Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. The Rock - The Rock is Cooking | 4
Sports Wars
Wondery
4.5 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
The Rock has launched from WWF star to household name. But life isn’t so hot for Stone Cold Steve Austin. He’s bruised and beaten down. He feels exhausted. And then it gets worse. An old star decides to make a comeback, and that threatens to steal away the spotlight from Steve Austin.
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| 0:00.0 | It's March 18th, 2000, and Dwayne the Rock Johnson is standing on center stage in the middle |
| 0:13.1 | of New York City hosting Saturday Night Live. |
| 0:18.5 | Thousands of miles away on a ranch in Bernie, Texas, Steve Austin is watching the Rock |
| 0:27.0 | Crack Jokes. |
| 0:55.5 | Steve's size watching the Rock get big laughs with the stars of SNL. |
| 1:00.6 | He hopes it will stop the wrenching neck pain that has followed him since he was on the |
| 1:04.8 | wrong end of that pile driver some three years ago. |
| 1:08.8 | He knows though that his return to the WWF really is in doubt. |
| 1:14.1 | The WWF doubts him, so do the doctors and lately he's been doubting himself. |
| 1:20.6 | Tonight he just wants to take off his hard neck brace, drink a couple of Steve Weisers, |
| 1:26.1 | and watch his rival the Rock represent the wrestling business on the historic comedy |
| 1:30.9 | show. |
| 1:31.9 | No professional wrestler has hosted SNL since Hulk Hogan and Mr. T did so back in 1985. |
| 1:38.7 | Steve knows that the Rock was offered an SNL hosting slot before tonight's episode, |
| 1:43.6 | but turned it down. |
| 1:45.3 | It wasn't him, wasn't in his wheelhouse as a performer. |
| 1:48.8 | The Rock has always seen himself as a wrestler first, like his father before him, not an |
| 1:54.3 | actor. |
| 1:55.3 | It's something Steve respects about the guy, but hot damn thing Steve, he's killing this |
| 2:01.4 | monologue. |
| 2:02.4 | Now although the WWF is still my first love, it turns out that I'm also pretty good and |
| 2:08.6 | a natural at comedy. |
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