THE GREATEST FEUD OF ALL TIME?

AUSTIN – MCMAHON: THE GREATEST FEUD OF ALL TIME?

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So let’s kick back to the wonderful year of 1997, where it all started. First, you need to realize that although it was only a few years ago, 1997’s world of pro-wrestling and today’s world of pro-wrestling were EXTREMELY different places. That’s super important in grasping why this angle worked so well… And why it might fail if it was tried today.

So it was 1997. The NWO was large and in charge and WCW had a strangle hold on the Monday Night Ratings War. The WWF was losing cash faster than they were losing their big name stars. Vince McMahon had just recently admitted that he owned the WWF and had decided to become a character in his own circus. The Vince McMahon CEO of 1997 was a very different man than the one we have now as well. Back then, Vince was a fair and just ruler… A happy camper, if you will… Well, backstage, Vincent K. McMahon was NO happy camper…

He was losing his biggest stars, who were all jumping ship to WCW. His pocketbook was getting smaller and smaller each week. And, as if losing stars and money wasn’t enough, I personally believe that he started losing his sanity around this time as well. He knew that he was being run out of business… An ironic turn for a man who had sucked up and assimilated so many other promotions… But now was it his turn to be gobbled up by the machine? Vince needed something HUGE to save his company…

The first major change that took place was something that had needed to be done years earlier. Vince replaced the “good guys” and the “bad guys” with characters that were rather ambiguous and, for the first time ever, he let the FANS decide who to love and who to hate. It was a major step in the right direction, but something BIGGER needed to happen. Vince needed something that WCW wouldn’t be able to combat. And while he was sitting there, scratching his head, pondering what that SOMETHING was, it was staring him back in the mirror… Or at least half of it was anyway.

Now, while JUST Vinny-Mac could’ve made for interesting TV at the time, what made it SPECTACULAR television was a man that, oddly enough, was told by WCW that he would never amount to anything. Could this be the reason Vince made him into a star? That man flipped around and bit WCW in the ass harder than anyone ever… Or at least rolled over and flipped them the old double birdy and gave them a stunner. STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN. Austin and McMahon were about to become the biggest thing that Sports Entertainment had ever seen.

Today, an authority figure vs. a wrestler has been played out and is, essentially, really fucking boring. It is literally almost impossible for a fan of today to understand that magnitude of this storyline at the time it took place. It is next to impossible for them to understand that Vince wasn’t always billed as the greatest heel ever and that Austin was certainly not viewed as the biggest Superstar on the planet. It’s hard to fathom that there was a time when Vince was just a boss… And Austin was just a worker… And the fans just wanted to see a worker kick the shit out of his boss… AND THEN IT STARTED… (That’s right, my intro is finally over…)

In September of 1997, Austin was running a reign of terror in the WWF. He was just coming off of a huge feud with the Harts. He had a colossal feud with Bret, and then, at Summerslam, had his neck broken by Owen. Austin was pissed off and was taking it out on everyone he could get his grubby little hands on. Someone had to stop him, and who stepped up on this fateful day? A nice, clean, BABYFACE named Vince McMahon.

McMahon left his seat at the announce table and went to have a little talk with Austin in the ring. Vince told Austin that he needed to learn to “work within the system”… And that was all it took to start the feud. Austin hit Vince with the Stunner, flipped him the birdies and history started to write itself.

The beer guzzling Texas redneck had stunned the ultra refined Greenwich business tycoon… THE WAR WAS ON. The interesting thing to me is that, in the beginning, Vince was the face, and Austin was the heel… But the fans cued in on Austin, and, to be honest, it was just easier for them to follow the guy who wanted to kill his boss than to follow the multimillionaire McMahon. Actually, if you really watch this feud, you would see that McMahon was the “good guy” throughout almost the entire feud… Well, until the Debauchery with “THE HIGHER POWER” but we’ll get to all that, and I think you’ll actually see WHY that happened… That’s the lovely thing about this feud… ALMOST everything happened for a reason…well, unless it involved Shano or the Undertaker, but we’ll get to all of that in time.

Slowly but surely, Vince was doing little things to make himself more hated with the fans. He screwed Bret Hart out of the title… You may have heard about it… My favorite thing he did was when Austin won the Intercontinental Title, Vince told him to defend it against the Rock or be stripped of it… Talk about an asshole exerting his authority… So Austin dropped the Title… IN THE RIVER!

Things started to pick up, and before we knew it, MIKE FUCKING TYSON was in the WWF. Vince called him, “THE BADDEST MAN ON EARTH”, which Austin took offense to, as HE wanted to be the Baddest Mother In The Jungle (That was for you, Jackroller). Tyson played a big part in furthering the feud, as the “special enforcer” in Austin’s upcoming title match. Vince declared that he would personally kick Austin’s ass, but then we wouldn’t have a big main event for Wrestlemania…

Wrestlemania ended with Shawn Michaels losing the strap to another Texan… And as Stone Cold held that title in the air, we all wondered how McMahon would seek his revenge… BUT HE DIDN’T!

Instead, the following night on Raw, Vince congratulated Austin on his win. He even accidentally let it slip that he LOVED Steve Austin… And how did Austin The Bully repay Poor Defenseless Vince? WITH A STUNNER. Vinny called the cops and Austin was hauled away… Something that would become a staple in this on going war.

The next week, however, being the good-hearted man that he was in 1998, Vince McMahon offered to be Austin’s friend again. He even bought Austin a suit! Fans everywhere cringed as Austin strolled around in his suit, looking like he was going to become the new corporate champion… And then he ripped off his duds and nailed McMahon with ANOTHER Stunner. That was the last straw… Vince McMahon had been shit on one too many times.

In April of 1998, the hype was unfuckingbelieveable for Raw. After 83 consecutive weeks at number one, WCW lost the ratings war to Raw… WHY? Because of the hype for a match between Stone Cold Steve Austin and Vince McMahon. Stone Cold had challenged McMahon, to which McMahon said:

“For over fifty years, the World Wrestling Federation has been a part of my heritage. From my grandfather to my father to me, and I hope to my son and daughter… The WWF has always been about honor and integrity – qualities that are sorely lacking in our current World Wrestling Federation Champion. Stone Cold Steve Austin has no honor. Stone Cold Steve Austin has no integrity. I knew the decision I make may not sit well with those who have preceded me, but sometimes, a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do. And so, in answer to the question ‘will I fight Stone Cold Steve Austin in this ring tonight?’ The answer is OH HELL YEAH!”
Now, obviously, this wasn’t WCW and they didn’t just hand out matches of this magnitude… Hell, it would be nine months before these two ever had a match. No, Austin had a match that night, but it was the first of many with DUDE LOVE! Dude Love would spend the next several months trying to impress Mr. McMahon and be his little corporate stooge… Which is funny, because I’ve worked with people who really do this… but I digress.

Austin whipped ass on Dude Love every single time they hit the ring together. This set Austin up as being a badass who could kick the shit out of people and it showed that he could definitely draw the cash from the fans. The fact that these matches are so popular is actually interesting to me, because of the fact that they are only there to further the push of the storyline. See, everything had a reason! The psychology of the writing at the time was amazing.

At one point in the feud, Austin even was able to get Mr. McMahon arrested… Talk about good use of the writing team. This showed that while McMahon wanted to get in the ring and play Austin’s games, Austin could certainly play Vince’s games and use the System against him. EVERYTHING HAD A REASON.

Dude Love had failed. Not only was Austin still alive and kicking, he was more popular than ever. McMahon turned to a man that he was certain could finally put an end to this debauchery of a championship… and that man was KANE. This always seemed like an odd choice to me, but apparently Vinny-Mac no longer cared, as long as SOMEONE was champion other than Steve Austin.

So the Big Red Machine and the Big Red Neck were ready to go at it, in all things, a first blood match at the King of the Ring in 98. First off, I miss these matches. Secondly, I was the ONLY person who honestly thought Kane stood a chance going into this match… I mean, 98% of his body is covered… Where the hell was he going to bleed at? Meanwhile, Austin is running around in just is underoos… It seemed pretty obvious to me.

The VERY NEXT NIGHT on Raw, Austin beat Kane to recapture his title. This proved to everyone that even a seven-foot necrophiliac rapist who can escape burning dumpsters and survive BRUTAL car crashes is no match for Steve Austin!

However, by beating the hell out of Kane, Austin pissed off someone else… You see, the stipulation in the match was that if Austin won, Kane had to set himself on fire… Well, no big brother wants to watch his little brother set HIMSELF on fire… they want to do it for them, but that’s unimportant… So anyway, The Undertaker… Like, the real Undertaker, not the Biketaker… came down to ringside to save his little brother.

Soon, the Undertaker SURPRISINGLY became the number one contender for Austin’s title and the two were set to meet at Summerslam. See, this is what I like about this feud… Have Austin and McMahon even been in a match together? OH HELL NO! But everything works to further THAT feud. Taker may have been in the ring, but McMahon was calling the shots… GREAT STORYTELLING! OR at least it was up this point. This is where things started to not make as much sense anymore… Actually, now that I think about it, anytime in this feud when the Undertaker is involved, things quit making sense.

So for some freakin’ reason, Austin and the Undertaker agreed to get along until Summerslam. They even beat Kane and Mankind for the WWF Tag Team Titles… But then it was revealed that Kane and the Undertaker were actually working TOGETHER! Don’t worry, I don’t get it either, but at the time, the overall product was so amazing that no one noticed bullshit like this.

But despite having a char broiled brother in his corner, Undertaker was still handed the job of staring at the lights at Summerslam. Yes, that’s right, there was a time when the Undertaker would job cleanly. Interesting, huh?

The next month at BREAKDOWN, Austin was given a match that even he couldn’t overcome. The title was on the line in a match pitting Austin against BOTH The Undertaker and Kane. They beat the hell out of him and BOTH pinned him… So the title was vacated. Austin would have to wait a while longer than a day to get back his strap. It was a good call to have him lose this, as it really added to the overall psychology of the feud. He may be a badass, but everyone gets their ass handed to them sooner or later.

The next few months led to some pretty interesting television. Austin was keeping the ratings in the favor of the WWF and you know Bischoff was biting his own dick off in disgust at having let Austin go. (That’s an exaggeration. If Bischoff could reach his dick with his mouth… You know what? Never mind.)

The night after Breakdown, Vinny-Mac was holding a nice little ceremony for the Undertaker, to whom he was preparing to hand the World Title… Until Stone Cold came out driving, of all things, a ZAMBONI! Austin hit the ring with the Zamboni, actually MOVING the ring. Austin then jumped the cops and beat the shit out of McMahon. Austin was arrested and McMahon was embarrassed… It was good quality stuff, though, as it showed just how intent on revenge Austin really was… Although that certainly wouldn’t be the last time Austin would drive down to see Vince and company.

Now, to me, the funniest part on this particular Raw was when Vinny Mac got pissed off that the Brothers of Destruction just stood there and didn’t save his ass… So he lost his brain and flipped them the double birdy. This led to McMahon’s leg being broken and him heading off to the hospital.

This led to Raw the next week, where McMahon was in the hospital. Mankind, Yurples the Clown and Mr. Socko were on guard duty, but McMahon became so annoyed at them all that he sent them away… AND IN CAME DR. AUSTIN! Within minutes, McMahon was again a bleeding mess.

The next week, as Vince returned to the arena, Steve Austin destroyed his car. Vince’s beautiful white Corvette was parked with its top down, and in one of the most classic moments in all of sports entertainment, Austin drove a cement mixer up to the car and filled the entire thing with cement.

Well, soon Judgment Day rolled around and McMahon made Austin the special guest ref in the World Title match pitting Dead Brother against Cajun Cooked Brother. Austin declared it a no contest, and Vinny-Mac fired him.

My friends I was watching with said, “Why didn’t he just do that to begin with?” Like McMahon was going to admit defeat like that. That, and look how bad the rest of the programming was at the time…

The next Monday Night Raw had one of my favorite Vince promos ever. Let me share it with you:

“What’s the matter with you people? I’ve lost all faith in humanity! Where the hell are your values? Where are your morals? Whatever happened to the Good Samaritan? Where were you in my hour of need? I’ll tell you where you were. You were cheering for every act of humiliation Austin committed against me. You savored every violation, every liberty that Austin took against me. But what you enjoyed the most was when Austin forced me to go to the ring. He made me get down on my knees…he made me beg…he made me…he made me cry. He made me…urinate myself!”

As if this wasn’t bad enough for the poor defenseless billionaire, Austin had presented Vince with a legal document, explaining that he had been reinstated by Shano-Mac. And that his new contract entitled him to a title shot!

This is where things got REALLY bad for a few months. Shane turned on Austin in the Deadly Games Tournament and cost Austin any shot at the title. And then, the Undertaker was put back into this feud… I’m telling you, any time he was involved, bad things happened. We had to sit through Austin being crucified along with other shit that made THAT look like pure genius. In less than a month, we had gone from the greatest skits on Raw to the WORST skits on Raw… Katie Vick included. Austin beat the Taker at Rock Bottom and earned a shot at the Royal Rumble, 1999.

Up to this point, Vince had tried EVERYTHING. Hell, he had tried EVERYBODY. He hadn’t been able to outsmart Austin. His stooges, wrestlers, monsters, and Satan worshippers were no match for Austin. This crazy fucking redneck was ruining the Federation. So he brought in the only man he could trust to get the job done… HIMSELF.

Now see, this is what I REALLY love about this feud. This thing started in 1997, and the first time they were going to go at it was January of 1999. That’s amazing buildup. Now they can’t hype a good pay per view match for two months.

JANUARY 24, 1999, the tables were stacked against Austin like no other had ever faced. Vince made Austin be the first man into the Rumble. He placed a huge bounty on Austin’s head to be paid to the man who eliminated Austin from the Rumble. Then, after a ton of funny clips of McMahon training, he entered himself into the Rumble.

For any of you who don’t know, Vince McMahon won the Rumble that night. At the time, I thought it was awesome. But as I look back, I realize that Vince put himself above ALL of the talent in the WWF. He gave himself the Rumble. He completely devalued the Rumble, and in all reality, it was the last good Rumble for several years. Yes, it dealt a huge blow to Austin. Yes, it pushed this feud even further… But at what cost to everything else?

You see, at this time, all of the programming was going to this feud. There really was NOTHING else going on. THE GOOD PART of this Rumble is that it set up the first real match between the two participants at the following month’s St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.

Commissioner Shawn Michaels gave Austin the number one contendership, and he put it on the line if Vince was willing to meet him in a steel cage… and with the agreement that NO Corporation members would be allowed to interfere in the match. Vince agreed… and the War was about to REALLY take off.

Now I want to discuss a span of six weeks, but these were six of the most important weeks in modern day sports entertainment. And it all started the day before my twenty first birthday and I remember it like it was the most magical day in history… February 14, 1999. While most underage people drink it up even before midnight on that day that is so sacred to us, I spent the night before my birthday watching WRESTLING… and drinking it up… anyway… THE ST. VALENTINE’S DAY MASSACRE was ready to play out, and I sat there with my friends and we counted down the seconds to the arrival of the Big Show… I mean, til Austin finally got his hands on Vinny Mac.

So the stage had been set with about two years worth of great storytelling. FINALLY, we were going to get to watch the Rattlesnake stick it to his boss. The cage was set to go, and even though we all knew that no CORPORATION member could come down to the ring and interfere, we all felt Vinny-Mac had a little something up his sleeve.

No matter what I have ever said about either of these two non-wrestlers, plain and simple, this match was and is one of the greatest bouts EVER… The pure psychology and storytelling make it worthwhile to BUY this DVD and watch it forever…

Anyway, on to the match…

Austin hits the ring first, and then, in typical heel style, Vince refuses to get in the cage with him. The tension with the fans was so unbelievable that I thought for sure that some of the fans themselves were going to throw Vince’s ass into the ring. So Austin ran out, chased McMahon around the cage, and Vince was all but FORCED to get into the ring.

Vince threw weak little punches and kicks at Austin, trying desperately to keep him from entering the ring. He actually connected, and Austin went down, looking like maybe he twisted a knee. Vince went out of the cage to taunt the fallen Red Neck, but low and behold, he had been set up. Austin clotheslined him. McMahon tried to escape through the crowd, but to no avail. Austin threw Vince into the cage. He nailed Vince’s head against the announce table. It was amazing. The fans were eating up, living vicariously through Steve Austin.

Austin sent McMahon into the cage, and Vinny Mac hit his knees, ready to cry, begging for Austin to relent. Austin did not. Austin moved in for the kill… And Vince low blowed him. Vince was trying desperately to escape before Austin regained his… composure… He climbed to the top of the cage… And Austin climbed up with him. Austin nailed Vince’s head into the cage so hard that he literally bounced off and landed on the poor defenseless Spanish Announcer’s Table. The table didn’t budge… and then two seconds later, it gave way, and Vince came crashing down.

To me, right then, Vince was the winner… He had made it to the floor first… But instead, the pronounced AUSTIN the winner… but the only thing is, the bell hadn’t even rung yet. McMahon was surrounded by paramedics who placed him on a stretcher and started to leave with him… Until Austin grabbed the stretcher and wheeled it right back into the cage… and I do mean INTO the wall of the cage.

Austin didn’t want to win in such fashion, so he hauled McMahon into the cage and continued to whip his ass. He was destroyed, even being beaten with his own stretcher, until he was so bloody you could hardly tell it was Vince anymore. Austin decided it was time to win the match and head home and started to head for the door…

AND THEN VINCE FLIPPED HIM THE BIRD.

Austin lost it. He stunned Vince and beat down on him some more. Vince needed a miracle. He needed some help… He needed a seven foot piece of shit that can’t wrestle… Luck was with him, as there just happened to BE a seven foot piece of shit that couldn’t wrestle hiding under the ring.

Paul Wight, better known NOW to the masses as The Big Show came through the floor of the ring, and just beat the living shit out of Austin. By this point, I was screaming with hatred and throwing pizza at the television… Not because I thought McMahon was going to win, but because I HATE The Big Slow. Everyone and their guinea pigs thought that McMahon was about to get the screw job victory when Big Show picked up Austin and threw him THROUGH the freakin’ cage door! Austin hit the floor, the bell rang. The match ended. WOW… and I was only three hours from being able to legally buy alcohol… What a night.

Big Show was over like no other. He had been made to look like a fucking monster. Austin had come out a bigger baby face than he had gone into the match as, which no one knew was possible, and Vince was still in charge. Then in what has to have been one of the biggest missed opportunities to hoist someone to greatness, the WWF just let go of the whole role of the Big Show by just letting Austin go over him on Raw.

The good news in this is that it let THE ROCK take over as Austin’s focus, leading up to one of the best matches ever as the main event of Wrestlemania XV. It’s really amazing how even though it was still Austin vs. McMahon (McMahon was with the Rock at all times) the focus never left THE ROCK, and yet, the war between Vince and Steve was boiling on the sideline. God, I wish Vince could figure out how to do that NOW…

Austin vs. The Rock brought a ton of unforgettable moments of its own. Austin ran over The Rock’s car with his monster truck… And let’s not forget when Austin drove the beer truck down to the ringside and tried to drown the entire corporation… And… um… well, then there was the match itself…

WRESTLEMANIA XV was amazing, if for no other reason than this match. We all knew that McMahon would be interfering in this match up. He had tried to become the special guest ref, but Shawn Michaels Commissioner Extraordinaire ruled against it. So after about ten minutes, give or take, there came Vinny Mac to try to distract his rival and cost him his shot at the title. But as Vince tried his best to interfere, Mankind came down to save the day.

Austin once again held the strap above his head, and in Vince’s world, hell had frozen over yet again… This would, in turn, lead to the Undertaker reemerging into the feud, and believe me you, it always led to trouble when he got involved…

So Wrestlemania XV had come and gone, and Austin once again held the title high above his head. If they could’ve found a way to make that the big blow off for this feud, it really would’ve been one of the greatest of all time, even in my opinion, instead, however, they kept it going in the most asinine way and everything went to hell… Literally.

Since The Rock had failed to destroy the Texas Redneck, Vinny Mac needed a new plan. So while he sat at home thinking, he decided it would be a good idea if The Undertaker once again joined this feud… As I said earlier, anytime that The Undertaker hit the scene, only bad things followed.

The Undertaker began to carry out instructions he received from a mysterious “Higher Power”. He even kidnapped Stephanie McMahon (yes, we are rushing through this. That’s how much I hate this angle). Vince’s face turn seemed eminent. His daughter was in danger, what else could he do but save her? And in his attempts to do so, he made a very odd friend in none other than Stone Cold Steve Austin, even helping Austin to retain his title against The Rock at Backlash, (although Austin would just drop it to the Undertaker at Over The Edge). The two even teamed up in the ring once or twice. The WWF was heading in a new direction, and things ACTUALLY made sense. It seemed like good writing… Then it all went to hell.

The night after Over The Edge, the Higher Power was set to reveal himself. Everyone waited on the edge of their seats to figure out who it was… Everyone except me. I’m not sure why, but I saw this coming from a hundred miles away. It was VINCE MCMAHON.

HUH???? I still don’t get it today… I mean, was it just a way to put more heat on Vince? It didn’t do it for me. It made me completely quit caring about this stupid feud. I guess it showed the lengths that Vinny would go to piss off Austin, but to me, the ONLY thing it REALLY did was to put Vince over as 100% heel, when he had always only been about 50% heel before that. It was the first time that AUSTIN was doing the right thing and MCMAHON wasn’t. Oh, and thankfully, it signaled that this feud was coming to an end… One almost as anti-climatic as the whole Higher Power BS.

Linda McMahon, never really the loving wife she claims to be, was so annoyed by this whole fiasco, that not only did she stop ordering the monthly PPV, but she appointed AUSTIN as the new CEO of the WWF.

Now, for months, we’d seen Vince in the ring playing Austin’s games, but now it was time to see Austin in the office playing Vince’s… Or something… It made sense in my head…

Austin turned coffee breaks into happy hour. He hosted Drinking Contests with the board of directors. He fired people for not being able to hold their liquor or for being brain-dead. Oh, and in a stroke of pure Texas genius, he put a steaming load of manure in McMahon’s office… Then he challenged Vince and Shano-Mac to a handicap match at the King of the Ring. They accepted and Austin put his CEO position on the line… well, on a cable, dangling above the ring… and the ladder match of epic proportions was set (*COUGH* BULLSHIT *COUGH*) Oddly, this would be the last Austin vs. McMahon match… what a weird blow off to the feud… And the briefcase that held Austin’s CEO contract, dangling above the ring would MOVE every time that Austin got near it.

So Vinny-Mac won! The feud was over… He was in charge again! Life was great… Until the next night when Austin pinned the Taker to the floor and won his fourth WWF title. McMahon was pissed. He wanted this feud over once and for all, and set out to make that a reality…

So it all came down to one match. One match FOR BLOOD. The contestants: The Undertaker and Steve Austin. The Stipulations: FIRST BLOOD. On the line: If Undertaker won: Austin could never be world champion again. If Austin won: McMahon would have to leave the WWF FOREVER.

Now, first off, it sucks that the ACTUAL last match to kill a feud doesn’t involve both “wrestlers” involved in the storyline. Second, it sucks anytime I have to see the Taker in a match. Third, this match sucked. I started watching this match… 20 minutes later, I realized that this suck fest was still going. Austin won. Sure we got closure, but only if you actually paid attention to the match and realized that it was still on. And thus, the “greatest feud of all time” was over…

So now I think to myself, was it REALLY that great of a feud? Being from “THE OLD SCHOOL” and liking WRESTLING over STORYLINES any day, I don’t think it’s all that great. It’s certainly no Ric vs. Ricky. It’s not any Bret vs. Shawn… Hell, it’s not even on the level of VINCE vs. Bret. It’s not a great WRESTLING feud. It didn’t feature much wrestling at all. It was fricken ILLOGICAL a lot of the time… and didn’t seem to have an once of reason to it most of the time… However, what it lacked in wrestling elements, it more than made up for by being DAMN entertaining. As a SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT feud, this thing DELIVERED. It was outrageous, fast paced, and appealed to EVERYONE on some level. That’s what makes it phenomenal. It was basically, more or less, responsible for defining Sports Entertainment as we know it today. It IS what saved the WWF and put them over in the Monday Night Ratings War.

It was definitely a commercial success. It had psychology, intensity, and raw entertainment appeal. I still think it needed a REAL blow off match to end the feud. I will never understand why Vinny Mac couldn’t take the fall AT ANY TIME DURING THIS FEUD. He won the Rumble. He didn’t get pinned in the cage. He and Shane won the ladder match… Shouldn’t the so-called WRESTLER go over CLEANLY at some point?

Still, overall, it was a great feud.

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