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2531220, RE: one of my favorite post-piledriver Austin matches
Posted by jimaveli, Mon Apr-11-16 06:54 PM
You're talking about the one where Austin was champ and Benoit was challenger? If so, that's the one where they wrestled on Raw and Smackdown back-to-back. And it was supreme. I have that on VHS somewhere.

>>Really, I've been meaning to do a run of rando Austin
>matches
>>too because I KNOW he had a lot of good ones
>post-piledriver.
>>In my mind, at the time of his run, lots of the innanet
>cried
>>that all he did was punch and at some point it became
>gospel.
>>It WAS TRUE at times (some tv matches), but he has some good
>>ones because he was a forreal good wrestler who just worked
>a
>>style around a catalog of big injuries as to not squander
>the
>>hottest run of any wrestler ever from 98 to 2001. And even
>>then, he had to miss a chunk of time.
>
>might not be on the network because it involves one Chris
>Benoit. that was the return of ECW/Early WWE Austin... and I
>think it was on SmackDown! during the Heyman Era.