Professional wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer Stone Cold Steve Austin who is a former six times WWE World Champion recently talked about his decision to retire from Professional wrestling and also discussed how he changed his wrestling style after his neck injury.
Stone Cold Steve Austin is arguably the biggest name of the Attitude Era of WWE which is considered the best time period of any professional wrestling promotion history. He was one of the biggest reasons to tune in to WWE every week on television. He was a hero to every 90s wrestling fan.
Steve Austin Discusses His Decision To Retire
But his professional wrestling career was cut short because of a deadly neck injury that he picked up before he was famous. It was during a match against Owen Hart at Survivor Series 1997. He might have become more famous with time, but he was not the same anymore after picking up this deadly injury.
At the beginning of the Ruthless Aggression era, he was still a huge thing. He had a feud with the Rock which ended up Being a match at WrestleMania XIX. Unfortunately this turned out to be his last match as he was forced to retire after this match. It was a huge upset for the world of professional wrestling that such a big name had to retire so early.
But he finally made his returns for one last match for this years WrestleMania which was WrestleMania 38. It was after 19 years of his last match against the Rock that took place at WrestleMania XIX. He defeated Kevin Owens in this match and this turned out to be his last match. It was really an amazing feeling to see him back in action after such a long time.
Stone Cold Steve Austin who is a former six times WWE World Champion recently spoke to Bill Apter for Sportskeeda where he talked about his decision to retire from Professional wrestling and also discussed how he changed his wrestling style after his neck injury. He said;
“Believe me, retiring at 38 was the toughest, one of the toughest things I’ve ever had to do, walk away from the business that I love so much. This is one of the things that I love more than anything in my life.
“I have my family, and of course, they are very close to me, but professional wrestling, you want to call it Sports Entertainment, it’s all the same to me. This is one of my biggest, if not the biggest, passions of my life. So it was very hard for me to walk away at 38 years of age.”
“There is no telling as to what I would have done had everything else played out the same with respect to the development of the character. But you know, things along the way, getting dropped my head forced me to turn into a brawler but god, if I could have had that kind of physicality and you know, that kind of health that I had in my youth. The run would have lasted a lot longer.”