My Favorite Austin
Stone Cold Steve Austin had a lot of memorable moments during his WWF/WWE run, but my favorite happened fifteen years ago today. May 31, 1998 was the WWF Over The Edge pay-per-view featuring Austin vs. Dude Love (a.k.a. Mick Foley/Cactus Jack) for the WWF Championship with Mr. McMahon as referee, Pat Patterson as ring announcer and Gerald Brisco as timekeeper. Richard Hattersly has a long writeup on the match at Collar and Elbow detailing the events leading to the match and how the match went down. I found the match memorable for several reasons. It was in Milwaukee (where I grew up), and even though I was living in Los Angeles at the time (I was working a summer internship between my junior and senior years at U.S.C.) I still always go out of my way to watch wrestling from Milwaukee. May 31, 1998 was also the date of an epic NBA Eastern Conference Finals Game 7. The Chicago Bulls had won five of the last seven NBA championships while the Indiana Pacers had flirted with an NBA