# Stone Cold

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stone-cold/54149>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 12, 2001, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stone-cold/54149 "2001-02-12T14:34:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Delila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Delila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delila)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2001, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stone-cold/54149/1 "2001-02-12T14:34:47Z")

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What does the “3:16” after Stone Cold’s name mean?

The only 3:16 I know is: For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

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**Author:** ![muppetsoup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aca169/32.png) [@muppetsoup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muppetsoup)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2001, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stone-cold/54149/2 "2001-02-12T15:16:36Z")

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He was fighting a ‘bible-thumping’ wrestler that always spouted proverbs like john 3:16, etc…  
He beat him and gave a speech, something like “you talk about your psalms, you talk about your John 3:16, well Austin 3:16 says I just whooped your ass!”

IIRC

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**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2001, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stone-cold/54149/3 "2001-02-12T15:20:02Z")

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From a Google search.  
[http://www.canoe.ca/SlamWrestlingArchive/may23\_cole.html](http://www.canoe.ca/SlamWrestlingArchive/may23_cole.html)

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> “Austin 3:16” says that I just whipped your ass.  
> That phrase tells you what Stone Cold Steve Austin generally is all about.  
> “Austin 3:16” shocked a few people when it first came out of his mouth after he beat Bible-thumper Jake (The Snake) Roberts at the 1996 King of Ring card. It’s a play on the “John 3:16” signs seen at sporting events, which refer to a scripture in the Bible stating that those who believe in Jesus Christ “should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  
> “Austin 3:16” has become the theme for the hottest-selling merchandise in WWF history.  
> “It was never, ever designed to be sacrilegious, anti-religious,” said Austin, the WWF champion who meets Hunter Hearst Helmsley tonight at the SkyDome with WWF owner Vince McMahon as the guest referee. McMahon’s angle is to make Austin’s title reign miserable.  
> “(Austin 3:16) is just something I said and it’s stuck around. It was tongue-in-cheek,” Austin said. “Some people take it seriously, others don’t. It’s something that has stuck with me and that doesn’t bother me one bit.”