The card for Sunday's "Extreme Rules" is slowly taking shape, with Daniel Bryan set to defend his WWE World Heavyweight Championship against his former tag team partner, Kane; Bray Wyatt taking on John Cena in a Steel Cage match, and The Shield will go up against Evolution in a Six-Man Tag Team match.

Alexander Rusev will face Xavier Woods and R-Truth in a 2-on-1 Handicap match, while new WWE Divas Champion Paige -- who was recently stripped of her NXT Divas title because of her victory over AJ Lee -- will make her first main roster title defense against Tamina.

One match rumored to be on the "Extreme Rules" card is a Triple Threat match between Jack Swagger, Cesaro, and Rob Van Dam with the finals of Monday night's Intercontinental Championship number one contender tournament being used to set that match up, after Cesaro's and Swagger's interference in the match.

WrestleZone.com is reporting that the Evolution-Shield match will be used to set up a potential Roman Reigns match against Triple H down the road -- possibly at "SummerSlam" or "Hell In A Cell" -- in what will be the beginning of a big push for the Shield member. Meanwhile, Evolution member Batista is rumored to be taking time off after "Extreme Rules" to promote his upcoming movie "Guardians of the Galaxy," in which he plays the role of Drax the Destroyer.

In other news, WWE icon "Stone Cold" Steve Austin recently came out in favor of same-sex marriage in his podcast, "The Steve Austin Show." "I have some damned good friends who are gay and I'm absolutely for same-sex marriage," said Austin in his typical Stone Cold expletive-laced rant.

Austin went hard at religious leaders who are against same-sex marriage, putting them in a verbal Stone Cold Stunner.

"What also chaps my [expletive], some of these churches, have the high-horse that they get on and say 'we as a church do not believe in that,'" said "The Rattlesnake." "Which one of these [expletives] talked to God, and God said that same-sex marriage was a no-can-do?"

While nothing officially has been announced, Sting has been making appearances on WWE television since the passing of the Ultimate Warrior. Sting was recently featured in the Ultimate Warrior documentary that aired on WWE Network and will have a DVD chronicling his World Championship Wrestling (WCW) career in the fall.

Olympic gold medalist and former WWE champion Kurt Angle was recently on TSN 1290 discussing a possible return to the WWE, telling the radio station that he is open to the idea of returning to the company when his TNA Wrestling contract is up in December, saying he has always wanted to end his career in the WWE. But a return to TNA Wrestling is still in the cards, with the Olympian saying that they have been very good to him. Angle was inducted into the TNA Hall of Fame last year and won the TNA World Heavyweight Championship five times during his stint with the company.

As Darren Young is slated to miss time away from the ring after suffering an ACL injury, WWE may be bringing up NXT Tag Team Champions The Ascension to the main roster to bolster their tag team division. The Ascension would be joining Bo Dallas, Adam Rose, Paige and Alexander Rusev, all who been called to the main roster recently.

In a recent interview with TMZ.com, Diamond Dallas Page recently revealed that Jake "The Snake" Roberts is still battling cancer. Roberts went in for a procedure prior to his induction into the WWE Hall of Fame ceremony, but DDP told the Web site that while some of the cancer still needs to be removed, it is no longer a life-threatening situation. Page, who made an appearance on Mark Cuban's ABC show "Shark Tank" to help promote his "DDP Yoga" programs, said that doing the show has helped sales pushing into the "seven figures."

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