Stone Cold Podcast With Paige On WWE Network August 3

WWE Hall of Famer Steve Austin is back on the WWE Network to host his outstanding Stone Cold Podcast with Paige announced as his next guest. She will sit down with Austin immediately following next week's Raw on Monday August 3rd. The podcast will likely run one hour long with the two time former Divas Champion and Tough Enough judge and indeed it's the struggling reality tv show that she will be plugging and no doubt why she was chosen for the this episode's slot. What's interesting is that WWE probably had the rare opportunity to use The Undertaker or Brock Lesnar for the podcast to promote the impending, four-hour long WWE SummerSlam which they are touting as "the biggest ever", but instead Vince McMahon's so invested in trying to save Tough Enough that they went with promoting that angle instead. As you've seen on Total Divas and Tough Enough, Paige is very well spoken and highly opinionated on a number of topics. At 22 years of age, she's also one of the youngest performers on the main roster and has a family that bleeds the wrestling industry, so it will be interesting to hear her take on how she got into the business. When WWE announced that Austin would be back for more WWE Network podcasts after WrestleMania they mentioned three big names as possible guests: Sting, Undertaker and Hulk Hogan. What may have happened is WWE originally wanted Hulk Hogan this time around to help promote Tough Enough but since he was fired on Friday, they obviously couldn't go that route and Paige was used as a replacement. Regarding Tough Enough, as of early Tuesday morning it's still not known who will replace Hogan as a judge on the show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uauS72ppJUc