CM Punk spoke with Chad Dukes of 106.7 The Fan DC / CBS
Radio while at WrestleMania Axxess. Here are some highlights.
Wearing the Antonio Cesaro shirt: “It was a clean shirt that grabbed
and I wore that day. It’s not some sort of silent protest because he’s not on
Mania, although I will go on record right now that it’s absolutely ridiculous
that he doesn’t have a match at Wrestlemania. I will pimp that guy until the
cows come home. He’s awesome. He’s everything that the WWE should want in their
superstars. He’s tremendous. He can wrestle, he’s a brick house, he’s looks the
part, he acts the part, he walks and talks that part. He can speak seven
different languages! You’re missing the boat on this guy.”
On the company: “This is not my company; if it was
it would be run very differently and I’m not saying that the way Vince
[McMahon] does things is 100% right or 100% wrong all the time and I’m not
saying that I know the answer to everything. Vince does what he thinks is best
for business and he’s right a lot of the time and there’s just sometimes I
think he’s missing the boat on stuff, Cesaro being one of them. [Wade] Barrett’s
another good one. I think we start and stop guys too much. They did it with me
forever; they did it with Sheamus forever. You’re the flavor of the month.
You’re doing this, you’re doing that, and then you just kind of get shuffled to
the back. I don’t think anybody can truly organically grow and become these
superstars that they say they’re looking for when you start and stop guys all
the time. But it’s just a difference of opinion on how the business is.”
MMA: “I don’t think Vince would let me
do that. Am I interested? I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t. Doing what I do now,
I would not be able to train how I would need to, but we’ll see what happens.”
The new WWE title: “That was actually one of the
goals. I never would have spoken about it on TV if there wasn’t a new title
belt ready to go. So, I did that and I just got the run-around forever about
it. It was talked about, it just never happened.”
The Streak: “I’ve got the Undertaker and I
think the streak, ultimately, is bigger than the title. Twenty years undefeated
at Wrestlemania and the way this thing’s been built up, no I’m not salty about
not even having the title anymore. I think I built that thing (the WWE title)
up and I worked very hard to do that, to get it ready for the next guy. So no,
not salty at all.”
Steve Austin: “It’s never been really
acknowledged within the WWE. This isn’t me trying to promote something that
isn’t there, but there was just this hilarious tension in the room when me and
Steve were in there. It’s funny to actually be in a room live, everybody else
is uncomfortable except me and Steve. There’s this weird magnetism. It’s this
unspoken thing. The only way I can describe it, and Paul Heyman completely 100%
agrees, it’s the Old West and there’s the two gunfighters, and they’re buddies,
but everybody always goes, ‘I wonder what would happen… what if?’ And that’s
all it is. It’s fun.”
No comments:
Post a Comment