8 Live Observations From WWE WrestleMania 38 Night 1
1. Stone Cold Steve Austin On The KO Show
Speculation on exactly how this might play out ranged from dejection to delirium thanks to the intentionally vague nature of what might actually happen.
In the end, WWE played brilliantly with all those emotions to present a slice of history that ended with the most feel good of outcomes.
Agreeing to an actual match, Austin signed off on something he’d avoided for nearly 20 years. It started tentatively, and then Austin took a f*cking bump on f*cking concrete and everybody went to the f*cking moon.
Dallas as a whole couldn’t contain their emotions, and neither, seemingly could Steve Austin. Fists, fire, beers and Kevin Owens’ incredible selling got the performance over the line, not as though the stadium needed it. It ended every bit as special as it started - bells to denote the actual “match” was the history people were chasing and WWE, for a wonderfully refreshing change, didn’t take the p*ss.
Night 1 completed. Night 2, for the second year in a row, has an awful lot to follow.