Stone Cold Steve Austin has no intention of lobbying for a match with WrestleMania 40.
Stone Cold was not present at WrestleMania 39, but is also not looking to take someone’s spot at next years event.
Austin was rumored to appear at this years event but he decided against it, noting that he could not get in ring shape in time for a match at the event.
Speaking to Chris Van Vliet on Insight, Austin addressed possibly working the event next year.
“I could,” he said when asked about having another match. “I’m not going to sit here and lobby for one, because that’d be silly, that’s a year away. A year in that business is like that [finger snap]. They asked me to be part of (WrestleMania) 39, they really did, and I couldn’t do it because there was no way…I knew what my life was going to look like due to the filming schedule of the show. We had some internal stop-downs where the show took five months to film. That’s a long time. We finished filming about five to seven days before WrestleMania 39. In a position they were going to put me in, which was going to be a big one, you can’t prepare for WrestleMania and do yourself justice or do that crowd justice. Dallas was set up for a Stone Cold return, the way we framed that with KO [Kevin Owens], who I love, was perfect for the time and setting. For this match to play out, I really needed to perform at a high level. I didn’t work out before 38. I hadn’t thrown a working punch in 19 years. I was killing KO out there. I truly was. Ask him. I told him when we got to the back, ‘Man, I can’t believe you didn’t throw a receipt.’ He just laughed because his job was to take care of me. In the future, I’m not lobbying for it, but could anything happen? Yes. They always say, never say never,”
Stone Cold Steve Austin
It is still unknown as of this writing who Austin was pitched to face at WrestleMania 39.
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