“Stone Cold” Steve Austin dropped another edition of his podcast, “The Steve Austin Show – Unleashed” following his live interview with Vince McMahon on the WWE Network Monday night.
This week Steve talks about being backstage at Monday Night Raw, the interview with McMahon and more as he drives around the Broken Skull Ranch with a friend.
“Vince had had a long-ass day. He had flown in from Stamford, got to the building, and is working through all the storylines that everyone’s got going. He wrote the damn show before he came over to talk to us, then he does the show, producing it at Gorilla position. By the time I got him, I thought the dude was gonna be frazzled … I thought he was very open and honest. But when you’re talking to the head of this big corporate monster, sometimes he’s gotta choose his words wisely. We would have delved deeper into the CM Punk issue, but as he stated, he didn’t want to wash that dirty laundry in public.”
One of the major talking points on both his interview with Vince, and this week’s podcast, was how “green” the current WWE locker room is, and the lack of depth in the main event scene. He mentioned how the fans complain about John Cena being “shoved down their throats”, but that the company doesn’t have a choice with CM Punk leaving, Daniel Bryan screwing up his neck, Randy Orton taking time off, and Brock Lesnar being a part-time star. He also told Cena to “stop taking so many crazy bumps” to increase his longevity in the business.
In regards to Cesaro, who Vince McMahon claimed wasn’t making a connection with the fans, Austin said he was the only star backstage who came into the dressing room to have a conversation. “I like that dude. He’s missing one piece of the puzzle, but I think he’s got ‘Superstar’ written all over him.”
Stone Cold also challenged Roman Reigns to use his time off to study old Jim Crockett footage, and to study bigger guys like Bruiser Brody, as well as legends like Bret Hart, Ric Flair and Shawn Michaels, who he considers to be the best three of all time.
Another interesting note is that Austin had a long conversation with Kane backstage, and noted that recently when he took him off, he got so bored that he called the company and wanted to come back right away. He said that Kane is feeling good at 47 after almost 20 years in WWE, and has obviously been in the gym recently.
