10 Wrestler Quirks You'll Never Be Able To Unsee
8. Steve Austin's. Particular. Interview. Style.
Stone Cold Steve Austin's second (or third, if you count the Raw General Manager/Sheriff stint as its own thing, and your writer would rather let that whole thing die completely) WWE life as long-form interviewer wouldn't have been on most fans' bingo cards when the 'Rattlesnake' hung his boots up in 2003.
Back then of course, a podcast was barely a possibility, but Austin's natural charisma on his own show eventually convinced Network heads to put him on the fledgling service in 2014. Seen as the best conduit between big interviews and the wider wrestling audience, Austin securing Vince McMahon and Triple H early into his run set his stall out as one of the stronger destinations for partial shoots and even the odd insight or two.
Several years later and they continue on in the form of the Broken Skull Sessions, but his forthright interview style has reached an affectionately parodic point - Austin speaks in one-word sentences, all to try and give his words power and platform even if in reality it scans more as a verbal tick or him waiting for an invisible and unheard "What" chant.