Stone Cold Steve Austin

Austin is way more entertaining that hogan, its hard to explain to someone who started on hogan and not austin like i did, but Watching tapes of hogan, and watching him live back in the day on the monday night wars, austin was way better, and as far as him gettin in the ring again, fuck that, i want to see more movies as good as damaged orr whatever the title of it is, that movie kicked ass!

Hands down Austin was one of the very best at entertaining us during the 90's-2000's, I can say without a doubt he was 100 times the entertainer Hogan was and will ever be.

"Stone Cold" Steve Austin was a guest on Live Audio Wrestling to promote his latest film The Stranger. He was fairly diplomatic. He said Jim Ross was a great friend and instrumental in his career but understands why WWE chooses not to use him as an announcer.

"It's just a case of the WWE wanting to go in a different direction and maybe get younger. The show has changed, it's a PG rated show so Jim fits into that but the Stone Cold character not so much. That's just the business and sooner or later your time is up and I guess they figured his time was up. I love Jim Ross and I think he's the greatest announcer in the history of the business and there's been a couple of outstanding ones and lots of good ones but I put him at the top of the list – and that's just the wrestling business."

Austin also shot down the notion of returning to the ring. He said: "I think it's best to leave well enough alone and let people remember Steve Austin for what he was. Could I go back? I could get another couple of years out of this carcass if I wanted to or if I had to and I could have another match but what's the point? I have my sights focused on trying to be as good an actor as I can be and go down this road. I love my wrestling fans and wrestling is what put me on the map and I still follow the business to this day but I'm going to leave well enough alone." Full interview at www.liveaudiowrestling.com.

(credit: The Wrestling Globe Newsletter)

Maybe producers arent willing to chance him in a different role though. He could easily be typecast through no fault of his own, just like Vinnie Jones and Danny Dyer who will struggle to get out of the loudmouth Cockney 'hardman' role, he will just be given basic 'hardman ex-cop goes back into action' movies.