Stone Cold Steve Austin accepts the Teen Choice Award given for best Pro wrestler at the 1999 Teen Choice Awards taping August 1 in Santa Monica. The award show, celebrating the hottest teen icons in film, television, music, sports and fashion was sponsor
Stone Cold Steve Austin accepts the Teen Choice Award given for best Pro wrestler at the 1999 Teen Choice Awards taping August 1 in Santa Monica. The award show, celebrating the hottest teen icons in film, television, music, sports and fashion was sponsored by Seventeen magazine and will be broadcast on the FOX television network in the United States August 12. REUTERS

The World Wrestling Entertainment will have to be creative if it plans to use legends in the March edition of Wrestlemania 31. After Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was interviewed as saying that it is unlikely that the prospect bout with Triple H is in peril, Austin was the latest legend to shun the outfit in his latest podcast. The Texas Rattlesnake described thee chances of him returning to the ring as "slim to none" during his latest podcast, The Steve Austin Show.

The former world heavyweight champion was heavily rumoured to return to the ring to face Brock "The Beast Incarnate" Lesnar but those plans appear to be breaking down. This now confirms the earlier musings of legendary announcer Jim Ross who first shot down talks of Austin's return. In fact, the comeback everyone was buzzing about was a simple return to Gold's Gym, which was underwhelming to say the least as reported by Ross on JRsBBQ.com:

"Steve was talking to a man [Ric Drasin] who used to train with 'Arnold' back in the day at the Gold's Gym in Venice and Steve said he was training to prepare to return to Gold's Gym to train. They were talking about training, not wrestling, and how working out at Gold's in Venice wasn't for everyone."

Austin negating talks of return to the WWE can be traced back to his repeated criticisms of the outfit's stubbornness to include new stars from TNA or NXT. Vince McMahon and his team has been adamant on cultivating its own talent rather than sign away semi-developed guys from rival wrestling groups. But with the dearth of talents sidelined due to injury such as Daniel Bryan and Roman Reigns and several others out due to legal issues such as CM Punk, the outfit is finding it hard to put out an enticing product.

During his podcast last week, Austin was quoted with the suggestion that the WWE should really consider adding in guys from the TNA and NXT. He even went out and named a few current stars that could blossom under the WWE brand such as James Storm, Bobby Roode, Styles and Samoa Joe.

Austin has taken an active role with his podcast in the last few years and it has been more than ten years since he threw out 3:16 signs and drank beers from cans. Yet with Wrestlemania 32 scheduled to happen in his Texas hometown, the possibility that the "slim" stance of Austin to return to wrestling may just turn again to "highly possible."