{"id":22653,"date":"2016-06-13T11:01:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T16:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=22653"},"modified":"2016-06-13T11:01:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T16:01:55","slug":"j-styles-next-weeks-live-stone-cold-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/06\/13\/j-styles-next-weeks-live-stone-cold-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is A.J. Styles on next week&#8217;s live &#8220;Stone Cold&#8221; podcast?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2436924909\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>&#8220;Stone Cold&#8221; Steve Austin returns to WWE television next Monday, June 20 in the form of a live podcast interview with A.J. Styles on WWE Network.<\/p>\n<p>In a new interview, Austin talked about why\u00a0Styles was a good choice for his next live post-Raw interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA.J. Styles just carried Roman Reigns to two world class matches back-to-back.\u00a0The second one wasn\u2019t as good as the first, but it\u2019s hard to top an all-time classic. Reigns carried his end, but that was all A.J. They keep beating that\u00a0kid, and they\u2019ve got a potential superstar on their hands,&#8221; Austin told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.si.com\/extra-mustard\/2016\/06\/13\/stone-cold-steve-austin-wwe-ipa-what-chant\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Barrasso of Sports Illustrated in a very lengthy interview covering Austin&#8217;s career<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(Styles) has\u00a0only been working 16, 18 years, he\u2019s got it figured out. Put a rocket on his ass and send him to the moon. I would love to see them run with Styles. I called him over the last time I saw him, which was before he got into that string of really good matches, and we\u2019d never met. I said, \u2018Hey man, good luck.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you see guys like that &#8211; who have been around the world and are veterans, you want them to finally get paid. He\u2019s paid a million dues and he ain\u2019t made no money. I want to see the kid go out and have a seven-figure year finally.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also in the interview, Austin clarified recent comments <a href=\"http:\/\/podcastone.com\/Steve-Austin-Show-Clean\" target=\"_blank\">on his podcast with PWTorch editor Wade Keller<\/a> about whether Cody Rhodes should have stayed in WWE with the brand split coming up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All I asked Wade Keller was, \u2018With the brand split, do you think it was a good time for Cody to walk away?\u2019 I know Cody didn\u2019t know about the brand split, but had he known &#8211; and known that they were going to need a lot of hands on deck &#8211; they probably would have been willing to do anything at that point,&#8221; Austin said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve got respect for Cody Rhodes and I consider him a friend.\u00a0I wasn\u2019t bad-mouthing him or running him down because he quit. There\u2019s nothing more frustrating than when you see talent in yourself and you pitch an idea, and they won\u2019t listen to you. Ultimately, you decide, \u2018F&#8212; it, I\u2019m going to do this someplace else.\u2019 I\u2019ve got respect for the guy.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-437830028\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;My point was only, had he known about a brand split, do you think he would have walked away? They would have been forced to use him, maybe in the capacity he would have wanted. 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