Stone Cold Steve Austin Offers Advice To Current Wrestlers: ‘Sell.’
Stone Cold Steve Austin offers advice to current wrestlers, noting that they should sell in a way similar to Bret Hart.
Stone Cold Steve Austin offers advice to current wrestlers, noting that they should sell in a way similar to Bret Hart.
Pro wrestling has significantly evolved in the years since Stone Cold Steve Austin walked away from full time competition, especially in the United States. In a lot of bouts, wrestlers work at a higher speed in the vein of the likes of Will Ospreay and other top in ring wrestlers in 2026. However, Austin thinks that current wrestlers could do with slowing things down and sell more.
While speaking on Insight With Chris Van Vliet, Stone Cold Steve Austin was asked what advice he’d give to current wrestlers, noting that he’d like to see them sell more.
“Sell. As the business has changed and there’s more time to put together a match, don’t make it look like a dance. Not everything is perfect. Put some struggle in there. Put a little bit of slop in there when slop would be warranted. You ever see Bret Hart deep in a match, maybe 20, 25 minutes and he’s just- he just looks like he’s beat to death. He’s huffing, he’s puffing. He ain’t blown up. That’s him just showing how, fucking tired he is from just exhausting every hit, this look on his face, and he could go all night long, but that’s him just showing you how hard he, this is the toll that it’s taking on him. He’s showing you. So it’s not always such a dance. Everything is just a little- I would love for someone to feel dangerous right now. You know, ‘dang, this guy’s got an edge or this guy’s- I don’t know.’ I might believe this guy, something like that. But to go back to answer your question, sell, learn how to work, learn how to work. Don’t learn how to act. I just, I think there’s a difference between working and acting.”
Elsewhere in the same interview, Stone Cold spoke about never facing off with Goldberg in WWE. You can read more about that here.
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