Steve Austin is a former WWE World Champion, a WWE Hall of Famer, and arguably the most popular WWE Superstar of all time. Austin definitely left his mark on the professional wrestling business, and his name is attached to some of the most iconic moments in WWE history.
One of the most memorable matches from Steve Austin’s career was his submission match with Bret Hart at WrestleMania 13. Austin didn’t win the match as he refused to submit and later passed out due to loss of blood, but he did earn the respect of the fans that night.
“WrestleMania 13 with Bret “The Hitman” Hart was one of my favorites of all time,” Austin admitted on the Off The Board podcast. “I just remember laying there in a pool of blood and he had the sharpshooter on me. I was struggling to get out and just the feeling I was getting from that Chicago crowd. … I remember him finally breaking the sharpshooter off of me and I knew we accomplished the mission at hand, so that was a favorite moment.”
A few years later Austin and The Rock faced off in the main event of WrestleMania 17 with the WWE Championship on the line, and they broke the indoor attendance record at the AstroDome. The Rattlesnake named that match as another one of his favorite moments, but he added that in retrospect he doesn’t think the heel turn was the right move.
“And if you go to WrestleMania 17, that night me and The Rock pulled down the AstroDome, it was an all new indoor attendance record for the AstroDome– they said George Straight broke it later on, but whatever — but being in there with The Rock and just lighting that crowd up. We started that thing off as a brawl, nothing but right hands, and went 25-27 minutes. I didn’t like the heel turn at the end now that I look back, but, man, being in there with The Rock and lighting up 65,000. Off. The. Charts. And then stunning Vince McMahon, driving the Zamboni and clotheslining his ass in Detroit, stuff like that. Those things are some of the highlights I treasure.”
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