Steve Austin will be in town over WrestleMania 41 weekend.
As announced on March 16th [3:16 day] The Texas Rattlesnake will be one of many guests at the WWE World attraction in Las Vegas over WrestleMania weekend and will be available for meet and greets at the exhibit:
OH HELL YEAH! 🔥 It’s only fitting we drop this announcement today.
“STONE COLD” STEVE AUSTIN 🍺 is headed to WWE World this April 19 & 20. Tickets to purchase autographs and photo ops will be on sale Tuesday at 11 AM ET.
The announcement has fuelled speculation that Austin could make an appearance on the show itself, which would be his first in 3 years. Austin last appeared at WrestleMania 38 in his return match against Kevin Owens. While it was expected that the Hall of Famer would be one of the cameo appearances in the Bloodline Rules match at WrestleMania 40, the spot was instead given to The Undertaker. The reported reason for the switch was because the two sides could not come to terms on a financial agreement.
With Cody Rhodes at odds with The Rock for a second straight year, fans are once again hoping that Austin will make an appearance to come to the aid of The American Nightmare.
Steve Austin Admits Regret Over WWE Return Match
Although many were happy to see Austin back in the ring at WrestleMania 38 and were also happy with his performance, the former WWE Champion admits he was not entirely pleased. In a recent interview, Austin said the following about the match:
“I was happy in a moment, but, you know, they didn’t send me a ring down,” Austin said of his WrestleMania return. “I didn’t have any timing. I think they interviewed Triple H, The Undertaker, and Hogan. Each one of them said something that was so true.
“Paul said, you can come back, but you don’t know what you have, because you haven’t been out there. Undertaker said, you’re not going to have any timing. He was right. I didn’t have any timing. Hell, I hadn’t hit a set of ropes in 19 years. Hadn’t thrown a punch in 19 years. Hogan says, you know, you’re just not calloused up. Your body is not as hard as it used to be. And he was right, because when you when you take off, people talk about ring rust, that’s timing. So, I had no timing.
“Hogan was talking about being calloused up … those ropes hurt. Those bumps hurt. If you make a long comeback, it takes you two or three months to get those callouses back, so that your body doesn’t hurt after every single match. You build up an immunity to it, so they each made valid points. And like Paul said, you don’t know what you got until you get out there, because you can think you got it, but you don’t.”
“And when I went out there, I think I couldn’t hear the crowd as much as I wanted to. When I watched it back, the crowd was into it. It was very, very loud, yes, but I wish I would have taken more time, savored more moments, and worked the people a little bit more than I did. I think I was in a space of not knowing what I had and trying to be a little too frantic. I could have slowed down drastically and made that better. And I wish that I would have. I haven’t told too many people that, but I told you.”
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