Stone Cold Steve Austin Will Be At WrestleMania 32

Austin shoots on Triple H, John Cena, WrestleMania 32.

Stone Cold Steve Austin has confirmed that he expects to be at WrestleMania 32. "I would be pretty damn sure I€™m going to be there. It€™s my home state and it just makes more sense," he told Sports Illustrated's Extra Mustard site. "I have total respect for him,€ he stated about Vince McMahon. So it looks like whatever rumoured heat was between Austin and WWE, it isn't anything significant to get in the way of the business. There's a good chance that Austin's role next year will involve a match. His neck and overall physical condition is decent enough to step in the ring one last time. A safely worked match against a veteran worker would be probable. The sensible opponent would be another top draw star, such as John Cena. The bigger issue could be money. Austin after all these years and in his home state, he's going to be a hell of a draw. He'll be looking at a paypack bigger than any other superstar next year. Austin also discussed Triple H in the Sports Illustrated interview -
€œShane McMahon€™s not there any more. He cashed in his chips and went his way, and now Stephanie McMahon and Paul are a force destined to take over whenever the old man bows out. It was very interesting when I went down to Denver to interview Triple H . We sat together for an hour and a half before the podcast started, and I€™ll never, ever do that again. That conversation before we rolled cameras was ten times better than what we put on the podcast. He has changed dramatically. Now I don€™t know if he€™ll ever be perceived like Vince McMahon €“ that€™s on him once he gets the reigns fully in his hands, but future success or failure will be in the hands of Paul Levesque.€
The rumoured heat about John Cena using the Stunner was also a topic of discussion -
€œThere were even people saying I was hot that John Cena was using a version of the stunner. Man, there€™s not a bigger John Cena fan on Planet Earth than Steve Austin. There€™s no one I respect more on that crew than Cena. If he wanted to use the €˜Stone Cold Stunner€™ exactly as it was, I€™d have no problem with it, and that€™s the bottom line. But here€™s the thing €“ he already wasted it. Cena should have started beating people with it and making it one of his alternative finishes. Everybody€™s finishing move has been prostituted to death now, and that goes back in the day when I wrestled The Rock at WrestleMania 17 at the Astrodome and I kicked out of a Rock Bottom and he kicked out of a stunner. You can only do that so many times. And now it happens three or four times in a match. Enough is enough.€
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