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COMPLETE STONE COLD PODCAST WITH BROCK LESNAR COVERAGE

By Mike Johnson on 2015-10-19 23:07:02
Welcome to PWInsider.com's coverage of The Stone Cold Podcast with Brock Lesnar.

Austin started out and said tonight was like a homecoming for him as he started in Dallas. He welcomed Brock and said that he appreciates Brock coming on since he has limited dates and is real busy. Brock said he is really happy to be here and joked he might have to throw some suplexes later.

Austin said that the first time he saw Brock, he knew he had the look and from his background, knew he was a badass. He said Brock is a very intimidating guy and asked him if he tried to do and whether he gets along with people. Lesnar said that he may carry himself in a manner that people may consider cocky or arrogant but he doesn't do it on purpose. It's just who he is. He's always had a chip on his shoulder and that's just how it was. Austin asked if he got picked on as a youngster and he said that was doing the picking.

Brock said that if he wasn't a pro wrestler, he doesn't know what he would be today. He had a passion for the weight room and pumping iron and that's why he looks the way he does today. Austin said his tough guy persona was a shoot and that he had a background on the farm. Lesnar said that life on the farm where he grew up in South Dakota, there wasn't a lot of money left over. It was all about how much their cows and their animals did. Some years were better than others so you lived like you were poor. He said that you were married to it and at 4:45 AM no matter what, you got up and milked the cows. That was the way it was and that's how he approached wrestling.

Austin and Lesnat talked about wanting to go hunting together. Lesnar said he was a Dodge guy when it comes to his trucks.

They talked about preferences in gun, opticals, grills and drinks.  Lesnar said he is a hardcore country music fan.

Austin said he used to wrestle for a living and asked Lesnar if he was a wrestler or a sports entertainer.  Lesnar asked if there was a difference.  He said he's in the entertainment industry and in the business of selling tickets.  He said he's fortunate to have done the things he's done and to make the money he's made.  He was never watching the business as a kid and didn't watch it.  He was watching Little House on the Prairie.  Austin cracked up at that.

Lesnar played football in High School and played all sorts of positions.  Austin asked him about the Minnesota Vikings camp (when he left the company the first time) and whether it was humbling.  Brock said that he's excelled at fighting his entire life and its good to get humbled at life.  He said it could be his kids or a deer or something he's doing with his hands.  He said he gave the Vikings a try and knew by the second day of camp how grueling it was going to be.  He said in college, he used to make fans of the football players but after his experiences at the camp, he has respect for what they put themselves through.

Lesnar discussed his college background and how after winning his NCAA title, he basically spent several months depressed and quit school as he didn't know what to do and didn't have any money.  The conversation went to OVW.  He knew Shelton Benjamin there and he moved in with him and when he went to the training facility, it was barbaric and it blew him away in a good way.  It was like being back in Dakota.  When he was signed, he still had several wrestling camps he was commited to.  He started training with Brad Rheighans who had Lesnar working with Curt Hennig, Wayne Bloom and a few others to help him learn the business.

Austin said other then Kurt Angle, he's never seen someone gravitate towards the business like Lesnar did.  Austin said Ray Traylor (Big Bossman) and Curt Hennig really took to him.  He asked what he learned from them.  He said he was told to ride with the guys and ask questions.  He would ask to sit in the back when Kane and Undertaker were driving,  He said he credits them all for giving some psychology into the wrestling and when it comes to putting matches together.  Having them in his ear smartening him up helped him.

Austin said he got in the ring with The Rock very soon.  Lesnar said Rock taught him to be selfish and to stand up for himself because you have to be selfish in the business.  He said that his first big match was a three way with Rock and HHH in Australia and they kept him out of the loop in planning to make him work and earn it.

Lesnar said the early era was very intuiging and stimulating with all the travel and hotels.  He said that people around you change and begin treating you differently because of the way you present yourself on TV.  He said he doesn't like people and doesn't like being around a bunch of people.  He can be alright with it in an Arena because he feels like he's protected under a Dome but being around a bunch of people socially, he doesn't like it.  He doesn't play well, so he lives in the middle of nowhere with an eight foot gate and shuts the gate when he's there.

They showed the Brock Lesnar shooting star press that went to hell at Wrestlemania 19.  Lesnar said he was really lucky.  He said that he failed to take advice from other veterans that night.  He was talked into doing it that night and he wasn't comfortable doing it but since he had done it before, he agreed to do it.  He said that the person that talked about it said it was going to be a Wrestlemania moment and sure, it was a Wrestlemania moment.  Austin said he was mad at Lesnar about it because he didn't need to do it.

Austin then brought up The Goldberg match at Wrestlemania 20.  Brock said he couldn't remember matches or events because he just looks at it as a business.  He said that neither he nor Bill wanted to be there.  Brock said he didn't give a sh** about it being Wrestlemania.  He said when he flipped the crowd the bird, he was really giving it to Vince McMahon.  He felt entrapped and wanted out, even though it was only two years.  He said he was made to be in the ring but not made for the travel going from ring to ring.

Lesnar said going to the NFL was a "scapegoat" for him as he was grasping at ropes trying to find an escape and something to do.

Austin asked him if that was when he started going to Japan.  Austin asked if Brock sued WWE or did WWE sue him.  Lesnar smiled and said, "I don't know.  I think we got the wrong guy in here, maybe."  Brock said it doesn't really matter.  He said that was water under the bridge for him.

Austin asked if he's ever gotten heat about the way he's in and out.  He said he didn't know anyone here when he came back.  He said he clocks in and out and doesn't hang out with the boys.  He doesn't bother anyone and if he pisses anyone off on the way, too bad.  He said it's a job like anyone else has.

Brock was asked about UFC.  Lesnar said he was in New Japan and found out there was fighting over there and they wanted him to fight.  His deal ended and he used his Japan connections to get a K1 fight.  He was trying to get Dana White's attention but White wasn't taking him seriously.  He went to a fight, hopped the rail and grabbed White.  White brought him to the back and they talked everything but money.  Brock told him to sign him to a one fight deal and if Brock couldn't move PPVs, don't have him back.

Brock talked about his first fight against Frank Mir and when he was caught in the submission, he was disgusted with himself.  He had trained to escape it in his camp but was still caught.  He felt, "You have to be kidding me."  He figured he blew everything and felt he wasn't going to get signed again and there was no way to make money.  He went to the back and Dana was bouncing off the walls and told him no way it was over and was signed to a 3-6 fight deal.

When he fought Heath Herring, Herring made a real vs. fake comment as he walked past Lesnar's locker room, so that's why Brock pounded him so hard and even told him "This is real, buddy" when he had him down.  When he won the UFC title from Randy Couture he was so thankful to Dana White for being given the chance.

They talked about Brock's battle with diverticulitus and how it hampered and ended his UFC career.  Brock knew something was wrong but blew it off and didn't get a CT Scan of his stomach.  He pushed his fight back and went to Canada to go deer hunting.  He ended up in the hospital and the doctor diagnosed it and said he knew Brock was a fighter and he was going to try and save his fighting career if he can but he was more concerned about saving Brock's life.  They pumped him with heavy anibiotics for eight hours.  The fever was still 104 degrees and they were wheeling him into the ER for surgery.  He was out and when he woke up, he asked what happened and they told him that just as they were about to cut him open, his fever broke.  So they didn't do the surgery.

Austin asked him how he mended the fence with Vince McMahon.  Brock joked that Austin did the same.  Brock said he didn't care when Austin walked out on the company.  Austin explained he felt the match between the two should have been down the line when it meant something.  Austin said he handled it wrong and Lesnar said that maybe he did but someone else should have handled it differently from their end.

Austin asked him to compare Vince McMahon and Dana White.  Lesnar said that if you have a big bank account, how can you not have a big ego?  Lesnar said he thanks them both for all the money they put in his bank account.  Austin said it was hard fought money and Lesnar agreed.  He said he did all his deals with Dana and The Fertitas across the table.  When he most recently signed with WWE, he considered going back to UFC because he felt his first run in MMA was robbed by his health.  He felt like something was missing and was honest with WWE and told them he was considering returning to the Octagon.  He set up a fight camp so he could test himself mentally even more than physically.

Lesnar was asked why doesn't speak as much on promos in WWE when he was so great in UFC.  Lesnar cracked, "I gotta feed the Jew.  He's gotta eat," while referring to Paul Heyman, who was off screen.  Lesnar said he guesses he's not good at promos.  When they brought him back, Lesnar said that Paul fills in the words for him as his actions speak loud.  He said that when he first came back, they threw Brock out there to see where he was.  He said cutting a promo in wrestling is nothing like speaking from the heart after a fight when Joe Rogan interviews you.

Lesnar said when he fought, he didn't know how many people were in the building but competing in WWE, he could feel the energy.  He said it's different hats that he guesses he wears.

Lesnar was asked how competitive the locker room is today vs. the past.  Lesnar said he's not involved in the people that much and is hands-on with Vince McMahon.  He wants to know what his thoughts are and where Vince wants him to be.  He doesn't have to make friends or politic. 

Austin asked him about breaking the Undertaker's streak at Wrestlemania. He asked Brock how it felt. You could see that it didn't mean anything big emotionally to Brock. It was just another day at the office. He said that he knew from a business perspective it was big and he compared it to winning a major championship.

Austin asked Brock what the biggest misconceptions of him were.  Brock said he didn't care about them.     He said he doesn't get offended by what others thought about his actions or how he carried himself.  He tries to be nice to people unless they cross the line.

Austin asked him where he is at when it comes to gas in the tank. Lesnar said he has a pretty good idea where his career is going but he's not going to share it.  He's having fun and doing business.  He said people fight to get in the business.  When he left, he and Vince didn't see eye to eye about it but because he left, he's probably made more money for himself and the company because of it.

Brock was asked what advice he would give himself when he was younger or a rookie thing.  He said that this generation, too many people want things handed to them and don't want to work for it.  If you don't work for it, you aren't going to get anything.

Austin closed it out asking it about the Hell in A Cell match against Undertaker.  Lesnar said he's prepared.  The cage isn't forgiving and there's going to be a lot of carnage.  He said he's coming to end The Undertaker.  He's irritated with him and he's over it. 

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