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Source: PW Mania

WWE Hall of Famer “Stone Cold” Steve Austin revealed to Zoo Magazine while promoting his DVD release of “Recoil” that he may have another WWE match or two left in him. Here is what he had to say.

“If the right situation, the right opponent and the right circumstances came up for the WWE, then it would certainly be something worth considering. Could I have another match or two? Yeah. Physically I am in really good shape right now. People seem to think I am half-dead!… In my movies, I do some pretty hellacious fight scenes that, maybe, a normal person couldn’t do. So my physicality is fine, my neck is fine after having it all fused-up. I am not pitching for another match but if it was a win-win situation for everybody, then absolutely, I would consider it.”

Source: Cowboys & Indians

Since the late 1990s Steve Austin has been recasting his hypertalkative ringmaster guise into an action film tough guy of few words. In addition to roles in feature films (The Longest Yard, The Condemned, The Expendables), Austin has starred in a string of direct-to-DVD projects. He has played a boxer (Knockout), a border patrol agent (Hunt to Kill), a SWAT team captain (Tactical Force), and an ex-cop-turned-vigilante (Recoil). At press time he was shooting Maximum Conviction in Vancouver, British Columbia, with Steven Seagal and is slated to start filming another as-yet-unnamed “high-adrenaline” action flick in early 2012. Yet Austin yearns to swap his tough-guy temperament on the screen for a comedic disposition on the ranch.

Cowboys & Indians: How do wrestling and acting compare?

Steve Austin: I was really in my element in the professional wrestling and sports entertainment business. When I created the character Stone Cold Steve Austin, I got to be that guy for several years. Everything was on the fly. It was ad-lib and impromptu. That’s the world I’m comfortable in. So when I’m trying to remember dialogue and when I’m trying to create a different character, I’m still learning how to do that. I don’t think I’m as effective as I would like to be one of these days.

C&I: You got to do both — act and rumble — with Sylvester Stallone. What was that like?

Austin: Intense. We fought for two damn days. We fought like cats and dogs. That guy, however old he is, he’s a damn warrior. I’ve looked up to him for so long. When I saw Rocky back in the day, I was that kid drinking eggs in the morning running down the street like an idiot. To get a chance to work with him all these years later was a blast.

C&I: Have you ever thought of doing a western?

Austin: We were going to start working on a western. The wheels fell off somewhere. I’d love to do a damn western.

C&I: Who are some of your favorite western actors?

Austin: Lee Van Cleef. And that damn Clint Eastwood — I’m a big Clint fan. And John Wayne with all of the westerns he did. Those would be my go-to guys right there.

C&I: Have you ever thought of doing a project involving improv?

Austin: I have thought about that, and we’re kind of working on a comedic thing right now. We’re actually going to try and film that at the ranch. It’s kind of an action spoof. I enjoy laughing my ass off all day. And I’d rather be a funny guy than a tough guy any day of the week.

Source: Cowboys & Indians

In the arena, he once aimed a fire hose tethered to a beer truck at his boss, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) chairman and CEO Vince McMahon, and unleashed a torrent of suds. In the ring, he brought to bear the “Stone Cold Stunner” — his signature wrestling move — on the likes of Donald Trump, Santa Claus, and Linda McMahon, 2010 U.S. Republican Senate candidate (Connecticut) and wife of Vince.

As an action actor, he played malicious bodyguard Dan Paine in The Expendables, going bare knuckle to bare knuckle with Sylvester Stallone (during a sequence featuring sustained fisticuffs with Austin, Stallone — the film’s writer, director, and star — suffered a hairline neck fracture). No question: Stone Cold Steve Austin, aka The Texas Rattlesnake, is one mean brawler.

So what does this scrap-hardened gladiator do for R & R? He unwinds on a 2,100-acre Texas ranch — dubbed Broken Skull — located some 90 miles south of San Antonio near Tilden, Texas. Here, Austin grapples with the unforgiving Southwestern terrain as he shepherds a herd of roughly 180 native South Texas deer. “I live in South Texas brush country, where everything that grows will cut ya, stick ya, or hurt ya,” says the WWE (formerly the World Wrestling Federation) Hall of Famer. “It’s not as pretty as the [Texas] Hill Country, but it’s effective for raising big deer.”

When he bought his spread in 2007, it was home to elk, red stag, and a single cow. He dispatched the elk and the red stag and the cow broke through the fence, though it still roams his ranch. “It’s a hunting ranch. That’s what I bought it for,” Austin insists.

Yet he doesn’t just stalk deer on his Texas land. Because his ranch is infested with feral hogs, he culls their numbers and blends the proceeds into his deer sausage to round out the flavors. “[The pigs] tear up our roads and make holes and stuff like that. It’s not their fault. They’re pigs. It’s what they do. But from a ranching standpoint, you’ve got to take them out.”

Austin doesn’t easily fit the traditional rancher mold; he’s not the picture of the hard and serious lone cowboy. Instead of horses, he rides Polaris Ranger ATVs and a Kubota 95-horsepower air-conditioned tractor with a 15-foot batwing mower. With this motorized beast he manicures the ranch and has laid more than eight miles of PVC pipe to supply his herd of deer with clean water. He also uses the ranch to store and display an expanding collection of Coca-Cola memorabilia, antique clocks, and all sorts of signs, including gas station, neon, and marble road signs from the 1920s and ’30s.

Not exactly the downtime you imagine when you picture the hulking guy who wrestled professionally for almost 15 years. In those days, Austin’s MO was “Arrive. Raise Hell. Leave.” His shtick was to outrageously flaunt rude and defiant beer-guzzling behavior, engaging packed, rowdy arenas as the foul-mouthed, bird-flipping “Stone Cold.” He perfected his fierce antihero persona with the Stone Cold Stunner, a trademark headlock-and-drop finishing move. With it he grappled and slammed his way to the top of the wrestling heap through a combination of signature moves and a laser-sharp wit.

It’s that sense of humor that takes people by surprise. “You never think that by looking at him because he looks like a monster, actually,” Expendables costar Eric Roberts told USA Today. “But he’s not. He’s a total sweetie pie. I just love him like I love family.”

How keen is the Stone Cold wit? In 1996, Austin won the WWE King of the Ring tournament by defeating Jake “The Snake” Roberts. Roberts’ ring persona portrayed a Bible-preaching born-again Christian, which Austin shrewdly leveraged, quickly cutting a now-famous promo during his tournament coronation. With characteristic irreverence, the spot invoked the mock verse Austin 3:16. “Austin 3:16 says I just whipped your ass!” he blared.

The catchphrase became one of the most popular in wrestling history with T-shirts that broke WWE merchandise sales records, and Austin went on to become a superstar in the world of professional wrestling.

“I thought I was going to sell insurance with my dad,” he says of his unlikely career trajectory.

Born Steven James Anderson in Austin, Texas, on December 18, 1964, Austin nurtured a love of the ring as a young boy, greedily soaking up wrestling’s cirque spectacle and scripted antagonisms and heroics. As a high school student in Edna, Texas, Austin earned his way into the National Honor Society. Yet he was most promising as an athlete, excelling as a running back and linebacker on the high school football team. “I ran over people because I wasn’t fast enough to run around ’em,” he deadpans.

His skill earned him a football scholarship to Wharton County Junior College and later to North Texas State University (now University of North Texas), where he was a defensive end and a business major. But the grind of schoolwork got the better of him. “Math always kicked my ass,” he says. “When I got into college, math and accounting throttled me.” So he took a job as a freight dockworker.

Then in 1990 Austin enrolled in the wrestling school operated in the Dallas Sportatorium by the late English wrestler and promoter “Gentleman” Chris Adams. After just five months, Austin was deemed ready for the ring. “I was very aggressive and I was very competitive,” says the six-time WWE champ.

But by 2004 his ring time had taken a heavy toll on his muscled frame, primarily his neck, which required surgery. “It was time I rode off into the sunset,” he says.
Not long after retiring from the wrestling ring, Austin began crafting a new persona: hard-boiled action actor. His experience had actually begun years before in the Don Johnson police drama Nash Bridges (1999 – 2000), in which he played detective Jack Cage. His motion picture debut came in 2005, when he played Guard Dunham in the remake of The Longest Yard. A string of direct-to-DVD releases followed.

These days, with 50 in the cross hairs, Austin divides his time between the ranching life and his acting career. When immersed in television and film exploits, he’s in Los Angeles with wife Kristin, who he married in late 2009. When he’s not, he’s taking breathers on the Texas ranch, currently a complex of double-wide and triple-wide mobile homes and storage buildings. He plans to replace parts of the complex with a modest 3,000-square-foot ranch house in the near future.

“At the ranch, that’s me in my el-ement in a relaxed state,” Austin says. “Back in the day, in the ring, that was me in a work state. … It’s like actual combat, but it’s a soap opera.” In February 2012, Austin plans to go live with a website dedicated to his “relaxed state” exploits: www.brokenskullranch.com. “It’s my way to keep in touch with my fans and let them know what Steve Austin is doing in the wild outdoors.” Or in Stone Cold speak: Big deer. Cold beer.

Sources: Live Audio Wrestling & Wrestling-News.net

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Steve Austin was a guest on The LAW this past Sunday night chatting about his latest movie ‘Recoil’.

Here are some highlights of the interview:

His progress as an actor: I think I’m coming along. I watched a movie I just finished with Steven Seagal while I was filming this past movie (Recoil), and I see myself listening more, I’m a little bit more relaxed, so it’s coming around. It’s just like anything; when you’re first doing something, repetition is the key to being good, and working with people that are better than you. I think I’m starting to pick up some of the nuances. I still need to work on character development, but I’m feeling better about it. It’s hard for me to watch myself on film. It was hard for me to watch myself in the ring, and I basically had a Ph. D in that world, the world of professional wrestling. I set my goals and my standards high, and I’ve yet to reach it, but I will.

Talent Having Problems with The Rock returning: My thoughts on that are, you earn what you get in this business. Rock has earned the ability to come and go as he wants, because the business still needs him, it can still use him, and it can elevate the profile with having such a mainstream guy there. I don’t know about the promos between John (Cena) and Rock. I think some of them have gotten kind of personal, you wonder how much of it’s a work and how much of it’s a shoot. At the end of the day, it’s a worked business. Again, I think it’s a good thing for Rock to be involved with this. He’s earned his right to come and go and do whatever he wants.

Current talent being vocal to creative: (CM) Punk was a guy, and is a guy who, man, that guy flew by the seat of his pants. He was pissed off, he vented, he cuts great promos. He worked himself out of a bad situation into a great situation. He knew when it was time to pick his spot, when he contract was gonna be up. That guy’s been around the horn a few times, and he’s been kicked around a little bit. He saw how the other guys were being treated, and he needed, and deserved, and earned the right to be treated in that same fashion. Guys, you gotta pick your spot, but you gotta be vocal. It is a very interesting machine these days. They need voices to question them. They need voices to inspire them, or fuel them, to rethink some of the things that they’re doing and make it a better product.

Returning under the right circumstances: There’s nothing up in the air for me. If there’s something that presents itself as a business opportunity, then I have an open ear to listen to it. It would have to be right for myself, my opponent, and obviously the company. I’m not lobbying for another match. There’s always talk. People ask, “am I capable of having another match?” Yeah. If I was in a bad situation, I would get back in the ring full time if I had to, but I don’t have to. I’m happy doing what I’m doing.

Hey guys, sorry for the lack of updates here on SteveAustinWeb.com. I am super busy on my other website projects (SwampPeopleNews.com, Joshua-Ledet.net, + my personal website & portfolio) and dealing with things offline. On a happier note, I am working on a BRAND NEW layout & design, which will be a more news-based website until things get a little more smoother. I should be rolling out that layout & a few months or so. If you need to contact me, you know where to find me!

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Source: Austin’s Blog

I talked to the Heartbreak Kid, Shawn Michaels this morning. Looks like Shawn and his film crew will be coming down to the BSR to film a hog/turkey/varmint hunt for his hunting show, Macmillan River Adventures. I look forward to visiting and hunting with him. Shawn and I ran in two different packs while we were in WWE, but have always maintained a friendship and respect for one another. It will be good to just hang out and hunt. The competitive nature and environment of putting everything on the line to be a top guy in WWE no longer exists for either one of us. It will be cool just to sit around and trade some war stories. As I have previously stated, I am a huge fan of Shawn’s work. I am sure we will find some success in our hunting endeavor, but as anyone who has hunted knows…There are no guarantees! And that’s what makes hunting so challenging, unpredictable, and fun.

In Steve’s latest blog post, Austin wrote about how he’s been trying to schedule a hunting trip with Shawn Michaels.

“I may be headed straight into another project if the business end of things works out. If not, the Austin Clan will take a quick trip down to the Broken Skull Ranch for 10-14 days,” Austin wrote. “Shawn Michaels and I have been trying to get together for a hunt for the last year and this could be the opportunity to get it done. Shawn has really taken to the outdoor world like a duck on a Junebug. Shawn’s show, MacMillan River Adventures has been a hit and when I spoke with Shawn in Las Vegas at the SHOT SHOW he was up for several awards.

“Shawn’s success is not a surprise to me. He’s extremely dedicated and motivated to be the best he can be at any endeavor he takes on in life. He is the greatest in ring performer I have ever seen. The fact that his talent and commitment transferred over from the squared circle to the world of hunting does not surprise me. Shawn has segued from being the ‘Show Stopper’ to the ‘Game Stopper’. I’m proud of him and his success.”

You can read Austin’s blog at the official Broken Skull Ranch website!

WWE Hall of Famer Steve Austin is currently filming Maximum Conviction with Steven Seagal in Vancouver. Austin wrote on his official website: “Alright, folks. Made it to Vancouver. Got settled in my room, got some groceries, looked over my scenes for Monday. 10am pickup tomorrow for wardrobe fitting and fight rehearsal. This is gonna be a good movie. I wrote a long blog on the flight from L.A. I will proof read it tomorrow and post it….I will post something for the blog everyday.”

Source: WWE.com

One of the greatest WWE Superstars to ever enter the squared circle is, without question, WWE Hall of Famer “Stone Cold” Steve Austin. Because of The Texas Rattlesnake, there is no series of numbers in WWE history as legendary as “3:16.” At King of the Ring 1996, “Austin 3:16” was immortalized after “Stone Cold” defeated Jake “The Snake” Roberts and exclaimed, “’Austin 3:16’ says I just whooped your ass!”

Of course, The Rattlesnake was referencing Roberts’ quoting the Bible and the verse John 3:16. That famous Biblical verse has garnered a fair amount of media attention in the past week following Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow’s NFL playoff performance against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Tebow, who used to inscribe “John 3:16” on his eye-black in college, passed for 316 yards. Additionally, the NCAA Heisman Trophy winner also averaged 31.6 yards per completion and the game’s overtime broadcast drew a 31.6 rating. Adding to the eerie numerical coincidences is the fact that Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger threw the game’s only interception of third down and 16 yards to go.

Happenstances aside, the John 3:16 reference reminded the WWE Universe of “Stone Cold’s” famous speech. WWE.com spoke with the WWE Hall of Famer about the origins of his famous catchphrase and Tebow’s use of it today.

WWE.com: At King of the Ring, when you famously exclaimed “Austin 3:16,” was it something you had been thinking about, or did it just come to you?

STONE COLD” STEVE AUSTIN: As I was getting my lip stitched up following my match against Marc Mero, I was told that Jake Roberts just did an interview about me referencing “John 3:16.” I knew the verse, but I also remembered that at football games there was always a fan in the end zone holding up a sign that said “John 3:16.” So it was a pretty famous quote to begin with, and after I won the tournament it just came to me on the fly. To me, it was pure luck that “Austin 3:16” would become what it did.

WWE.com: Did you ever think that an “Austin 3:16” T-shirt would become one of the hottest sellers in WWE history?

AUSTIN: I remember I used to ask if there were any T-shirt ideas for me and there wouldn’t be. Then, after King of the Ring, I was asked for some ideas and I immediately thought, “Put ‘Austin 3:16’ on the front and a skull with ‘Stone Cold’ chiseled into its head on the back.” I don’t know how many of those were sold, but I know it was the number one selling T-shirt in WWE history.

WWE.com: The big news in sports right now is Tim Tebow. He used to wear “John 3:16” on his eye-black when he played in college, and he has taken the NFL by storm. As a devout Christian, Tebow is making the Biblical verse a top search term. You told TMZ.com recently that if he throws for exactly 316 yards again this weekend to beat the New England Patriots, you would relinquish the famous “3:16” to Tebow fully. What are your thoughts about him?

AUSTIN: I first started following Tebow’s career when he was a Florida Gator – not because of him, and hell, not even because of the Gators, but because I was a fan of then-Florida coach Urban Meyer. Because of that I witnessed Tebow’s phenomenal collegiate career. Now he’s a pro, and sure he’s having a great run right now, but it’s a whole new season next year. We’ll see how it plays out and if he’s even starting. I’m no football analyst or a real religious person, but I think he’s a great role model for young kids and I wish him the best. So yeah, if he can throw for another 316 yards and beat the New England Patriots, the “3:16” is all his.

WWE.com: What’s your prediction? Do you think it will happen?

AUSTIN: No, I don’t. But if anyone can pull it out of their rear- end, Tebow can. The kid sucks for three quarters and then wins. [Patriots quarterback] Tom Brady is one of my favorites, and one of the all-time greats, but New England’s defense isn’t great, so it could be another shootout like the Pittsburgh game. You never know what could happen, just like a WWE match.

WWE.com: Being that he’s a devout Christian, we may not see “Tebow 3:16” T-shirts to rival your “Austin 3:16” shirts. When referencing you and Tebow, some critics have pointed out that what you said could be considered blasphemous. Do you feel that has any truth?

AUSTIN: When I did “Austin 3:16,” it wasn’t meant to be anti-religious or anything. In fact, I can’t tell you how many priests and nuns have asked me for my autograph throughout my career. There was nothing sacrilegious about it. “’Austin 3:16’ says I just whooped your ass” was prophetic, and it became a phrase that defined my career. It is still one of the most popular phrases in WWE history, and anyone who doesn’t like it can piss off.