Mikey Whipwreck Opens Up About the Origins of Steve Austin’s Stunner

Legendary wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin has one of the more iconic finishing moves in wrestling with the Stone Cold Stunner. In a recent interaction with Wrestling Shoot Interviews, former ECW World Heavyweight Champion Mikey Whipwreck detailed the origin of The Stunner and its variation, which he called “Whippersnapper.”

Mikey Whipwreck revealed that he originally got the idea from Jimmy Garvin, who performed it on Johnny B. Badd at a WCW pay-per-view back in the day. He further added that Steve Austin later started using The Stunner on the advice of Michael Hayes. Whipwreck stated:

“The Whippersnapper, the one I did, was off the middle rope, which seemed like a good idea at the time. Looking back, not so much. But I got the Stunner from Jimmy Garvin. He was gone from WCW for a while, and then he came back on a random pay-per-view, I think against Johnny B. Badd. He had been a pilot at that point; he’d shaved his head, and he came randomly out of f**king nowhere, and he did a move to Johnny B. Badd, The Stunner, and he called it the 9-1-1.

“So, I started using it. I said, ‘F**k it, I’m gonna start using it.’ So Steve [Austin] started using it at a suggestion from Michael Hayes. I don’t know if it was the ‘Ace Crusher’ he was getting it from or whatever, or if he saw Jimmy do it to Johnny B. Badd or whatever the f**k it was. So either way you look at this, The Stunner, The Whippersnapper can all be credited to The Freebirds.”

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