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Jon Finkel

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Jon Finkel is the award-winning author of Hoops Heist, The Life of Dad, Jocks In Chief, The Athlete, Heart Over Height, “Mean” Joe Greene, and more. His books have been endorsed by everyone from Mark Cuban and Tony Dungy to Spike Lee, Kevin Durant, and Chef Robert Irvine. He has written for GQ, Men’s Health, Yahoo! Sports, The New York Times and has appeared on CBS: This Morning, Good Morning Texas, and hundreds of radio shows, podcasts, and streams. Jon can be reached on Twitter @Jon_Finkel and by e-mail at jonfinkel@hotmail.com.
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A seismic shift came in 1996 courtesy of these two men: The Rock and Steve Austin. This is the story of their unremarkable WWE debuts.

1996 – The Year of The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin

by Jon Finkel

The Rock and Steve Austin made their WWE debuts the same calendar year in 1996 …but they weren’t exactly STONE COLD and THE ROCK just…

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