WWE legend Stone Cold Steve Austin is not someone who minces his words when it comes to opinions on which he has a level of conviction and as far as the careers of young wrestlers are concerned, there are very few who would know better. In the latest episode of The Steve Austin Show, he spoke at length about the untimely exit of Damian Sandow from the company. Steve Austin was not convinced with the stunt double storyline that the wrestler had with The Miz. "I got a chance to talk to Damien Sandow on several occasions when I go to do the WWE Network 'Stone Cold' Podcast. And I remember when him and [The] Miz started doing that [stunt double] gimmick and I was thinking, 'man, this is the dumbest thing I've ever seen' and I told both guys this to their face. " However, he said that he found the stunt entertaining later on.
Austin was also critical of the costumes that Sandow wore during that time, "When they first brought him in, and Damien Sandow, that's a cool name, but then they started him off in those sorry ass pink trunks. And I'm like, 'pink and black worked for Bret Hart, and [there is] nothing wrong with pink, but just the tone and the color it's in [did not work].' You brought this guy into the company [and] you handed him a 100-pound anchor just to get off jump street."
He went on to say that the WWE is guilty of putting wrestlers in a particular box and not improvising. " But just because the [professional wrestling] business is moving so fast these days, the work style has changed, and so some of these kids are going to go out there and get an opportunity when they're the chosen one, but they can't perform at that level yet, so, again, it's almost like shooting yourself in the foot. On the other side of that, you've got to have some certain guys that you pick as blue chippers to give them that opportunity, but there's a fine line between getting a shove when you're not ready, and not even a fine line - a whole different thing of being stuck in a box."
