– Nachdem das Dallas-RAW am gestrigen Montag, den 19. Oktober 2015 auf dem USA Network „off-air“ ging, war Brock Lesnar direkt im Anschluss auf dem WWE Network bei Stone Cold Steve Austin im „Stone Cold LIVE Podcast“ zu Gast und sprach dort \u00fcber diverse Themen wie z.B. The Undertaker, was The Rock ihm beigebracht hat, UFC, Ern\u00e4hrung und vieles mehr.<\/p>\n
Nachfolgend die Zusammenfassung im englischen Original vom PWTorch:<\/p>\n
Steve Austin shook hands with Brock Lesnar and thanked him for being on the show. He said they\u2019ve always gotten along. Lesnar asked what show number it is. Austin said number six, but if they don\u2019t do well, they might get cancelled. Austin said if they get lost, he\u2019ll grab a headlock and call for a highspot. Lesnar said he\u2019ll suplex later. Austin laughed and said: \u201cDon\u2019t take me to Suplex City!\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Austin said when he first saw Lesnar, he said he\u2019s got something going for him. He said he had a great look, and then he learned about his background and realized he was a badass. He asked him if he tries to intimidating. \u201cDo you get along well with other people?\u201d he asked.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Lesnar said he carries himself with an ambiance or manner that people may find cocky or arrogant, but he doesn\u2019t do it on purpose. \u201cI guess it\u2019s just the way I am, the way I was built, the chemistry behind who I am.\u201d He said he was the kid beating up kids on the playground and has always had a chip on his shoulder.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Austin asked if he got picked on when he was younger. Lesnar said, \u201cNo, I was doing the picking.\u201d Lesnar said he had to work for what he\u2019s achieved. He said if he wasn\u2019t a professional wrestler, he has no idea what he\u2019d have done. He said his passion for the sport of wrestling made him thrive in the weight room to become what he\u2019s become today. He said it was many hours upon hours of pumping iron. \u201cIt\u2019s been a long road,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Austin asked how growing up on a farm made him what he is today. Lesnar said life on the farm, especially where he grew up in rural South Dakota, their income was based on how well their cows and fields produced. He said some years are better than others, and you just get used to living like you\u2019re broke. \u201cIt\u2019s a way of life,\u201d he said. Lesnar said you\u2019re married to it because the cows have to get milked every morning and every night. He said he learned if you put in the hard work, it\u2019ll pay off.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Austin brought up Brock doing selective dates and part time, but then seemed to want to shift right out of that. He then asked, \u201cWhen the hell are you and me going to go hunting?\u201d Lesnar said he has all the big deer up North. Austin said they have big deer in South Texas. Lesnar said he texted him a month ago and they are going to make it happen. Austin asked if he\u2019s shooting. Lesnar said yes.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cFord, Chevy, Dodge?\u201d Austin asked. Lesnar said Dodge and always has been. He\u2019s a Mopar guy. He says he drives a 2014 Dodge Ram. They showed the picture. They compared brands of hunting gear next.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Austin said he\u2019s a big fan of Mexican food and food in general. He asked Lesnar about his eating habits. Lesnar said he likes steak and a cold beer or coke with rye whiskey. He said he doesn\u2019t like to see his neighbors, he wants solitude. Austin said he uses a gas grill because he doesn\u2019t have patience. Lesnar said he does it with coals. Austin asked again about the rye whiskey. Lesnar said up in Canada where he spends most of his time, he got introduced to rye whiskey. He then plugged Coors Light, too.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Austin paused and asked what his music of choice is. \u201cI\u2019m a hardcore country guy,\u201d Lesnar said. David Allen Coe and Willie and Waylon and Cash. But also Metallica, AC\/DC, and Motley Crew. He talked about his brothers influencing his taste in music. He said he likes following young guys coming up in country. He said Colter Wall grasped him from the first time he heard his record and he listens to it every day. Austin said Lesnar turned him on to it.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Austin shifted to wrestling questions. Are you a pro wrestler or a sports entertainer? \u201cIs there a difference?\u201d Lesnar asked. Lesnar said he\u2019s in the entertainment industry and at the end of the day it\u2019s about selling tickets. He said he took a whole different path than most. He said he thanks God every day doing what he\u2019s done and making a pretty good damn living. He said growing up he never watched a lick of wrestling. Austin asked what he watched. Lesnar said, \u201cLittle House on the Prairie.\u201d They both laughed. Austin admitted he watched it, too. \u201cGive it up to Michael Landon.\u201d Lesnar said, \u201cI only had two channels in the house and they only worked part time.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Lesnar talked about how he was asked to play all kinds of positions in football. He said he had more scholarship opportunities as a football player. He said he had zero as a wrestler, actually. He said after he left WWE and tried the NFL, he said after two days he realized he was a fish out of water. \u201cThis was not my path of what I should be doing, but I lasted eight weeks. I didn\u2019t want to quit. I was the last guy cut by the Minnesota Vikings.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n He said he can\u2019t be good at everything, and he gets humbled all he time. He said at the University of Minnesota, he used to make fun of the football players. He said Vikings training camp was one of the toughest things he endured.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Austin asked why he didn\u2019t get recruited. He said he was an in-between guy and bumped up to heavyweight late to fill a spot on the team. He said he wasn\u2019t a true heavyweight, though. He said he got beat twice his senior year and those guys went on to full scholarships. He said he fought his way up through the junior college ranks.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n He talked about using his aunt\u2019s address to get in-state tuition in California at his second junior college. He told stories about enrollment challenges. He said he never graduated from the University of Minnesota, though.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Austin asked how he fell into pro wrestling since he wasn\u2019t a fan. Lesnar said he fell into a rut. He said he spent almost two months in the basement of the house he was living in. He said it might have been depression. He said WWE pursued him. He said some NFL teams showed interest, too, including Tony Dungee, who was coaching the Tampa Bay Buccaneers but had U of M connections. He said his roommate, who was in the same boat as him, got him to leave the house. He said he pursued a careering avionics and now he\u2019s a pilot for Delta. Lesnar said he started choosing between the NFL, Olympics, coaching, or pro wrestling.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Austin asked about dairy farming as an option. Lesnar said when he was 17 an army recruiter came to school and Lesnar was ready to go with him right there. He said he signed and he called his mom and off he went to boot camp.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n They showed a picture of Lesnar, John Cena, Randy Orton, and Batista at the OVW camp. Lesnar said he drove to Louisville, Ky. where Shelton Benjamin met him. He was roommates at the U of M with Shelton. Lesnar said he was blown away by the setting because it was barbaric, but in a good way. He said it was raw and he loved the facility.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Austin asked about getting called to the main roster. He said he was working with Jim Ross when he signed with WWE. He said he had to finish some prior commitments as a wrestling coach. He said it showed WWE that he was a man of his word when it came to commitments. \u201cMaybe it showed something in me that they liked or didn\u2019t like,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d He said while he was there and still living in Minnesota, he connected with Brad Rheingans and started working with him. He said Brad brought in Curt Hennig, Wayne Bloom, Dan Jesser, and a few others. He said Jesser took a million bumps for him. He said he was the hometown hero of Minneapolis, Minnesota. He said he got notoriety at the U of M and it worked in his favor.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Austin said Big Bossman and Curt Hennig took an immediately liking to him. Lesnar said he started traveling with them because he wanted to learn from them. \u201cThe best time to learn is in the car,\u201d he said. Austin said, \u201cYes sir.\u201d Lesnar said he asked Kane and Taker if he can ride with them and offered to pump their gas. He said he rode with them a few times.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n He said what he can credit to Hennig and Bossman is teaching his psychology and how to put a match together. \u201cAs we all know, it\u2019s pure entertainment,\u201d he said. Austin took a deep breath and said a lot goes into that. He said having those guys in his ear and smartening him up to things was a great opportunity. \u201cThose guys put on a lot of miles and bumps in the ring.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Austin said it didn\u2019t take long and he\u2019s in the ring with The Rock. He said his first match was in Australia in a Triple Threat match with The Rock and Triple H. He said that Hunter told him at the last TV event that they intentionally left him out of the loop in the match so he could learn to sink or swim. Lesnar said Dwayne Johnson was leaving, but he taught him to be selfish, watch his back, and if you\u2019re going to thrive in this business, you gotta be selfish. He said the night that he was not selfish to him, he won the WWE Title from him. He said there\u2019s a time to give and a time to take.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Austin asked if he thought it\u2019d be an easy ride when he became a champion so quickly. Lesnar said the business was so new and intriguing. He said he was drinking beers and staying in different hotels and different environments. \u201cIt was all very intriguing and stimulating at the beginning,\u201d he said, chuckling at the memories. Austin laughed, slapped the table, and said, \u201cYeah, that got me a couple of divorces.\u201d Lesnar said when you portray a person on TV, people start to see you that way. He said he hasn\u2019t changed, even if he\u2019s gotten rougher around the edges. \u201cPeople around you change and they treat you differently,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m no different on TV than I really am. I really don\u2019t like people. I\u2019m sorry, I don\u2019t. That\u2019s who I am. I just don\u2019t like being around a bunch of people.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Lesnar said he can be in front of 20,000 people and feel protected, ironically, but around a group of people socially, he doesn\u2019t do well. He said he doesn\u2019t play well and that\u2019s just who he is. He said he has an eight foot fence around his property and a gate closes behind him when he goes home. He said that\u2019s just who he is.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Austin asked Lesnar about landing on his head at WrestleMania 19 against Kurt Angle. They played the clip from three angles. Austin said it hurt to watch that. Lesnar said that was a moment in his career where he realized he failed to take advice from other veterans. He said he wasn\u2019t being selfish there. \u201cI was talked into doing it. I wasn\u2019t comfortable doing it. I\u2019m not going to say who talked me into doing it. I had done it before and I was young and stupid at the time. Could I do it? Should I have done it? No. Was the person who was telling me to do it \u2013 said it would be a WrestleMania Moment. Boy, why not have a WrestleMania Moment. I sure did, I guess.\u201d He chuckled. Austin said he was mad at him for doing it because he didn\u2019t have to do it. He said he has a style that he can\u2019t see through and a style that\u2019s badass.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Austin brought up WrestleMania 20 against Bill Goldberg. Lesnar said he doesn\u2019t know any numbers. \u201cI look at this purely as a business,\u201d he said \u201cGuys can name certain matches they have. I can\u2019t do that.\u201d Austin said he forgets a lot, too, but he read up on him. Austin said it was a cluster. \u201cNeither one of us wanted to be there,\u201d he said. Austin leaned in and asked, \u201cWhy didn\u2019t you want to be there. It was WrestleMania 20!\u201d Lesnar: \u201cBecause I didn\u2019t give a shit.\u201d Austin said he was refereeing and it was a big deal.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n They showed Lesnar shooting a middle finger. Lesnar said that was aimed at Vince McMahon. Austin asked why he felt that way. He said he had enough of the business. He said he was becoming a person he never thought he\u2019d be. He said he felt he was a trapped animal. He said he felt there were times he was on an airplane he wanted to punch the door open and jump out. He said he tells Vince this to this day. He said with a wide smile that he was built to be in the ring, but he wasn\u2019t built to get from ring to ring.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Austin asked what his thoughts were after he left. Lesnar said he had no plans. He said he was just pulling at strings. He said he\u2019d have been content with being a dairy farmer for the rest of his life, but he decided there was something inside of him that felt this wasn\u2019t it for him. Austin asked if he sued WWE or WWE sued him. Lesnar asked if it really matters and said it\u2019s water under the bridge for him.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Austin asked if anyone in the locker room has grudges with him for coming and going. Austin asked if he goes out of his way to hang out with the boys. Lesnar said he didn\u2019t know anybody when he came back other than a handful of guys. He said he clocks in and clocks out. \u201cWhat\u2019s wrong with that?\u201d he said. \u201cI know people who do it every day. I do my work. I don\u2019t bother everybody. If I piss you off along the way, too f\u2019n bad. It\u2019s a job.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Austin shifted to going to MMA. Lesnar said when his New Japan deal expired, he signed with K1 and fought at the L.A. Coliseum on a one fight contract. He said he reached out to Dana White, who wasn\u2019t taking his calls. He told his manager at the time that he wanted to go see Randy Couture vs. Gabriel Gonzaga. He said after the fight he jumped the security barrier and grabbed Dana White and said he wanted to fight. He said they had a meeting the night and Dana took him seriously. He said they talked about everything but money because at the time he wanted to prove himself. He asked him to sign up for a one fight deal. He said if you can\u2019t sell PPVs with him, then don\u2019t have him back.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Austin asked about his loss to Frank Mir. He asked what it was like to be in that knee bar submission. \u201cI was disgusted with myself,\u201d Lesnar said. \u201cI had trained to get out of that exact hold the entire training camp. For some reason \u2013 I can\u2019t explain it \u2013 I put my foot exactly there.\u201d He said he couldn\u2019t believe he did it. He stood up with his hands on his waist and he said, \u201cI saw my entire life fall off a cliff.\u201d He said the only way he expected to stay employed was to win. He said in the back, though, Dana was bouncing off the walls, excited, and said he wanted him back. Lesnar said they went back to the drawing board and he signed a \u201cthree-to-six fight contract.\u201d He said his next fight was against Heath Herring.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Lesnar said as a competitor you\u2019re trained not to compete or fight on aggression. He said everything was fine until his entrance music hit. Herring then said on they way past his locker room: \u201cI\u2019m gonna show this m-fer that this shit for real.\u201d Almost every word there was bleeped, but that\u2019s pretty close. \u201cThat lit a fire under my ass. I went out and said, all right, here we go.\u201d He said between round one and two, he gave him a fist pump and winked at him. He said when he was riding his ass, he said, \u201cThis is real buddy.\u201d Austin said, \u201cTalk about a long day at the office.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Austin asked about beating Couture. Lesnar said he was thankful for the opportunity. He said Dana saw an opportunity because Lesnar was selling PPVs. He said they were trying to get Randy back because he left with the belt. Lesnar said the heavyweight division was weak when he first came in.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Austin said diverticulitis was his fall. Lesnar said if he hadn\u2019t gotten sick, he probably would still be in UFC. He said it got worse over time, though. He said he got half way through training camp and knew something was physically wrong with him. He said he was too stubborn to get a CT scan. He said instead he sat in his deer stand instead. He said he almost died. He said the doctor came into his room and explained that he was going to save his life before saving his career, so he was giving him eight hours on a big dose of antibiotics. He said his fever was still at 104.3 as they wheeled him in for surgery. He said when he woke up, he thought his career was over. The doctor then explained that as they were about to cut him open, the fever broke, so they stopped short of cutting him open. Lesnar said if he had the surgery, his career would have been done.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Austin asked about his mindset when he returned to WWE. He said there was a lot of bad blood between him and Vince. Lesnar asked, \u201cDidn\u2019t you walk out one time.\u201d Austin got excited and said he\u2019ll talk about it. Lesnar said, \u201cI didn\u2019t care. I wasn\u2019t offended.\u201d Austin said until now he never got his take on it. Lesnar laughed and said, \u201cYou didn\u2019t want to do the job to me.\u201d Austin said he wanted to main event against him when it was ready. Austin said, \u201cAn unadvertised match didn\u2019t make a lick of sense to me. I handled it in the worst possible way. I\u2019ve always admitted that.\u201d Lesnar said he doesn\u2019t have to explain it to him and added, \u201cMaybe you handled it the wrong way, but maybe somebody on the other side could\u2019ve handled it better, too.\u201d Lesnar said it\u2019s a two-way street and when he came back, it had to work for both sides.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Austin asked about the difference between Vince McMahon and Dana White. Lesnar said with their bank accounts, who wouldn\u2019t have an ego. He said he has a big bank account, but nothing close to them. Austin said it was hard-earned. Lesnar agreed he fought for every penny of it. He said he enjoyed working with Dana and the Ferttita brothers. He said it wasn\u2019t games, it was straight up business.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Austin asked if he really was serious about going back to UFC. Lesnar vowed it wasn\u2019t a bluff. He said he it took him a couple years to feel better again physically. He said when his WWE contract was coming to an end, but something inside him was craving the competition again. He said he was totally honest and said he was thinking of getting back into the Octagon. He went to an MMA training camp and test himself not just physically, but more so mentally.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Austin said he loved his promos in UFC, but in WWE he doesn\u2019t speak as much. \u201cI gotta feed the Jew,\u201d he said. \u201cHe\u2019s gotta eat.\u201d He smiled and looked a little nervously off camera. Austin put over Paul Heyman\u2019s mic work. Austin asked his thoughts on promos. \u201cI guess I\u2019m not good at them. I don\u2019t know.\u201d He said without Heyman speaking for him, he wouldn\u2019t be who he is today. He said he doesn\u2019t need to talk because Heyman covers all that. He said his actions speak loud and it\u2019s a great combination. He said when he first came back, he was without Heyman and he think they threw him out there to see where he was. He said cutting a promo with Joe Rogan asking you a question is different than a wrestling promo. Lesnar said there\u2019s so much pent up emotion going into or out of a fight that he can draw from.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Austin talked about how it felt to be in front of a live crowd again. He asked if a fight crowd affects him when he\u2019s fighting. \u201cSometimes you can, absolutely,\u201d Lesnar said. Lesnar said he wouldn\u2019t have known if there were ten people or ten thousand people in UFC. He said in pro wrestling, he can feel them. He\u2019s not sure of why. He said when he puts on his competition hat, it\u2019s a different place.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Austin asked about his relationship with other wrestlers. He asked if they are his friends or he sees them as competition. Lesnar said this time around, he\u2019s hands on with Vince. He said he wants to know his role from the beginning and what his thoughts are and where he wants him to be. He said he doesn\u2019t have to do the politicking or make friends to get ahead. \u201cI just come and go. Tell me what I\u2019m doing. If I don\u2019t like it, can I dispute it. Can I put an honest effort to put a different spin on it. If he\u2019s adamant about it, fine. I work for the man, that\u2019s what I\u2019ll do.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Austin asked about Lesnar breaking The Streak. Austin said he was in the production truck when it happened with two beers on his hand. \u201cAs a businessman, I knew it was big for me. I knew this Streak had been protected for so long that it was special. It was almost bigger than me winning a WWE Championship, if you want to say that. I understood that. I get a lot of criticism for it. Quite honestly, people, who in the wrestling industry has enough credentials to actually break The Streak? Is there another man with enough believability and credibility? Really, honestly is there somebody else out there? No, I don\u2019t think so.\u201d Austin agreed with that.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Austin asked what the biggest misconception is about him. Lesnar: \u201cI don\u2019t really care. If there are misconceptions, I\u2019ve never been a person that really got offended by what somebody thought of my actions or how I carry myself. At the end of the day, I try to be nice to people unless you cross over a line. At the end of the day, I like to do my own thing, Steve.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Austin asked him how much gas he has left in the tank. He asked if he\u2019s enjoying himself so much, he could do it forever. Lesnar said he has a pretty good idea where it\u2019s going to go. There was a pregnant pause. Lesnar said he\u2019s having a good time, but he\u2019s not going to share it with anyone. He said people fight to get into the business, but he and Vince both realize that his leaving probably made them both more money ultimately. He said he went out and made a name for himself and became the UFC Champion. He said when he beat Herring, he transferred a lot of stuff back to WWE by beating him like he did when he vowed to show him how fake he was and how real UFC was.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Austin asked what advice the Brock Lesnar of today would give the Brock Lesnar when he first started. Lesnar said he\u2019d tell him to be sure this is what he wants to do and understands the circumstances. He said people nowadays and kids expect things are just handed over to them. He said this generation, people don\u2019t want to work for something. He said if you don\u2019t work, you\u2019ll end up with nothing. Austin said he respects that.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Austin then asked him about facing Undertaker this Sunday at Hell in a Cell. They went into kayfabe mode a bit as Austin talked about the physical toll in the Hell in a Cell. Lesnar said he\u2019s prepared. He said the cage isn\u2019t very forgiving. He said there\u2019s going to be a lot of carnage. He said he\u2019s coming to end The Undertaker. He said he\u2019s kind of, quite frankly, irritated with him. He said when Vince brought him the opportunity, he wanted to avenge what happened with the last match. He said he has a chip on his shoulder and he\u2019s coming to hurt him. He looked totally uncomfortable with this part of the interview.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Austin shook his hands and closed out the show quickly.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n