Inside WWE legend Stone Cold Steve Austin’s transformation from beer-swilling heavyweight champ to mellow ‘cat dad’

WWE fable Stone Cold Steve Austin is considered by galore arsenic the toughest nonrecreational wrestler of each time.

Austin, 59, defined the celebrated Attitude Era alongside Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson successful the precocious 1990s and aboriginal 2000s.

The Texas Rattlesnake performed arsenic a rebellious Texan who brutalised his rivals, flipped his brag Vince McMahon disconnected earlier taking him retired with a Stunner and past celebrated by chugging beers.

That led to six satellite rubric reigns and a fig of classical matches against the likes of The Rock, Triple H, The Undertaker, Bret Hart and galore much passim his 14-year vocation earlier retiring successful 2003.

But the ex-WWE Champion has near his hellraising and beer-swilling days down him arsenic helium present enjoys retirement.

Instead, the American bruiser prefers to dedicate himself to his Broken Skull Ranch successful Nevada with his onshore that helium has filled with animals.

Austin's favourite pets are his 2 cats Pancho and Macho, whose pictures often look connected his Instagram leafage with galore fans dubbing him a "cat dad".

The erstwhile Intercontinental Champion has drastically mellowed, but the aforesaid doesn't spell for his 2 feline friends who are nary strangers to raising hellhole themselves.

The pro wrestling large has antecedently shared videos of the cats moving distant erstwhile helium tries to enactment them to bed.

Austin utilized to vie with the celebrated DTA [Don't Trust Anyone] motto, but erstwhile it comes to his "handsome f*****g cats" helium ever forgives them and adjacent spoils them with an yearly pampering.

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The Hall of Famer spends a batch of clip with his pets but besides finds clip for different newfound passion.

And that is nary different than side-by-side racing (SXS), which led to him being named the Valley Off Road Racing Association's "rookie of the year" soon aft making his debut.

Austin besides makes sporadic WWE appearances and adjacent came retired of status successful 2022 astatine WrestleMania 38 wherever helium defeated Kevin Owens successful an impromptu No Holds Barred Match.