Exact Reason Why WWE change the original Wrestlemania 38 plan for Stone Cold Steve Austin

Stone Cold Steve Austin has had some of the most iconic matches in WrestleMania history. One of those matches was against Scott Hall at WrestleMania 18. Hall was allegedly penciled in to win the match before Austin made WWE change their plans.

It was reported that Scott Hall wasn’t happy that the company had him lose to Steve Austin at WrestleMania. Hall felt that he should have been the one to go over in order to restore his credibility in front of the WWE audience.

As per Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, WWE’s original plan was to have Stone Cold lose to Razor Ramon. However, Austin ‘balked’ at the idea and the decision was changed because of Austin’s star power.

”Hall told friends, and this is the same with what I was told at the time, that Hall was originally scheduled to win. Austin, who was, along with The Rock, one of the two biggest stars in the company at the time, balked at the idea and because of Austin’s star power, it was changed,” said Meltzer.

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Apart from Austin, many people thought that Hall wouldn’t last long in WWE and it would have been a bad decision to have one of their biggest stars lose at WrestleMania.