Steve Austin Discusses Walking Out On WWE Over Brock Lesnar

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During a recent episode of The Steve Austin Show, Austin and Raven spoke about Austin walking out of WWE in 2002 after he refused to lose to Brock Lesnar on RAW with no build-up. Austin said he learned about the match when he was in a Columbus, George hotel room after Jim Ross called him. Here are highlights:

On learning about the match: “Back in the day, I was drinking a lot of whiskey, and then [Ross] laid out the finish for me and I was laying in the hotel room. I said, ‘if that’s creative, I ain’t going to be there’ and he told me to call Vince [McMahon]. I said to him, ‘so that’s what we’re doing, huh?’ and he goes, ‘yep’. And I was thinking [he would say], ‘well, yeah, unless you don’t like it, Steve’ and he didn’t say that, so I’m just like, ‘oh really? Okay, then F- you!’ and that’s when I took my ball and went home and that big smear campaign started.”

On if he was difficult to work with: “I was always a reasonable guy. I was always going to put a guy over when it was time to, but if I didn’t like the finish, I would say, ‘no, F- that. We’re not doing it’, and I’d leave the room. I would never offer a solution, and so, sometimes, I was a little bit hard to work with from that respect,” Austin said. “The fact that I couldn’t dispute the finish was a valid point, but I didn’t dispute it. I just said, ‘F- you.’ I didn’t even say that. I kayfabed [McMahon]. I said I was going home. It was a walkout.

On his problems with WWE creative: “Sometimes the finishes were just so ludicrous it was unbelievable. Some of the times I was so amazed with the things they wanted to come up with. I was like, ‘are you kidding me? I mean, come on, man!’ I knew Brock was money back in the day when I first met him! And me and the guy are friends! We’ve always been friends! But it’s like, that wasn’t a good business decision!”

On wishing he could have handled the situation better: “I handled it in the worst way I could by saying that’s when I effectively quit and I was gone for six or eight months or whatever it was. But, hell, it was basically career suicide for almost anybody! I lost a lot of money. The company lost a lot of money. It was just a bad part of my life that I handled in a horrible fashion. I blew that one and it was on me.”

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