Stanley Weston Award: Steve Austin

WRESTLING MAGAZINES HAVE never been short on hyperbole. So when, in awarding Steve Austin the 1990 Rookie of the Year award, we wrote that Austin immediately became a “household name” upon joining the USWA 30 years ago, there may have been a little bit of exaggeration going on.

But fans rightly saw something special in the broad-shouldered, blond-haired