10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About WrestleMania 38

5. Stone Cold Steve Austin Drops An S Bomb

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Stone Cold Steve Austin has always made most of this look incredibly easy, but never was that skill more apparent than during the KO Show preamble with Kevin Owens.

Taking their sweet time to tee up one of the biggest reactions of the entire weekend, Austin and Owens looked every bit like men that were about to have a short exchange of punches rather than the honest-to-god actual match that took place as the evening's mesmerising show-closer.

It was during these baby steps towards the bout that Austin called 'KO' a "sack of sh*t" in scenes immediately censored for the highlight packages on the Raw After WrestleMania. It went down a storm in the building (an achievement in itself considering the over-use of the word in wrestling at large), but PG WWE is still PG WWE and this stuff can never stand when the company has billion dollar TV deals to negotiate. Expect the Peacock hatchet staff to disappear this one soon.

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