When Stone Cold Fell Asleep During Lance Storm’s Match

Former WWE Superstar Lance Storm talks about if he believed that WWE Hall of Famer Stone Cold Steve Austin taking a pillow out in the middle of his matches hurt his WWE career.
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[@michaelvazquez7851]

Nice

[@TimLoyalToWifeHaterFreeZoneA]

Love It CVVCLIPS Bro.

[@therealityofitall4819]

Stop pretending. Vince McMahon and Steve Austin buried Lance Storm.. Ain't no thinking that.. That actually happened..

[@michaelvazquez7851]

@@therealityofitall4819 Who?

[@offthewallFBB]

I’ll always picture Lance in my head as holding the 3 titles simultaneously in WCW. Was so cool.

[@GR8NE55]

And they were all Canadian championships 😂 best thing they had going at the time.

[@stedarkside1529]

Lance Storm was one of the best things in WCW in 2000-01

[@09wlh]

Him in WCW holding gold with his faction was one of my favorite WCW times.

[@NathanDewey11]

Peak Storm - that was great

[@maxmeza4859]

If lance storm was one of the best things,,,,no wonder they were bought out

[@de132]

"And soon as they told Vince it was working, they changed it" Peak Vince

[@anonymoose5599]

'fans mistakingly think that Steve Austin bringing out the pillow buries you' Except it absolutely did bury him

[@BlackBearNE]

Right? It’s the definition of burying a guy lol.

[@tafua_a]

@@BlackBearNE Thanks to Steve and the pillow, whenever a WWE fan mentions Lance Storm, the first thing they say is "good wrestler, boring as shit", when he was anything but in WCW and ECW.

[@ArcaneAzmadi]

Any time you tell the audience "what you're watching sucks", you're burying your own product. Intentionally or not, Stone Cold was basically coming out and telling fans "this guy is a waste of your time and you shouldn't want to watch him wrestle" which is only going to cost you viewers. It benefits NOBODY.

[@alphanerd7221]

@@BlackBearNE Burying is BS. The guy is out there performing his art for a massive audience. That's not burying. That's the opposite.

[@DLTyrus]

The problem is is that Lance Storm really WAS boring 😂people only get "buried" by pointing out things that are actually true. If he'd been called boring but was actually phenomenally entertaining, it wouldn't have stuck. There's value in having good ring work, obviously, but it doesn't equate to entertainment for the majority of the wrestling audience.

[@tmage23]

"As soon as I told Vince it was working, he changed it"

[@taranshaw1737]

A tale as old as time... hopeful with what's happened with Vince we never have to deal with suffer like that again

[@Tranceplant82]

Such a Vince move...

[@msked-ktfgamiing1153]

Classic Vince move, thank god he's gone

[@handleunavailable]

Sucks because Storm is an incredible talent and I still say "If I can be serious for a moment" to my friends to this day. He had a decent run in WWE but it could've been much better.

[@JoeChillton]

like with Rusev Day.

[@Spitdeezbars]

Lance "If I Could Be Serious For A Minute" Storm

[@Bears86SB]

Lance storm is the most well rounded wrestler ive ever seen so underrated him & candido are my 2nd favorite tag in ECW behind rvd & sabu

[@aaronmock6157]

Him and Justin was awesome too.

[@louio]

I' don't know about well rounded he was boring on the mic

[@marioargiropoulos7555]

Lance was awesome in ECW.

[@hotcoldman77]

Well rounded? His charisma is a 2/10 at best and you call him well rounded??? Some of you fans are delusional smh

[@DGNDGPT]

Lance storm is so underrated he should have won more titles

[@Mythoughtsreviews]

No he won enough in WCW 😂

[@ucfanatic1]

In WCW...he held 3 titles at the same time.

[@DGNDGPT]

I’m talking about WWE I knew he had won some in WCW in WWE he was another buried outsider

[@louio]

Definitely trolling 😂

[@christopheramaro333]

winning titles in American wrestling just isn't based on in ring work alone, bud. it's the entertainment business

[@fizzywhizzbanger5610]

Lance Storm didn't get the recognition he deserved; dude was a top notch performer.

[@trollking6055]

No he did from traditional wrestling fans Just not from the meat head wrestling fans who had no appreciation for genuine wrestling talent

[@fizzywhizzbanger5610]

​@@trollking6055 That's exactly what I was meant; everybody should have recognized his greatness, not just one subsect of wrestling fans. Work on the reading comprehension.

[@trollking6055]

@@fizzywhizzbanger5610 I wasn't saying that's not what you said I was just saying meat head fans didn't appreciate him

[@elhajjmalikel6266]

Right! I loved how "serious" he was! It was great along with J.R.'s commentary. I didn't find it boring when I was young. I liked Lance even though he was a heel. Very underrated technical wrestler.

[@Slimo1908]

Nope, it's so obvious now that Vince simply had humiliation fetish and was burying Lance and all those other guys that he didn't like for whatever reason and wanted to enjoy watching them destroying their careers by doing stupid crap on tv. I feel sorry for Lance, he's been a great worker.

[@Jackholiday1025]

I liked what Vince said in bringing up Kurt angle, people say it but no one actually thinks he sucks

[@rexgamewell]

Lance was one of my favorite wrestlers.

[@kariyam2202]

if Vince hated him, how was he always winning as the un-americans/regal

[@yetanotheruser1989]

Lance Storm really hit his stride in the last year or so of WCW. A company built around him, Booker, Steiner, etc with an emphasis back on the wrestling would have been so great. Better than the crap we have been subject to for the past 20 years.

[@theman6705]

we have had a lot of good shit in the past 20 years. Lik BOOKER BEING WORLD CHAMP.

[@notgarybrown]

As much crap as late stage WCW gets it's still what I had a kid, and I loved it. I remember absolutely hating Lance so I guess that made him a great heel. 'If I could be serious for a moment' is such an iconic line to me.

[@tmerchead1]

No

[@shanedelgado666]

Vince worrying about a guy's hose size makes a lot more sense now...... 😂😂

[@IamMonikaDLC]

Right on time, right before "too soon bro!"

[@PiyachonYuenyongHYDE]

Definition of "funny" for Vince most of the time mean bad things for wrestlers. He doesn't think "It's funny, the fans are gonna love it" his thought was "This cracked me up so let's do it even though it's not gonna work in Wrestling context"

[@Eloh_Dragons]

“Ha Ha Ha! That’s good shit, pal!”

[@ArcaneAzmadi]

Vince was on the record as saying the funniest thing in the world is the look on someone's face when they're in midair after you've unexpectedly shoved them into a swiming pool. Vince had a sick sense of humour based entirely around mean-spiritedly hurting people which was a source of amusement to himself alone.

[@demoniclily1892]

@@ArcaneAzmadior pooping on someone’s head.

[@mclovinu69]

This was Vince's way of ribbing people, by fucking with their careers. Coercive control 101

[@Mr_T_Badger]

Vince thought it would be hilarious to do a necrophilia angle once and that ended up being the horribly maligned Katie Vick angle. Even Triple H and Hurricane couldn’t make that funny and those two are hilarious.

[@killergrooves2438]

Lance was so good in ECW and WCW. He was so good I remember making him as a CAW in WWF No Mercy. He was often one of my champions in the Smackdown games. Hell, if Vince wasn’t going to push him, I was!

[@DukeDarkshadow]

I'll never forget the time I was playing season mode with Lance in HCTP. I was facing HHH and we accidentally knocked the ref out. While he was down, I made Hunter tap to the Single Leg Crab and it didn't count because the ref was down! I never knew they implemented that feature into the games!

[@Kaltagstar96]

OK, I love the idea of Lance getting a dictionary to explain how he's not boring, the fact they didn't do that on TV is a damn shame. I get that Lance was never gonna be a world champ but he would've been a solid midcard IC or US Champ if he was pushed like someone of his talent should be.

[@jordannewsom3606]

Wasn't he ic champ?

[@johnclark9065]

@@jordannewsom3606for about a week he was IC champ 😂

[@JaceyMitchell]

Yeah the IC belt was perfect for him. It was traditionally the workers belt, and man could he wrestle. He isn't flashy on the mic and doesn't look like a roided up action figure like Goldberg or Warrior,, but in the ring Lance can deliver the goods like few others. The moment he starts to actually wrestle, it gets exciting. Just one of those weird Vince-isms. Biggest wrestling promoter of all time, third generation, but deeply ashamed of the fact that he's in the wrestling business. 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[@madganser]

They did have Lance use a dictionary to explain on TV.

[@blakeandrews9496]

i could definitely see him competing for a world title if pushed right. if it could work with Mysterio and Kofi i think it could’ve worked with Lance. never would’ve been the cena of a company tho im not saying he had limitless upside

[@Markyd123]

I almost fell asleep listening to this

[@paulwoodford1984]

lol, did you ever do any videos on Lance storm

[@Markyd123]

@@paulwoodford1984 not that I can recall

[@IamMonikaDLC]

It still gets an A!

[@PenskePC17]

Lance was not boring. I remember my little 10 year old self hating him in WCW.

[@charlesrocks]

Lance Storm was always a great and entertaining wrestler

[@freeflare6338]

So I recall Lance speaking about this on another interview once, and the big problem was Lawler. They could maybe have worked it into the sort of 'shut up and wrestle' thing, but Lawler didn't bother with the prep and just started going in on BORING with no nuance or anything, and that translated to the audience. Bad idea with maybe a slim chance of making something ok, but not with someone on commentary just torpedoing it.

[@Fnoel98356]

Not doing prep work by Lawler sounds about right. By his own admission, he likes to do everything off the cuff.

[@neilbiggs1353]

@@Fnoel98356 And to be fair to Lawler, I think he was very successful in Memphis with booking that was almost entirely on the fly, but it's one of those things that is problematic in sports and entertainment - someone not realising that what works for them is not going to work for others

[@GregHuffman1987]

one of the perfections of Mania 17 was that Heyman was on commentary over Lawler

[@LetThatStuffGo]

His WCW run is very appreciated. 🍻

[@Euaqui159]

The very first seconds of this interview is funny without a context

[@zackwyatt169]

Something was working and Vince changed it because it was working What a surprise 🙄

[@mothertrucker341]

In vinces mind if it wasnt vinces idea then it wasnt good bascially

[@Mysterybabylon696]

Vince was never any good at running the show infact if it wasn't for Eric bishoff and wcw there wouldn't have been an attitude era.

[@BorutoBlack-u7t]

Hell yeah tna was just coming up around that time wwe would of got smashed with Lance Storm as our leader

[@09wlh]

Never really liked how Vince gave all the WCW guys trash gimmicks and made the jobbers or the main event guys like Booker T mid carders

[@QualityEJC]

When Book came over he was working with Stone Cold. How is that a mid carder?

[@09wlh]

@@QualityEJC he literally was made to look like a fool in his program with The Rock where he lost his WCW title to him. Couple years after he was a tag team and mid card guy

[@QualityEJC]

@09wlh booker's transition was strong but yeah after 2 years he went downhill. You can't really blame Vince when he has Brock, Randy, Cena etc to work with.

[@09wlh]

@@QualityEJC lol true, he likes his home grown talent. Only time Book seen the main event near after was that horrible program with HHH WM19 (yes later as King Booker he finally got a decent main end run). But idk I don't think Vince ever saw wrestlers of color (mainly black) as main event n main champion material. But that's a debate for another day

[@QualityEJC]

@09wlh king booker and perc angle was the last good thing he did. The reality is this majority of wrestlers are white and way talented to not push. To just ignore them to focus on diversity is ludacris especially if it's bringing in money.

[@billmilano6246]

I love current-day interviews with Lance Storm. His absolutely genuine "WTF?" reaction to the things that he saw, and the things that happened to him, back in the day is just hilarious, especially in the context of his character at the time.

[@siddharthakumar6467]

This is akin to Vince metaphorically crapping over Lance.

[@Jackholiday1025]

I liked what Vince has to say about Kurt, people say it but no one actually thinks he sucks.

[@siddharthakumar6467]

@@Jackholiday1025 I get your point. However, a "boring" chant will end up burying you. People said "You Suck" to Kurt while he was super over with them. It also went to tune with his theme song. But, people chanting boring to Lance during a match, even as Lance was trying to do what he does best (wrestling), was absolute sabotage for his career. 🍀

[@chazmiranda]

I suppose in hindsight lance should be thankful it wasn’t literal crapping

[@squiddwizzard8850]

The "I think they were just trying to see if I would say no" also hits different now

[@BillyBob-pu2vc]

Vince did a lot of crapping on people! Not metaphorically speaking

[@AbbasKhan9364]

I absolutely hated Austin that night. Couldn't he have declined in burying Storm? I bet Austin definitely had a bit of pull to reject some decisions.

[@SylentEcho]

Storm was absolutely fire in WCW, leading Team Canada. Stone Cold burying him on Raw, legit hurt, back when I saw it.

[@JustJefferson]

Lance Storm in ECW was tremendous! I never understood the boring stuff, this dude was an exciting wrestler. I especially loved his work with Candido.

[@labbaby189]

Whoever wasn't entertained by Lance Storm was watching wrestling wrong. His "serious" gimmick played off his more vibrant opponents well. Him reading the definition of boring in the dictionary would've had me in tears.

[@WallKenshiro]

In hindsight, everything Vince did like this or even remotely like this, was all proving that he was a psychopath.

[@perceivedvelocity9914]

I have always liked Lance Storm. I hate to say this but..... Stone Cold started bringing the pillow to the ring because everyone thought that his promo's were boring while Lance was in WWE. Austin did not cause the problem, he threw gasoline on it.

[@B.-T.]

He wasn't bringing the pillow out for promos but for matches, which is BS. And if a place like WCW could use Lance's seriousness effectively for promos WWE has no excuse. Booked properly Lance could've been a great upper midcard Bret Hart-like talent, not too great on the mic but making up for it in the ring.

[@tafua_a]

@@B.-T. If someone like Vince fucking Russo can book someone like Lance fucking Storm to be an effective heel, there's no excuse. His whole gimmick in WCW was the fact the he was "the anti-sports entertainer". Everyone was wacky, while he was serious.

[@Dessan01]

Trust me, when the WWF fans of 2002 chanted “boring” they meant it 😂 Lance Storm is an amazing wrestler too, I really enjoyed his matches around this time. He was over as hell but watch an Austin match around this time for a snooze fest - he was very limited in what he could do - Lou Thez press, lot of brawling, opening a can of whoop ass in the corner and a stunner - it wasn’t quite a Hogan match but it was getting that way.

[@emanuelmartinez7267]

Honestly Lance's concept of "shut up and wrestle" is a great gimmick idea... Because it's worked a million times before. The boring thing added a new element and it turned his biggest weakness into a strength. I have no idea why Vince would than go out of his way to say EVERYTHING about lance was boring, how does that help ANYONE get over?

[@patrickegbuchiem6320]

The WCW version of lance storm was so so underrated. Everything/one around him also improved. His WWE run doesn’t define him at all.

[@JoeChillton]

That move by WWE just killed his career there after a pretty cool opening months with Awesome and Edge and Helms. And i love Austin but damn that was brutal. I never imagined Storm saying "dude" in this interview lol

[@Jordan.M.23]

Loved watching lance compete! Always had the feeling of wanting him to succeed past the level he did he was a real worker

[@mikegambino3362]

If I can be serious for a moment, falling asleep during Storm’s promos and matches was a common thing.

[@cactusjack2264]

Am I the only one that thought Stone Cold sleeping on the stage to Lance Storm’s match was funny af? 🤣😂🤣😂

[@themadrapper101]

I wish there was a laugh reaction 😂 That moment is still funny!

[@CurvyTribune]

That was one of the funniest moments of RAW I've ever watched 😅😅😅😅😅

[@akbarmalik5661]

Lance Storm looking like Cornette without hair.

[@trevorhembrough1290]

The funny thing is that Lance really does have a personality and IS smart and can be funny as shit. I had no idea about any of this until years later when I was following him on social media. I have a feeling that if Lance circa 2001-02 was allowed to be Twitter Lance and just cook, he really could’ve ended up main eventing some PPVs and been in the title picture for a while.

[@mmawilldesha]

Lance Strom was so underrated i loved him as a kid

[@Jallen7362]

That's championship level manspreading

[@jonathonguthrie7681]

It could have been worse. Dean Malenko could have said, “Vince, will think it’s funny if he can poop on you”

[@FirstRainbow96]

The head turn was always amazing

[@weho_brian]

i appreciate Lance a solid mid card performer in attitude era

[@herculesmwp7983]

They disrespected Lance so hard during his run. 😂

[@abohsukampret]

First time I've heard someone quoting Vince without doing Vince impression.

[@miamimagicians]

Lance was an INCREDIBLE wrestler

[@The_ThoughtProvoker]

To me, Lance Storm is actually not boring, but really entertaining. Mainly those who don’t watch wrestling for the wrestling will say someone like Lance Storm is boring. Yes, I said it.

[@40088922]

"where's THAT gonna go?" yep, it was on Vince alright

[@hectorlopez1069]

I alway like the part when lance storm went to WCW in 2000, and began using the Canadian national anthem as his theme.

[@ModernDayRenaissanceMan]

Vince loves conflict. If you didn't fight back he didn't push you. Being TOO AGREEABLE doesn't work for him

[@johnrambo5055]

Lance puts me to sleep too

[@mkdisciple]

Lance Storm was good on promos in WCW. He was believable and a character you loved to hate. He was over!

[@justina9137]

Vince: i want more crowd interaction. THIS IS AWFUL. that work for ya Vince?

[@clm3888]

I forgot how good Lance Storm was in WCW because of his WWE run. I know he was good when WCW was bad, but he was entertaining in my opinion. In his last days in WWE, Stone Cold called him boring power ranger. lol It stuck with me.

[@kylepomeroy73]

“ Vince thought it would be funny if you had a large hose 😂”

[@lovestospoogeonyou1]

Remember when Vince made trish get on her knees and bark like a dog, that is so disturbing to watch now (well not for me, i think its hilarious) but Vince let us know who he really is on LIVE TV because he knew ppl would think "its just wrestling"

[@MathiasMaximus]

I always loved Lance in the ring and i even liked the "can i be serious" gimmick. I always saw it as "shut up and wrestle" but nothing ever came out of it

[@dennisbowen452]

Lance is funny as hell on twitter ngl

[@mgtocrateezspeaks3971]

Lance was one of my faves for a while. Sure, not much of a personality, but definitely skilled.

[@MxMe-su1ch]

For the first 5 years, those chants of "You suck!" at Kurt Angle were honest. He was not popular when he first entered the WWF one bit.

[@ChloeEleanor]

I am very, very disappointed that Lance Storm didn't hold more singles titles in WWE.

[@kidwaryodproduction]

If Lance have a beard he would look like Stone Cold 😆 He also remind me of Jazz Pianist Christoph Spendel too.

[@MatthiasPowerbomb]

Back then I always wondered why Lance was so all over the place. Now it makes more sense.

[@TheSinlessAssassin]

Austin didn’t bury him, Vince did

[@michaelvazquez7851]

Good interview

[@Tier1Norseman]

BOOOOOOORRRRIIIIINNNGGG!!! 😂

[@GregHuffman1987]

poor storn

[@GypsyDanger514]

“If I could be serious for a minute”.

[@merleshand2442]

Why they thought that would be a good idea is beyond me how could it not hurt everyone involved

[@alexhunt5311]

I just recently saw that episode it was a June or July 2003 RAW , and Austin came off as very obnoxious in that segment simply because his point was made clear but he just kept burying Lance. I was actually wondering if there was some kind of heat , it felt worse than the invitational with Scotty 2 Hotty.

[@alexhunt5311]

Or maybe I just got worked … who knows lol !!

[@JerryEsquer]

Wow, I actually thought the same thing. I think they were trying to get lance to say no or even punch stone cold. It would have worked if he stepped up. It feels like his reaction buried himself. To bad it didn’t work, and they just realized lance will forever be a workhorse without being an individual.

[@DannieGemz]

I mean lets be honest watching Lance was like watching paint dry lol

[@quintinhagues7331]

Lance should have been in Right to Censor!

[@joshuaizzo8893]

Wow you guys, I don't know what kind of rose colored glasses you all be looking into the past with. Lance Storm isn't the most underrated wrestler ever, he's a decent wrestler with little to no charisma. That's reality

[@de132]

He was very good in the ring though. I genuinely enjoyed Lance Storm, especially at the end of his WCW run and his ECW run

[@Erlewyn]

Yes, WWE buried Lance Storm. Stone Cold bringing out a pillow was just one of the ways they did that. Lawler's commentary is another.

[@YeTism]

Lance was very boring to be fair. Him and Malenko are great wrestlers but there’s more to it than that

[@IronFanJoe]

"Boring" is the worst possible chant for any wrestler. Storm is one of the greatest, in terms of wrestling ability. I like wrestlers who wrestle and *don't* do ten minutes of talking and then leaving.

[@somedude6683]

*_Lance Storm's_* best moment of his entire wrestling career was in WCW, when he was acting like a "Canadian Heel".

[@lucimitchell7273]

It was because of lance storm, that I learned the Canadian national anthem 😊

[@terenceheesch8351]

...respect for Stone Cold...but... ...he's really the one to blame when fans started being disrespectful verbally during matches... ...he started (for the most part) the "boring" chant and the always annoying "what" chant... 🤔 I wonder how he honestly feels about creating that last one especially

[@3DRundown]

The "What" chant is Money

[@Dontmatter215blahblah]

Yall do know it was Vince idea right 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️

[@ACD1994]

Stone Cold has commented that, he doesn't love the ''what'' chants

[@alisonchains5341]

Vince had the sense of humour of a literal child

[@TheLokiBiz]

I'm glad that wrestlers can finally talk candidly about how much Vince screwed them, now that they dont have to worry about possibly relying on him for a paycheque in the future.

[@HeywoodJablowme7]

I think vince and fans as well need to understand not EVERYONE needs to be a character, a persona, a gimmick. And not every wrestler is destined to be the star of the company. Some guys are simply mechanics in the ring who do their job and do it well and you need them to bounce other characters off.

[@roktoprobal9505]

Lance Storm is a pride of Canada.

[@patbrooks9823]

He's no Iron Mike Sharpe.

[@JaceyMitchell]

​@@patbrooks9823Poor Mike. I wonder if his arm ever healed.

[@HeavyMetalRonin402]

Hey now, that's "CALGARY, Alberta CANADA."

[@iAmKingKillz87]

Austin changed the game … 😂

[@nicklewandowski3877]

Hellllloo laaadies The lance-boski

[@youtubebannedme4207]

I mean to be fair lance was boring his matches were slow and monotonous and seemed like a chore to watch on a show that was otherwise entertaining.

[@martinbean]

“Vince thought it would be really funny if you were a human tripod and had a large hose and I’m like, ‘Where’s that gonna go?’” You _really_ don’t want to ask Vince where to put your large hose…

[@Scottff1fy]

Wonder if he had a toy he named Lance.

[@deikbeck]

Probably can't ask Lance about it... NDA

[@TheAxeGrinder]

Vince burying former WCW talent, as usual. Only marks would think otherwise.

[@thehiphopundergroundreborn]

I would watch a Lance Storm match over a Steve Austin match, any day.

[@marktheshark1940]

Nothing more boring than watching Lance Storm talk about how he's not boring. Even tried explaining the definition of boring because he's so unaware of how boring he is 😂

[@Jpansta]

Could have been worse..Vince could have shit on your head! 😂

[@Verilyisayuntoyou]

This was around the time WWE really started to go downhill with over the top comedy segments (many of which weren't even funny).

[@richle905]

Because once he was okay with it and played into it it stops being funny. He will blame Vince but he ruined it by trying to play into it. He doesn't understand funny.

[@kihlos2768]

Lance dancing 😂

[@crazyjim9380]

ECW got it right. They leaned into the idea that he's kind of wooden, and they did the "Calgary, Alberta, Canada" thing which got him over. Lance is correct in that WWE didn't work it properly where he should be getting heat for his robotic personality as opposed to teaching the crowd to shit on his work.