We catch up with wrestling great Stone Cold Steve Austin to talk about his legacy and second season of Straight Up Steve Austin.

5 Things You Need to Know:

  1. Steve is an actor, producer, television host, podcast host, and retired professional wrestler, but has signed to a legend's contract under WWE. Austin is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential professional wrestlers of all time. Austin held 19 championships throughout his wrestling career. He is a six-time WWF Champion, a two-time WWF Intercontinental Champion, a four-time WWF Tag Team Champion and a one-time Million Dollar Champion in WWE. In WCW, he was a two-time WCW World Television Champion, a two-time WCW United States Heavyweight Champion, a one-time WCW World Tag Team Champion, and a one-time NWA World Tag Team Champion. In addition, he is the fifth-ever WWE Triple Crown Champion.
  2. Straight Up Steve Austin is a reality television series that airs on USA Network. The series premiered on August 12, 2019, and focuses on Austin and a celebrity guest swap stories about their lives and careers as they travel across the country. "What I’m trying to do is bring out their best and the show is about them, but it’s a two way conversation and everyone who comes on the show brings a different personality and different vibe,” he said. 
  3. Stone Cold has appeared in almost all of the WWF/E video games from 1998's WWF War Zone onwards. As far as merchandising, The Wrestling Figure Checklist records show Austin as having 337 different action figures released between the 1990s and 2010s, making him one of the most produced wrestlers in history. 
  4. In the acting front, Steve Austin had guest roles on TV's Celebrity Deathmatch, Nash Bridges, V.I.P, and Dilbert. His motion picture debut was in a supporting role in the 2005 remake of The Longest Yard, The Condemned, The Expendables, and Hunt To Kill. 
  5. Steve was born in Victoria, Texas. He grew up in the lone star state. "As a kid in south Texas I grew up pretty shy, and now I’m hanging out with some of the biggest superstars in entertainment. I am thankful to be here and having a blast doing it. I never thought I would be here. I am glad to be here. I think all the miles and all the dues I’ve paid in my former career obviously helped my to get here and helped me to talk to people,” he said.