WWE Hall of Famer “Stone Cold” Steve Austin appeared on the Ariel Helwani Show to discuss various topics, including his WrestleMania 38 match with Kevin Owens, which he described as being in uncharted waters.
Austin said, “We were in uncharted waters when they came up with that. It was getting pretty close to the time that it’s going to be WrestleMania … I trained like a son of a b**** to get in shape for that match and when you don’t have a ring or you’re not doing cardio, specific activities like running the ropes, picking somebody up, slamming them, doing wrestling activity, your cardio is just not there … I wasn’t in that kind of condition. I looked good, but my gas tank wasn’t there.”
On why his WrestleMania 38 match was never officially announced:
“If you’d had built it as such, those would have been high expectations to live up to. So then you overdeliver on something that’s unexpected.”
You can check out the complete podcast in the video below.
