Would You Approve? (Stone Cold. Brock. Cena. Roman)

[ZexImmortal]

I saw a post Implying Austin is getting set for a WM return. (Not confirmed I believe)

Stone Cold has made a name for himself namely in the Royal Rumble PPV. Now just to add water to the seed of thought:

IF (Strong If) Austin should wrestle at Mania. I think he should win the Rumble, Being the first "Guest" to win a Royal Rumble. There would be decent time for Promo build up, hell i'd even go as far as to say let him Special Ref the Elimination Chamber match. Almost like the fate of his opponent in his hands.

It would be classic Austin, you dont know who he will screw. If he will screw. etc... it adds much more hype and a more "I Dont know whats going to happen" Feel to the match.


What will Brock Do? Some might ask

Well at EMC (Elimination Chamber) assuming Brock gets this far, have him drop it here. Have Brock get pissed at Austin for not counting a downed Cena to three when Lesnar covered (Cause he feels Austin counted slow) Goes to F5 Austin. Austin counters and stuns him. Puts Roman on top and counts to three. making Brock the FIRST eliminated.

Raw:

Roman comes out claiming he eliminated the former champ, and wants a shot at the current champ (Cena) Brock comes out, brawl happens. Brock F5 to Roman, demands his rematch tonight. during the match Roman returns to screw Brock, Cena defeats him. Austin comes out, Stuns Cena and takes the title to end show.

There's your Brock vs Roman and your Cena vs Austin. Have Austin hold on to the belt until Mania. He doesn't return it at all. Matter of fact. let him walk down the ramp at Mania WITH the belt.


AFTER Mania: Have Brock claim he never got his fair shot at the title and he wants it. Cena accepts (Cause lets face it. Cena has to win at Mania. Not because he's Cena, but because its what needs to happen. Hes a better pay off. no insult to Austin) But before that rematch can happen Cena wants to prove to everyone that he is on Brocks level, and he can defeat Brock without the aid of anyone else. Cena says it'll be the match to end it once and for all. Last time Cena beat Brock it was with the use of weapons. He has never beaten Brock in a clean manner and he wants to change that. At SummerSlam.

This will pencil in a year in the making type of match.

 

[THTRobtaylor]

Nope...

Simple reason this is not remotely happening... Brock would destroy Austin on the first bump... he could literally kill him if his neck goes. It's a risk Austin wouldn't take cos he doesn't need to. He doesn't need to win the Rumble, an appearance might work but it'd have to be #30 for it to have any impact and would have to be screwing the Authorities plans.

The other side of the coin is Austin would be taking a berth from someone more deserving. Be it Seth Rollins, Dean Ambrose, Daniel Bryan... if there is going to be a multi man title match, it should be the 3 Shield members against each other for the title... Brock doesn't need the belt to face Rock at Mania if that's whats planned.

So where does that leave Austin... Ambrose might work but as said he should be in the title match... so then who do you get? It has to be a younger talent to really make the match "matter" or it has to be Punk... no if's no buts, they may have tempted Austin but can they or would they get Punk back for that? Does it go last which is his whole beef?

Austin v Wyatt isn't particularly a good fit, Austin couldn't take Sister Abigail for a start.

Perhaps you go with a tag match, Cena and Austin team up against.... There aren't really the teams to make that work.

Austin doesn't really fit, especially if they have Rock on the radar AND Angle... Angle v Rusev is a no brainer match and the Rumble thing plays far more to him than Austin... Rusev is looking dominant, eliminating people left and right then Kurt's music plays and he takes him out of the match.

 

[Garfan]

Wade Barrett would be a viable opponent for Austin. Maybe tease a face turn for Barrett after he returns from injury. He gets in a brawl that Austin helps take out. Barrett drinks with him then spits it out and asks what kind of swill that is.

 

[Aeon Mathix]

I hate these kinds of threads I truely do. A report on a wrestling "news" site basically indicates Stone Cold is working out harder as of late and automatically connect the dots to him getting back into the ring.

Austin himself has said he would return to the ring IF he was needed and it was the right moment and time. He said it's nothing at all he is clamoring for or pitching. He was on the verge of death the last time he got into a ring against The Rock at Wrestlemania XIX and it was the perfect way for him to go out. There is zero need for him to come back and take a spot at Mania that could go to someone else.

If we must discuss this and Austin says he is coming back for one more match, then it should be against Cena and no one else. I can already see the CM Punk threads starting up about him vs Stone Cold.

 

[Pedigree1]

SCSA has been out of the ring come WM time 12 years!! 12 long years.. In that time,he hasnt taken a bump that we know of,wrestled or kept himself in-ring shape.. Not to say he isnt in shape but not wrestling shape.. He has a history of severe neck issues thanks to that bad piledriver he took at Summerslam 97. Austin doesn't need the money,he has his red neck island show on tv,podcast,and various hollywood projects..

Makes no sense for him to step foot into a ring and take a bump in even the most minor situations.. If If If he were to step foot into a ring,tag match would be his best fit.. Let someoen like Daniel Bryan or Cena do 98% of the work,tag Austin in,hit his stunner and everyone would go home happy.. Climb the Turnbuckle,flip the crowd off,drink his beers give beers to DB Or Cena,stun one of them and the crowd goes home extra satisfied.

 

[Jack-Hammer]

I'm of the opinion that Austin's so full of his own crap that eyes have turned brown and he's sprouted hair. Every so often, just like Hulk Hogan, Austin will, allegedly, claim that he's interested in having one more match or wants to have one more match under the right circumstances. People start talking about it for a few weeks, buzz dies down and the buzz starts up again 5 or 6 months down the road whenever he makes another announcement of possibly getting back into the ring. I've been hearing it for years now and I'm just not even remotely interested in it anymore.

When it's all said & done, this just strikes me as another one of those insane nostalgia moments that some would like to see happen just for the personal thrill of being able to see a childhood or teenage favorite have one more title run regardless of whether or not he's even able to physically compete. Steve Austin hasn't wrestled in over a decade and I'm not at all sure he can still do it. Brock Lesnar is a very stiff guy and I've no faith in Austin escaping the match without sustaining injury. In a match with Brock Lesnar, in order to get the most out of it, you need someone that's young & fit enough to be able to roll with the punches, so to speak, while being able to protect himself and making Lesnar look like a beast all while coming out in one piece himself. That way, Lesnar can look truly devastating in the ring by being able to go "all out" like we saw with Cena, Punk & Triple H. Besides, I'd MUCH rather see someone slay The Beast Incarnate who'll actually have something to gain from the match other than a big paycheck.

I'm not opposed necessarily to Reigns vs. Lesnar, but Reigns still has a lot of work to do before I see him as being someone that I really wanna see take on Lesnar. To me, he's just not there yet.

As for Cena vs. Austin, again, Austin's physical condition is an obvious and very relevant question. If Austin isn't able to physically compete without embarrassing himself, Cena and the company, then it needs to remain firmly within the realm of fantasy. I'm more interested in the here & now and the future rather than one more moment of nostalgic glory for a 50 year old Attitude Era titan that hasn't wrestled a match in almost 12 years.

 

[ComeOnVince]

I'm more interested in the here & now and the future rather than one more moment of nostalgic glory for a 50 year old Attitude Era titan that hasn't wrestled a match in almost 12 years.

I couldn't agree more, and I'm a Stone Cold mark of the highest order.

I would love to see SCSA in a WWE ring again - just not wrestling in one. As stated already, he left his career in an amazing place. Let it lie. I'm all about SCSA showing up, drinking some beers, giving a promo, maybe get in a tussle or two, dish out a stunner... and that's about it.

Guest ref spot? Sure!

50-year-old retired Rumble winner? I'm not in on that.

 

[Navi]

I'm gobsmacked as to why anyone would want Austin to come back after 12 years to win the Royal Rumble. Isn't the winner of the Rumble guaranteed a main event spot at Wrestlemania, and don't we have enough on the current roster who deserve that chance first?

Austin, and I'm a fan of his, retired a long time ago in wrestling years. Look at how out of shape Batista was when he returned not so long ago, and he is in better shape than Austin is. Batista looked blown up after a couple of minutes in the ring, and I was surprised that he made it through the match. And he doesn't have that nagging neck injury that Austin had.

It was a lot of fun seeing Hogan, The Rock and Austin in the ring last year. But as for wrestling, only the Rock could go now, and even then it might not be that great, and certainly not against Lesnar.

Would rather see an active wrestler win the Rumble and get the chance to do something special, Reigns, Ambrose, Rolins, anyone else other than Austin. Let's give the current crop of wrestlers a fair shake. It's nice to want to see the legends of the past come back and put on a show, but like JH said, I live in the present and want to see these guys do well. We already know what Austin could and did do, let's give someone else a shot at the golden ring.

 

[MC_Live]

Couple of reasons this won't work in reality.

1) If Austin is having a return match, you announce that in advance. And you only have one match. Anymore would just water down the effect, and put Austin at more risk. This eliminates the Rumble idea. Especially as a surprise. A Steve Austin return match is only fit for a WrestleMania, nothing less. And there is no way you don't advertise it. Also, he's a Hall of Famer. There is absolutely no reason to give him a fourth Rumble, instead of giving it to someone else who could use it to make their own name.

2) If Steve were to have a return match, that's your story. Possibly the greatest superstar of all time is coming back for one more match. There's no need to convolute the story. That means it should only be a one on one match, non title. Austin, and his opponent. Anymore bodies would lessen the effect. Except for Heyman. He adds to everything.

3) A Steve Austin return match would be of such a high caliber of importance, there's only three people in the world it could be against. You can't do somebody like Jericho or Triple H, we've seen that before. You can't do it against a young guy like Wyatt, Barrett, Reigns, Ambrose, or Rollins because they're not big enough stars yet. And Steve Austin vs. Daniel Bryan just doesn't fit well. The only guys Austin could face are Cena, Lesnar, and Punk. And CM Punk isn't coming back for at least a few years, if ever, so he's out. That leaves Cena and Lesnar (w/ Paul Heyman). Now given the fact that we know Austin won't be around, it would be obvious that he doesn't want the WWE Championship, so it wouldn't be a championship match. If Austin returned, it would be one of two stories. Option A) Facing the biggest star of the company today. It would basically be the top two money makers in WWE history fighting out to prove who is the biggest star in history. Or option B) Austin vs. Lesnar. About 13 years ago Steve Austin chose to quit the company rather than fight Brock Lesnar. Just imagine the promos Steve and Heyman could build.

There's also a few other things one could possibly pick apart, such as the waste of having Reigns lose that match, given he needs big wins, not just big matches at this point. Also, not only would it be stupid to have Cena announce a SummerSlam match with Brock months in advance, but it'd be totally against Cena's character. There is no way in hell Cena would ever realistically say "I accept your challenge... in four months."

It's a very nice booking idea in the realm of fantasy booking. But in the reality of wrestling, it just wouldn't work.

 

[Bruno's Sanctimony]

Austin is a wildcard for WM31, at best.
Every year, around this time, the rumor mill starts churning and the question starts being asked; "Will Austin Be At Wrestlemania?"
For a couple of years, it was the inevitable clash with CM Punk...

Etc, etc, etc...

While I would not be surprised to learn that WWE actually did talk to Austin every year they've been rumored to have done so, I would be surprised that it was ever anything more than a pipe dream.

However, if there's any truth to the rumors this time out or if the discussions go further than they may have in the past, I have no delusions that he will be getting involved in the title picture and would guess that bringing Austin back would signal that the Undertaker is done...

...and that they're hoping to plan Austin vs. Sting.