Backstage news on Austin – WWE issues, WrestleMania 32 promo, more

As expected Austin didn’t attend WrestleMania 31

We had reported earlier about Stone Cold Steve Austin not attending the WrestleMania 31. But few people inside WWE were surprised as Austin was not even in town for the weekend’s event, as they had planned interviews with him in WWE Network. According to a trusted source, the story going around was that there was an issue between Austin and Vince McMahon, perhaps something to do with using Austin’s podcast on the WWE Network again.

The video below is the preview of Chris Jericho’s live WWE Network podcast with the New United States Champion John Cena after RAW on April 6th.

Below is the first promo for WWE’s WrestleMania 32: