Backstage News On What Happened Between Austin & Piper

Source: The Wrestling Observer Newsletter

As previously reported, WWE dropped Roddy Piper from his WWE Legends contract, according to Ric Flair, due to issues with Steve Austin over Podcast One.

Apparently the issues reportedly began when Piper claimed that Austin got Piper’s podcast booted off of Podcast One after satirical comments were made by comedian Will Sasso, who was impersonating Austin, on a Piper’s Pit podcast that took place earlier this year.

“Stone Cold” noted earlier this week that at age 50, he has no time for “soap opera stuff.” Austin claimed he had nothing to do with Piper getting pulled from Podcast One. He said he contacted the President of Podcast One and was informed that Piper asked for a meeting with them to tell the company that he no longer wanted to do a podcast for them.

Additionally, Austin said he is not to blame for Piper leaving and claimed Piper himself is the one who wanted to leave. Piper reportedly had called up Podcast One and asked to be released from his contract, saying that he didn’t have time to do more shows because of upcoming acting work and he’s spending time writing an autobiography. With that being said, Piper is now working on a new podcast deal.

Austin added that despite everything, he has no hard feelings towards Piper.

Roddy Piper plans to address the situation on his next podcast. “This will be cleared up and gone after my next Podcast,” Piper told internet reporter Ryan Clark. “I heard what Steve said! Respect! My Honor’s not for sale!”

The irony of all this is that it was Austin who got Piper his job with Podcast One in the first place.

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