Why Austin missed Wrestlemania, WWE changing policy, match announced for Rebellion, more
– The reason “Stone Cold” Steve Austin wasn’t involved in the Roman Reigns vs. Cody Rhodes title match at Wrestlemania XL, was due to Austin and WWE not being able to reach a financial agreement, reports the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
– Observer also reports that WWE will supposedly be allowing top talent to not adhere to PG guidelines as the company recognizes that it will draw in a younger audience similar to how it did 25 years ago. However, the company wants to find a way to balance it to where it doesn’t make their sponsors squeamish about it.
– Queen’s Quest member Utami Hayashishita wrestled her final match in Stardom last night. She will most likely be heading to Rossy Ogawa’s New promotion.
– TNA has announced ABC & Leon Slater vs. The Rascalz at Rebellion
BREAKING: @The_Ace_Austin, @DashingChrisBey, & @LEONSLATER_ join forces to battle The Rascalz (@TheTreyMiguel & @ZacharyWentz) & @TheBadReed on the #CountdownToRebellion!
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They should have paid Austin anything he wanted – cuz if the glass shattering sound would have hit they would have earned an extra 10 million dollars, easily
@Jake Allen–10 million dollars from where?
Advertisers, toys, tshirts, hype for Raw/Smackdown the next night/week, media websites reporting on Austin, the legacy of this Wrestlemania and selling merch based on it for the years to come. Austin would have have made this show an all time legendary moment with just his appearance, and him stunning the Rock would have been a much bigger and more thoughtful deal than Cena FU’ing whoever that was and Undertaker choke slamming Rock.
Do we know if that happened when Austin came back and stunned Vince back in Wrestlemania 22? I’m not trying to be argumentative, I’m just honestly curious.
Isn’t Cena a much bigger deal overall than Austin right now?
It problably wasn’t money. Austin didn’t want to be a part of the circus.
Came back to see if my question was answered and realized I wrote Wrestlemania 22 instead of Wrestlemania IN 2022.