Austin Theory recently appeared as a guest on the My Love Letter To Pro Wrestling podcast for an in-depth interview covering all things pro wrestling.
During the discussion, the WWE Superstar spoke about how he didn't find out about plans for him to have a segment with "Stone Cold" Steve Austin until WrestleMania 38: Night 2.
Additionally, the selfie king of sports entertainment also discussed the backstage reaction at the show to Vince McMahon taking arguably the worst "Stone Cold Stunner" in WWE history.
Featured below are some of the highlights from the interview where he touches on these topics with his thoughts.
On how he didn’t find out he was going to have a segment with Steve Austin until the second day of WrestleMania 38: “I’m walking down the hall, and this is the second day of WrestleMania, we’re a few hours away from the show. Stone Cold is getting ready to get on a golf cart because the arena is so big and they’re driving him around. He had someone driving him around and he stopped and was talking to someone. I was like, ‘I have to introduce myself, this is my first time meeting Stone Cold,’ I introduced myself and he hangs onto my hand, looks me in the eyes, and is like, ‘I’ll be seeing you later tonight.’ I’m like, ‘What?’ It was pretty cool. A little bit later, I got pulled aside and it was super private, but basically what was going to happen, and I was like, ‘wait, what? What’s going on?’”
On the backstage reaction to Vince McMahon taking the worst Stunner ever: “It was really cool. When Mr. McMahon walked to the back, everyone was screaming at him. It was a lot of the female wrestlers, they were screaming at him and messing with him. He was like, ‘Okay, okay.’ It was proud, like being proud of your dad. Pat comes through and everyone was proud of what we did out there and everyone enjoyed it. You know it went well when everyone in the back enjoyed it. It was awesome. Even days after and now, hearing so much about it, you know you made that WrestleMania moment, which is really cool to me.”
Check out the complete interview at Apple.com. H/T to Fightful for transcribing the above quotes.
