW that he would collect the "Smoking Skull" belt and keep it as a trophy while he would hand the standard title belt to the new champion - without Austin getting a back-up. The ceremony was interrupted again by Austin. He came to the ring with a Zamboni - a wheeled ice machine for hockey fields - and attacked McMahon, who had him arrested again by police officers. Afterwards, he explained that Kane and the Taker had not protected him from Austin, so he would not crown any of them. He set up a match between the two for Judgment Day, the winner would be the new title holder. And Austin made him a humiliation to the Gastringrichter, who would have to hand over his belt to his successor.

Kane and the Taker were not happy with the match, and a fight broke out with McMahon, which ultimately ended in an attack by the brothers on the WWF boss. The two added McMahon a leg injury, which brought McMahon a hospital stay. There, McMahon not only visited Mankind, who tried to cheer him up with his sock dude Mr. Socko, but also from a doctor dressed as a doctor, who was walking on McMahon's injured leg, and even overpowered him with the bedpan.

The following week, Austin took another step and filled McMahon's brand-new Chevrolet Corvette with cement, stating that he would make McMahona's life a hell of a hardship as long as they were working together in this league. McMahon, who was sitting in a wheelchair, responded by announcing that he would fire Austin on the spot if he did not make the match fair at Judgment Day and appoint a new champion. He also put on a new bodyguard on Austin that evening, a hooded man in the SWAT outfit, who was supposed to stand out as the returning Big Bossman and punched Austin with his baton.

Austin gets the papers - and responds in his own way
At the end, there was no order for the title match under Gastringrichter Austin: he finally missed the Taker like Kane, the Stone Cold Stunner and declared himself to the winner and new champion - a decision which of course had no end. McMahon appeared after the match on the side of the bossman and declared that Austin was fired - which obviously did not impress.

McMahon said the following day at RAW that Austin was fired and from now on a ticket would have to buy, should he ever again in a WWF-Arena inwollen. He also announced that he would crown a new champion at the Survivor Series in a 16-man tournament. But as expected, Vince was not spared by the fired Austin. The Rattlesnake gained access to the arena and escaped McMahon to mentally torture him in several segments and to indicate to him the worst things. In the end, he crept McMahon to the ring and held a pistol to his temple. McMahon, who was frightened with fear, feared the worst, but only a flag with the inscription "Bang 3:16" came out of the gun. Austin told Vince that "McMahon 3:16" would probably mean "I just pissed my pants" and missed the humiliated boss two Stone Cold Stunner.

The next RAW gave Vince the next nasty surprise, because Austin presented him with a contract document, which said that Austin would be restored - and a title match would have secured. It was the responsibility of Vince's own son, Shane, who said that he had neglected him during his life, and that he had always turned around - that was his way of paying him back. An angry Vince downgraded Shane to a simple referee and told Austin that he would give him the assured title match at the Series - he could try to get the title in the tournament.

The Survivor Series plot
Austin hit the Bossman at the Deadly Game Tournament in the first round, which was disqualified after a few minutes, but with more attacks from the baton, Austin was softened for the rest of the day. Austin then got a free-kick in the quarter-finals to face the semi-final Mankind. McMahon was with his wheelchair on the ring and jumped out of it, when Austin stood shortly before the Stunner, in order to pull the Ringrichter out of the ring and down.

Austin missed Mankind but a second Stunner and Shane McMahon hurried to the ring to score the cover. He stopped at two and then showed the shocked Austin the Stinkfinger. Patterson and Brisco then went to Austin with bowling, Mankind covered him and Shane scored the pinfall. The dismissal of Austin and the party taking Shanes for the Rattlesnake - it was all a farce to give Austin the next humiliation.

But the McMahons had another surprise in their sleeve. Instead of expecting Mankind to win over the audience favorite The Rock, McMahon made the match a year earlier when Rocky Mankind took the Sharpshooter. The Rock was the new champion and the new favorite of the McMahons who declared the former People's Champion to the Corporate Champion. A roaring Austin stormed the ring and missed Rocky like Mankind the Stunner, then a little bit on The Rock.

"No Chance in Hell"
Austin interferred with Rocky's coronation ceremony at the next RAW and pointed out that his resale contract was still valid and that his assured title match would not be compensated by the tournament's participation - a realization that the McMahons had to face reluctantly. And so there was a title match between Rock and Austin in the show, but in the end an old acquaintance spat into the soup: the Undertaker finally to the Heel, the Austin with a shovel k.o. Hit

In the weeks that followed, Austin dealt with the Taker, which he defeated as the highlight of the Rockbottom rivalry in a Buried Alive match and also secured the ticket for the Royal Rumble. McMahon had to take the teeth-crunching, but made sure that Austin got the number one at the Rumble - and that the other participants were particularly motivated to eliminate him: he put a 100,000 dollar money on Austin's elimination. McMahon was also the runners-up in the Rumble match. McMahon announced that Austin had "No Chance in Hell" to win the Rumble.

A nice plan, which was crossed by Commissioner Shawn Michaels, who was appointed as Slaughter successor. Originally standing on McMahon's side, there had been a disagreement over time, and now McMahon had to live with a disobedient authority person who had a water-tight contract and could overrule Vince. McMahon got it for the first time, when Michaels changed the starting numbers with the Rumble: he left Austin the number one, gave McMahon the number two. And the next setback for McMahon and his now-formed The Rock-formed Corporation Stable did not take long before Austin returned the same night after a week's absence and Rocky cost the title with an intervention in a match against Mankind.

Mr. McMahon wins the Rumble
Rocky won the title at Rumble under dubious circumstances, but it was the problem for McMahon that he had to face Austin in the Rumble match. After Austin wiped the ground with McMahon, McMahon finally escaped through the bottom rope, so he had not left the field. Austin followed him into the backstage area and thrown into a corpse of the corporation, which attacked him and hit the hospital rifle. Austin was taken out of the arena in a hospital car while McMahon returned and watched the action from the commentary.

After a while Austin rushed back to the ring at the wheel of the hospital where he made Tabula Rasa and eliminated all the other participants before taking Vince and dragging him back into the ring. He beat his boss once more before The Rock appeared on the ring, distracted Austin and thus gave McMahon the opportunity to eliminate Austin. Vince McMahon was the winner of the Royal Rumble 1999.

Vince celebrated the day after that with the corporation and paid Rocky the 100,000 dollars for his troubles. McMahon, of course, did not plan to face Rocky at WrestleMania either, he said he'd give up his right to a title match and instead name another challenger of his choice. Mighty big mistake: Michaels and Austin switched to satellite transmission at the moment, and Michaels shocked McMahon with a quotation from the rule book: If the Rumble winner waive his title match, it falls to the second-placed Austin.

Austin had on the cheap tour his title match but sure, but he did not want to leave it. He invited McMahon to try to get him back in front of WrestleMania - at St. Valentine's Day Massacre - in a Steel Cage match. McMahon accepted Austin after questioning his manliness and the showdown with the Rattlesnake. The agreement included a clause that did not allow Austin McMahon to touch before the match, causing McMahon the week afterwards to join Austin with Patterson and Brisco in Texas to provoke him to a fight in a bar. Austin, however, resisted the temptation, and instead declared that all the other barbellers would not have a problem with missing McMahon, which was why he retired.

Austin defeats McMahon - and gets the title back
At the Massacre, McMahon of Austin got as expected. Even before the match officially kicked out, Austin beat the WWF boss windsweich - and the ring judge also broke off, after Austin McMahon from the cage edge by the Spanish commentator crashed. Austin, however, did not have enough and demanded the continuation of the match. In the cage, McMahon had a surprise: the debutant Paul Wight - later known as Big Show - broke through the ring floor and attacked Austin. The giant threw the rattlesnake against the cage door, which collapsed under the load and let Austin roll outside. Wight had helped Austin unintentionally win by leaving the cage.

Austin had his WrestleMania match against The Rock, with McMahon already having the next idea of ​​minimizing Austin's Siegchance. He named Wight as the hosting judge - a job, but the Mankind, who was now again associated with Austin, was interested. Ultimately, Mankind and Wight at Mania in a match should determine who should lead the Main Event. Austin, Rocky, the McMahons, and the corporation, were in the mood for the match in his own way. He went to the ring with WrestleMania at the last RAW to force his adversaries with his favorite drink.

Mankind won the match against Wight by disqualification at Mania when Wight missed him with a chokeslam through two chairs. Mankind had to be taken to the hospital and could not lead the match. When Wight was scolded by McMahon for his defeat, he beat McMahon, was arrested, and fell himself out. McMahon now appointed himself as the judge, but once again Michaels crossed it, appointed a normal referee and banished the rest of the corporation from the ring. The match - quickly made by McMahon still to the No DQ match - went accordingly chaotically and worn out three whole ring judges. The last switched McMahon out, when he was just about to appoint Austin as the winner. Before McMahon could take the match, a bandaged Mankind came back to the ring, took over the ring judge and counted the victory for Austin after the Stunner against Rocky.

Cuddling for the Taker
Austin went on to WrestleMania with Rocky, while McMahon got other problems. The Undertaker, who had meanwhile become the cult leader of the Ministry of Darkness, wanted to seize power in the WWF - and did not shy away from anything. He even got Vince's daughter Stephanie in his power and threatened to marry her with a black wedding at the McMahons.

McMahon did the unthinkable: he asked for help from Austin. He helped Austin win his back-up against Rocky at Backlash - contrary to the intentions of Gastringrichter Shane McMahon, who wanted to take the belt back to Rocky. And he returned Austin to his tuxedo-skull-belt as a token of concession. Nevertheless, Austin remained suspicious in view of the prehistory.

Austin had to decide when the Taker wanted to do the black wedding with Stephanie at RAW, unless Austin would bring him the documents that would give him the WWF's property in the name of McMahon. When the Taker then declared that Austin would be responsible for what would happen now, the Rattlesnake intervened, attacked the Ministry, and freed Stephanie from her catches.

The next conspiracy
Austin was thus targeted by the Taker - and it should turn out that the one had a helper in the McMahon family: son Mann Shane, who united the corporation with the Ministry to the Corporate Ministry. He set up a title match between Austin and the Taker for Over The Edge, for which he and Vince were nominated as hostile referees. Since Vince was switched off before the match, Austin Shane's whim was at the mercy - although Vince was still tormented. Shane, however, stopped a potentially victorious count of his father for Austin and finally cost Austin a fastcount.

Austin asked for a re-match at the next RAW, which the Undertaker granted him a week later, coupled with the announcement that he would present the world with a higher power that he would serve. The rear-end match did not end with Austin's desire as the Corporate Ministry attacked him, tied up between the ropes and then confronted him with the announced higher power. To the ring trotted a figure covered with a hood, which ventured this from Austin - and triggered a tantrum at the Rattlesnake. At RAW, the figure also presented his face to the audience: it was Vince McMahon. Austin was again on a large-scale plot which cost him the title.

That Vince did not care about the well-being of daughter Stephanie, brought him anger - trouble with his own wife Linda, who did not want to let him go through these games. Linda had consequences that Vince ached like nothing else: She explained that she and Stephanie had ceded their 50 percent stake in the WWF and Linda's CEO post - to Stone Cold Steve Austin. He entered the ring with a tie over his usual outfit and opened Vince and Shane, saying that his first official was a match at the King Of The Ring, in a handicap match against the two male McMahons.

Austin loses his corporate office - but worries
In the next week, Austin's CEO took him to the WWF headquarters in Stamford, where he, of course, did nothing but chaos - and as a highlight filled Vinces's office with dung. In response, Vince risked everything to remove Austin as quickly as possible. He decreed that the match would take full control of the WWF - in a ladder match.

The other members of the corporate ministry were banned from the match, and Vince's thoughtful plan to let Shane get sick and replace with the more powerful Steve Blackman, when a Cameratape revealed that Shane was all right. Austin had so free hand against Vince and Shane and dominated them most of the time. When he finally knocked out both with a stunner, he set about grabbing the suitcase with the WWF documents, which was mysteriously pulled a few meters higher. When Vince and Shane returned to the match and Shane finally climbed to the ladder, the suspension sagged again - and Shane secured himself and his father full control over the WWF.

But Austin had a final surprise for the McMahons in the next RAW. Even before the match, he used his powers to sign a new contract with more salary without the previous clause that he could not attack McMahon without being provoked - and with a title match at RAW after the King Of The Ring. Austin also denied another match against the Taker, which he then also decided to be able to buckle the World Title around his hips again.

The end of an era
Austin had thus again exactly the state, which McMahon wanted to stop for more than a year. And McMahon was so desperate that he went to the extreme: after the Taker Austin challenged Fully Loaded to a First Blood match for the title, McMahon tied his fate to this match: he explained that he never again with a victory of Austin Would actively intervene in the action in the WWF - Austin would never get a title match again in a defeat. Austin agreed.

McMahon showed in the signing of the contract how serious he was when he grabbed the blood of the Rattlesnake after an attack by the Taker on Austin, in a pen and signed the contract for the match with Austin's blood. This evening an era should end - either way.

Vince and Shane McMahon did their best to influence the match to Austin's disadvantage. When the Taker turned off the ringmaker, Shane took his place, just to get Austin off the stunner - Vince got the same action as he tried to interfere. In return, X-Pac intervened in Austin's favor, Austin was able to knock the Taker down with a camera to make the match bleed - to keep the match going, to keep the title and get rid of Vince McMahon. The absence of Vince from the WWF-events did not last long - but the Austin-McMahon-Fehde had its final point.

Singles matches (put in event history tab)

 * April 13, 1998 - Raw is War: Steve Austin (c) vs. Mr. McMahon ended in a No Contest for the WWF Championship


 * February 14, 1999 - St. Valentine's Day Massacre: Steve Austin defeated Mr. McMahon in a Austin's WrestleMania Spot On The Line Steel Cage Match


 * June 27, 1999 - King of the Ring 1999: Mr. McMahon & Shane McMahon defeated Steve Austin in a 100% Control Of The WWF Two On One Handicap Ladder Match

All other matches

 * May 11, 1998 - Raw is War: Steve Austin & Vince McMahon vs. The Nation (D-Lo Brown & The Rock) ended in a No Contest


 * February 8, 1999 - Raw is War: The Corporation (Chyna, Kane, Ken Shamrock, Test, The Big Bossman & Vince McMahon) defeated Steve Austin in a Gauntlet Match


 * May 10, 1999 - Raw is War: Steve Austin, The Rock & Vince McMahon defeated Shane McMahon, The Undertaker & Triple H


 * June 5, 2001 - SmackDown: Chris Benoit & Chris Jericho (c) defeated Steve Austin & Vince McMahon for the WWF World Tag Team Championship