Source: WrestlingInc.com

Steve Austin has now finished filming his latest movie project, Recoil.

Austin is scheduled for the June 6th edition of WWE Monday Night RAW from Richmond, Virginia. He will announce the winner of WWE Tough Enough live on that show.

Austin is also scheduled for the June 13th edition of WWE Monday Night RAW from the Nassau Coliseum in Long Island, NY.

Source: WrestlingInc.com

As noted earlier, Steve Austin is being advertised for the June 13 Monday Night RAW taping at the Nassau Coliseum in Long Island, New York. His scheduled appearance coincides with the end of Tough Enough season, which concludes the week before. In an update on this, the June 13 RAW is the first of back to back three-hour shows.

Speaking of Austin, he posted a video promoting this week’s episode of WWE Tough Enough at http://www.twitvid.com/MB9OV

Austin Appearance
Steve Austin is scheduled to appear at The USA Network’s Upfront Presentation in New York City today. That may be a sign that Tough Enough is getting a second season.
Source: 411Mania.com

TE Update
Tonight’s guest will be Rey Mysterio!

Steve Austin RickRolled!

Austin Hosts Tough Enough – Article
PASADENA, Calif. — Though he doesn’t admit it, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, the Hall of Fame wrestler from World Wrestling Entertainment, is warming up. He gave up wrestling eight years ago after a mishap in the ring left him with two crushed vertebrae in his neck that had to be fused.

But looking at him today you’d never know he quit. Tall, muscular, with a shaved head and blondish mustache and goatee, Austin is back in the game.

As host and drill sergeant from the new USA series, “WWE Tough Enough,” 7 p.m. Mondays, Austin imposes the same rigorous standards he once used on himself.

The show pits young WWE hopefuls, both men and women, against each other in the ring.

“Those first few weeks you’re really judged on your in-ring performance because you’re going to have to weed through those who really don’t belong,” he says. “And then things start to get tougher. And that’s truly based on performance — some people just don’t have it.”

When he was 7 years old he happened to catch wrestling on TV. It was love at first sight.

“We call it ‘sports entertainment’ these days but that’s what I know and love,” he says. “So I can watch somebody get in that ring and within five or 10 minutes tell you whether they belong or don’t belong, whether they have a chance to make it or hit the road and good luck in your future endeavor.”

Austin never wrestled while growing up in Edna, Texas, but was an all-around athlete.

“My whole career from fifth grade on until I was a senior in high school, I didn’t drink, didn’t party — I played athletics,” he says. “I had a weight bench outside on our cement slab. And when the high school gym wasn’t open, I would be at home on Friday and Saturday nights working on my concrete slab … I played football, ran track and played baseball.”

He got football scholarships, chose one to junior college, another to the University of North Texas.

“I blew my knee out and rehabbed and played 11 games the next year as weak side defensive end, then I got into the professional wrestling business,” he says. “Over the course of the next 15 years I screwed up some more ligaments in my knees. But my neck is where I ultimately got out of the business.”

The 46-year-old admits he took steroids while he was wrestling and that with the WWE the outcome is predetermined.

“If people think you really don’t like each other, it’s going to be a heck of a match,” he says. “But there’s cooperation going on out there. Now you’re going to be snug and make things look real good, but two guys fighting out there is ugly. It’s not what the fans are there to see. They want to be entertained. They want to see the story unfold, what psychology you’re going to use, how they can get involved. It’s a lesson in psychology which separates the best from the also-rans.”
Source: NewsOK.com

Austin Comments on Edge Retiring + More
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WWE Hall of Famer “Stone Cold” Steve Austin was on “Busted Open” with hosts Doug Mortman and Dave LaGreca. You can listen to the full interview tonight at 2-4 PM ET on Sirius 125, XM 241. Here are some excerpts:

On being part of the first big event after 9/11 (Smackdown in Houston on Sept. 13, 2001): “Well, the first show back was an interesting day at the office just because that’s when Vince just said ‘Hey Steve, we need to go back to work. A lot of people are going to come down on us but we gotta get this thing moving again and go forward because that’s what you do.’ There was just a lot going on there. A big gray cloud over all of us. Why this happened and how it happened and everything that went on. It was a little strange obviously. It was a weird period, that’s all I can say about it. It was a long time ago and it was a weird period, but you have to do what you have to do.

On Edge’s sudden retirement and similarities to Austin’s neck problems: “Well, I don’t know all the particulars about Edge’s health, but I guess it’s a neck problem. Spinal Stenosis, it means you ain’t gotta lot of room for your spinal cord to move. So that puts him in harms way by taking too many bumps or taking the wrong bump, so it’s a good decision he made. Sad day at the office for millions and millions of Edge fans and WWE fans.

“I remember a long time ago, when my good buddy Mr. Wonderful Paul Orndorff, had to get out of the business and he looked at me. Me and Paul were always straight shooters with each other and really good friends, and he goes ‘Steve, let me tell you something. There is life after wrestling.’ And there is, you just gotta go out there and find it and Edge will. He’s a bright kid, always has been, he’s still young, has got youth on his side, good looking kid and smart, so he’ll be fine. That’s just the way it is. When its time to close a door and open up another one, you gotta do that.”

Reaction to hearing WM 28 Main Event a year in advance and making it work: “They’re gonna have to make it work. It’s a hard build to make work. Rock’s hot and heavy right now in the movie business, he’s doing great… and Cena is the number 1 guy, I’m sure he would love to work with a guy like Rock. When you got that big a window of time, it’s gotta work, and if anybody can make it work, it’s Vince. He always wants to do something big at every single Wrestlemania there is and that’s the big thing that he made was… this next Wrestlemania. He’s a lot smarter than I am, so more power to him and good luck. I wish both guys well.

On wrestlers having personality or lack thereof and if the guys in the back were upset that he showed his with the Stone Cold character: “To this day, they (creative) might give you something because they don’t think you can come up with anything better or they feel their idea might be better than yours. Vince is a businessman. He don’t want to sit there and make every single decision that’s gotta be made. At the corporate level that’s his job because he’s the leader of that ship… he’s the captain, it’s his baby, but hell, he wants everyone to go out there.

“If John Cena, the number 1 guy in the business, goes up to Vince and goes ‘Vince, I got a damn good idea, this is how to make me better and more hotter than I already am’… Vince is gonna listen to him. If Joe Blow who’s jerking the curtain in the first match says ‘Vince, I got a hell of an idea that’s gonna make me a main eventer, Vince is gonna say ‘Let me hear it’. It ain’t about them labeling you anything and making you stick to it. You gotta come up with something… it’s show business.”

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