Considering the megastar he would go on to end up being, it can be tough for individuals to not see Steve Austin as a primary event-level skill, however not everybody saw that in him initially. That’s something that led to a disagreement between Jake “The Snake” Roberts and Vince McMahon, due to the fact that they saw him differently as he was arriving in WWE.
“After I watched him for a while I went to Vince and said, ‘This is your next superstar,’ and he said, ‘Are you kidding? I don’t see him anything other than mid-card,'” Roberts revealed on “The Snake Pit.” “That’s exactly what he said, mid-card at best. He was ready, primed, ready, settled go. I was pushing anything to have Steve do.” Roberts didn’t just believe in the “Texas Rattlesnake” behind the scenes either, as he would push him to McMahon, however he would likewise help Austin straight. At the time, Roberts was a highly regarded legend in the market, and he was on hand to impart as much knowledge as possible to Austin as he continued to develop.
“Steve was calling me if not nighttime, every other night and asking me about this and what about that, what must I have actually done, what might I have actually done, various things,” Roberts said. “He was wishing to learn, he was needing to know what might get him over the bulge and I provided him whatever I could.”
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