Steve Austin on ATV crash at WrestleMania 41: ‘Not the greatest day at the office’
Steve Austin has commented on crashing an ATV into the ringside barricade at WrestleMania 41.
Austin rode an ATV to the ring on night two to announce the attendance figures of both nights of WrestleMania. However, he crashed into the ringside barricade while doing laps around the ring, causing a fan standing behind the barricade to fall backward. Austin was seen apologizing to the fan before entering the ring.
During an appearance on The Ariel Helwani Show on Wednesday, Austin said the ATV had a different throttle system than he’s used to and that he’s embarrassed by the incident.
“Different throttle setup than what I’m normally used to. Long story short, just a different throttle system because I’m pretty damn handy on a on a four wheeler,” Austin said.
When asked if there was any aftermath to the incident, Austin responded:
“No, just I was embarrassed about it. I think everybody’s ok, but I mean, you go out there on the biggest night in wrestling, and you end up like that, it’s not the greatest day at the office. You go out there and you want to give people the best show that you can and when you fall short of that, it’s not great.”
Logan Paul recently mentioned on his podcast that Austin turned down a $1 million offer to take part in another WrestleMania segment. Paul had pitched for Austin to emerge from the Prime bottle at ringside during the event. Austin told Helwani he declined the offer, in part because he’s in the beer business.
“I just thought that was kind of personal business, but since it’s out there, yeah, I turned it down. I’m in the beer business, I sell Broken Skull beer, we’re in about 25 or 30 states. I don’t know anything about his product,” Austin said.
“I turned it down just becuase I wasn’t into it and no direspect to him or his product.”
Austin was in Las Vegas for WrestleMania this year as his match against Bret Hart at WrestleMania 13 was honored as the first Immortal Moment to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame. He spoke about the historical impact of the match.
“I love Bret Hart and we just always had great chemistry from day one,” Austin said.
“This is one of the great matches, but just the historical impact that it had. On the rest of the business after this match unfolded, where Bret would go on to become a heel, I would turn into an anti-hero babyface and you know, have the Austin run. I couldn’t have had that run without Bret.”
“We did the turn, the double turn, execute that with perfection. Shout out to Ken Shamrock who was a big part of it as well and the announce team. But it was awesome and it was a great night at the office and every time you go in the ring you want to have a match like that,” he continued.
Austin’s full appearance on The Ariel Helwani Show is available below: