Episode 50 of the ‘Something to Wrestle with Bruce Prichard’ podcast covered ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin’s walk out from WWE. In case you are unfamiliar, Austin walked out on WWE back in 2002.
He was asked to put over a young Brock Lesnar on an episode of RAW. Austin felt like it wasn’t the right time or place for him to lose to Brock and he no-showed RAW, leaving the company.
Bruce Prichard shared some of the backstage reaction to Austin walking out:
“[Undertaker was] pissed off. I think everybody there was just pissed off and upset cause, you know. They felt like he walked out on them”
On Brock’s reaction.
“Well Brock had no idea. Brock had no idea of the proposed match or that he was supposed to go over Steve or anything. So I don’t know if Brock had any reaction whatsoever because it never got to that point with him. They had pitched Steve and Vince was still going back and forth with Steve at that point. I’m sure Paul probably let Brock know what the proposed match was, but no I don’t think Brock was anywhere in a point of — I don’t wanna say not caring one way or another but it wasn’t to that point for it to matter.”
You can check out the full podcast here.
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