WWE Hall of Famer Rikishi recently spoke on an episode of his podcast, “Off The Top.” During the episode, he discussed various topics, including who he believes should face fellow WWE Hall of Famer “Stone Cold” Steve Austin if Austin decides to make a return for his final match.
Rikishi said, “Why don’t we just book the GOAT versus the GOAT?… You know, they had Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier back in the day. We talk about wrestling, let’s talk about Stone Cold coming back, and let’s book him against The Rock. Number three or number four? Because every match these two cats — when they bring it and they got together man, it was always, always poetry in motion.”
On working with each other:
“And here’s the beautiful thing: they enjoy working with each other. They help build each other’s career. And for TKO, and I would think Netflix, I would think everybody would be happy as hell, because these two jokers gonna sell tickets. What’s good for business? And so there’s only a few — there’s only certain names in the business back in the Attitude Era that can still come to this new era and still be that spotlight main event.”
On not main eventing a show with the match:
“Would I have them be main eventing it? No. And for me, I feel you got to learn how to roll with the new era. And I kind of see what Triple H is doing, giving a lot of these new talent opportunity. And you bring in the old school talent to be able to get the rub to the new era talent… We don’t want the old school to overshadow the new school. And that’s the way I kind of will look at it if I was the guy that would book the show.”
You can check out the complete podcast in the video below.
(H/T to 411Mania.com for transcribing the above quotes)
