Leading up to WrestleMania 34, WWE’s Chief Brand Officer Stephanie McMahon sat down with Fox News and was asked about what kind of memories she has growing up and watching the biggest event in wrestling, given the fact that her father, Vince McMahon, owns WWE.

"George “The Animal” Steele was my first encounter when I was anywhere from 3 to 5 years old, and I was walking backstage at my first ever live event and all of a sudden a group of kids came around the corner just screaming and I waited to see what was going to happen and here comes George “The Animal” Steele. If you remember he was bald had a lot of wrinkles in his head. He was very fury, very hairy but [it] looked like fur and he dyed his tongue green and he was all in character and he came at me, and I screamed at the top of my lungs. I ran to my dad (Vince McMahon), ran up his leg buried my head right in his shoulder, and he started laughing. And I was like “Hang on a second, this is my dad who I know would die defending my honor, and he's laughing at this?” And it was my first sort of inclination that there was more to this business than I really understood."

That's a great story of Stephanie's first encounter with Steele, who was clearly having fun scaring the kids, which unfortunately for her, included herself.

Steele actually recently passed away in February of 2017 at the age of 79 due to kidney failure. He was inducted into the WWE's Hall of Fame in 1995 due to being an all-time great in the business.

Steele's career with World Wide Wrestling Federation kicked off in Pittsburgh in 1967 after being scouted by champion Bruno Sammartino. The last appearance he made with WWE was in 2010 during a Monday Night RAW while Kofi Kingston and David Otunga were wrestling.

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Steele also had a brief acting career, which started in 1994, as he made his professional acting debut as Swedish wrestler-turned-actor Tor Johnson in Tim Burton's Ed Wood.

Steele also released a book in 2013 called, Animal.

During her interview, McMahon was also asked whether she thinks Ronda Rousey signing with WWE will help bring in other athletes from outside of the sport.

"We recruit from the Olympics; we recruit from rugby, football overseas; we recruit from everywhere. I do think Ronda has brought heightened awareness. She is arguably one of the world's greatest athletes. She is also just a tremendous star. She just exudes this energy and charisma that you can really connect to because you have to have the total package. Athleticism alone is not enough. And I think Ronda speaks to the caliber of athleticism that is in WWE but it also speaks to the women’s evolution, and I can't wait to see how her presence will give the women’s evolution even more weight."

I think this was a silly question from Fox News and good answer by Stephanie. Wrestling has always been a sport that features numerous men and women that have excelled at other sports whether it's something in the Olympics, football, or MMA.

With MMA becoming more and more popular and the fact that they don't get paid a lot of money, unless they become as famous as Rousey, I do believe more fighters will make the move to wrestling over time. But I'm not sure if Rousey making the move from the UFC to WWE will make more people from other sports make the jump as well.

There have been plenty of big-name athletes that came from other sports to WWE, like The Rock, Bill Goldberg and Brock Lesnar.

As brutal as wrestling can be, it is really amazing that athletes like Lensar and Rousey can take a beating as MMA fighters and then transition to wrestling. It goes to show you that they're some of the best athletes in the world.

Feel free to comment below on Stephanie's comments on Steele as well as her thoughts on Rousey opening the door for other athletes.