CM Punk spoke with ABC 7 Chicago for a new interview about his wrestling and MMA career. Some highlights are below:
On where his desire to be a WWE Superstar began: “I’m not sure. Obviously, I watched WWF as a kid, but when I made the conscious decision – WWF was never the end goal. I romanticized about Japanese wrestling. There was two companies in Japan, it was called All Japan and New Japan, and that was my thing. I was more about going over there and being a star over there, then coming home and just being completely – you can walk down the street and nobody knows you. That was my style, I liked it. But I worked so long and hard at it that it became so boring, it became the last frontier was WWE. I had to go see if I could conquer that so I gave it a shot.”
On fighting being tough: “It’s all tough. I was a wrestler throwing myself to the ground 300 days a year, now I’m more focused on different disciplines and I get to sleep in my own bed every night. Isn’t that great though? To me, there’s something so romantic about that. You walk into a cage and there’s a winner and a loser. People can make excuses but at the end of the day, there’s a winner and a loser. I think in this world, because in my opinion you only get one time around, if you’re scared of something I think it’s best to face it head on. I’m comfortable with being uncomfortable.”
I still remember when I posted feedback of people saying he lose almost all his sparring and I got those threads closed lol, hes so good at promo that people actually believe he can fight in real life, he needs to return to wrestle hes just not a legit guy.
So over hearing about this guy, it's like he thinks he's above the WWE and that was a big reason why he left. The funny thing is he would of never made the money he made in the UFC if it wasn't for the WWE. Fucking can't stand the guy.
WWE isn't about titles, or main eventing WrestleMania...not for me anyway...If I were a wrestler, i'd just wanna have the best match on the card no matter if I was main event, or curtain puller. Talk about my match. Nothing else matters.
Punk is working. He could easily go to Japan, even now. In MMA he's getting paid millions for less then a couple of minutes of work.
Easy decision really. MMA just makes the most financial sense. If he wanted a challenge he would've switched to New Japan to try and give that global expansion a rocket boost.
He's still a legend for being one of the few guys to go out on his terms, rather then Vince sucking his guys dry for all their worth.
Nothing legendary about quitting in a hissy fit, he's not the first to ever do that. His career is legendary though.
On topic hard to believe him seeing as he didn't go to Japan at any point. A guy like him seems very goal oriented and very driven. I have a hard time believing that Japan was his goal and he didn't find his way there. That just doesn't match his character
UFC punked Phil Brooks. Mickey Gall is probably top 20-25 caliber WW in the UFC. CM Punk should have fought in Bellator where they could have fed him lesser competition for his first fights. Look at the absolute tomato cans Lashley fought for years in his MMA career. Look at the caliber of Batista's only MMA match-up. UFC can't give Punk a gimme, but lesser org's can.
Punk needs a MMA win and then retire, but he won't get it in the UFC. Get out of that contract and into Bellator or even a Japanese MMA company.
He's more enjoyable getting pulverized in UFC than he ever was in a wrestling ring for me. Most overrated guy in history. Plus it's hilarious to hear him desperately try to spin the story that wrestling wasn't his dream. He's a whiny bitch that has no respect for the business that made him
He is SO full of shit. If WWE was never his end goal then he would of NEVER EVER put up about big fuss about his spot on the roster. FULL OF SHIT Punk.
This is why I don't believe everything he said on the podcast.
Anyways whats so funny about this is HE WILL be back in WWE someday. The writing is on the wall. They ALL come back.
The only person who whines more than Punk is a 13 year old girl on the first day of her period who just found out Starbucks stopped serving Unicorn Frappuccino's. And even then it would be a close run thing. I can't remember the last time I believed anything he says. Of course he will go back eventually. Money talks.
As many as you all know I don't like cm punk but he's coming back sooner than later. Whenever a past co worker/wrestler mentions WWE they return at some point shortly after. Hell we the OG himself Jim Cornette return and made a mends with hhh etc. So rest asure punk will show his face on WWETV.
I would assume Punk is smokescreening to drum up interest in a future return somewhere when reality might be sinking in that Punk has entered the non-heavyweight MMA game far too late in an evolved era where guys are getting better all the time, training at earlier ages and smarter.
If not, just another of Punk's bizzare feelings and kind of contradicts the whole "I was a failure in wrestling because I did not close Mania" statement.
Does any other ex WWE wrestler in recent memory fucking whine as much as Punk does? I love a guy with a massive ego but seriously if he really believes that he would have made the metric fuck tonne of money and achieved the sort of profile that he has without the WWE then he's dreaming. I don't expect him to be grateful, I just wish he would shut up about it and go and live whatever his current dream is. Mostly so I can watch him get annihilated again.
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