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#6 The Austin era has begun! (WrestleMania 14)
The rise of Stone Cold Steve Austin wasn't meteoric. It took nearly two years for Austin to reach the mountaintop after his game-changing Austin 3:16 promo at King of the Ring 1996, and when he did, it was in the most satisfying, memorable manner possible.
There was still a lot of bad blood around Shawn Michaels after the Montreal Screwjob a few months earlier and WWE took advantage of this in sending him to WrestleMania as the antagonist to the rising star in Austin.
The Monday Night Wars were still raging and WWE hadn't won a night in nearly two years, so to promote its biggest event, Mike Tyson was brought in, and heading into the big show, he and Austin looked like they would be enemies.
That made Mike Tyson's turn at the end of the main event all the greater. Austin finally won his first WWE Championship and was endorsed by the Baddest Man on the Planet. A new era had begun and WWE would turn the tide of the war in a few months.
