“You haven’t got to explain it to me, I wasn’t offended. Of course, that fateful day in 2002 came up, but the Beast Incarnate explained he never really cared. In 2015, Lesnar, who himself took a hiatus from WWE in 2004 and returned in 2012, did a sit-down interview with Stone Cold on the WWE Network. “I’m sure Paul probably let Brock know what the proposed match was, but no I don’t think Brock was anywhere in a point of I don’t wanna say not caring one way or another but, it wasn’t to that point for it to matter.” They had pitched Steve, and Vince was still going back and forth with Steve at that point. So, I don’t know if Brock had any reaction whatsoever because it never got to that point with him. “Brock had no idea of the proposed match or that he was supposed to go over Steve or anything. They felt like he walked out on them.”īrock Lesnar has been part-time in WWE since 2012 I think everybody was just pissed off and upset cause, you know. Prichard said nobody was happy backstage – even mentioning The Undertaker – but he said Lesnar didn’t really react. The result saw Steve Austin no-show RAW with McMahon – and even The Rock – burying the Texas Rattlesnake on live TV.Īustin left the company in the middle of June 2002 and did not agree to return until early 2003.
There were those who wanted that match, and then Vince that didn’t.” But let Steve go off with Eddie and continue to build Brock. “ just wanted to get that one match done and move forward. So we wanted to go there – Vince didn’t want to go there yet,” said Prichard. There were those of us who wanted to build to it and build to an eventual Austin/Lesnar angle and getting money out of that match. The Rock makes fun of Jonathan Coachman and discusses his upcoming match with Ric Flair. “That was the whole b***h behind the entire match. Special interview with The Rock: Raw, July 29, 2002. Stone Cold Steve Austin has always loved a beer bath! “And when you get a guy red hot, and I just had Hogan on the podcast, and I’ll put myself there, but when you get guys who really, really draw stupid money, it’s a very delicate balance that you just don’t take stupid liberties with or you’ll kill it off and you can never recreate it.
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“Because it wasn’t time for me to do the favours yet for Brock in an unadvertised match in a tournament-style TV match whereas hey, man, I love Brock Lesnar, I’d lose to him any day of the week, but build it up so we can all make money off of it and it’s going to mean something. “The night before, I was working in Columbus, Georgia, working with Ric Flair in a cage, so I was like a kid in a candy store working with the GOAT, so of course I didn’t show up. “And the time they wanted me to fly down to Atlanta for Monday Night Raw and put over Brock Lesnar,” Austin told Sport Bible. When the WWE boss tasked Jim Ross with informing Austin this was the plan for Raw the next day, Austin simply told them he wasn’t coming. Brock Lesnar is one of the most intimidating wrestlers ever and in his prime, he had a physique like no one else
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