Stone Cold Steve Austin Says ‘Things Just Didn’t Line Up’ For Him To Make An Appearance At WrestleMania 40
Stone Cold Steve Austin explains why he did not make an appearance at WrestleMania 40.
Stone Cold Steve Austin explains why he did not make an appearance at WrestleMania 40.
Rumours would circulate in the lead up to WrestleMania 40 that Austin would make an appearance but in the end, would not appear the event, instead making an appearance at WrestleMania 41 last year. Now, Austin has clarified why he didn’t appear at WrestleMania 40.
While speaking to Insight With Chris Van Vliet in a new interview, Stone Cold Steve Austin was asked about WrestleMania 40, noting that ‘things just didn’t line up’.
“Things just didn’t line up. I had other things going on. I remember when they pitched that to me. I said, dude, I got some things going on. I don’t see myself being there. That was way in advance. Was it pitched to me, or did they want me there? Yeah. But I wasn’t in a position to go.”
Austin then clarified that it was still possible he could have appeared had he chosen to.
“No, there was a possibility that I could have been there had I chose to go there. I had other sh*t going on. WWE is this multi-billion dollar corporation. I got a metal shop that we’re sitting in. So sometimes the multi-billion dollar company has an idea that the dude that has the metal shop [should make an appearance], it just don’t work. So it didn’t work. I’m over here in my metal shop. I like to do as much as I can with WWE when it works, when it works for them, when it works for me, and when it’s going to be fun. But in that and saying that not everything lines up on a timeline basis, I had other sh*t going on.”
Elsewhere in the same interview, Austin noted his belief that Kevin Owens is going to go into the WWE Hall Of Fame one day. You can read more about that here.
Thank you to Chris Van Vliet for the quote(s)
