Steve Austin Facebook WrestleMania Tease, Sports Illustrated On WWE - ESPN Relationship, Enzo & Cass

- Alternative Press just released the interview with Enzo Amore and Colin Cassady above a few days ago, which was actually conducted backstage at Aftershock 2015 last October. During the interview, Amore discussed the rock and wrestling communities mixing at the festival.

"We didn't anticipate the type of support that came right away," Amore said. "It's been a pleasure so far, and to be honest with you, some of the most humbling things for me at least and for Big Cass is that we're making a lot of new fans and we're seeing people buy merchandise that normally would have probably never watched wrestling at these shows. And we're also bringing in fans that would have never been to one of these shows because NXT's name is on the marquee."

- Sports Illustrated has a story here, and in the video above, looking at WWE's relationship with ESPN. It was noted that "WWE Raw has been a top five talked-about topic over the last five weeks among SportsCenter followers on Twitter and a top 10 topic for 15 straight weeks." It also stated that WWE wanting mainstream media attention is understandable given the declining RAW ratings. The writer also stated that it would "be wise" for outlets to cater to WWE fans given their demos, writing:

"Outlets (and I include SI here) would be wise to cater to WWE fans when appropriate given its demos. Website editors and writers will tell you that wrestling content on sports sites draws a ton of page views. There's no doubt that some ESPN viewers will be unhappy seeing WWE programming on SportsCenter?no, it's not a sport?but the idea that SportsCenter is sacrosanct regarding sports-only is long gone. The show often has actors and musicians hyping product, cross-promotion with Disney entities, lists of non-note from its anchors, and various personalities screaming about something."

- The following was posted on Steve Austin's official WWE Facebook page over the weekend, which has gotten some people talking. It should be noted that the posts are usually made by someone on the WWE's social media staff, not by the wrestlers themselves:

damien demento contributed to this article.