One of the principles I teach on my Book of Alpha course is that society immerses you in harmful beta programming that suppresses your natural alpha instincts and encourages the little beta boy to come out in his place. It’s everywhere. The androgynous homo pretty boy movie leads (Robert Pattinson, Harry Potter, Ashton Klutcher, Zac Efron) or male singers (James Blunt, Justin Timberlake) or virtually every other placeholder in the cultural category of role model.

The age of John Wayne, Sean Connery, Jim Rockford and Conan the Barbarian has passed. We now have the age of girly men. It’s everywhere. It’s so omnipresent that like Neo in the matrix it’s difficult to even grab hold of the problem. Yet you feel the wrongness in your soul. Your core rebels.

So I teach students to banish the inner beta and that means starving him of his cultural nutrition. Throw out those copies of GQ and Esquire. Give your Nick Hornby and Tony Parsons books to your worst enemy. Set fire to the Friends DVDs your ex bought you for Christmas. Cut that shit out of your life. Just as importantly, stop listening to whiny beta music.

Pretty much every modern pop / indie / emo song is an achingly long, gutteral beta whine. Cut and paste the lyrics of any such dirge into Google Translate (“English Beta to Standard English”) and it’ll spit out:

“mmaaawwwwww!!!! I’m so saaaaaaaaaaad. I’m loneleeeeeee. Girls don’t like meeeeeeeee”

Here’s a case in point. I’ve been listening to the Mr T Experience for ten years. Always liked their quirky self-deprecation. But it now pains me to read the subcommunication in their lyrics. Ask yourself if you should be training your subconscious to become more like this.

Or like the Dwarves

I rest my case.

Normal pick-up doesn’t have a Plan B. The idea is to open the girl, build attraction, and then close in rapid fashion whether it be the same night lay or a phone then day two. If the girl drops off during any transitional phase then there’s no back up plan. Girl won’t give you the number? Move on. Girls isn’t attracted enough to kiss you? Move on. Girl has a boyfriend or is otherwise unavailable? Move on. Logistical issues such as she’s on holiday and going home soon? Move on.

Game doesn’t need to run on the same worn-out rails as every other cheesy unimaginative blazer-wearing PUA. Plan B is Long Game. I’m not claiming to have invented it but here’s a brief comment on how I concieve it.

Long Game = When a girl or situation is unfavourable to closing in the usual fashion, put her into a patient holding pattern from which you gradually suck her into chasing you, and then close her when favourable conditions emerge.

Examples:

Muslim Virgin – I met her while she was on a three-day holiday in London with a chaperone. I gamed her slowly over facebook for two months until she had another holiday and had already decided to fuck.

Finland – I met her while I was on a one-week holiday in Lithuania and she was very resistant to escalation. I couldn’t even kiss her. Two months of facebook and I fucked her next time i visited.

Facebook is crucial to long game. It’s free, convenient, you can run multiple targets at once, and done correctly your profile can build attraction and comfort passively. Basic stages (assuming weak attraction / significant logistical issues):

1. Facebook close – low investment from her. Most girls like having more friends to build their own status and they know it’s easy to unadd if they don’t like you. So take the add. Then wait a few days.

2. Light reopen – it’s best if you can catch her on chat. Open with assumed familiarity and no sexuality – “oh no! it’s her…..” and tease for a little while. Continue the vibe that the initial approach had – if she’s a model and you studiously refused to validate her for it, then continue to refuse in the chats. The purpose is simply to become “the guy she responds to on chat”. This can continue for a handful of chats over a few weeks.

3. Amp it up – start to build rapport and get her opening up to you. Become the interesting escape from her normal life. The safe guy at a distance that she can talk to. Don’t go as far as being an emotional tampon – just let her talk and don’t try to take it anywhere. Her imagination is going to do the heavy lifting inbetween chats as she projects positive characteristics onto you to fill the gaps in knowledge. Around this time she’ll be trawling your facebook for favourite pictures of you and generally investing herself. Remain slightly aloof.

4. Give it a direction – Now you can run classic Mystery Method A3. Let her know she’s won you over and she’s actually a really interesting girl. Snowflake her a little. Let her know you’ll be in her city sometime soon (or start future projecting her visiting yours). Run teasing romantic scenarios. Let her know this is a man talking to a woman. Calibrate carefully and be ready to back off and cool down if she bristles.

5. Commit her – Once she’s responding well to sexualising start pushing for a physical meet. Once that’s accepted set a strongly sexual frame before you meet. You want her to have decided to fuck you before you put your coat on and leave the house to meet her. All the LMR should’ve happened in the virtual world. The date itself should play out like an extremely time-compressed M3 model.

There’s alot more to it than that. Check out my various facebook chats in the archives. Some basic principles:

• Keep the early chats short and don’t keep pestering her with questions. If she doesn’t answer something, just wait. If that’s the end of the chat then let it die. Just strike up a new one a few days later.
• Don’t be afraid of waiting. You have no idea what she’s doing at the other end of her internet connection. You won’t always have her full attention.
• Try to end the chats on your terms, after a buying temperature spike.

I hesistate to call her a harem member because I don’t have enough hand. She’s sucked my cock a few times in public places and is all over me when we meet but I haven’t fucked her and can’t order her around when she’s not physically present. This is a girl who is massively into me but burns the candle at both ends with insane work hours at a top-end investment bank and also is constantly partying. I’m competing against literally dozens of high-earning sports-car-driving chodes who work with her. Hence my frame is to compete on my terms, not theirs. Here’s a sample of the text and phone exchanges. It’s a display of how I handle a typically tough situation: How do you maintain momentum and awareness with a girl where you have to keep re-initiating and yet don’t want to succumb to a chasing frame. Tough proposition. This is my attempt…..

It’s 27th September 2010 and it’s a week since we met. That time as we were walking back to the station she let me know she”d promised herself she wasn’t gonna kiss me or suck my cock tonight. My read is that she likes me and considers me different to all the chodes she meets, and thus needs comfort and rapport. But she’s so resistant to let that rapport happen and we are stuck in attraction. Every time I try to build rapport she blocks it. I think it’s a defense mechanism because she’s intimated that she was really hurt coming out of a long relationship a year ago. I think her slutty behaviour is motivated by trying to regain self esteem through exercising her sexual power. Weird, fucked up, and sel destructive but that’s how it looks. So as we are walking back I say this:

Me: You know, I’ve been trying to get a read on you for a long time. You’re complicated but I think I’ve figured you out. You present yourself as a sexually aggressive man-eater. It’s all blow job this and eat my pussy that. But I think that’s just a character that you like playing. I think that really, underneath the act, you’re just a sweet little girl. I see flashes of her. That’s who I want to get to know. That’s why I stick around.

She fucking loves it, and gives me a huge tits-first hug and then walks snuggled under my arm to the station. Then  radio silence and on the 27th I send out a feeler text:

Me 1:12pm – [North London place] or [East London place].  [she splits her time sleeping at two flats]
Her 2:50pm – Neither, just woke up, sorry…. autumn has barely begun & I’m dying from an awful sore throat!!! Feel as rough as a badgers a*se!! 😦
Me 2:58pm – Charming image. Maybe it’s cos you talk too much.
Her 3:01pm – *sigh* empathy only Krauser style eh?? It’s overwhelming!! Or maybe it’s because I ‘blow’ too much?? Takes a toll on a gals throat, gag reflexes & all 😉
Me 3:04pm – Classy. Very classy. With all that blowjob practice, I’d have expected you to be good at it by now 😛  Presumably your fucking skills are equally overrated… Lucky you have a winning personality…
Her 3:15pm – Lmao lmao lmao!!!!

Two days later

Her 9:28am – Call me, I’m dying been bed ridden since Friday!!!
Me 9:57am – Just woke up. Give me a little while so I can get rid of my girl.

We talk on the phone, mostly comfort, and she’s all sweetness and light. As I mentioned, for all the rampant sexual aggression, I think she’s a sweetie at heart. On the 2nd October I’m walking back from a date with a similar black girl

Me 5:42pm – Just walking past a [her former company] building and thought of you. Is that sweet or creepy?

She calls me half an hour later and gushes over how she loved the text. We talk for a long time as she regals me with stories about how she’s stayed in all day relaxing by watching internet porn and rubbing one out every few hours. She describes with open-eyed wonder all the fetish sites she found for dwarves, grannies and animals. Then we have two near miss dates cancelled (she cancels) and radio silence again. I go onto other things before 19th October:

Me 10:24pm – The girl I fucked tonight has bigger tits than you. Not better, but definitely bigger.
Her 1:18am – Gosh yr senses r good!! I literally just got back from Madrid, Spain [I changed city name] just now!!! Bigger is definitely not a winner if it’s not aesthetically pleasing 😉 x
Me 1:46am – “Madrid, Spain” she says, like I never got an educashun.

So now (29th Oct) I haven’t heard from her in over a week. She’s always been tough to get out onto dates but always made a tremendous effort to please me when she is out. She recently started a new high-flying job and is thus even less available than before. Thinking about what Assanova had to say about sluts (which she is), I send out a tester:

Me 4:46pm – Girlgirlgirl. I’m out with friends tonight for a birthday party at [Old Street bar]. Wanna come and give me the pleasure of your company? I might even buy you a drink.
Her 7:36pm – Krauser krauser krauser, would love to! But you know my life isn’t my own at the moment! Early mornings & late nights (v late!) finished at 9pm last night!! I just don’t have the energy 😦  Had a handful of invites this weekend as it’s haloween but I am just dedicating entire weekend to sleep!!! Have a good time be good, we shall meet up soon x   For once I am too tired to rant on!! Or pick at you so enjoy while it lasts :O
Me 9:03pm – Curl up like a cat, drink some warm milk, and get your beauty sleep 😀
Her 9:03pm – Ahh I will pussy cat! I’m dedicating this entire weekend to sleeeeeep!! 🙂

Verdict: I will fuck her eventually, unless I mess up by chasing too hard.

I’ve got a second date on Tuesday with my favourite new target. She’s a smoking hot 24 yr old leggy Russian – I’m talking Victoria’s-Secret-model-quality hot. Above my usual standard. She reads Checkov, follow politics, and smokes. On the day two last week I pulled out a beautiful spontaneous comment.

Picture the scene……

She’s sitting across from me in a quiet pub. I’m slouched in my chair projecting alpha while she leans over, thigh over thigh, qualifying like crazy. She won’t stop talking. I have to decide do I (a) regain the conversational frame and steer it where I want to go or (b) control the subcommunication frame and just let her talk herself into deep investment. Students of the KDM already know I picked the latter option.

So I’m leaning back and parcelling out occasional grunts and nods while looking away distractedly and putting in occasional eye fucking. Suddenly I hold up a finger stopping her mid-sentence and look perplexed.

Me: Stop. Wait.  *stare like I’m thinking deeply* I want to say something. I’m not sure about you.
Her: *stops. Taken aback and intrigued* Yes. What?
Me: Three things, I think…. first. I find you sexually attractive. I knew that straight away when I met you. I’d definitely like to fuck you.
Her: Woohoo! [sarcastic, but clearly pleased at the compliment] Well done me!! *raises her hand in the familiar gesture of pulling the horn on a train*
Me: Settle down. Two. You’re interesting. Definitely interesting. I figured that out pretty quickly.
Her: *leaning in, fascinated*
Me: But….. Three. I’m not sure if I like you. As a person….. I mean. I’m not sure if you are (a) a nice sweet girl, with a slightly bitchy shell to protect yourself…. which is fine. Or…. (b) you actually are a bitch and the sweetness is just what you do to get what you want. It intrigues me.
Her: *speechless, crosses legs a few times*

I’m quite pleased with that. I think it’ll only hit on girls who know they have high sexual value. In this case it was true, which is why it came out easily. I really don’t know if I like her. The next date ought to clarify.

Back when I was heavily into Brazilian Ju Jitsu I used to be rolling twice a week for about an hour a time (“rolling” being the colloquial term for free sparring at the end of a training session). We decided to video ourselves one time and it was an eye-opening experience. For the most part it was gratifying to see myself applying correct technique and generally having the look of a BJJ player. I also got to see many tiny little errors in posture and form, the kind you can only notice from a third person perspective. I saw opportunities grabbed and missed. I could rewatch a session multiple times to figure out how I could’ve turned it around, or to pinpoint the exact moment my opponent began to set up a move.

You can see what I’m getting at here. Videoing your in-fields is one of the best learning tools there is. My recommendation is to mic up and have a wing video from a distance. Then watch your sets over and over again with an eye on:

You

• Body language
• Vocal tone
• Speed of vocal delivery
• Filled pauses
• Kino or lack of it
• Distance

Her

• Initial reaction
• Point of killed momentum
• Investment
• IOIs

Watch the flow of the sarge. Are you talking too much? Can you feel the ebb and flow of energy? Analyse her answers to see all the “hooks” she gave you to build a conversation that you didn’t take. See how she tried to invest and build rapport but you broke it by trying to hard to get your own words in. I’ve recorded lots of sets and here is my personal favourite tech solution.

Gum Cam

This camera is freely available on Ebay for about £10, plus another £20 to put an 8GB miniSD card into it (this card can be swapped between cameras). Clip it into the breast pocket of your jacket and it looks like an MP3 player. I’ve never once been busted for having it. Picture quality is pretty good in daylight and the mic at the top picks up the audio. It can also be clipped to your belt or trouser pocket but then you are losing the video angle and the mic will struggle to pick up your voice. Search: “Mini DV Gum Video Recorder Spy Camera Hidden Camera DVR”

For Day 2s I like the watch cam. It’s a normal sports / waterproof watch which also has a camera embedded at the 6 o’clock spot. Audio and video is fine. Just sit across from the girl with your elbow on the table. The watch automatically flips the video so it’s the right way up. You can use it on your approaches too if you have a shoulder bag – just hold the strap and that’s a natural pretext for having your hand there. My watch was £20 on ebay, via China. A search string like this should find it: “4G Clear Waterproof Spy Video Camera Watch Mini DVR Cam”

That’s all you really need. For the Third Person Perspective your wing could just use a mobile phone camera cos this isn’t about Avatar-quality 3D HiDef. If you’re gonna do alot of sets then invest in a handheld camcorder that has a swivel screen – this is absolutely crucial so the wing can hold the camera nonchalantly at waist level like he’s not even watching the set.

About £100 from play.com

My videos are edited with the pre-installed Windows Live Movie Maker. This isn’t rocket science. When you get really into your James Bond shit you could start experimenting with pen cams, two-way audio link up, and carrying a wireless portable screen. Knock yourself out. But to get 90% of the value, this is a cheap science. Now you see why I have little respect for gurus who don’t show in-fields.

Approach Cam: £10     –     8GB SD card: £20     –     Day 2 Cam: £20 =      total £50.

NB – Anyone feel free to send your in-fields (via youtube link in the comments or email me at krauser@ on my rocksolidgame mail) and I’ll do a public analysis of the good and bad on the site. If it’s really good, I’ll rank you in the Daygame Allstars Top Ten.

In case you didn’t notice, I’ve just added a new page on the top bar. I’ve finally gotten around to formalising my daygame model into a series of analytical steps that are teachable. It’s version 1.0. Here’s a few random thoughts about it:

• It’s all my own work. By the very nature of dealing with a fixed human courtship ritual, and having learned this via the Community, you will recognise overlap with other models. However this one was based on my own insight of what works for me rather than cribbing from other people.
• I have characterised the stages by goals (e.g. Invest Her rather than something like Light Conversation). This is because at each stage there is an overriding objective you are aiming for before you can move on to the next.
• This model is designed for a particular ideal type situation: a lone girl walking down the street who doesn’t know you, isn’t attracted to you, and is minding her own business. Other situations require tweaking – for example if she is madly into you, or in a group, or sitting in a cafe etc. My model is about creating attraction out of nothing.

READER REQUEST – I can’t do digital imagery. If any reader wants to help me put these stages into a diagram / visual guide I’d much appreciate it. I won’t pay you and I keep the intellectual property as my own 100% but I will give you the credit for your input and post the diagrams in the page on my site with your name on it. If you’re interested, leave a comment

More spice to add a sprinkle of douchebag onto your relations with women. Generally speaking these routines are best done 1-to-1 with a girl rather than infront of her friends, and during comfort. A deadpan and earnest delivery is usually best because you are pretending to be serious in order to bait her – if she knows from the beginning that you’re joking then you won’t get the satisfaction of catching her out. Also, after I’ve successfully nailed her with one of these I then soften it by pulling her in for a kiss / hug / smile and going back to comfort.

As ever, props to Assanova for giving me the format and thematic direction in his ebook – though all these routines are ones I came up with independently over the years.

9. No you can’t
Description: You bait the girl into saying she wants something, then deny her over and over again. It gets her to invest and chase while setting you up as the guy who doles out rewards when it pleases him.

Use: When you open a bag of crisps, motion them towards her and say “Do you want one?” When she goes to put her hand in the packet pull it away and say “well you can’t”. A couple of seconds later do it again. Wait, make a conciliatory ok-no-more-fooling-around-I’m-serious-now face and do it again. Keep going until she refuses to take the bait. Then let her have the packet to get one herself.

Variation: Pull her in for a kiss, slowly and romantically. Make her push up on her toes to reach your lips. And just before your lips touch, turn away and say “Never mind” and start walking off. Nine times out of ten she’ll chase and demand the kiss. Making her chase.

10. I can translate that
Description: For foreign girls or girls talking about girly subjects like shoes, fashion or chocolate. After they’ve said something that you can’t understand (or think is beneath you, or too girly) you tell them confidently that you can translate it into English. Then just make jibber-jabber noises. Works best if you do the “lobster pincers” hand movements to mock their mouths moving, and do stupid voices. It winds girls up and positions them as silly little fools who have trivial concerns, while reframing any potential insecurity you have with not knowing their language.

Use: Girl just finishes a phone call in her language.
Me: I understood all that you know.
Her: Really? But it was in Russian
Me: No really. I can translate it. Not perfectly, but I can translate the jist of it
Her: Okay
Me: First, you said “blah blah blah blah….. blah blah…. blah blah blabla blah” Then she said “blah blah… blah blah blah”
Her: *laughs, punches your arm*

Variation: Play around with different gestures and voices. Always make sure that your translation is devoid of meaning but you can throw in the odd real word like “blah blah blah chocolate blah blah shoes blah blah

Inspired by this

11. I have a plan
Description: Girls love a man with a mission in life, one he has a laser focus and determination to complete. So ridicule it by laying out your plan step-by-step with utmost seriousness, but the plan is to do basically nothing. Really sell the plan with a deadpan delivery like you are discussing a military raid.

Use: You are both lying in bed on a Sunday morning thinking about how to spend the day. You look thoughtfully at the ceiling, hands crossed over your chest and begin… “I’ve got a plan for today. [look over to her, demanding attention] First, I’m gonna get out of bed. Then I’m gonna walk in to the bathroom and have a shower. I might have a piss first. Not sure, I’ll figure that out when I get there. [pause]. After my shower, I’ll dry myself with my towel. Then I’ll put some clothes on…” continue until she’s laughing.

Variation: On a pre-f-close date you can do this when you’re sitting in a bar deciding what to do next.

12. Oh, you mean that one?
Description: This is a childish way of reacting to her asking you a question until she’s exasperated. When she asks “Do you know……?” you keep teasing like you know the answer and then denying it. You’re investing her.

Use: You have to wait for her to ask the right type of question [“Do you know?”], and it has to be something she’s invested in, such as telling you her favourite music, film or book.

Example
Me: What’s your favourite book?
Her: I like The Da Vinci Code. Do you know it?
Me: What’s it called again?
Her: The Da Vinci Code
Me: Oh, right. No. Never heard of it.
Her: It’s the one they made a movie of
Me: Oh! That one! The one with that famous actor…. what’s his name?
Her: Tom Hanks
Me: Yeah him. No. Never heard of it
Her: Bastard
Me: Oh hang on. You mean the Da Vinci Code?
Her: Yes!
Me: No. Never heard of it.

Variation: She how many times you can bait her into trying to jog your memory. Use a full repetoire of gestures, eureka moment eyes and so on.

13. I wasn’t listening
Description: Girls really want you to listen to them and betas always try to remember every little thing a girl says so they can earn brownie points by trotting it out at a later date to prove how much they care. So make fun of this, pretending like you’re an arsehole who doesn’t listen to prattle.

Use: Wait till the conversation takes a turn towards recalling a past event or conversation then claim you don’t remember because you didn’t care

Example
Me: What are you doing tomorrow?
Her: I told you already. I’m going to visit my gran.
Me: Oh right. Did you tell me that? I probably wasn’t listening
Her: Hey! You should listen to me!
Me: Uh? *looking away absent-mindedly*
Her: I said you should listen to me!
Me: Wha? Did you say something
[keep going until she realises your faking it, then smile and pull her in for a hug]

* These routines are only for use after you’ve banged a girl and they are designed to help acquire and maintain hand in the relationship. The goal is not to have the girl crack up laughing but instead to have her accept her subordinated position. You do this while having fun *

4. This is my side
Description: Literally putting the girl in her place. You are the man who likes to do things a certain way and she is going to fit in with that.

Use: This is good for anytime you are walking down the street, lying in bed, watching tv or any other situation in which you can claim a preferred position out of the two available to you even if it’s for no good reason. Without asking permission move her or tell her that she’s got your place and you are taking it back.

Examples:

– You are both about to sit down in a Starbucks. “Wait. That’s my chair. You sit here” and take the chair she was going to use.
– Walking down the street you just move her to the other side of you (e.g. if she’s walking on your right, bodily move her to your left side while you maintain your line) then say “I prefer this side”

5. Don’t worry
Description: Inspired by the SS prison guards in Sven Hassel novels who told prisoners not to worry about being executed because it would all be over quickly and the guards would still get home in time for dinner. You are telling the girl that she is expendable and what happens to you is far more important than what happens to her, but the joke is that you aren’t supposed to tell her but do anyway.

Use: Exaggerate a situation which could potentially get out of control and hurt the girl then say “don’t worry, if [something goes wrong] ….. [pause where she expects you to finish with a white knighting statement] I’ll just find a new girl. It’ll be fine”

Example:

– I did this one this morning while my girl was cooking breakfast and I could smell a bit of gas after she had trouble lighting the hob: “I smell gas. Don’t worry. If it explodes and kills you I’ll just get another girl. It’ll be fine.”
– Girl calls to say she might be late for the date cos the boss is keeping her back at the office: “Don’t worry. If you’re late I’ll just get another girl. It’ll be fine.”

6. Grunts and shoves
Description: This is how you caveman in a relationship. Just think “how would a caveman act” if language was yet to be invented. You are taking what you want.

Use: Ultimately you should be reducing all your communication to a series of grunts, pushes and shoves. When you are hanging out in your house doing nothing in particular, say you both just got out of bed on a Sunday morning.

Example:

– When you walk past her on the way to the shower give her a hip bump that knocks her over onto the bed
– When you want a cup of coffee, grab the coffee mug next to you, hold it out expectantly and grunt until she takes it and makes the coffee. When she comes back reward her with a happy grunt and smile.

7. Important person coming
Description: I first figured this out when my girl was cleaning her teeth at the kitchen sink and I wanted to fill up a glass of water using the same cold water tap. I moved her to one side, filled up my water, then moved her back and walked away without a word. The subcommunication is “I am the important person here. When we both want the same thing, I go first.”

Use: You go first, she waits until you’re done.

Example:

– In a shop queue, the staff are about to take her order, you step in front of her and say “I’m first. This girl is happy to wait” and then order. Remember it’s playful and obvious you are both together.

8. It’s okay to be wrong
Description: About 8 years ago I stumbled across this one. In Japanese TV panel shows the celebrity guests often have a table-tennis paddle type thing that has a green circle on one side (“yes”) and a red cross on the other (“no”) which they hold up to answer questions. I made one for my girlfriend to use when we were discussing things and I wrote a few words on each side:

Green Side: Yes, I AGREE. Please teach me more
Red Side: I know I’m probably wrong but I DISAGREE. Please correct me

She had a lot of fun using it because obviously it subcommunicates that I’m always right.

Use: A shorter form version of this routine is that whenever a girl disagrees with you give her a condescending look and say “That’s okay. Really. It’s okay for you to be wrong. I still like you.” Don’t rebut her point, don’t get drawn into logic and evidence. Just smile reassuringly like she’s a child who will eventually figure out why she’s wrong and you will stand by her till she figures it out.

This last one is fine to use early on, before the f-close.

Chick Crack 1 is here. The inspiration comes from Assasnova‘s e-book of the same name. In all of these routines you have a playful vibe but a deadpan delivery – she knows you well enough now to know you are just messing around. Do not do these things seriously.

Ah, the glory days of 1980s professional wrestling. Cartoonishly huge men bashing each other around the ring and my friends and I too young and niave to doubt it’s reality. This was long before the UFC came to town. The douchebag is strong in all the best heels of wrestling and the “edgy” babyfaces like The Rock, Chris Jericho and Stone Cold Steve Austin too. But the absolute king of cocky assholery is the one and only Ravishing Rick Rude. Watch and learn kiddies.

And here he is staying in character for a talk show hyping his title shot. Great body language, frame control, slow movements and just oozing with cocky arrogance. Great ending too.

Unfortunately a career-ending injury in Japan and the usual curse of professional wrestlers (combination of injuries painkillers, boozing, time-zone hopping and steroids) finally did him in age forty.