On the latest episode of the “Steve Austin Show” podcast at PodcastOne.com, Austin spoke with MLW’s Court Bauer about his appearance at WrestleMania 32 earlier this year. Below are some of the highlights of what Austin said.
On Bauer’s opinion that Austin should have been used better at WrestleMania 32:
“I’m not going to argue that point, but it was what it was. I made an appearance at [WrestleMania] 32. Everybody expected to see me there. Dallas [Texas] is where I started [my professional wrestling career], and, so, I ended up going out there and it was a pleasure to be out there with Shawn [Michaels] and Mick [Foley].”
On suffering a torn rotator cuff heading into WrestleMania 32:
The hardest thing for me was, I went into that event with a torn rotator cuff. I tore it pretty good trying to train too heavy and I figured I’d be able to work around it. What I didn’t factor in was the fact that I was going to need a few working punches to get into a position to throw the Stunners that they wanted me to throw. So, on that first right hand to Rusev, I hit him right in the mouth [or] right in the nose, just busted him open, got him in the corner, and that first punch blew everything out. And so, getting through the rest of it, catching the beers, holding those beers up when you’re in the moment with the adrenaline and all that going, it’s easy to do. All of a sudden, backstage, you can’t even drink a beer, so I went into that with a bit of a handicap, so the thing about it is it was what it was.”
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