It was a long time ago when WWE fans last saw The Rattlesnake "Stone Cold" Steve Austin compete inside the ring. His last match was against The Rock on Wrestlemania XIX, which he lost. Fast forward, talks of his return to the WWE are surfacing and his likely match-up? The man who put an end to The Undertaker's streak, Brock Lesnar!
According to Bleacherreport, Austin interviewed Paul Heyman during WrestleMania XXX weekend for The Steve Austin Show on PodcastOne, and the Hall of Famer admitted that a match against Heyman's client, Brock Lesnar, might be of interest to him:
'(Jim Ross) told me creative wanted Brock to beat me. And I'm thinking, okay hold it. I'm drawing stupid money right now. Obviously WWF had spent a lot of money getting me into this position. I busted my ass getting myself in this position. Guys that draw stupid money don't just happen overnight. So now all of a sudden you want me to do a job for a guy, now I love Brock Lesnar and he's a monster, and as soon as he walked in the door everybody saw massive potential in the guy, but for me to do a job for him without any kind of buildup? A match but no two or three weeks talking about it?'
Austin is 49 years old, so age and ring rust might be concerns, but Austin was never an in-ring technician under the Stone Cold gimmick. With that in mind, there is reason to believe he can still have a great brawl with a guy like Lesnar.
Austin may have felt like walking away was the best move at the time, but this time around, he said that he would have handled the situation differently if given another chance.
'It was stupid because you have to own up to some responsibility and accountability and show up. Honor your deal. You're packed with the boys and your job. So I should have showed up like a man, come up with a solution. Could have been a different solution, could have been just don't even do the match, but show up and talk to Vince face to face, solve the problem in some way or fashion, and get through it like a grown man.'
What makes this more interesting is Austin and Lesnar never had a match yet, they had their fair share of encounters with each other on WWE. Watch the videos below:
