Speaking through his official podcast, WWE Hall of Famer Stone Cold Steve Austin addressed the rumors regarding his standing with the WWE, why he will not be part of the WWE Tough Enough return, not appearing at the WrestleMania 31 pay-per-view and more.

Austin said that there is no heat on him from WWE for allegedly missing WrestleMania 31 week and said that there was a rumor that he was supposed to be on a flight with The Undertaker and said that was not true and said that he was never a part of any creative discussions for him to participate at WrestleMania and he didn’t turn anything down, he simply wasn’t there and was never scheduled to be there.

Regarding the return of WWE Tough Enough and the rumors of heat between himself and Vince McMahon, Austin said that he did not turn the show down and said that he has been talking with the company about Tough Enough for some time and it was supposed to be filmed in February or March, but noted that it is now April and it still hasn’t happened and said that the delay was nobody’s fault as it takes a lot of work for the different pieces of a reality show like Tough Enough to come together and when WWE got their pieces together, CMT wanted to do more Broken Skull Challenge and he couldn’t do WWE Tough Enough due to the commitments to Broken Skull Challenge and said that he didn’t turn down Tough Enough because of heat with Vince McMahon as it was scheduling problems as to why he couldn’t do the show and said that he wishes he could do it, but it didn’t work out and said that in a perfect world, he would have filmed in Feburary or March and that would have been it.

Austin also addressed the reports regarding his podcast not being on the WWE Network and said they did the first two and were going to make a deal to move forward and said that there was a deal that could have been made, but it wasn’t and they are not moving forward and said that there is no heat there and said that he heard that Vince McMahon wasn’thappy with some of his questions for Triple H and said that isn’t true. Austin said that the WWE are going in their own direction and he is going in his and down the road, if they hook back up, it’ll be great and said that he will always have WWE in his blood and said that both sides have helped each other out over the years and said that it is always a good thing and a fun thing when WWE and Stone Cold Steve Austin are in business together and guessed that there is no animosity from WWE towards him and said that he has no heat with them.