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== Professional Wrestling ==
* [[WCW]]'s Eric Bischoff rejected Steve Austin's new character idea of him being a hardass, take-no-prisoners redneck [[Anti-Hero]], telling him, "Yeah, Steve, we could have you run around in your plain black tights and your plain black boots, but that just wouldn't be marketable." Then Bischoff canned Austin after having hired Hulk Hogan and a veritable entourage of his buddies, feeling that Austin would never go anywhere. [[ECW]] head Paul Heyman, on the other hand, was convinced that Austin would be a huge star, and so called him up and said, "You know, I have a TV show. Wanna come on it and bitch about Bischoff?" Which he did, and [[
** Similarly, "Mean" Mark Calaway was dropped by WCW. Vince McMahon gave him a call and said he had an idea for character. They had a meeting but nothing came from it. Later on, Calaway answered the phone and Vince apparently said "Am I speaking to the Undertaker". Calaway said "Yes!", and the rest is history.
*** Hulk Hogan was actually the one who started this, informing Vince about Calaway after Calaway had a bit role in ''Suburban Commando''.
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