[h2]How Many Times Has Austin Turned Down a Match with Hogan?[/h2]
During the most recent edition of The Steve Austin Show,
Steve Austin admitted to turning down matches with
Hulk Hogan in 2002, 2004 and 2005. Austin noted that it was a “wrestling style/matchup” issue.
[h1]Dean Ambrose Talks Wrestlemania 31, His Upcoming Film Role, How Does He Feel About The Shield’s Breakup?[/h1]
WWE Superstar
Dean Ambrose recently talked to
IGN.com about Wrestlemania 31 and his role in the Intercontinental Ladder Match, his new movie Lockdown, and more. You can read a few excerpts below:
Dean Ambrose talks Wrestlemania 31:
All of my opponents in this match, it’s the greatest crew of guys you could ask for because it’s a lot of good egos and no bad egos. All six of those other guys are guys that I would love to share the ring with on any other night of the week. All guys that are hungry and have a little bit of competitiveness between us all because we all want to one up each other. Like if Dolph does a nice dropkick. I want to do something else to top that. That’s what really creates magic is when we all start pushing each other a little bit. All guys who want to win the Intercontinental championship but also want to be great Intercontinental champions. Everybody wants to have that WrestleMania moment I guess, so to speak. It’s the perfect crew of guys and it’s cool because it’s such an eclectic mix. We’ve got big dudes, nasty dudes, mean dudes, violent dudes, high-flying dudes. We’ve got a little bit of everything. There’s not anything missing in this match from personality wise to style wise. You could see anything happen on Sunday in this match.
Ambrose On The Shield’s split last year:
From day one, The Shield was a vehicle. It wasn’t, “This is what we’re doing for the rest of our lives.” It was this is the vehicle we’ll use to bust into WWE, to ride to the top of it and then we fight each other. That was always the plan. Get to the top of WWE, kick everyone else off the top of the hill and then fight each other. That’s what we did. All of our routes are a little bit different. I’m in a situation where I’m going to have to kind of fight and scratch and claw and earn and scrape my way to the top of the hill kind of thing but that’s fine with me. That feels better for me anyway because the story of Dean Ambrose isn’t a story about riding the express elevator to the top of the penthouse so I really wouldn’t want it that way. We all are going to have our different routes and our different trials and tribulations, so it’s cool.
Ambrose on his role in Lockdown; is his character different than his WWE persona?
Pretty different. That’s the thing too because I don’t know what it would come out like, but as far as how I portrayed a character — the character is a cop. I wouldn’t say he’s un-charismatic but he’s different from Dean Ambrose on TV. One thing I wanted to do for sure is I didn’t want it to be like WWE movie where “Dean Ambrose plays a cop.” I wanted to try to be a completely different person. The character’s name is John Shaw. I wanted to be this guy. He’s more of a stoic, calculating, Clint Eastwood kind of thing which isn’t necessarily me in real life, so having to try and become that… We’ll see if I did a good job or not when it comes out, you know?
[h1] [/h1][h1]Daniel Bryan Speaks Out On How His Injury is Holding Up, Did He Have Any Hesitation About Participating in the ‘Mania Ladder Match?[/h1]
WWE star
Daniel Bryan recently spoke with SFWeekly.com while in town for WrestleMania 31 Week. The full interview can be found
at this link, and below are some highlights:
Since you’ve come back from your injury you haven’t eased your style very much, if at all. I was interviewing Jim Ross and he said he had a private phone conversation with Steve Austin about that bump you took from Luke Harper. Can you talk a little bit about that bump, how you’re feeling, and how your injury has been holding up in the ring?
“I actually feel real good. The only time I’ve had any setbacks was that match against Luke Harper. That was the only time I had some stuff going down my arm. Mentally when I came back I thought, ‘I’m not going to do any of this stuff. I need to wrestle an easier style.’
But the problem is I love doing this. I get excited when I’m in there. Shawn Michaels trained me when he had what was supposedly a career-ending back injury. So we were training in a boxing ring and he was teaching us how to take a back body drop, which is one of the bigger back bumps. I was training with Brian Kendrick, who came into the WWE around the same time as me, and we were taking back body drops and were doing them OK.
Shawn tells us ‘Guys like us, we need to get higher.’ And he keeps saying we need to get higher and higher and explaining ‘you do this and this to get higher.’ You know, telling us the techniques to get higher. So we keep trying but it’s not good enough. Then he goes ‘No, no, no! Like this!’ and he storms the ring and takes this huge back body drop. Like, he hit the ceiling. We were all like ‘Whoa! That was awesome.’ But he could barely walk the next day. So sometimes you know what you should and shouldn’t do, but when you love what you do it’s hard to always do what you should.”
You’ve been put in a ladder match this Sunday with a bunch of hungry guys. When you put guys like that in a ladder match on a big stage there’s a real increased risk. Was there any hesitation on your part to be in the match, considering your recent injury?
“No, no hesitation to participate. Do I get a little nervous when I think about it? Yes. Coming back I didn’t know how strong my neck was. I can do all the tests. I can go in to the performance center in Orlando and take a couple bumps, my neck holds up. Then a match at the performance center, my neck holds up. OK, now let’s see a live event — it held up. You just keep going into deeper water testing how much it will hold up.
I got suplexed on my head [in the Luke Harper match] and my neck held up. So now I’m in this ladder match. Will it hold up? I think so. Am I nervous? Yes, but every time you’re in a ladder match you get nervous. But it’s important to not hesitate because that’s when you really get hurt. Everyone else in the match is going to go full bore. So I have to too. If I hesitate or worry I will get hurt then that actually increases my chances of getting hurt.”
