Pro Wrestlers on How CM Punk is in Real Life - Backstage the WWE

music and getting that pop and getting the pop of me coming to the ring, you know, and having that performance, but you know, and I saw Gabe's point, like I showed up in the crowd and was surprised and understood that. and then I cut the promo the way I did, but yeah, I, and I know I didn't know what Punk's situation was at the time, I just knew like I didn't

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ize that he was already signed, you know, I hadn't spoken to him for a while at that point, so I didn't know it was signed. I didn't know that this was like a plan that they were going to let him do all summer like the you know, the guy that will leave at any moment, but I'll take the belt like I didn't know anything about that.

I just like to have the second half, so you're going to go in and You know Punk is going to be the champion and you're going to try and stuff like that, what do you think of your one hour amount? Yeah, what do you think of your one-hour game without pumpkin? Philadelphia. I thought he was a great man that. It was the first or second time I did a singles match for an hour and you know, I had a lot of fun. I was worried it was funny because I remember saying something to Punk at the end like one minute you want to do something to get your heat back and he was like, "I'm not worried about my heat, man, I'll get my heat back" and the point is, I thought At the end of the 60 minutes everyone is going to say: oh, what a good fight that was, you know, it was also difficult because, like we were trying to reconstruct a 60-minute match, you know, because it wasn't an Iron Man match, it was just a match and So no one knew it would be an hour until I won an hour, so we were setting the pace for a match and I remember a lot of people wanted it to not be enough, like fire and wrath, and I'm thinking right.

Yeah, we're going to last an hour, so we paced it like we would in a 60-minute game and you know, I know a lot and I don't know a lot, but I know there was an outcry like you guys were having blood for you. Why are they trading waits for the first ten minutes? I was like well, well, because they did this for an hour, guys, so what do you think about the whole CM Punk situation right now? Do you think he retired for good? Do you think I ever will? Come back to true honor or do you think he's just going to sit back and eventually because you know for the love of the business I'm going to come back to WV that's a good question man I don't know have you talked to him since?

Yes look. I haven't spoken to him in two, in fact the last time I spoke to him was at the belt drop in the '90s, that was the last time we spoke. Don't know. I think he loves the business and, having said that, that makes me think he might want to come back during his honor because he certainly doesn't need to come back for the money. He'll never need another dollar of Vince McMahon's intimate money if he doesn't want it right. So it is conceivable that he. He would go back to Ring of Honor, you know that just for the love of the deal and you know the passion for what he built here in Ring of Honor, but at the same time you know that he can feel that passion for WWE and not look at WWE as a paycheck , but look at WB as the place where he went from being CM Punk to CM Punk, you know the world best, right?

So you might want to go back and add to his legacy or whatever it's not. I'm sure you know that I fought Punk several times in the '90s when he was starting out and you know that I never took Phil as a tough guy. I don't know what he's been doing recently, how he's been training, what his technique will be. but I see that you know that he has a heart and when he sets his mind to something, the reason why he walked away from WWE is because he did not believe in the direction he was going, he had in his heart the desire to achieve something. that he was going to be the main event at WrestleMania and they took it away from him and he thought he deserved it, so now you know he's not a 22 year old guy anymore, he's 30 and let's jump to the UFC.

Face it, his career isn't going to be that long so I think this is something he wants to try and see how well he can do it and I just see him being able to have a 5 fight career if so, but what? it will? He will win, he will lose, I don't know, I'm sure Dana White will match him with an equal or inferior opponent in his debut because it will be a great PPV and we all know it, so I wish him the best of luck. I hope it goes very well for you. I hope he prospers.

I wish him nothing but the best, but he never seemed legit to me. I find her to be a tough guy, but I don't know what kind of training he has. he has been doing or what kind of disciplines he is dabbling in. I know he was a fan of Muay Thai, but I don't know if he's going to do more of the striking or if he's going to do more of the fighting, so I'll be interested to see him fight because I just want to see how he does, I mean, I wish him the best, but again, I never picked him as a guy that would

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ly try to go out and really fight, but I wish him, I wish him the best, you know what? 20 I always say this but it's true he thought he was the best in the business and he wasn't but he ended up becoming exactly what he thought he was right yeah it's amazing when he really became Fanta he really became amazing , what's up with your uh? his transition into the UFC you saw it coming, I mean, once he did it, I was, I was, I was, I was proud of him, you know, I'm nothing, who am I to be proud of him, but I mean, you know Was he proud of him?

He was willing to, you know, do what he wanted to be happy, right, you know, I was happy for him, you know, look, if this is going to make you happy, if you're not happy and you need to do something else, then do it, you know? ?