Full Recap of Roddy Piper Addressing the Steve Austin Controversy on His Podcast, Talks WWE Legends Deal, PodcastOne and More

July 13, 2015

roddy piper spoken word tour During his podcast today, WWE Hall of Famer “Rowdy” Roddy Piper addressed the recent Steve Austin controversy, which resulted in Piper’s podcast being pulled from PodcastOne and his WWE Legends deal being dropped. The entire Piper podcast is available via iTunes at this link.

To quickly recap the events which took place on Piper’s podcast, Piper today said comedian Will Sasso appeared on his podcast shortly after WrestleMania this year, and did an impression of Steve Austin. The podcast then took a one month hiatus, and returned, but not via PodcastOne. Piper said after 6 hours, the Sasso podcast was pulled from PodcastOne, and Piper was threatened to be fired from PodcastOne.

When his podcast returned, Piper said Sasso had been doing great impressions of wrestlers like Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage and Steve Austin. When Jim Duggan called into the podcast, Piper had Sasso do his Austin impression so that Duggan could “rip into” Austin on the air. While in the Steve Austin character, Sasso, Piper and Duggan joked about various Austin subjects, like Austin’s heat with Vince McMahon, quitting WWE, Austin only having one friend (his dog), and Piper even joked Austin made his whole career off three words: “What” and “Hell Yeah.”

Following the episode, Roddy Piper was subsequently released from his WWE Legends deal, which prompted speculation that Austin might have been the one responsible for Piper’s firing.

Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.

Nick attended New York University and graduated in 2001 with a degree in Drama.

Nick first entered the internet wrestling community back in 2004 when he became the co-host of The Voice of Wrestling Radio Show. From there, Nick made the transition from radio personality to editor when he began working with WrestleZone in 2008.

Nick is a member of two Off-Broadway theatre companies, Another Urban Riff, and the Drama Desk Award winning Godlight Theatre Company. Nick has appeared in over a dozen Off-Broadway plays since he moved to New York City, and has shot several short and feature length films. In 2010, he completed principle photography on a film titled "How to Score Your Life," which also features TNA Knockout ODB.

Inspiration in his life has come from many people including his family, Woody Allen, Steven Spielberg, Jack Nicholson, The Beatles, and of course, Lassie.