Stone Cold Steve Austin drinks real beers in the ring, sometimes gets drunk off them, once sunk 115

'On an empty stomach, after you’ve wrestled, it goes to your head pretty quick'

WWE legend Stone Cold Steve Austin is an authority on beer drinking. A virtuoso. A master.

He collides beer as enigmatically as Moses parted water, is skilled at the one-handed beer crack and catches cans with a higher success rate than any NFL wide receiver.

The Texas Rattlesnake spoke at length about chugging beers atop the turnbuckle in a recent episode of his podcast, for which he was joined by WWE referee and timekeeper Mike Yeaton - the man who has been expertly slinging cold ones Stone Cold’s way for years.

There were four key findings (after this world-beating GIF):

The beer Stone Cold drinks in the ring is always real

"And a lot of people said ‘hey man, was that real beer?’ And I say yes, it was always real beer… except for the one time. We were in Montreal, I think it was Sunday, something like that. Whatever it was, or maybe it was against the rules of the building, but it was NA beer, non-alcohol. And so all of a sudden those pictures start making the rounds and people are thinking ‘oh they’re throwing this guy non-alcohol beer.’ … that was one time."

Drinking beers on an empty stomach immediately after wrestling will get you drunk

"I can’t tell you how many times I left the ring and I had a little bit of a buzz because of all the beers I was drinking. When you’re shotgunning anywhere from six to 12 beers, and maybe you get half of ‘em in. On an empty stomach, after you’ve wrestled, it goes to your head pretty quick."

While a six or 12 pack is the norm, he once slammed 115 (with a little help) at a match in Japan

"Were you in Japan the time we did the beer bash with the Dudleys and Stacy Keibler? .... We went through 115 beers that night [in Japan], and that was the most I ever went through."

He tested Goldberg’s kayfabe by trying to get him drunk in the ring

"There was a couple of times when I got to do a little bit of business with Goldberg and we got to do something after a match. I go out there and I keep tossing Bill beers, and this is back when Bill didn’t really drink beer. He had to drink ‘em to keep up his gimmick because Stone Cold throwing ‘em to him. And I’d always keep shoveling him beers to get him buzzed, basically it was a rib."

(via Maxim)