CM Punk has revealed what Bret Hart and The Undertaker told him just before WWE WrestleMania 41.
Punk finally achieved a lifelong dream last year when he main evented WrestleMania, a goal he had openly talked about for years. The emotional weight of that moment was captured backstage on WWE Unreal, where Punk was seen fighting back tears and sharing a heartfelt exchange with Triple H.
Ahead of his high-stakes Triple Threat match against Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins, Punk was visibly overwhelmed by the magnitude of the moment. Reflecting on that night during a new interview with Complex News, CM Punk spoke candidly about what it meant to finally stand in the WrestleMania main event.
“No, all that, all that was exactly what I’d imagined it was going to be. But that comes with a lot of pitfalls. It’s a super high pressure situation, and especially with me, because I was so vocal about it for so long. It was pretty heavy.”
Punk then revealed that Bret Hart was the first to reach out. “Bret (Hart) grabbed me right before I went out and had some words for me.”
But it was The Undertaker who completely shifted his mood.
“Taker, bless his heart, brings the mood, just snapped me right back into it because he grabbed me and he went, ‘well, don’t fuck this up.'”
“So it’s just like, that’s actually- that’s what I needed right now, because everybody’s giving me these heartfelt speeches and like hugging me and people are emotional and I’m crying and, you know, he kind of just brought the levity like, ‘Oh yeah.'”
“Like sometimes like we take ourselves too seriously, and even though this is a pretty heavy moment and I was feeling the pressure, I essentially am just wrestling in front of thousands of people in my underwear so like you know, our business is funny. But yeah, it was literally… I mean, to me, it was a perfect night. It was everything I thought it was going to be.” [H/T: Fightful]
