Steve Austin "Embarrassed" By WrestleMania 41 ATV Crash (WWE News)

Stone Cold calls 'Mania 41 "not the greatest day at the office".

by Andrew Pollard
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Having had quite the night at WrestleMania Sunday last month, two-time WWE Hall of Famer Steve Austin has now made his first comments on the incident that saw Austin crash his ATV into the ringside barricade at 'Mania Night 2.

Of course, Stone Cold's WrestleMania 41 appearance saw him ride to the ring on a four-wheeler, with him then doing several laps around the ringside area before eventually crashing the vehicle into the barricade, where a woman in the front row fell backwards and looked visibly aggrieved. While the Texas Rattlesnake exchanged words with the lady before getting in the ring to announce the Night 2 attendance, WWE President Nick Khan made his way over to the fan to presumably defuse any issues.

During an appearance on The Ariel Helwani Show (via f4w), Austin addressed this incident, calling it "embarrassing".

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When asked if there was any major fallout from this crash, Steve Austin said:

"No, just I was embarrassed about it. I think everybody's okay, but I mean, you go out there on the biggest night in wrestling, and you end up like that? It's not the greatest day at the office. You go out there and you want to give people the best show that you can, and when you fall short of that, it's not great."

On why he lost control of the ATV, the Bionic Redneck explained that the vehicle had a different throttle setup to what he was used to, and that was the reason why Austin had some trouble with the four-wheeler.

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It wasn't just at ringside that Stone Cold had problems with the ATV, mind, for fan footage also showed that Steve had trouble getting the vehicle up the side ramp that took him up to the WrestleMania stage, with Austin initially missing that ramp and needing assistance from nearby crew members to get him unstuck and back on track.

This Ariel Helwani appearance also saw Steve Austin back up Logan Paul's recent comments that Logan had offered the six-time WWE Champion a $1 million payday to appear at WrestleMania disguised in a Prime bottle. As Austin noted, he himself is in the beer business and doesn't know anything about the Prime product. While he meant no disrespect to Paul or Prime, Steve just, as he put it, "wasn't into it".

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