There’s a reason fans loved WWE’s Attitude Era; they pushed the envelope in ensuring fans received the most entertaining and edgiest content, and it certainly worked as WCW fell victim to Vince McMahon’s booming empire.
Some fell out of love with professional wrestling because WWE moved away from perhaps their most successful era, and it certainly provided some of the greatest moments in history.
ATTITUDE ERA
RAW is Jericho, the birth of D-Generation X, the Montreal Screwjob; they’re just some of the moments that had taken place and things fans still talk about to this day.
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However, there’s usually one man people mention as the one responsible for the success of WWE’s Attitude Era and WCW’s demise – Stone Cold Steve Austin.
He was involved in some of the biggest storylines, the most entertaining matches and history-making moments in general, and on a new episode of his ‘The Steve Austin show’ podcast, he revealed one incredible stunt which almost turned deadly.
Austin was booked to destroy The Rock’s brand-new Lincoln Town car with his monster truck – but he only found out about the storyline when he arrived at the arena and then he had to take a quick crash course considering he’d never been behind the wheel of a monster truck; that's just asking for trouble.
After revealing that McMahon demanded the car was purchased from the showroom on the day for $30,000, he said: “Well hell, I don’t know how to drive a monster truck. So, there I was in the parking lot, driving the Austin 3:16 monster truck.
MONSTER TRUCK
"It was a bad ass Dodge with an alcohol/methanol motor and about 1800 horsepower. Anyway, I learn to drive the monster truck after about 15-20 minutes in the parking lot.
“The thing about me, I can drive anything in about 15 minutes. Don’t give a s**t what it is, I can drive it. So, there we are, we go live. I get my cue and off I go running up and down that car, crushing the s**t out of it. Then there’s going to be a deal where I drive the truck into the arena.
“So, I go into the back door of the arena and I’m in a holding room with a couple of curtains in front of me. The monster truck was loud as f**k and that 1800 horsepower motor is churning out exhaust fumes.
“So, I’m in this room and they shut the door behind me. It was about a three minute commercial break, so the whole time the people back home are watching commercials, I’m in a room, inside a truck, breathing methanol/alcohol fumes – I could barely breathe.
“I was just begging for the show to come back on air so I could charge out in the audience and get a breath of fresh air. I’m breathing all those exhaust fumes, motherf****r, I was going to crash that gate doing 98 and go and take my own cue and haul ass into the arena, if they hadn’t have cued me when they did – I was about to die.”
As you’ll be able to tell by the clips below, it was a success – even if it did result in a dangerous situation for the Texas Rattlesnake.
What do you make of Stone Cold’s admission on the monster truck segment? Have YOUR say in the comments section below and the second episode of GiveMeSport’s WWE podcast is here! Check out the inside info from our coverage in Orlando. https://soundcloud.com/user-818579649/givemesport-inside-wrestlemania-33
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