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With the upcoming Broken Skull Sessions interview between Steve Austin & Chris Jericho airing on the WWE Network/Peacock, it got me thinking, what are the best figures of each guy?  I was listening to the Pyramid Wrestling podcast before writing this and they were talking about the upcoming interview and that gave me the idea to write this piece and then the guys had their own discussion of both guys and their thoughts/memories on figures as it is a wrestling figure podcast, a very good one indeed so give them a listen, find them in the usual podcast places. I am more concerned with their Mattel figures, but both had a number of JAKKS ones too and Jericho had maybe at least a couple before that while in WCW, yes, I had the infamous 'Lion Tamer' one which you can see pictured above.  Let's go with Austin first, there's not too much you can do with Austin figures because he just wears the black trunks and boots but still, he's had a few variations, like the Mattel...

Welcome back guys, so after my introduction last time I want to talk figures, we all have our favourite lines and when pushed we can prob single out a favourite figure and that is what I want to talk about today. My favourite line since Mattel has had the contract to make WWE figures is the Legends line. They started with the line right at the beginning back in 2010 and there have been some tremendous figures in the series. The first series (left) saw The Road Warriors (Animal & Hawk) in their NWA attires, Dusty Rhodes in the outfit he was given when he went to the WWF, the black gear with yellow polka dots, Sgt Slaughter in an outfit based around his look in the AWA, Ricky 'The Dragon' Steamboat* and as of typing this, the ONLY figure from the original line I am still looking for, 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin complete with entrance vest and Austin 3:16 T-shirt.** *Steamboat had never had a figure released by JAKKS in the previous WWF deal which frustrated a lot of col...