WWE Hall Of Famer “Stone Cold” Steve Austin was recently interviewed by Sports Illustrated to talk about his return to WWE Monday Night RAW tonight from Madison Square Garden. Austin talked about walking through the doors of MSG still being special for him, MSG being a tough crowd, and people once destroying their rental cars after leaving the arena back in the day.
Here are the highlights:
Walking through the doors of MSG still being special:
Walking through those doors at the Garden is still special for me. That’s the WWE’s backyard. Even though they’ve been away for a couple of years, that’s a very special building to Vince.
MSG being a tough crowd:
That crowd is a tough crowd, and if you win them over, you’ve really done something. It’s a crowd that you’ve got to work really hard for to earn their respect, and I love that about that building. Vince would always show up at the Garden, even for the house shows. And when the old man rolled into the building, we made sure we worked our asses off even more than we already were because Vince was watching.
WWE stars having their rental cars destroyed after leaving the arena back in the day:
I remember when the business got so hot back in the day that when you would drive your rental car into the Garden, the fans would line up and wait for you on the way out. Depending on how over you were as a babyface or how much heat you had as a heel, they would tear off your side view mirrors and rip off your antennas. People tearing up your automobile was almost like your reward for being over or having heat. We didn’t like it, but that was how it was. And eventually it started meaning something to us.
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