NEW YORK (AP) — “Stone Cold” Steve Austin missed out on many seemingly mundane experiences throughout his legendary, bloodied, broken-bodied rise to turning into probably the most in style wrestlers of all time. But the Texas Rattlesnake is making up for misplaced time together with his new journey actuality sequence, “Stone Cold Takes on America.”
“It’s about doing different things in America and doing some of the things that I’ve always wanted to do,” mentioned the six-time WWE champion. “Like almost anything in life, to reach a high level, you sacrifice a lot of stuff. … It sounded like a great idea to go do a lot of bucket list items.”
The A&E sequence, premiering Sunday at 10 p.m. ET/PT, provides a glimpse into Austin’s post-wrestling lighter facet as he makes an attempt to overcome actions prefer to bartending and competing towards expert senior citizen bowlers. He additionally does stay TV climate forecasting and waits tables at a streak restaurant (no patrons had been hit with the Stone Cold Stunner ).
“There are some things I’m loving … and there are some things that I’m little bit of a fish out of water, and it’s painful. But through it all, I think we had 12 or 13 people on the crew, and we traveled all around in an RV, and I drove every single mile,” mentioned the 2009 WWE Hall of Fame inductee. “I was just trying to perform a job the best that I could – someone else’s job – on one hour of training. So yeah, man, I don’t like to use the word vulnerable, but I guess I’m a little bit more vulnerable than Stone Cold.”
The 58-year-old shot to wrestling fame within the late ‘90s before spilling into pop culture stardom with his brash, charismatic, profanity-laced attitude that eventually moved fans from disdain to adoration. Helping lead the WWE’s in style “Attitude” period, his “Stone Cold” persona resonated with blue collar followers in addition to anybody who hated their boss. (He had a working storyline of bickering and battling with WWE CEO Vince McMahon ). He drank celebratory beers within the ring after wins, and created crowd-participating catchphrases like “Give me a hell yeah!” It was additionally frequent to see his “ Austin 3:16” T-shirts -a cheeky play on the John 3:16 Bible verse – in faculties and malls throughout the nation. The merch turned one of many greatest sellers in WWE historical past.
Hollywood acknowledged his gravitas, and he went on to star in 2007’s “The Condemned,” and joined the ensemble solid that included Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis in 2010’s “The Expendables.” In latest years, he beefed up his actuality TV expertise by internet hosting the “WWE Tough Enough” actuality competitors in addition to a number of seasons of CMT’s “Redneck Island.”
But if followers count on to see the robust man within the black wrestling trunks, black leather-based vest with a scowled face whereas he’s studying new jobs, they could be disenchanted.
“For the first few episodes, there was a little bit of an identity crisis on my part,” defined the three-time Royal Rumble champion. “I live my life as Steve Austin, and so I’m not trying to be ‘Stone Cold’ in this show.”
But that doesn’t imply his alter ego is gone endlessly. Rumors swirled with frenzy that the native Texan would seem at WrestleMania 39 earlier this month, however filming conflicts didn’t permit him sufficient time to get into wrestling form. However, he’s not ruling out future surprises WWE appearances.
“If the stars aligned again, then yes, I would,” mentioned Austin, who acknowledged there have been discussions with fellow wrestling legend and present WWE govt Paul “Triple H” Levesque.
But Austin isn’t begging to return within the ring. He’s having fun with his post-wrestling life and desires that very like his “Stone Cold” character impressed a legion of followers, this present motivates viewers to strive one thing new, whereas hoping they comply with these adventures with as a lot fervor as his wrestling storylines.
“I dropped out of college with 17 hours left to graduate, and all my jobs were manual labor jobs. I was driving a forklift before I got to the wrestling business. But I tell people I never had a plan B. Plan A was to succeed. I never had any desires of being a world champion … I just wanted to be a wrestler,” mentioned Austin. “But as you learn the business, you learn that you want to climb the ladder to get to the very top. So, just whatever you want to do, don’t let anybody hold you back and go for it.”
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