Post by Pennyroyal_Tea (admin) on Feb 5, 2004 15:11:26 GMT -5
The following are excerpts from The Sun Online's interview with Stone Cold Steve Austin, you can read the full thing at www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2003560001-2004050033,00.html.
Steve, are you going to wrestle at WrestleMania XX? I'd love to see Austin v McMahon.
David Hanmer
Right now I don't know what I'm doing at WrestleMania XX, I'm not going to be wrestling in a match but I could well be involved in one.
I would like to do a streetfight type match with Vince but I think WrestleMania is going to come too fast for us to do anything.
It's unfortunate we haven't started something yet, as in my opinion it would be too rushed to do it for Mania.
Could it happen somewhere down the line? Yeah, you could definitely see it some day.
Hi Stone Cold, you've had some of the best wrestling feuds in history. Who has been your favourite ever opponent?
Richard, San Francisco
The feud that really got me started in the WWE, which was known at the time as the WWF, was with the boss Vince McMahon. I couldn't wait to go back each Monday for Raw and continue the story with Vince. And, obviously, I loved working with The Rock.
I also enjoyed my feud with Bret The Hitman Hart, because I have so much respect for him as a worker and we had a great chemistry.
And Triple H, in 2000 when he was a bit lighter, was really something in the ring. He works a solid, classic style and there are no silly high spots – he goes out there and tells a story, just like The Rock and Bret Hart.
I also got to have a few matches with Shawn Michaels – one of the best workers I've ever been in the ring with – and any time I could wrestle Mick Foley was a blast, he has an insatiable hunger to please the crowd.
I loved working Kurt Angle, here's a guy who's a legitimate Olympic gold medallist and a machine in the ring. He was never really a fan of pro wrestling, and a lot of his peers considered him a joke when he decided to become involved. He adapted to the pro style faster than anyone I've ever seen in my life.
In my WCW days I loved working with Ricky Steamboat and before I retired last year I got to have several cage matches with Ric Flair - which weren't on TV - and I consider him the greatest wrestler in the history of the business. Working with Ric was a walk in the park and he's considered a legend for a good reason, because he's simply the best.
Stone Cold - in your career you've hit your finisher, the Stunner, on a lot of people. I just wondered who in your opinion takes the best Stunner?
Andrew Dinsey, Milton Keynes
Shane McMahon takes an excellent Stunner. The Rock takes a very good one as well, but sometimes he gets a little carried away and bounces around like a pinball – that's artistic liberty.
The absolute worst Stunner taker in the world is Vince McMahon, it's absolutely horrible. He kills me and lays all over the top of me. You never know which way he is going to go and, to be polite, he's not really that co-ordinated.
Why did you walk out on the WWE in June 2002?
Danny Button
The reason I walked out was because I was having health problems I didn't want to tell the office about.
On top of that I thought they were really cr***ing on me. The storylines they were giving me were not worthy of the biggest draw in the history of the business. I'm not sitting here bragging, those are facts, you can go and ask Vince McMahon and he'll tell you damn near the same thing. Will he admit he was cr***ing on me? No, he probably won't say that, but they were.
So I was sitting there getting this garbage and then suddenly I've also got all these health problems on my mind.
I could have handled it better than I did, but I react very quickly and I did what I did.
Before I came back I spoke to Jim Ross on the phone for two hours and I got back on board with Vince. I wasn't interested in wrestling but along came WrestleMania X9 and The Rock is a really good friend of mine, so I thought if I'm going to have a final match I want to go out at WrestleMania with The Rock.
Steve, are you going to wrestle at WrestleMania XX? I'd love to see Austin v McMahon.
David Hanmer
Right now I don't know what I'm doing at WrestleMania XX, I'm not going to be wrestling in a match but I could well be involved in one.
I would like to do a streetfight type match with Vince but I think WrestleMania is going to come too fast for us to do anything.
It's unfortunate we haven't started something yet, as in my opinion it would be too rushed to do it for Mania.
Could it happen somewhere down the line? Yeah, you could definitely see it some day.
Hi Stone Cold, you've had some of the best wrestling feuds in history. Who has been your favourite ever opponent?
Richard, San Francisco
The feud that really got me started in the WWE, which was known at the time as the WWF, was with the boss Vince McMahon. I couldn't wait to go back each Monday for Raw and continue the story with Vince. And, obviously, I loved working with The Rock.
I also enjoyed my feud with Bret The Hitman Hart, because I have so much respect for him as a worker and we had a great chemistry.
And Triple H, in 2000 when he was a bit lighter, was really something in the ring. He works a solid, classic style and there are no silly high spots – he goes out there and tells a story, just like The Rock and Bret Hart.
I also got to have a few matches with Shawn Michaels – one of the best workers I've ever been in the ring with – and any time I could wrestle Mick Foley was a blast, he has an insatiable hunger to please the crowd.
I loved working Kurt Angle, here's a guy who's a legitimate Olympic gold medallist and a machine in the ring. He was never really a fan of pro wrestling, and a lot of his peers considered him a joke when he decided to become involved. He adapted to the pro style faster than anyone I've ever seen in my life.
In my WCW days I loved working with Ricky Steamboat and before I retired last year I got to have several cage matches with Ric Flair - which weren't on TV - and I consider him the greatest wrestler in the history of the business. Working with Ric was a walk in the park and he's considered a legend for a good reason, because he's simply the best.
Stone Cold - in your career you've hit your finisher, the Stunner, on a lot of people. I just wondered who in your opinion takes the best Stunner?
Andrew Dinsey, Milton Keynes
Shane McMahon takes an excellent Stunner. The Rock takes a very good one as well, but sometimes he gets a little carried away and bounces around like a pinball – that's artistic liberty.
The absolute worst Stunner taker in the world is Vince McMahon, it's absolutely horrible. He kills me and lays all over the top of me. You never know which way he is going to go and, to be polite, he's not really that co-ordinated.
Why did you walk out on the WWE in June 2002?
Danny Button
The reason I walked out was because I was having health problems I didn't want to tell the office about.
On top of that I thought they were really cr***ing on me. The storylines they were giving me were not worthy of the biggest draw in the history of the business. I'm not sitting here bragging, those are facts, you can go and ask Vince McMahon and he'll tell you damn near the same thing. Will he admit he was cr***ing on me? No, he probably won't say that, but they were.
So I was sitting there getting this garbage and then suddenly I've also got all these health problems on my mind.
I could have handled it better than I did, but I react very quickly and I did what I did.
Before I came back I spoke to Jim Ross on the phone for two hours and I got back on board with Vince. I wasn't interested in wrestling but along came WrestleMania X9 and The Rock is a really good friend of mine, so I thought if I'm going to have a final match I want to go out at WrestleMania with The Rock.