CM Punk has responded to Triple H’s recent comments about how they were able to work through a creative disagreement.
During a recent appearance on The Ringer Wrestling Show, Punk spoke about his tumultuous relationship with Hunter under the Vince McMahon regime and how it evolved to the point he doesn’t even remember the conversation.
“I’m more surprised because I actually don’t know what specific thing he’s talking about,” Punk said. “Since I’ve been back, I don’t necessarily think I’ve ever really reacted in a jarring negative way that I would have back in 2011 or 2013. Our relationship, for a heartbeat, I thought he was talking about, I remember very distinctly because it was in Anaheim, California. This was full on being hurt, sick, and injured. This was 2013.
“I needed to be taken off the hamster wheel and nobody is going to do that, they were just going to run me until I die. I remember yelling at writers and then Triple H coming up to me and being like, ‘You’re yelling at all the writers, what’s wrong?’ And me just being like, ‘Nothing, everything is fine.’ That was our relationship before. I was like, ‘Why am I going to share with you what’s wrong when…..’ It was a real weird dynamic shift because I went from being an underneath guy with him being in the main event full-time talent, and then all of a sudden he’s my boss.”
CM Punk says he didn’t trust Triple H to do his job in the past
Elaborating on his relationship with Triple H, CM Punk said he didn’t trust Hunter to do his job as a WWE executive when Levesque first took a desk job with the company.
“It was just weird,” he said. “I didn’t have any trust in him to do his job. He was going to spit water in the air and crotch chop me. That was our relationship back then. Now, me not really recognizing what story that is goes to show you, he probably walked up to me, ‘Hey, somebody said you didn’t like the creative,’ and I probably just went, ‘Yeah, this, that, what if we did it this way.’ ‘Can we still say this?’ ‘Yeah, great.’ That’s the way it is now.
“Like, goddamnit, that’s the f*cking way it should’ve been back then. I’m not pointing the finger just at him. I’m very much saying I was hard to deal with. I will tell you when something is bad. I just remember that day in Anaheim, walking out, and I turn and look and see Jay Bentley from Bad Religion, and it cheered me up.” (H/T Fightful)
CM Punk most recently appeared on the RAW after WrestleMania. Fans can check out what happened when the Straight Edge Superstar tried to get his hands on Seth Rollins and Paul Heyman here.
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