“When we got to the point of [Austin] getting hit with the car and who it was who ran him over with the car, everybody had an idea. I don’t even remember who came up with Rikishi. Vince McMahon loved it and thought that no one was going to guess that.
Prichard concluded, “Well, of course, nobody was going to guess that because it makes no sense for Rikishi to be the guy who ran over Steve Austin! We then force-fed the whole storyline.
“It was not a bright spot during our creative tenure during this time.”