One More Round: Stone Cold Steve Austin's Last WWE Run Explored

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Stone Cold Steve Austin is going to show up at WrestleMania 38 and we can more than expect him to wrestle that night.

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It has been 19 years since he wrestled in a match

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In 1997 Austin took a Piledriver from Owen Hart

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That broke Austin’s neck and left him half-paralyzed. He recovered and made a return to WWE.

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During his career, Austin also got his knees injured on multiple occasions and as a result, had to do a lot of surgeries to get them fixed

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Austin decided to continue wrestling and fight through his injuries

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Austin has Won 3 Royal Rumble matches and multiple titles despite the injuries

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But all this constant wrestling had taken a huge toll on his body

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In 2003, Stone Cold was set to wrestle The Rock at WrestleMania 19

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Rock and Austin were the two pillars of the Attitude era

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Both had accomplished everything they could in WWE

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One thing that the Rock was never able to accomplish was defeating Stone Cold at WrestleMania

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He finally achieved that feat at WrestleMania 19

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The Rock got the win after hitting 3 Rock Bottoms

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This was the last match that Austin ever wrestled

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I am so excited about Steve Austin’s return! Are you?

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VISIT US

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