The last stand of Stone Cold Steve Austin. I mean, it seems kind of crazy to say it now,

but what are the most successful pro wrestlers in the history of pro wrestling? Just decided,

you know what, I'm not going to do this anymore, but please don't tell anybody I don't want anybody

to know. It's a very bold decision given that WWE probably could have made millions more

off of that one idea, but that's just how successful he was. He got to pull his own string.

From a hell stand point, it was absolutely the right move too, because not only was his neck

an absolute state, but the night before WrestleMania 19, he had actually been hospitalised,

because he had drunk way too much caffeine, he had drunk way too much coffee, he had way too many

energy drinks, and his heart basically went, when are you doing to me, Steve? I can't handle this,

and it went all crazy. Thankfully he was okay, but there was enough worry around this,

that the powers that B said, hey look, we're just going to move your main event match

to the sub main event, because we want to take some of the pressure off. I just realised,

I said he was hospitalised, sorry, I didn't mean that. He was of course local medical facility

ised. Health all act thereof was also the theme of WrestleMania 19, because Kurt Angle walked

into his match with a neck that was barely walking, and Brock Lesnar almost didn't walk out.

So I tell you, for as good as this is as a WrestleMania, everything going on behind the scenes

will scare the absolute life out of here. WWE was still smashing it as well, even though they

were long past the attitude here, I mean they packed 54,000 fans into the safe cover arena,

and they made like $3 million on the gate. But even despite all that, WrestleMania 19 only drew

around about 560,000 buys. I get that that sounds massive, but WrestleMania 18 did 880,000 buys,

and WrestleMania 17 did over a million buys, so this was around the period where they started

to head in the wrong direction. Still, we don't have to worry about any of that because we're

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