>>14247984Austin wanted to maximise his potential and do the job to the next top talent, but the office didn't book people well enough for him to do that.
The neck injury restricted Austin's career length in ways that McMahon didn't anticipate and didn't calculate for, so while Austin was aching to put guys over already in 2000 and 2001, McMahon was still in the false belief that Austin's the only guy to book around.
At the same time, Austin wanted to do his promos the way people liked them and McMahon wanted him to do promos written word for word by TV drama writers, which made him look bad because the writing was bad.
He's not the only guy who had a problem with that. Go see segments with Jericho and Flair from that period, they're blatantly delivering pre-written shitty slop that's not coming from the heart. Everyone had to do that.
That plus his health concerns was pissing him off to the point where he gave up and quit.
As for Brock, the problem was that Austin wanted to do a programme with him and do the job at a PPV, the same way everyone was brought up.
McMahon wanted to put Brock over immediately, without build, without story, without tension, on TV.
Finally got his fucking big mastodon he'd been looking for.
It seemed so retarded to Austin, so shortsighted together with all the other problems that he packed his bag and went home.
