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Stone Cold Steve Austin “Wanted to Kill” WWE Legend Over a Wild Misconception

Published 06/12/2022, 7:30 AM EDT

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Stone Cold Steve Austin worked with various wrestling promotions prior to joining WWE. He did several gimmicks in companies like USWA, WCW, and ECW, where he had memorable moments before WWE and turning into Austin 3:16 a year later.

Austin wrestled many of his future WWE colleagues while he was on the road in the early 90s. One of those wrestlers is WWE Hall of Famer Jeff Jarrett, who recently appeared on the Broken Skull Sessions. 

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It has been a rumor that Austin hated Jarret for years, because of a comment by the former WWE Intercontinental Champion made in USWA on Austin’s paycheck.

Dutch Mantell shares insight about Stone Cold Steve Austin and Jeff Jarrett’s real-life rivalry

‘Dirty’ Dutch Mantell, known as Zeb Colter to WWE fans, recently appeared on Wrestling Shoot Interviews. He knows Stone Cold Steve Austin and Jeff Jarrett for a long time and gave an insight into what made Austin hate Jarret for decades.

Mantell said, “Heavily downplayed. Austin wanted to kill him because nobody was making any money and if Austin said he wasn’t making any money and Jeff walked by. Jeff didn’t mean anything by it, but he (Austin) took it wrong.” 

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He added, “Steve has a long memory and he never forgot that. When they got to WWE, F in those days he didn’t forget it then the reason that he turned downed working with Jeff is because Austin and this is a shoot. Austin didn’t think he was worthy of having to wrestle Jeff, because he thought it actually hurt him.”

Mantell also stated that they actually had a rivalry in real life for a long time since they wrestled at USWA in the early 90s. However, he thinks somewhere down the road both the WWE Hall of Famers buried the hatchet with each other.

When Did Steve Austin Become “Stone Cold?”

Maybe after all those years, Austin and Jarret found friendship again. That is why Jeff Jarrett appeared on Broken Skull Sessions and had a great interview with Austin.

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Jeff Jarrett names his five greatest guitar smash hits

Jeff Jarrett used to be with a guitar during his days as a wrestler. His gimmick was of a musician turned wrestler, so he brought a guitar every time. Jarrett used to smash his opponents during the match with his guitar to win the match.

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Recently on Broken Skull Sessions, he named the five Greatest Smash Hits in his career. Two of those were from WWE, with the first being actor Beetlejuice and the second being current AEW superstar Goldust. The rest, as he told, was one on WCW Nitro where he hit Goldberg and in TNA he hit Kurt Angle and late actor Gary Coleman.

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Tushar Deogharkar is a WWE writer at EssentiallySports. Tushar has done his Master's in Tourism Management and is an ardent fan of pro wrestling. He follows WWE and AEW very closely and wants to learn how the promotions are run.
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