{"id":157408,"date":"2023-04-19T14:52:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T19:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=157408"},"modified":"2023-04-19T14:52:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T19:52:19","slug":"steve-austin-comments-on-not-working-wrestlemania-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/04\/19\/steve-austin-comments-on-not-working-wrestlemania-39\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Austin comments on not working WrestleMania 39"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1334070601\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Steve Austin says that he simply couldn&#8217;t commit to working a match at WrestleMania 39 due to his schedule. In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/wrestling\/2023\/04\/19\/steve-austin-wrestlemania-39-main-event-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sports Illustrated<\/a>, Austin revealed the details of his negotiations with WWE around WrestleMania 39 and why he didn&#8217;t appear at the event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I met with some people from WWE,&#8221; Austin said of working WrestleMania. &#8220;We talked about the possibility of me wrestling at <em>WrestleMania 39<\/em>. The biggest thing in my mind was the presentation and what kind of match it was going to be. Going back to\u00a0<em>38<\/em>, the way the KO thing was presented\u2014I love KO\u2014I turned that down three, four, five times until the creative finally came to what it ended up being. I didn\u2019t want it constructed as a real match, per se. I needed something that could turn into one, and it did, but I think that\u2019s why we got away with it. The Dallas crowd was very receptive. I hadn\u2019t been around, so the timing was right.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut to do a proper match, I\u2019d have to be in off-the-charts shape. I told them, and this is the exact truth, I said, \u2018Guys, I\u2019m just fixin\u2019 to go into production on this show,\u00a0<em>Stone Cold Takes on America<\/em>, and until we start production, I don\u2019t know what my life looks like. I can\u2019t commit.\u2019 Sure enough, there were technical issues before we finished. I was supposed to finish a month before we did. There\u2019s no way, with the schedule I was doing\u2014driving an RV all over God\u2019s creation, doing all I was doing\u2014that I would be ready. I had two 30-pound dumbbells, a 45-pound sandbag, and a 25-pound kettlebell. Working 15 hours a day, then getting in a 30- or 40-minute workout, that doesn\u2019t get you ready for\u00a0<em>WrestleMania<\/em>. And I was really protected at\u00a0<em>WrestleMania 38<\/em>. This time, that wasn\u2019t going to be the case. That was a true statement: Until this show was over, I couldn\u2019t commit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steve Austin worked an impromptu match at WrestleMania 39 in Dallas against Kevin Owens and was victorious. Austin also appeared on that show and hit his Stunner on Vince McMahon, Austin Theory, Byron Saxton, and Pat McAfee.<\/p>\n<p>Austin has not been seen on WWE television since then.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>CATCH-UP:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/04\/18\/wwe-raw-receipt-4-17-start-to-the-show-sets-hook\/\">HEYDORN\u2019S WWE RAW RECEIPT 4\/17: Unique start to the show sets a hook for main event<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-3831681132\"><div id=\"pwtor-202619659\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Steve Austin says that he simply couldn&#8217;t commit to working a match at WrestleMania 39 due to his schedule. 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