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Jim Ross Reveals Time When Steve Austin Was Furious Over His Match Not Being Last At A WWE Live Event

Posted By: Dustin Frisch on Jan 06, 2018

Jim Ross Reveals Time When Steve Austin Was Furious Over His Match Not Being Last At A WWE Live Event

Recently on Sam Roberts' Wrestling Podcast, Jim Ross talked about calling the WWE WrestleMania 15 main event at the request of 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin and The Rock, the competitive nature of the WWE locker room during 'The Attitude Era', and why Austin resonated with fans.

According to Ross, the WWE locker room was so competitive during the Attitude Era that every member of the roster wanted to be the so-called "top guy" in WWE. Ross illustrated his point with a story of Austin being insulted that he was not main eventing a house show when 'J.R.' was just trying to give Austin a rest.

"We had a very competitive group, everybody wanted to be the top dog. Everybody took pride in being the guy. I booked Austin one time in a tag match to give him a break on a Saturday night before TV, a Sunday night, excuse me, on the west coast. I put him in a tag match at Vince's suggestion and I put him on right before intermission. So he goes out and gets to the town and Blackjack Lanza is the road agent, so Lanza calls me on the phone, which was very common, go over the plans for the night creatively on the live events, and he goes,

'I've got Austin here for you.' He handed Austin the phone and after he got done over modulating on my phone and cussing, I figured out that A) he didn't like tag matches and B) he couldn't figure out why he wasn't going on last. And I said, 'well, I thought the tag match would give you something of a break instead of carrying the whole load and going on before intermission would get you on the road earlier.' I said, 'you've got a big night at RAW the next night and it's an early night because we're on west coast time.' And he gave me, 'man, I worked my entire G.D. life for this, to be a top guy, and not have to do that and I want to go on last. That's what top guys do.' And that was him! That was the way some talents were."

 

Source: Sam Roberts Wrestling Podcast
Tags: #wwe #jim ross #steve austin

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