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Steve Austin Turned Down WWE Several Times Before Agreeing To WrestleMania 38 Match

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“Stone Cold” Steve Austin recently appeared on the Out of Character podcast to discuss a wide range of topics including his return match against Kevin Owens in 2022 at WrestleMania 38. After doing a KO Show segment to set up the match, Austin went over in the main event of night 1.

It was his first match since 2003 when he lost to The Rock at WrestleMania 19.

You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:

On turning down WWE: “I turned them down several times until they kept coming back with different creative. KO was always in the conversation, I was down with that cause I love that guy, he’s awesome. On the inside, I was knocking his head-off so many times because I hadn’t thrown a punch in 19 years. I told him when we got finished, I said, ‘Dude, I cannot believe you didn’t give me a receipt out there.’ That’s the good-natured heart of KO. I think he was thrilled to be out there and I was thrilled to be with him. It took some talking, we got everthing lined up, you saw what happened.”

On preparing for the match: “Zero in-ring training. I was doing cardio. Here’s an inside tip for you. I love Sheamus, he’s got a great YouTube channel, Celtic Warrior Workouts, whatever it’s called. I got on there, I watched Edge’s routine, I watched Bryan Danielson, Daniel Bryan’s, whatever his name is, I watched his training routine. But the one that really got me was Becky Lynch’s comeback routine. So, I did Becky Lynch’s routine over and over again and then I invented my own out of that.  So, I was training hard at my house but I didn’t have a ring. Once I got to Dallas – I got there 3-4 days early because I always do – I ran the ropes a lot with Drew Gulak, who is absolutely wonderful and is a great talent, super guy, very intuitive in the ring.”

On his thoughts on the match: “It was what it was. I wanted to give them more but the whole time, when you’ve got that amount of people out there, I’ve been in front of a million crowds, but you’re just trying to pace yourself. When you saw me go sip beers, I wasn’t doing that to advertise my beer, I was doing that to just take a breather and just kind of monitor the system because I was getting a little gassed.”

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