>>19563409Stevie said himself, straight out of Vince's mouth, it's because Stevie wasn't enough of an asshole. Look at all of the top guys: Hogan, Austin, Rock, Cena, Lesnar, even HBK (even though he was never a top guy in any sense . . . it was a gay magazine) to name a few. These were guys who were out for themselves and weren't shy about demanding what they wanted and playing hardball to get it. Stevie was a 'yes man.'
The tranny gimmick Stevie had? Hogan would've said "go fuck yourself, brother." But Stevie went along with it and bought white cotton panties to wear under the dress like Vince told him to.
I'm honestly surprised Stevie didn't go down with ECW like Dreamer almost did since he was he was so unwilling to go into business for himself. Although, I feel like I vaguely remember Stevie saying Raven was egging him on to come with him to WCW, so that's probably it. And I remember Stevie saying he felt like shit and tried to make it right with Heyman, even though Stevie knew full well the kind of perfidious jew Heyman was and got screwed multiple times by him.