Episode 365: Why Austin? Why!
Grilling JR
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4.7 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
On this very special edition of Grilling JR, Jim Ross takes listeners back to one of the most shocking and defining moments in wrestling history calling the main event of WrestleMania X-Seven.
JR relives, in vivid detail, what it was like behind the headset as Stone Cold Steve Austin battled The Rock in front of a raucous crowd at the Astrodome. From the electric atmosphere to the intensity of the match itself, JR walks listeners through every pivotal moment as only he can.
But the night took a stunning turn that no one saw coming.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode comes to you from the Blue Chew Studio right now when you buy two months of |
| 0:04.7 | Blue Chew Gold, you get the third for free with promo code J.R at Bluechoo.com. |
| 0:26.6 | The main event was Austin versus the rock, the second meeting of the two hottest cars in the business. |
| 0:29.6 | It was also Austin's coming out party as the heel. |
| 0:34.6 | WrestleMania 17 was hot-to-bottom electric. |
| 0:39.3 | The kind of event where everything seemed to click, and every performer dared their |
| 0:46.3 | colleagues to quote unquote follow that. |
| 0:49.3 | Paul Hamon and I in our commentary positions knew we were a part of something great as we sat in |
| 0:56.5 | the Astrodome in Houston, Texas. |
| 0:59.4 | I could feel the talents in the ring over delivering, and it drove me and Paul into high |
| 1:04.9 | gear. |
| 1:06.2 | The table was set for the last match, and the huge change in direction that was coming with it. |
| 1:12.6 | The build-up to Rock versus Austin 2 was pure gold. |
| 1:16.6 | Both men were at the top of their game, and it produced some of the most entertaining, intense, believable TV in our business. |
| 1:25.6 | What the feud boiled down to was two alphas, two worldwide superstars, |
| 1:31.6 | two of the all-time best, battling it out in front of 70,000 fans in attendance, and over a million |
| 1:40.3 | watching at home on pay-per-view. It was personal. |
| 1:44.7 | It was believable, and it felt momentous. |
| 1:47.8 | This is another level of promotion you guys were doing for this main event. |
| 1:51.6 | Because it was another level main event with two of the biggest stars in the industry and two of the biggest stars period of any genre of anything. |
| 2:04.1 | This was Frazier Ali. I mean, that's what i'd like to compare it to because it was that big and in the wrestling business the promotion |
| 2:08.9 | getting up to it we did everything under the sun and including buying the six hundred |
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