Throughout the course of his career Stone Cold Steve Austin faced off against some of the biggest names in the business, but there are a number of dream matches that never happened.
For years fans talked about a possible CM Punk vs. Steve Austin dream match, and interest in the match only increased after Punk and Austin crossed paths on WWE programming.
During a recent appearance on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Austin was asked how close we were to getting an Austin vs. Punk match. He acknowledged that it was teased, but indicated that it just wasn’t something that could’ve happened at the time.
“It was teased at one time, we were promoting a video game, and I think I just had an ACL, PCL [surgery]. Maybe it was teased, but it just never happened, just like me and Hogan never [happened]. Many things never happened. There’s so much good s*** that did happen. Not everything can happen.”
Steve Austin vs. Goldberg was another big dream match that was often talked about among fans, and Austin noted that things simply didn’t line up after Goldberg joined the WWE roster.
“I don’t know. I think we pitched it when he first came in, but he wasn’t at the level that he needed to be. He had just come into WWF, and he needed to get going or get over first. He was certainly over from his WCW days. I think a little bit of time had elapsed, but I watched him down there in Atlanta, but we were all on the road at the time, and that was during the Monday Night Wars. If you set your DVR to record back in the day, you kind of knew what was going on. I watched Dallas Page kind of go down a parallel path as me too as far as this timeline of getting over. But yeah, you know, Goldberg just needed to put some time in WWF before we could go, and then it just never happened. Bill is a good friend of mine.”