Steve Austin talks about a possible match with Hulk Hogan, & ECW PPV
On Thursday, June 30, 2005 at 12:31 AM EST Steve Austin recently took part in an interview for London's The Sun Online with The Lilsboys. In the interview, Austin talks about the possibility of wrestling Hulk Hogan, the ECW One Night Stand PPV and the dream match that never happened with Bill Goldberg.
In regards to wrestling Hulk Hogan, Austin said he would be happy to get in the ring with him. "If they can build it right, the money is right, the event is right and if the story can be told correctly then, yeah, I will fight him," said Austin. "I've never wrestled the guy before and I think it would be an important match. Because it would be the two biggest draws in the history of the wrestling business one-on-one for the first time ever."
One the success of the ECW One Night Stand PPV, Austin felt it was truly what ECW was all about - violence, calamity, bloodshed, brutality and interesting characters. He did feel that a show like this could only be done once a year. Austin added, "I think this thing happened for a reason, because it needed to happen, and I'd love to see one or two a year. But you don't want to prostitute it out by doing anything more than that. When you look at the business in the long haul, that was a great shot of adrenalin, a little burst, but you really have to tell stories through gradual transgressions. You can't go out there every week and hit them with everything you've got."
Austin also touched on the topic of a "dream match" with Bill Goldberg that never took place. "When Vince bought WCW out in 2001, Bill was still making guaranteed money by sitting in the house. So OK, I respect the fact that he's a businessman and he made his money. But had he jumped to the WWE when I was running strong and going crazy - and everything was just unbelievable business wise - it could have been the biggest feud of all time. He could have made more working with me than sitting on his butt taking WCW's money. I'm not knocking what he did but no one can say WWE missed the boat and no can say I missed the boat - Bill Goldberg missed the boat."
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