WWE Hall of Famer “Rowdy” Roddy Piper addressed the recent controversy with Stone Cold Steve Austin on the latest edition of his podcast today.

Piper said that comedian Will Sasso appeared on his podcast shortly after WrestleMania 31 and did an impression of Steve Austin and that the podcast then took a one month hiatus, but didn’t return to PodcastOne because after 6 hours of being on the PodcastOne service, the Sasso podcast was pulled from PodcastOne and he was threatened to be fired from the platform. Piper said that Sasso had been doing great impressions of wrestlers like Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage and Steve Austin and when Hacksaw Jim Duggan called into the podcast, Piper had Sasso do his Austin impression so that Duggan could “rip into” Austin on the air and while in the Steve Austin character, Sasso, Piper and Hacksaw joked about various Stone Cold subjects, such as Austin’s heat with Vince McMahon, his decision to quit WWE, Austin only having his dog as his one friend and more, with Piper joking that Austin made his whole career off three words, What and Hell Yeah.

Piper said that there was a lot of love in the podcast, but he guesses not for Steve Austin and that is his own mistake and that on Monday, when the episode aired, PodcastOne had taken down not only the podcast, but all of his previous episodes and took him off the platform because Austin was upset and went and talked to them and that Piper needed the audience to find him, so he put up the Sasso episode that Austin had taken down. Piper said that he didn’t mean to offend Austin in any way and was sorry if Austin was offended and said that he’s got all the respect in the world for what he has done and wants to move on and not deal with the situation any more. Piper said that he talked to the head of the PodcastOne platform who told him that his podcasts were taken down and that Piper could not talk about Stone Cold Steve Austin and that the head of the platform was going to fire him, but changed his mind and that after thinking about it, he felt like he was being censored and couldn’t work under those conditions, so he continued to record some shows until he found a new home, noting that he needed the fan base to stay and said that there was a three-week period where there were no new shows.

While Austin has yet to respond to the latest comments from Piper, he did note on The Steve Austin Show last week that he did not like the original Sasso/Piper podcast because it revealed business related information that he did not want to have floating around in cyberspace, so he asked the PodcastOne platform to have the show removed from the archive.