“Stone Cold” explained it was hard for anyone to write for promos for him, and it was difficult to feel what the writer’s gave him, as nobody had been through “the grind” with him and really knew what he had truly been through before getting to the then-WWF. He told a story about a time he was told he needed to rehearse a promo with then-WWE chairman Vince McMahon, with whom he was feuding with during the Monday Night Wars.

“I’ll never forget one time we were at a building and someone came and found me,” Austin said. “He said, ‘Hey, Vince wants to go over the promo with you…’ I remember, we were in this little itty bitty room… I’m sitting there, ‘Okay.’ I come back from my neck injury, I’m like, [monotone voice] ‘Okay, Vince. I am going to rip you to shreds.’ He got mad at me, he goes, ‘Dammit, Steve! Give me your ‘A’ promo!’ I said, ‘Hey, man, I’m going to give you my ‘A’ promo out there. I’m not a rehearsal guy. I’ll read your bullet points. I’m going to get a couple of them in there, and then we’re going to fly.'”

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