According to Austin himself, when he was in the USWA he was making about $15-$20 a match and living in a dumpy apt. and eating cans of tuna and raw potatoes. When the tuna ran out, it was raw potatoes only until payday. But he said to himself, these are the dues to be paid while learning the profession and he knew better days were ahead.
But yes but he learned a lot about the business of professional wrestling when he was in Memphis Tennessee all the famous wrestler Ric Flair Dutch mantell Austin Idol Dusty Rhodes I'll come through Memphis Tennessee Hulk Hogan was Terry Labonte before he went to WWE Hulk Hogan
Yes sir they all wind up making good paycheck in time but when they first got into the business it was a slow pay but it still made them what they are now Superstar Bill Dundee Dutch mantell Jerry The King Lawler Austin Idol Stone Cold Steve Austin Undertaker Shawn Michaels Stan Lane Steve Kern The Fabulous ones all learn to in Memphis Tennessee and around the country
This clip, for someone from Memphis, is pure magic. To see Steve at such a young age but still show so much potential. In just 6 years he'll be the top wrestler in the world! And there he is my little hometown promotion on a Saturday morning. Unbelievable.
Austin has said that he was paid so low in Memphis that he ate only potatoes and, one time, Jeff Jarrett (Jerry Jarrett's son) walked by him while he was staring at his small paycheck and said "Keep on staring at it, boy. It ain't going to make it any bigger!" Austin, as one can expect, never forgot that comment; this is why he shot down potential feuds with Jarrett twice when Jeff Jarrett was in the WWF and Austin was the big star... And Austin wasn't the only one who got low-balled on pay in Memphis--Bob Holly mentioned it in his book, as well...
Stone Cold Steve Austin with long blonde hair with no goatee, white wristbands, green, black and pink shorts, black and green kneepads and white boots. It's not the Austin I'm used to at all, that's why I love to see these videos of these wrestlers before they became famous later on. Cool stuff.
0:47: "You see a man with the tools to do it all! I've done a lot in the short time I've been in the sport, but I want people to start looking at me as being the greatest wrestler EVER!" Little did everyone who tuned into USWA that night know that in 30 years time, "Stunning" Steve Austin would regarded by almost all as the greatest wrestler of all-time. Also one of the two biggest stars in not only wrestling, but the entire world. Talk about delivering the goods...
They musta got the evil referee idea from WWF Danny Davis - not the DD in this match . Stunning Steve Austin with Jeannie was a good combo ....They were great in WCCW
I seem to remember that episode. Jamie muffed every match he referred . He got totally ticked off when Eddie fired him, then started mouthing off to his dad, who then proceeded to put him over his knee and spanked him! That started a father-son feud that lasted a good two or three months.
I miss & loved seeing Stunning Steve Austin performing the stun gun. & I really liked him as the WCW World Television Champion he was probably the best TV Champion to hold the title besides "Perry Saturn, the Ultimo Dragon, Lord Steven Regal, the Living Legend Larry Zybszko, Rick Martel, Scott Hall, Hacksaw Jim Duggan, Booker T, Fit Finlay, & The Lion Heart Chris Jericho".
People have argued and argued and argued with me and this has proved me right and uswa in Dallas Texas is where he first got the stunning Steve Austin monitker. All the idiots that keeps saying he got it in WCW you're wrong again.
He was the owner of OVW where Brock Lesnar, Bautista, and Randy Orton among other future WWE stars started out. He just retired and sold the company to Al Snow.
Wow never saw this match is this the same Danny Davis that was a referee for the WWE what a transformation form stunning Steve Austin to ston cold Steve Austin even back then Austin was a great technical wrestler nobody knew then what was about to happen in wrestling with the attitude Era some of the greatest times for professional wrestling all headed by Austin
I do remember, this was the final push making Jamie a heel and getting him in the ring. Started angle with Cody Michaels and finished it with Danny Davis. Wrestling today sucks. Noone carries angles out. Everything is set up and finished in one show. Bring back Mid South, Memphis, etc......
This guy shaved his head bald, grew a mustache/goatee and put on a black vest, black tights with black braces over his kneepads and black boots, started drinking beer and disrespecting authority figures with middle fingers. Who knew ? lol
@miseryagogo yeah I grew up in Tennessee, and this was a very big part of my childhood. I still remember the day i flipped on to the station and found out that USWA was now a part of WCW. And with all the new "WCCW" and "WCW" dvds out, I'd love to see one about USWA.
Hey learn a lot in Memphis Tennessee all the big wrestlers come through their Terry Labonte with his brother what up man Hulk Hogan WWF Ric Flair come through Memphis sweet Stan Lane and Steve Kern come through Memphis as the fabulous ones Curt Hennig come through Memphis
According to Austin himself, when he was in the USWA he was making about $15-$20 a match and living in a dumpy apt. and eating cans of tuna and raw potatoes. When the tuna ran out, it was raw potatoes only until payday. But he said to himself, these are the dues to be paid while learning the profession and he knew better days were ahead.
But yes but he learned a lot about the business of professional wrestling when he was in Memphis Tennessee all the famous wrestler Ric Flair Dutch mantell Austin Idol Dusty Rhodes I'll come through Memphis Tennessee Hulk Hogan was Terry Labonte before he went to WWE Hulk Hogan
Yes sir they all wind up making good paycheck in time but when they first got into the business it was a slow pay but it still made them what they are now Superstar Bill Dundee Dutch mantell Jerry The King Lawler Austin Idol Stone Cold Steve Austin Undertaker Shawn Michaels Stan Lane Steve Kern The Fabulous ones all learn to in Memphis Tennessee and around the country
I wish somebody would talk to Vince McMahon about putting Superstar bill Dundee into the WWE Hall of Fame
Then he would be skinny as hell. I call it bs.
@Bill Ding yeah
This clip, for someone from Memphis, is pure magic. To see Steve at such a young age but still show so much potential.
In just 6 years he'll be the top wrestler in the world! And there he is my little hometown promotion on a Saturday morning. Unbelievable.
This, to me, was what wrestling was all about in the 90s... I grew up on this stuff right here.
Miss the 70s ,80s so much
And to think we have Gentlemen Chris Adams to thank for training Steve Austin
Who else is here because of Stone Cold's podcast vid talking about the most brutal chops?
Me
Austin has said that he was paid so low in Memphis that he ate only potatoes and, one time, Jeff Jarrett (Jerry Jarrett's son) walked by him while he was staring at his small paycheck and said "Keep on staring at it, boy. It ain't going to make it any bigger!" Austin, as one can expect, never forgot that comment; this is why he shot down potential feuds with Jarrett twice when Jeff Jarrett was in the WWF and Austin was the big star...
And Austin wasn't the only one who got low-balled on pay in Memphis--Bob Holly mentioned it in his book, as well...
Karma's a bitch, indeed.
Stone Cold Steve Austin with long blonde hair with no goatee, white wristbands, green, black and pink shorts, black and green kneepads and white boots. It's not the Austin I'm used to at all, that's why I love to see these videos of these wrestlers before they became famous later on. Cool stuff.
Holy, I'm impressed I never knew that Steve was such a monster.
Total alpha stud in his younger days
Pre-neck injury Austin was filled with piss and vinegar.
@@libra42ful yep, built like a truck!
That had a fabulous tag team.3.5.
From this to the greatest pro wrestler ever... simply awesome !!! Love stone cold forever...\m/
0:47: "You see a man with the tools to do it all! I've done a lot in the short time I've been in the sport, but I want people to start looking at me as being the greatest wrestler EVER!"
Little did everyone who tuned into USWA that night know that in 30 years time, "Stunning" Steve Austin would regarded by almost all as the greatest wrestler of all-time. Also one of the two biggest stars in not only wrestling, but the entire world.
Talk about delivering the goods...
And, of course, Jamie Dundee, son of 'Superstar' Bill Dundee, and one half of PG-13 as J.C. Ice along with Wolfie D.
Hard to believe that this is the same Steve Austin that now works for the WWE,
They musta got the evil referee idea from WWF Danny Davis - not the DD in this match . Stunning Steve Austin with Jeannie was a good combo ....They were great in WCCW
I seem to remember that episode. Jamie muffed every match he referred . He got totally ticked off when Eddie fired him, then started mouthing off to his dad, who then proceeded to put him over his knee and spanked him! That started a father-son feud that lasted a good two or three months.
'EXACTLY!'- a forerunner to 'Hell, Yeah!'
And Austin 3:16---" I just kicked your ass!"
haha! When up and coming guys say the term, ''greatest ever'', it's like yeahhhhh whatever dude. Though with Austin, he backed it up :) lol
Austin said He left a note in Davis s locker about Davis's chops cause he hated them
Pretty much everyone that is anyone wrestled in Memphis at some point Austin, Rock, Hogan, Undertaker, etc.
@Bill Ding Fuck Tna
Looks like Austin cut up his Aunt Mabel's old curtains to make those trunks
I miss & loved seeing Stunning Steve Austin performing the stun gun. & I really liked him as the WCW World Television Champion he was probably the best TV Champion to hold the title besides "Perry Saturn, the Ultimo Dragon, Lord Steven Regal, the Living Legend Larry Zybszko, Rick Martel, Scott Hall, Hacksaw Jim Duggan, Booker T, Fit Finlay, & The Lion Heart Chris Jericho".
i loved the austin/chris adams feud.
The only thing that would not see how far Steve Austin had grown was his hair.
I saw Stunning Steve at the J.C. Fairgrounds in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, but I thought it was in late 80s.
It could have been, he debuted in 1989.
2/9/91 possibly
not sure if thats feb 9th 1991 or sep 2nd 1991...im going with the former...
+Muhammad Smith but then both dates goes against this being his "USWA Memphis debut "
People have argued and argued and argued with me and this has proved me right and uswa in Dallas Texas is where he first got the stunning Steve Austin monitker. All the idiots that keeps saying he got it in WCW you're wrong again.
Is it just me or does Dundee kinda look like Eddie Guerrero a little bit here? lmao.
We all know who "Stunning Steve" turned into, but why does Danny Davis, with this haircut and facepaint, kinda remind me of Sting...?
He was the owner of OVW where Brock Lesnar, Bautista, and Randy Orton among other future WWE stars started out. He just retired and sold the company to Al Snow.
Why does sting remind you of nightmare Danny davis
He was Midget Sting in Smoky Mountain Wrestling
One half of The Nightmares.
I guess this is when Danny Davis was one of the night mares
The man was a freekin' prophet.
I'll always like stunning Steve better than stone cold Steve Austin!
Austin is such a great, cocky, wrestling alpha-male...
Dutch = indeed came up with the name, 2 mins before lights camera action.
Wow never saw this match is this the same Danny Davis that was a referee for the WWE what a transformation form stunning Steve Austin to ston cold Steve Austin even back then Austin was a great technical wrestler nobody knew then what was about to happen in wrestling with the attitude Era some of the greatest times for professional wrestling all headed by Austin
No
Memphis wrestling had them all didn't they?
+TheRossini72 Yep it seems so- stone cold, undertaker, hulk hogan.
+Vinay Seth don't forget about the Rock...he started in Memphis too
+dln59 Oh yes! Hew as called Colt Cabana or something :D..looked promising even back then!
+Vinay Seth Sting and Warrior as well.
Wow- they really did have them all then!
I do remember, this was the final push making Jamie a heel and getting him in the ring. Started angle with Cody Michaels and finished it with Danny Davis. Wrestling today sucks. Noone carries angles out. Everything is set up and finished in one show. Bring back Mid South, Memphis, etc......
Remember, when it comes to commercial success Austin was #1 all time
As in 'Nightmare' Danny Davis, the owner and head trainer for Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW)?
Chris Bowman Yep.
one of the best in the business! GREAT worker, GREAT person!
This guy never went anywhere in the business. Where is he now. Danny Davis is the better of the two.
You say"in the business"as if you were in it.
This guy shaved his head bald, grew a mustache/goatee and put on a black vest, black tights with black braces over his kneepads and black boots, started drinking beer and disrespecting authority figures with middle fingers. Who knew ? lol
@@jerelminter And now he's a Hall of Famer!
Looks like they're using garden hoses for ropes, not just the color, but those ropes have so much give to them.
Could be maybe 🤔 what’s up From 3 years later 😂👍🏼
SCSA: Making no eyebrows look good.
Does wwe own this footage. We'd like to see this stuff on a DVD
No
Danny Davis.. trainer at OVW with cornette..
Owner too
does anyone have the match between austin and the patriot, around this time, austin wore either these trunks or some like them in it?
Del Wilkes would have been called the Trooper at this time but I thought he was in AWA for some reason not USWA.
@@119Agent do you know of a match where Austin wrestled Wilkes at this time, I'm sure I remember it?
Steve Austin with a pony tail
😆
Then realistically seven years later he’s the biggest thing ever
jeez look at that hair
He is so Ziggler with attitude.
5:24 - Variation on the Stunner!
It’s just a reverse neckbreaker. Like Rick Rude’s Rude Awakening.
0:56 Now how many times have you ever seen someone say anything like that and it comes true?
It seems like everyone who made it in wrestling back then was on steroids!
+Vinay Seth and started in memphis.
+Jamaal Crushaa Haha true!
Everybody but Andre the Giant and Buddy Rose!
HAAAW BOUT THA AMEWICAN DWEAM DUSTHHEH RHODES
STONE COLD LOL !
Y'know what's funny? saw this video at 3:16 AM,
Nice hair cut ref
OOOOOOO HELL YEA!!!!
@miseryagogo yeah I grew up in Tennessee, and this was a very big part of my childhood. I still remember the day i flipped on to the station and found out that USWA was now a part of WCW.
And with all the new "WCCW" and "WCW" dvds out, I'd love to see one about USWA.
Who is this Steve guy? Doesn’t look like he could draw a dime. 😏
i wonder what he’s doing now
@@nothing5283 probably lost all his hair and drinks a lot of beer since he never amounted to anything
That was Jeff Jarrett.
d.t.a dont trust anybody lol
What? What? What?
Is that Debra? Kind of looks like her, kind of doesn't.
Uh no.
You guys remember PRO WRESTLING?
Wrastlin
1990? lol the crappy production makes it look like 1979/1980
so they r giving the referee shit for doing the exact same thing every referee has done in every wrestling match ever?
lol austin 316
Hey learn a lot in Memphis Tennessee all the big wrestlers come through their Terry Labonte with his brother what up man Hulk Hogan WWF Ric Flair come through Memphis sweet Stan Lane and Steve Kern come through Memphis as the fabulous ones Curt Hennig come through Memphis
AHAHAH fake sting
I'm guessing after this match, that tiny Danny Davis realized what a REAL man is...Austin is a alpha stud 💪🤨🚬