WWE Hall Of Famer Stone Cold Steve Austin was recently interviewed on the “Dale Jr, Download” podcast to talk about several professional wrestling topics. Austin discussed his most memorable feuds, the safest workers he has worked with, Mick Foley, and so much more.
Check out the highlights here:
His most memorable feuds: “I loved working with The Rock,” Austin said. “Wrestlemania 17 was a hell of a ride. And I loved working with Vince. Because the Vince feud transcended wrestling. For two years, it was water cooler talk. I don’t care what you did, at lunch you’d ask, ‘Hey man, did you see what Stone Cold and Vince did last night?’ And Vince was an awesome opponent because he feels this stuff as much as I do. He’s an animal. He’s one of the most interesting people I’ve ever met in my entire life. And I love the guy.”
Safe workers: “I loved working with Bret Hart,” Austin admitted. “There was so much trust and respect. And like I said the high profile matches I’ve had with The Rock, Undertaker, Triple H, Mankind, the list could be a mile long but if I’ve got to give you one guy, Bret ‘The Hitman’ Hart. There was a trust and respect there from day one. He picked me as his opponent to come back for Survivor Series.”
His bloody battle with Bret Hart at WrestleMania 13: “It’s the exclamation point on a great feud – it ended in a blood bath,” Austin explained. “It’s a very interesting feeling when you first push that blade into your head because there’s a crackle of the skin and you got to drag just a little bit. It’s like a rite of passage though.
“You’re expected to do it because you grew up seeing it and now you get a chance to do it. All of a sudden, it’s in the nineties, you’re trading blood with a lot of people. Some of these guys who are party animals…there’s always the guy who bites the open cut and spits the blood out, I was like ‘Holy s**t!’ Any night of the week, you could get staph infection.”
Mick Foley: “[Mick Foley] knew that he wasn’t going to be a high flyer or a mat technician,” Austin said. “I think to an extent he enjoyed the pain. When Undertaker threw him off that cage onto the announce desk, I think he did it because it was a means to an end. It was a style that worked for him. I think that was his calling card.”
His beer-drinking gimmick: “I didn’t invent it. Sandman was doing it in ECW,” Austin said. “I would just crack them together. You gotta add some showmanship to it. I would tell people I was drinking for a living and wrestling on the side. I got into the beer business. All this craft beer stuff started popping up and I thought let me give this a try’.
“I teamed up with El Segundo Brewing Company to get into the beer market. So, I have Broken Skull IPA. That beer is hand crafted by myself and the owner Rob Croxall to my specifications, I’m very partial but that beer was built for me. It was one of the of the best IPAs in America.”
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H/T Wrestling Inc. for the transcriptions
