Stone Cold Steve Austin Debunks Rumour He No Longer Drinks, Admits He’s ‘Got To Pick His Spots’

Stone Cold Steve Austin debunks a rumour that he no longer drinks, but admits he’s got to pick his spots nowadays.

Throughout his run at the top of WWE during the Attitude Era, one of Stone Cold’s defining character traits was his love for beer, regularly cracking open a cold one on WWE programming, sometimes in order to bait potential Stunner victims with a friendly drink before opening his own can of whoop ass. However, rumours have previously circulated that Austin had given up drinking beer, something that he has now debunked.

While speaking to Insight With Chris Van Vliet in a new interview, Stone Cold Steve Austin spoke about the rumour, debunking it while also admitting he has to ‘pick his spots’ when he drinks nowadays.

“Yes, I still drink beer, but it’s kind of like the old timers used to come up to you in the dressing room when you first started breaking into business, ‘Kid, you got to pick your spots, you don’t have to take all those bumps.’ So, yeah, these days you don’t need all those hangovers. You pick your spots. Friday night is kind of like I still eat, and watch what I eat pretty strictly. So Friday is usually my beer night when I’ll have a couple IPAs, and that’s when I pick my spot.”

Austin also was asked about the most beer he’s drank in one night, with the WWE Hall Of Famer recalling one particular night in Japan.

“It was over in Japan, and I’ve talked about this before, because the Dudleys were there, and Stacy Keibler was there, and there’s a whole bunch of people that were in the ring. So I just started tossing out beers, but I think we went over 100 and this isn’t an Andre story that, but I believe there was 100 beers involved in that. Now, did they all get drank into Completion? No, it was spilled everywhere and thrown here, there and wherever. But I think that was about the biggest one ever, over in Japan. I used to like to get Goldberg in the ring and toss him beers on a few occasions that we did that, because Bill don’t drink. He’ll drink a beer or two, but he doesn’t really drink, and so I’d keep force-feeding him beers, because if you’re in the ring with Stone Cold, you got to drink the beer, and I’d try to get him as hammered as I could before I left the ring. It’s kind of an ongoing rib between me and Bill. I still keep up with him.”

Elsewhere in the same interview, Austin spoke about potentially getting back in the ring. You can read more about that here.

Thank you to Chris Van Vliet for the quote(s)