Stone Cold Podcast with Paige Recap

Follow along with our recap of last night’s Stone Cold Podcast with guest Paige.

The heavily popular Stone Cold Podcast, hosted by Steve Austin, returned to the WWE Network live last night. Former NXT Women’s champion and 2-time WWE Divas Champion Paige was tonight guest.

You can check out recaps of previous Stone Cold Podcasts below:

Stone Cold Podcast with Paul Heyman Recap
Reaction to Triple H’s Appearance on Stone Cold Podcast
Full Stone Cold Podcast with Vince McMahon

Every episode of the Stone Cold Podcast has been controversial or must-see TV in its own way.

The first airing with Vince McMahon touched on topics like the use of Brock Lesnar, WrestleMania, etc. One of the biggest may have been with Cesaro, who McMahon said doesn’t have the “It Factor.”

The second airing with Triple H brought up his past with Chyna. This led to her firing back in an interview with Vince Russo.

The most recent airing with Paul Heyman brought on controversy towards the end. Heyman and Austin began cutting promos on each other to hypothetically set up an Austin vs. Brock Lesnar match at WrestleMania 32. However, both men would deny this days later.

With Paige being tonight’s guest, will there be any controversy? What will she discuss with Austin?

Find out by checking out our coverage below:

Austin goes into the podcast talking to Paige about her match. Paige talks about being her biggest critic during her own match. Austin talks about how he just can’t do that, and Paige brings up how she curses a lot in the ring and has to catch herself. Stone Cold brings up how Paige was brought into the ring early, starting at 13. Austin defends the choice of Paige being on the podcast since she’s already been doing it for 10 years.

Paige brings up how all members of her family are wrestlers, including a grandpa who refs and all of her cousins wrestle as well. She talks about how her mom was blinded for 6 months due to a dropkick to the eye when Paige was 10 years old. This lead to her being nervous about getting into the wrestling business. Paige says her parents respected kayfabe for a while, but she smartened up eventually. She says in her first match she got knocked out and can’t even remember why, but it got her hooked.

Austin asks about her training and talks about how he was a slow learner in his own training experience. Paige was trained by her family, and says that her biggest issue was selling since she’d never been in a fight. Her parents and siblings would hit her with her eyes closed and that helped her learn to sell. Paige talks about how she took bumps as a fetus since her mom was still taking bumps in the ring because she stayed wrestling until she was 7 months pregnant.

Paige casually drops that she has scoliosis. A trained in FCW noticed it for her and she says her spine is shaped like a question mark.

Austin brings up “The Wrestler: Fighting With My Family” which is a documentary about Paige’s family. People apparently approached them as a family to do a documentary and they showed her second try out for the WWE.

Austin asks Paige about bar tending and bouncing back in England at 15 years old. She talks about taking down people using wrestling moves at the bar, including rugby tackling a man into a wall. Austin asks about Paige’s family having different wrestlers coming into her house to live with them. Paige talks about Jake the Snake Roberts living with them for a while. Yokozuna, Bushwackers and Greg “The Hammer” Valentine also lived with her family.

A twitter question asks what Diva and Superstar she looked up to growing up. Paige lists Bull Nakano, Lita, Rikishi, and says Stone Cold as well. Paige says she loved how Austin was consistent and so cool as well. Paige says she was in love with Austin growing up and worries she’s embarrassing herself.

Paige talks about her rejection when she first applied for WWE. Paige talks about how she got spray-tanned for her first tryout on her first attempt to be a “Diva”. She says she was uncomfortable not being herself and the trainers saw right through her and told her to be more confident. Six months later Paige came back dressed like herself. Her and her brother were both in the match and she tagged herself in (at the trainer’s request) and went at her brother.

Paige brings up her in ring style being “stiff but safe.” She says in her first couple months people didn’t like her because they were intimidated about how she looked. Paige tells a story about knocking a shoulder into Summer Rae’s teeth and all the other divas thinking that Paige was trying to sabotage Summer Rae.

Austin asks who and what Paige is. Paige says it’s mainly her own personality turned up, and wants to stand out and be the anti-diva like Bull or Lita. Paige brings up how Dusty helped her a lot. She says Dusty helped her with the transition across the pond to America and helped her through the rough transition period. Paige brings up how Dusty loved his “broken toys” and wanted to always help people who needed a little more work. Austin asks what the best advice Dusty ever gave her was and Paige says it was to save her money. Paige does a decent Dusty impression while telling the story of the first time Dusty ever yelled at her.

Paige tells a story about her dad where she got hit by a car. Her whole family was around her trying to make sure she was okay and her dad just made sure she was good for their show that night. Austin asks about working hurt and Paige talks up how great the trainers are at WWE. Paige says since she was brought up in the business and is a little “old school” and would finish a match hurt just like Cena did on Monday last week.

Paige talks about how it still surprises her that people want her autograph. Paige’s advice from the Rock is brought up which is “stay humble and stay hungry.” Austin gives Paige some advice, which is to step back and look at how big her presence is and how big her impact is. Paige brings up how fans have told her how Paige has helped them with their self confidence or their eating disorder and things like that. Super inspiring to hear.

Paige talks about how HHH helped get Paige back to NXT television a week earlier in order to win the NXT Women’s Championship. She had come off a streak of bad luck, but Hunter got her ability to shake off the bad luck. Twitter asks what the best part of the Diva’s Revolution. Paige talks about how HHH gave a lot of the ability to start the Diva’s Revolution by giving them time and opportunity. Paige says Emma and her helped get the ball rolling, and Sara Del Ray helped a lot as a teacher.

Austin brings up travelling and Paige says she travels either solo, or with Alicia Fox or Emma. Paige talks about how the travel is significantly better in WWE as opposed to back in England. Austin tells a story about meeting people in Blackpool who told him to enjoy life. Steve asks Paige if she enjoys life and goes on trips and things like that with friends.
Paige says she still has lots to learn and has lots of time to learn things. Paige says she sometimes feels like she gets it totally but sometimes she still finds herself learning. Austin asks about the WWE playbook and how her transition was. Paige says the change in crowd size was incredibly difficult for her, especially since her dad would still have her do shows in front of 2 fans.

Austin asks about Tough Enough and says he binge watched them all in a row. Austin says the big issue was that the show has changed but he likes the new live format. Austin appreciates Paige’s honesty with the contestant and Paige says she’s received death threats about it. Paige defends her actions on TE and uses Sara Lee as an example of someone who she was tough on but has ended up benefitting her. Paige says Sara Lee didn’t know a wristlock from a padlock. Austin reminds people the show is called Tough Enough and defends Paige’s actions as firing up the contestants while being hard and fair.

Paige brings up Patrick and says she put Patrick in the bottom 3 because of his ego at only 19 years of age. She says Patrick rubbed him the wrong way and he needed a shock. Paige says she didn’t expect him to go and laughed at people getting mad at her on twitter since they had the power to stay. Paige says it was more of a mistake to let Mada go.

Paige tells a story about Daniel Bryan, her fellow Tough Enough judge. She met him in 2003 when she was 11 years old. Bryan walks into the locker room and sees Paige’s dad and brother beating up a guy in Britain. He would see them again dangling the guy out the window, and each time just chalked it up to them being British, even though they were actually beating the guy up for making some sort of remark or pass about Paige’s mom.

Austin asks about Paige’s brothers and she brings up how they were super protective of her growing up. Paige says her brother once hit a guy who was hitting on her with a pool cue right in the eye. She talks about missing her brothers, all their kids, and wishes she was there for them growing up.
Austin asks Paige what her goals were going into the world of sports entertainment. She wants to be Divas champion again, as well as being in the Hall of Fame. Paige mentions how she wants it to be the Women’s championship again, which we can all get behind. Austin asks Paige about Wrestlemania 32 and she brings up how she’s excited to see a crowd that big at AT&T Stadium.

Paige tells a story about Big Show. Paige talks about how her in Renee Young both got into a leg of Big Show’s spare trousers and became a “sweat pant” mermaid. Austin asks Paige about what Tough Enough will be like next week. She says she’ll go in guns a blazing and Austin signs off to end the podcast.

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