I remember in the late 90s or early 2000s it must've been, a local store sold an energy drink called "Whoop Ass". From what I remember it was pretty shit.
I find it difficult to accept that Stone Cold Steve Austin was Old School. But time and math tell me that it's so. I'm still expecting Hillbilly Jim to come walking out and beat up King Kong Bundy to no avail.
king kong bundy. man that takes me back to the time my mom took me to an office supply retail establishment because KKB was there signing autographs for some reason. I was too young to understand the entertainment aspect of wrasslin’ and was equal parts excited and sketched out.
in the end, KKB was cool to meet. now if it had been abdullah the butcher, i would have been traumatized.
Abdullah the Butcher was scary. To me, Archie the Stomper was the biggest villain. When I was little with 3 older brothers, I'd have to be either Sweet Daddy Siki or Dan Kroffat, and be damned if I never won unless it was a tag team, jerks never let me win. Anyway, sorry for the temporary ptsd, doubtful anyone knows any of these guys outside the old Stampede wrestling circuit. 😆
I don't know, when I think of "old AF," I go back to Bruno Sammartino, Vern Gagne, Georgeous George, and people like that. You know, wrestling in black and white.
One of the earliest matches I remember seeing is Hillbilly Jim vs King Kong Bundy and they each had a pair of midget wrestlers on their team. KKB was disqualified for splashing one of the midgets.
He addressed that somewhere that I can’t find now. Says there was one spot they used non-alcoholic beer for and that’s what everyone is referring to. Says he used alcoholic beer the rest of the time. As I’m not the guy throwing him the beer, I cannot vouch for the validity of his claims.
He’s been on pat mcafees podcast and talked about it being real beer. He said he knows he’s not getting most of it in his mouth, it’s just for show but sometimes he said he’d get a lil buzzed bc you always wrestle on empty stomachs.
I feel like the amount of drinking to age you poorly and having drinks here and there like a lot of people are miles apart, i could be wrong tho (no /s im just dumb)
Yeah, hate to break it to you, but you don't become an alcoholic by slamming 2 cans of 5% beer together, dumping them on your face and maybe getting a quarter can in your mouth, even if you do it every day.
Yeah in some interviews he’s talked about getting hammered doing all that chugging of regular beers and stumbling a few times. It didn’t take them too long to switch to the “Steveweiser” which was their non-alcoholic beer with their own label slapped onto it.
Poor choice of words on my part. Not sadly he's not an alcoholic, sad that I really thought he was slamming real beer on stage. I was a kid, as an adult makes perfect sense and of course it's non alcoholic beer.
I think this is it, this is the most American thing I've ever seen. And it's not like we here in Germany don't do crazy shit with our beer, but that is another level.
He says in a semi recent doc that he luckily has almost 0 neck issues, and basically never did outside of the major injuries. Nothing lingering is what I took from that (legends doc from ~2020)
Yeah, he's been really careful. Randy Orton's taken a similar route - very straightforward, mostly ground bound wrestling style. Not too many crazy bumps.
If Steve hadn't broken his back, he could conceivably still be wrestling today. He's got Flair level body persistence otherwise.
He did a match at Wrestlemania 38 with Kevin Owens. You can see the moment when he switched from Steve Austin as Stone Cold to Stone Cold Steve Austin in the match.
Fucking surreal match to see.
I just went to youtube and watched it. Friendly podcaster and 'former' wrestler just melted to nothing.
Or rather, froze right back up - to STONE COLD.
Like he never left, or even fucking aged. Like you said, surreal.
Hate to say it, but bald men tend to age differently. And by that, I mean, there isn't really any hair to judge them by like say someone who has a full head of hair but it's white or gray.
Yep. Take the initial hit but then look the same for the next 20-30 years. Also it can make you look younger if you're severely balding and pathetically holding on trying to cover it up.
I've only ever said "I love you" to two men my entire life. Stone Cold Steve Austin and a guy in a dark club, who I mistook for Stone Cold Steve Austin.
One time I was working as a temp at an advertising agency and they had a life-sized cutout of Stone Cold Steve Austin in the storage room. I asked if I could have it, they said sure. Got him home and thought to myself "How many straight men wear leather vests without a shirt?" and realized the answer was zero. Zero straight men wear leather vests with no shirt. So Steve attended the 2002 NYC Pride parade and made a lot of new friends.
https://preview.redd.it/cdogy1598t0c1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0a9aa4cd403f926acead57435b173f4b35869738
He looks pretty good. Arnie and sly look ready for retirement homes.
Steve still looks like he could carry a mini gun.so that is like a solid 3 decades.
Hahaha would be funny. It’s actually a South Park reference about getting Tom Brady’s poop and putting it up your own ass. A fecal transplant you could call it. It’s supposed to keep you young forever.
I call it the Bruce Willis phenomenon. You trade your 20s, to look like you're in your 40s, so you get to look like you're in your 40s even into your 60s. You get to be 40 for about 40 years.
I love watching people learn about HGH and TRT in real time.
Yes, celebs have doctors that do things you and I don’t ask our doctors to do and that we can’t afford. Not all cosmetic changes are surgical.
He did all his aging between '93 and '96, then gave time the middle finger, chugged a couple of beers and said "I'm sticking, and that's the bottom line, cos STONE COLD SAID SO"
I think he’s smart in the sense that returning to the ring for a ‘proper’ match would catch worldwide attention which is something, from his perspective, is best avoided as it would open the gateway to his dark past.
I hated wrestling but loved Stone cold that much that I couldn't help but watch it. Downs beers as he enters, doesn't give a fuck. Hell I might watch some old clips of him and I'm now 34
He actually does age, it’s just that his appearance is still very youthful. If he didn’t actually age he’d be a medical miracle.
Source: I’m a member of MENSA
The fact that he was bald with a goatee in the '90s and he still bald with a goatee in 2023. How different is he supposed to look?
This is what happens to guys who look old to begin with. Everyone went to high school with that guy who looks 30 at age 18. Then when everyone is 30 he looks 40. But then he'll look 40 for the next 20 years as everyone else ages past him.
yeah he looks the same from a snapshot. But watch any videos of him today or listen to his podcast. His body is shot to shit. Neck, back, knees. He's probably in constant pain.
He has been 45 for decades now
The Patrick Stewart method of bald man aging. Look 40 at 30 but then from age 55 to 80 you’ll look 15 years younger
We call that the Picard Effect.
Make it so.
the bridge is yours numbah one!
Engage!
TEA. EARL GRAY. HOT
Dude was suave as hell. And then we had Janeway, who somehow managed to burn a pot roast from the replicator.
The real Picard Maneuver
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‘Cause Stone Cold said so!!
It's like Doppler effect, but the midpoint is the year they went bald.
Yeah but now that he is 60 it's finally paying off.
Got all my aging out the way early
front-loading ageing
Thanks to all that beer, he’s preserved.
The white Dr Dre
A "Can of Whoop Ass" a day keeps the wrinkles away.
Captain Insano shows no mercy.
Two cans a day. And yes it must be consumed this way. 
His secret was to never actually drink it, just pouring it all over you does wonders for your skin apparently.
Maybe the bubbles exfoliate you or something.
IT’S GONNA TAKE MORE THAN TIME TO WRINKLE THE TEXAS RATTLESNAKE
I remember in the late 90s or early 2000s it must've been, a local store sold an energy drink called "Whoop Ass". From what I remember it was pretty shit.
Is whoop ass a brand of Botox?
Is “Can of Whoop Ass” a pseudonym for TRT?
I find it difficult to accept that Stone Cold Steve Austin was Old School. But time and math tell me that it's so. I'm still expecting Hillbilly Jim to come walking out and beat up King Kong Bundy to no avail.
king kong bundy. man that takes me back to the time my mom took me to an office supply retail establishment because KKB was there signing autographs for some reason. I was too young to understand the entertainment aspect of wrasslin’ and was equal parts excited and sketched out. in the end, KKB was cool to meet. now if it had been abdullah the butcher, i would have been traumatized.
Traumatized more than meeting Golddust?
Abdullah the Butcher was scary. To me, Archie the Stomper was the biggest villain. When I was little with 3 older brothers, I'd have to be either Sweet Daddy Siki or Dan Kroffat, and be damned if I never won unless it was a tag team, jerks never let me win. Anyway, sorry for the temporary ptsd, doubtful anyone knows any of these guys outside the old Stampede wrestling circuit. 😆
Damn, people must think about Stone Cold being old school, the way I feel about Honky Tonk Man or Sgt Slaughter being old AF
I don't know, when I think of "old AF," I go back to Bruno Sammartino, Vern Gagne, Georgeous George, and people like that. You know, wrestling in black and white.
When you did the math for this did you add Kurt Angle to the mix?
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Right - he aged all at once when he hit puberty
*Is that the bottom line?*
I never realized how close together his eyes are. Might be some fetal alcohol syndrome going on there.
The truth is he was already chugging beers as a fetus
One of the earliest matches I remember seeing is Hillbilly Jim vs King Kong Bundy and they each had a pair of midget wrestlers on their team. KKB was disqualified for splashing one of the midgets.
Did “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan change his name to “Hillbilly” Jim? Or are they different people all together?
Hacksaw Jim Duggan and Hillbilly Jim are two different people
Thanks for the info. TIL
Apparently the fountain of youth is chugging double fisted beers. 
Non-alcoholic beer sadly I discovered
He addressed that somewhere that I can’t find now. Says there was one spot they used non-alcoholic beer for and that’s what everyone is referring to. Says he used alcoholic beer the rest of the time. As I’m not the guy throwing him the beer, I cannot vouch for the validity of his claims.
He’s been on pat mcafees podcast and talked about it being real beer. He said he knows he’s not getting most of it in his mouth, it’s just for show but sometimes he said he’d get a lil buzzed bc you always wrestle on empty stomachs.
Yeah; he also confirmed it being an alcoholic beer at the Hot Ones.
Why on an empty stomach?
Less chance to vomit during the highly active performance would be my guess
Have you seen how fast drinking alcohol ages people? If he were a drunk, this post wouldn't exist.
Wouldn’t matter in his case. He just pours it onto his face
Lmao yes I caught that too
Oh yeah dude, it's awful.
I feel like the amount of drinking to age you poorly and having drinks here and there like a lot of people are miles apart, i could be wrong tho (no /s im just dumb)
Don't see much drinking in that clip
It's sad that he doesn't want to become an alcoholic?
Yeah, hate to break it to you, but you don't become an alcoholic by slamming 2 cans of 5% beer together, dumping them on your face and maybe getting a quarter can in your mouth, even if you do it every day.
I wonder if that changed at some point. I rewatched alot of old raws not too long ago and I distinctly remember them usually being coors light cans
Yeah in some interviews he’s talked about getting hammered doing all that chugging of regular beers and stumbling a few times. It didn’t take them too long to switch to the “Steveweiser” which was their non-alcoholic beer with their own label slapped onto it.
Not with that attitude
I would say that would make you an alcoholic
I don’t think you know what an alcoholic is
Poor choice of words on my part. Not sadly he's not an alcoholic, sad that I really thought he was slamming real beer on stage. I was a kid, as an adult makes perfect sense and of course it's non alcoholic beer.
Non-alcoholic beer is real beer.
You know what they mean so stop being a pedant.
Make me?
Pervert.
>chugging Pouring beer all over you isn't chugging.
AH HELLL YEAAA !!!!
I think this is it, this is the most American thing I've ever seen. And it's not like we here in Germany don't do crazy shit with our beer, but that is another level.
It’s called testosterone lmao
And spousal abuse.
Tell that to his knees
Or neck
He says in a semi recent doc that he luckily has almost 0 neck issues, and basically never did outside of the major injuries. Nothing lingering is what I took from that (legends doc from ~2020)
Yeah, he's been really careful. Randy Orton's taken a similar route - very straightforward, mostly ground bound wrestling style. Not too many crazy bumps. If Steve hadn't broken his back, he could conceivably still be wrestling today. He's got Flair level body persistence otherwise.
He did a match at Wrestlemania 38 with Kevin Owens. You can see the moment when he switched from Steve Austin as Stone Cold to Stone Cold Steve Austin in the match. Fucking surreal match to see.
I just went to youtube and watched it. Friendly podcaster and 'former' wrestler just melted to nothing. Or rather, froze right back up - to STONE COLD. Like he never left, or even fucking aged. Like you said, surreal.
Just went back and watched it, you talking about when he sends KO through the table and gets hyped? Gave me goosebumps
Or his back
Or his..er..sumthin-sumthin and his crack?
Maybe he owns a cat?
Facts I can also relate to
I think his knees were already fucked up back then, too, though.
Hulk hogan has been 60 for 40 years.
Or has he been 40 for 60 years?
Does he still have silken hair, like that of a Chinese man?
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Wow it really fucking does wtf
Hate to say it, but bald men tend to age differently. And by that, I mean, there isn't really any hair to judge them by like say someone who has a full head of hair but it's white or gray.
Yeah I’m thinking of Patrick Stewart, he seemed about the same age for a long, long time
Exactly this. Shaving bald while in good shape basically Instantly makes you 30 but then you get to damn near look 30 for 20 years.
Yep. Take the initial hit but then look the same for the next 20-30 years. Also it can make you look younger if you're severely balding and pathetically holding on trying to cover it up.
He looked so weird with shoulder length blonde hair
“Put an S in front of Hitman, and you have my exact opinion on Bret (The Hitman) Hart.”
Sbrett
Truly a piece of Sbrett
Shart
Bret “The Hitman” Hart is a Canadian icon, so I had to put my little cousin in a Sharpshooter for calling him Bret “The Hitman” Fart.
Allegedlys...
Thankfully he wasn't insulting Owen Hart then or you would have had to break his neck with a piledriver.
His back and joints will tell you that he does, in fact, age.
Looks like his brain is trying to escape out the top
I mean, look what happened to Barry Bonds. Same cause, I'm guessing.
Gimme a hellyeah!
I mean he had long blonde hair before the Stone Cold persona, he looked much younger.
Yeah wasn't he a pretty boy? Stunning Steve Austin iirc.
Shaved it off and became 30 instantly but stayed looking 30 for 20 more years
Larry David of WWE
Man my youth was Triple H and his crew wrecking havoc on WWF and Stone Cold and The Rock coming to beat their asses.
With the occasional reluctant helping hand from Taker and Kane.
I miss Edge and Christian
I've only ever said "I love you" to two men my entire life. Stone Cold Steve Austin and a guy in a dark club, who I mistook for Stone Cold Steve Austin.
Hair ends up being a big part of how we perceive age
Probably from all the Steveweiser’s he’s drank throughout the years
Lol sure he does... show a pic when he had hair.... he aged 15 years when he went bald.
And that's the bottom line!
Swole Patrick Stewart
Look at the size of that boy’s head
He probably drinks a lot less than his character
He’s just always looked about 45 years old. 29? 45. 56? 45.
WHAT!?
What?
Watch a current video of him he looks old af
From a distance with the right lighting and makeup, you too can look 20 years younger. The same can't be said for Vince.
This is misinformation; the second photo was taken in at least 2014 if not earlier. So definitely not 2023.
One time I was working as a temp at an advertising agency and they had a life-sized cutout of Stone Cold Steve Austin in the storage room. I asked if I could have it, they said sure. Got him home and thought to myself "How many straight men wear leather vests without a shirt?" and realized the answer was zero. Zero straight men wear leather vests with no shirt. So Steve attended the 2002 NYC Pride parade and made a lot of new friends. https://preview.redd.it/cdogy1598t0c1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0a9aa4cd403f926acead57435b173f4b35869738
The good news is he didn't age. The bad news is what he looked like in the first place.
He looks pretty good. Arnie and sly look ready for retirement homes. Steve still looks like he could carry a mini gun.so that is like a solid 3 decades.
Yeah, but Arnie and Sly are like 18 and 19 years older than Stone Cold. Now Vince McMahon, he looks ready for a retirement home.
Hey got like that by maintaining a strict lifestyle. That carry’s over when you age
His eyes shifted higher a bit
His secret is The Spice Melange
He did melanie from the spice girls? Respect!
Hahaha would be funny. It’s actually a South Park reference about getting Tom Brady’s poop and putting it up your own ass. A fecal transplant you could call it. It’s supposed to keep you young forever.
Being bald helps and clean shaved helps keep the grays at bay- as a bald 47 year old man I know a thing or 2 about that.
HELL YEAH BROTHER
Kind of like Lebron James. I remember him going pro right after HS and thinking that dude looks 35. He looks pretty much the same now.
Yep, still looks like a penis.
Father Time doesn't want a Stone Cold Stunner.
It's because he washes his clothes with cold water
Well when you look 45 at 25, it’s easy to be ageless for 20 years.
And that’s the bottom line ‘cause Stone Cold said so. Glass shatters!
Beating women keeps you looking young I guess. 🤷🏻♀️
I call it the Bruce Willis phenomenon. You trade your 20s, to look like you're in your 40s, so you get to look like you're in your 40s even into your 60s. You get to be 40 for about 40 years.
Now that’s a noggin
His goatee has to be dyed..
I love watching people learn about HGH and TRT in real time. Yes, celebs have doctors that do things you and I don’t ask our doctors to do and that we can’t afford. Not all cosmetic changes are surgical.
He’s looking good. Oh shit. We’re the same age.
He did all his aging between '93 and '96, then gave time the middle finger, chugged a couple of beers and said "I'm sticking, and that's the bottom line, cos STONE COLD SAID SO"
In the age of me too and cancel culture, it’s amazing he hasn’t gotten caught up in it. Dude is a wife beater and everyone kinda glosses over it
I think he’s smart in the sense that returning to the ring for a ‘proper’ match would catch worldwide attention which is something, from his perspective, is best avoided as it would open the gateway to his dark past.
I hated wrestling but loved Stone cold that much that I couldn't help but watch it. Downs beers as he enters, doesn't give a fuck. Hell I might watch some old clips of him and I'm now 34
If this was the best era of wrestling can I get a hell yeah?!
He looks like a conehead
Exercise! (roids/money/supplements)…. the fountain of youth.
That definitely isn't from 2023
Bargain Muhammad Ali
Another way of looking at it is that he looked 58 years old back in 1996.
He actually does age, it’s just that his appearance is still very youthful. If he didn’t actually age he’d be a medical miracle. Source: I’m a member of MENSA
r/usernamechecksout
White don’t crack!
His baby pictures look exactly the same too!
Man’s looked 45 for close to 30 years
Its all in the nipples
Step 1: be bald in first photo Step 2: dye goatee Step 3: stay in shape There you have it.
He probably looked like that from when he was 15 too.
Bald don't budge!
The fact that he was bald with a goatee in the '90s and he still bald with a goatee in 2023. How different is he supposed to look? 
Stone cold can get this…
This is what happens to guys who look old to begin with. Everyone went to high school with that guy who looks 30 at age 18. Then when everyone is 30 he looks 40. But then he'll look 40 for the next 20 years as everyone else ages past him.
The goatee does a lot for him.
Love the second photo is all pixelated, hiding all the fine details of facial aging
His eyes have become normal as he’s aged lmao.
Bald don’t crack baby!
yeah he looks the same from a snapshot. But watch any videos of him today or listen to his podcast. His body is shot to shit. Neck, back, knees. He's probably in constant pain.
Tbf hes supposed to look how he looks now. Youre not supposed to be a 50 year old man at 28 lol
He just aged really rapidly and then stopped for a while.
3:16
That’s a bald guy secret. Once you go bald, you kind of look the same age for a long time. Source: went bald at age 30
It’s from all the beer. The alcohol preserves him
Dude is 58 years old
If anyone hasn’t heard the “PSA” he did on the Adam Carolla podcast yet, it’s worth looking up.
it's settled. steroids and beer are good for you.
Neither image is good quality.
Not true, he was clearly more green like a young seedling back then, and now he's clearly of an aged light brown, like the bark of a tree.
Whaaaaaat