{"id":30941,"date":"2017-10-30T13:20:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T18:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/?p=30941"},"modified":"2017-10-30T12:57:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T17:57:07","slug":"steve-austin-neville-wwe-says-no-longer-gets-itch-return-ring-bobby-heenan-memories-return-broken-skull-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/2017\/10\/30\/steve-austin-neville-wwe-says-no-longer-gets-itch-return-ring-bobby-heenan-memories-return-broken-skull-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Austin on Neville and WWE, says he no longer gets the itch to return to the ring, Bobby Heenan memories, and the return of the Broken Skull Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"prowr-3007246296\" class=\"prowr-apple-podcast-button-link prowr-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/pro-wrestling-boom-podcast\/id1365989370\" aria-label=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?fit=320%2C78&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?w=320&ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?resize=300%2C73&ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" width=\"320\" height=\"78\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p><b>Ring Rust Radio with Steve Austin<br \/>\nHosts: Donald Wood, Mike Chiari, and Brandon Galvin<br \/>\nAudio available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/ringrustradio\/2017\/10\/25\/ring-rust-radio-oct-25-w-stone-cold-steve-austin-interview-wwe-tlc-review\">Blogtalkradio.com\/ringrustradio<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>On the return of Steve Austin\u2019s &#8220;Broken Skull Challenge&#8221; and what can fans who have never seen the program expect when tuning in:<\/b> It\u2019s just bad-ass competition. It\u2019s very simple, very basic, very strenuous, very hard and in a tough environment. Basically, we film this on top of a mountain in the desert right outside Los Angeles. Everything we are using from boulders to barrels to logs, there\u2019s no scientific nothing out there. It\u2019s bracket-style competition. Eight athletes come out each week through three rounds of competition and you either win or you lose. If you win, you go on, and if you lose, you go home. At the end of the day, out of eight competitors, one will be left standing. That competitor will come back the next day and run my obstacle course and it\u2019s called the Skull Buster. It\u2019s a half mile course with ten obstacles standing in your way. If you can beat a bench-mark time, you get $10,000 and remain there until someone can dethrone you. It is a very simple formula to understand. If you have never seen it before, you can tune in and understand exactly what is going down. What is going down is extreme, hardcore, physical competition. There ain\u2019t no reality, the only reality out there is you either are going to win or lose, it is a challenge show.<\/p>\n<p><b>Whether he expected the show to take off the way it has and how many more seasons he has in him:<\/b> Man, I love doing the show. I love being outdoors, I love competition and I love to be able to help motivate people to push their bodies and their minds to the absolute limit. I am never bored out there and I am having a great time. I\u2019m not out there trash talking or cutting promos like I did in the wrestling business. I am out there trying to motivate some of the best athletes in the United States of America; there is a big difference there. So, it\u2019s fun being around such driven people that are pushing themselves so hard. I was hoping, and in anything you do you want to have some confidence and want to believe in yourself, but at the end of the day it\u2019s up to the people who watch and if the product is good enough. So far, it has been and I would love to keep doing this for as long as we can. As long as we can keep making this thing challenging for the athletes so that they want to come out and get their challenges met and see how tough they really are. If people are still interested in the show, I would love to keep doing it for a long time.<\/p>\n<p><b>On how the Broken Skull Challenge competitors compare to WWE wrestlers in terms of athleticism:<\/b> In many ways, the athleticism, because this people are training specifically for these tasks and what I am asking them to do. Whether they are coming from the world of Cross Fit, Spartan Race, obstacle course racing, they are training specifically for these types of events. We will shake it up so they never know what we are throwing at them. The guys and gals in the squared circle these days, and I\u2019ll speak of WWE because that\u2019s where I spent the bulk of my career and that\u2019s where I am from and who I am basically with, man those athletes there are off the charts from the generation that I came up. They are outstanding athletes in their own rights. They are extremely tough athletes in their own right. Living that road schedule, getting in that ring every single night, pushing their bodies to the limit in the ring, and then stepping into the gym to stay in tune with what they do. They aren\u2019t training to come out and do what I do, but if you put the athletes from the Broken Skull into a squared circle and have a match, they wouldn\u2019t be able to do it. The athleticism I would say is equal, but both parties are training for uniquely and specifically different endeavors.<\/p>\n<p><b>On current wrestlers that get him excited when they show up on TV:<\/b> You know what, I watch as much as I can. I DVR the show just to fast-forward through the commercials. It\u2019s hard to watch because three hours of Raw every Monday and then two hours of SmackDown, but because I am still involved with the business, I try to watch as much as I can. Brock Lesnar is an absolute beast. I enjoy watching him and seeing what AJ Styles is up to next. Waiting to see if Finn Balor will continue to find his way. Waiting to see what they will end up doing with Shinsuke Nakamura and give him a green light push with that great background he brings from New Japan Pro-Wrestling. With the women\u2019s division, their athleticism is just off the charts now. They have been main eventing Monday Night Raw, SmackDown and pay-per-views. I like the entire product and it has changed a lot since I have been gone. It\u2019s sped up a lot since I have been gone. It\u2019s a different world. So, when I watch with the old school mentality that I have, I have to try to lose myself in it and suspend disbelief and enjoy the ride.<\/p>\n<p><b>On rumors of Neville walking out on WWE due to creative differences and what advice Austin would you give him after going through a similar situation:<\/b> Well, my situation when I walked out, I wasn\u2019t on board with the direction creative wanted to go. I was working my ass off and I just was not happy with that decision. So, I could have made a better decision with how I handled it. Just walking away like I did was a bad idea. I don\u2019t know specifically what Neville\u2019s business deal is or what his contract is or the circumstances under which he left. I know that any time you walk away from something and you don\u2019t have that meeting or that one-on-one time with Vince or Paul or whoever it may be, but that\u2019s the most prudent decision to make. By the same token, I can respect the guy that has enough balls to walk away just because he had a gut feeling like I did. I just wish him all the best in the world. In my opinion, he is an outstanding talent, he was really coming around with his gimmick and character, and he was a guy that I really liked watching. I\u2019m sure a lot of people in the WWE Universe fell the same way. Hopefully he gets past this and whether he goes back to WWE or goes somewhere else, I hope he continues to have a successful career and have fun. At the end of the day, pro-wrestling, to be able to get paid to do that, it\u2019s a fun job but it is a business and you need to get paid accordingly. I want the kid to have a great career, make his money and go on to the next phase of his life when it\u2019s time to do that.<\/p>\n<p><b>On his relationship with Bobby Heenan:<\/b> I barely knew Bobby because he was a generation and half before me. I was a huge fan because I was watching WWF back in the day. Watching his commentary with Gorilla Monsoon, his interactions with Vince or whoever it was, that guy was absolute gold on the microphone, a premier entertainer. If he had to put on the tights to wrestle or put on that weasel outfit, the guy knew how to entertain people. If he hadn\u2019t gotten into the pro-wrestling business, he would have been a stand-up comedian or something, Bobby was going to be successful in whatever he did because that\u2019s how talented he was. A lot of times, when you are on the road and sitting around at the show, one of our agents was Blackjack Lanza. Blackjack is in the Hall of Fame and he is a great story teller. He and Bobby used to travel together back in the day. A bunch of guys and myself would be gathered around Blackjack while he is telling Bobby Heenan stories. Whether they were at the bar doing this or that, the shenanigans they got involved in, so I felt like I knew Bobby a lot more than I did just because I heard so many stories from Blackjack. The guy was a premiere, Grade A, awesome performer. I loved it, I didn\u2019t know him, but I loved it.<\/p>\n<p><b>On where Kurt Angle ranks among the all-time greats and what Austin would you like to see WWE do with him now that he&#8217;s back in the ring:<\/b> I don\u2019t know what I want them to do with him because I don\u2019t know Kurt\u2019s physical capacity with what he can do in the squared circle from a performers stand point. As far as I would rank him as an all-time great, with what he can do in the ring and character standpoint, let\u2019s talk about his in-ring work: off the charts. When this guy came in, I know he won the gold medal at the 1996 Olympics, he comes in to the company and I see this raw talent. He is having these fast-paced wrestling matches, and I was like, holy smokes, this guy is catching onto this like no one I have ever seen in my life. So as a performer, so far ahead of his time and probably the fastest guy in the history of the business to pick it up at the level he picked it up at and just lights out. It didn\u2019t matter who he was getting in the ring with, anybody who got in the ring with him they got a chance to steal the show. His work ethic and desire to be the best was among the highest I have ever known in the history of that business. As a character and persona, some of the backstage stuff we were doing because he was injured and I had three broken bones in my lower back, that comedy stuff we did was mostly adlibbed. The guy was a once in a generation talent. I love him as a person and I love his work in the ring. He was an absolute, true warrior and a bad ass in that ring. Not everybody can keep up with him.<\/p>\n<p><b>On whether he gets the itch to be in front of the WWE fans again:<\/b> No, man. I got a fire in my belly for the business because I love pro-wrestling. I have zero desire to ever try to get back in the ring. I have so many great memories and I look back on those times fondly. It\u2019s the young guy\u2019s time to shine and I am enjoying seeing what they are coming up with. I like seeing the old school guys like myself still in there and doing their thing. When people decide to step away from the ring like I did or the guys that decide to step back in, it\u2019s on a case-by-case, person-by-person basis. Some guys just like to hang on for as long as they can. For a while there, I didn\u2019t understand why guys would do that. When I really thought about it, it\u2019s because they love being in that god-dang ring so much that they just can\u2019t get away from it. I had that neck injury and I needed to get out of the business so I did. I can understand that mindset now. I am done, I am happy being done, I wish I could of stayed in the ring a little bit longer, I rode off into the sunset a little bit sooner rather than I would of like, but it is what it is. I have come to terms with that and I have moved down the road. I am still a fan of the business and watching the men and women do what they do in the business and on Raw and SmackDown and the pay-per-views on the network.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prowr-2641767146\" class=\"prowr-after-content prowr-entity-placement\"><a class=\"spreaker-player\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/show\/pwboom\" data-resource=\"show_id=3275525\" data-theme=\"light\" data-playlist=\"show\" data-width=\"100%\" data-height=\"340px\">Listen to \"Pro Wrestling Boom Podcast\" on Spreaker.<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ring Rust Radio with Steve&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[1452,194,99,101],"class_list":["post-30941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interview_highlights","category-wwe_news","tag-bobby-heenan","tag-neville","tag-steve-austin","tag-wwe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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