“It’s a Really Interesting Tale”: The Rock’s Close Friend Got Off the Wrong Foot With Stone Cold Steve Austin

It is no secret that Stone Cold Steve Austin is one of the most hot-headed wrestlers WWE has ever seen. The stories surrounding him are a testimony to this fact. His ‘macho-man’ image in WWE has been stuck in the heads of an entire generation of kids and young adults. On the other hand, The Rock had a kind of image on the screen as his persona tended more towards charismatic delivery and his in-ring presence.

Austin’s rivalry with The Rock, which originated over their intercontinental title feud, is still considered one of the most electrifying rivalries in WWE history. And one can imagine a rivalry with Austin simply means hell! Once, just like The Rock himself, a friend of his rubbed him the wrong way as well.

Brian Gewirtz talks about Austin walking out of the match vs Brock Lesnar

Former WWE writer and producer Brian Gewirtz got up-close and personal with Peter Rosenberg on Cheap Heat where he talked about his relationship with Austin and The Rock, among other things. 

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Back in 2002, Austin famously walked out of a match-up with Brock Lesnar, which was scheduled by The Rock’s friend Brian Gewirtz. 

Reminiscing about it, Gewirtz said, “I think everything, my part included, if I didn’t know any better, when Steve gave an interview at the time to WWF Magazine and said, ‘I don’t need some kid straight out of sitcom school handing me a piece of paper.’ I kind of deduced that he might have been talking about myself at that time.” 

Austin refused to attend the match and walked out as he did not wish to be a medium of making somebody else the ‘Next Big Thing’.

Gewirtz himself is a fan of Stone Cold Steve Austin

The former WWE Head Writer agreed that Austin did not in fact need somebody telling him what to do. Gewirtz himself did not exactly want the same as he is a big fan of ‘The Texas Rattlesnake’ himself. “In my apartment in L.A. I had a…Like any cool 26-year-old living in L.A. would have, I had an inflatable Stone Cold Steve Austin bobbing,” he said.

While on this topic, he also hinted at the possible return of Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson! It rests on his Hollywood shoot schedule but is a very likely possibility.

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