Jim Ross opened up about Stone Cold Steve Austin.
There’s no doubt that Stone Cold Steve Austin is one of the biggest stars to come out of the world of professional wrestling, and speaking on the latest edition of Grilling JR, WWE Hall of Famer Jim Ross spoke about The Texas Rattlesnake’s legacy.
“He’s the best there ever was, and his numbers prove it. You can say, ‘Well, so and so is a better wrestler. This guy was a better technical wrestler’, whatever the hell that means. The bottom line of success for a wrestler is, what do they do to the bottom line? Stone Cold impacted the bottom line enough for a company to go public. That’s significant.”
“It Makes Him Angry” – Jim Ross On Match Type Steve Austin Hated
Continuing, Ross detailed how Steve Austin insisted on working as many matches as he could, and that his dedication meant big money for WWE.
“The house show business, as we called it back then, now Live Events, nobody could touch him because he wanted to make all the towns, no matter if it was El Paso in a small building or Houston at the Coliseum, he wanted to be on every card, and he demanded that I book him in singles.”
According to Ross, Austin worked hard to become a main event singles star and didn’t want to go back to tag team action after earning his way to the top.
“Every now and then, Vince would say, ‘We need to take care of Steve. Put him in a tag this weekend on his next run’, and I would say, ‘Vince, he doesn’t want to be in tags. It makes him angry to be booked in tags, so unless you order me to do it, when we get to the arena, he’s going to not want to work because he’s a singles guy. He’s worked all his life to be a singles Main Event star, and that’s the only thing that’s going to make him happy.’
So, Vince would always relent. Anybody that can remember Stone Cold in a house show tag team match, raise your hand. There weren’t many of them.”
Kurt Angle recently spoke about the staggering amount of money Steve Austin made each year in WWE.
Steve Austin shocked the world when he came out of retirement to face Kevin Owens at WrestleMania 38, and in an August interview, Austin addressed the possibility of having one more match in WWE.
h/t WrestlingNews.co