Paul then asks if he'd like to face Brock at next year's Mania, and Austin enthusiastically says "I'd beat his *ss. If I was going to fight Brock Lesnar I'd beat his *ss. And you know that as well as I do, Paul. You sit there with that little grin on your face, and I'm not saying I'm going to know but I think you know how this is going to go down." Heyman goes into a hard sell to try and make the match happen, and Austin shifts into full kayfabe mode, and for the first time it actually feels like Stone Cold wrestling again is even a remote possibility. Stone Cold proposes a Texas Death Match and says that's the only way he could ever see it happen.
"You want a headline for for WrestleMania, that would be the match. Do I want to go out there and get into a scientific scuffle with another human being built like Brock Lesnar? You might as well put bolts on the side of his neck because the guy's like Frankenstein walking down the street. I have tremendous respect for his ability in the ring, the level that he's advanced to, and his freaky accomplishments in life in general, UFC, WWE. But make no mistake about it, Paul. If he was to stand across the squared circle from Stone Cold Steve Austin...you're getting the nice guy right here. It's funny doing the Stone Cold podcast. I actually have a sense of humor. I laugh about things. But if you're going to start poking Stone Cold you're poking the wrong son of a b*tch. And I don't give a rat's *ss if it's Paul Heyman, if it's Brock Lesnar. If you start messing with Stone Cold you're not going to like what you get back. And that's about as easy as I can put it because I'm getting a little ramped up just looking at your sorry *ss."
Paul: "I'm just an advocate." Austin: "Well you're about to advocate an *ss whoopping and your man ain't here to prevent that *ss whooping from happening. That pretty much wraps it up. So is it possible this entire podcast was used to build an angle between Lesnar and Austin for WrestleMania, or were the two just having fun with each other there at the end? Let us know what you think in the comments section.
Brad Hamilton is a writer, musician and marketer/social media manager from Atlanta, Georgia. He's an undefeated freestyle rap battle champion, spends too little time being productive and defines himself as the literary version of Brock Lesnar.
