Stone Cold is a retired American professional wrestler, actor, producer and media personality. He has signed a contract of legends with WWE. He has gained immense popularity during the period of the late 90s under his ring name “Stone Cold”. The birth name of Stone is Steven James Anderson. One of the Demi Lovato lyrics is called “Stone Cold”, however, there is no connection of the song with the original Stone Cold.
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Biography and Early Life
Stone was born on 18th December 1964 in the city of Austin, Texas. His mother Beverly Harrison and his father James got divorced when Stone was just one year old. After her separation, Beverly relocated to Victoria where she tied the knot with Ken Williams. Stone adopted the second name of his stepdad and got his name changed into Steven James Williams. Stonehad spent his childhood years in City of Edna, Texas. He received his school education from High School of Edna. He received a scholarship for football from Junior College of Wharton County. He has also received complete scholarship from the North Texas University. He has 3 brothers and one younger sister named Jeniffer.
Wrestling career
After deciding to take wrestling as his profession, stone joined the school of Chris Adams located in Sportatorium of Dallas. The training given by Adams was basically technical. Initially stone wrestled under his original name. He made his debut performance in wrestling on 26 September 1989 while on 30 March 2003; he took retirement from the professional wrestling. During his career of 14 years, Stone has achieved many titles and accolades.
He has won 19 championships during his professional wrestling career. He has won WWF championship 6 times, Intercontinental Championship of WWF twice and Tag Team Championship of WWF 4 times. Due to which he has achieved the position among those five wrestlers that have won Triple Crown Championship. Other than these WWF championships, he has also won US Heavyweight Championship by WCW twice. He has won World Tag Team Championship by WCW and World Tag Team Championship by NWA once.
Podcast and Acting Career
During April of 2013 Stone initiated his first weekly podcast titled “The Steve Austin Show” which was family based. However, his 2ndpodcast named “The Steve Austin Show- Unleashed!”is adult oriented. Both of his shows can be seen from PodcastOne. The Podcastgot transformed into WWE network live broadcast with special monthly editions from 2014. He have also acted in many movies which include “The Condemned”, “The Expendables”, “Damage”, “Tactical Force”, “The Stranger”, ”Knockout”, ”The Package” and “Recoil”
Personal life
Stone has got married four times till date. He was in a relationship with Kathryn Burrhus during his college days and finally, they got married on 24 November 1990. However, Stone started dating Jeanie Clarke while working with her; as a result, he got separated from Burrhus on 7 August 1992. Stone and Clarke got married on 18 December 1992. He has 2 children from this marriage named Stephanie and Cassidy. He has also adopted Clarke’s daughter Jade from her previous marriage. Stone and Clarke separated their ways on 10 May 1999.
On 13 September 2000, Stone married his third wife Debra Marshall who is an actress. In 2009 he got married fourth time with Kristin Austin. His third wife, Marshall had charged him with domestic abuse where Stone was found guilty and was punished. On 29 June 2007, in an interview with Fox News, Marshall disclosed that Stone has beaten her 3 times. Currently Stone has a net worth of about 45 million dollars.
Last Modified: Mar 11, 2020
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