CM Punk's response to comments made by Triple H about how they recently handled a creative disagreement.
CM Punk very publicly left WWE in 2014 and had a lot of negative feelings towards Triple H when he left the company. He returned to the company at WWE Survivor Series 2023, with Triple H at the helm of all WWE creative.
Triple H recently commented on working through a minor creative disagreement with CM Punk, noting how different it was from what would have been over a decade ago and recalling that Punk even apologized for having such a knee-jerk reaction based on the way WWE used to operate under Vince McMahon.
Appearing on the Masked Man Show, Punk noted he didn't even recall the moment in question, but spoke about how contentious his relationship with Triple H was prior to returning to WWE in 2024.
"I’m more surprised because I actually don’t know what specific thing he’s talking about," he 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.
"It was just weird. 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," he continued. "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 fucking 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."
Read Nick Khan's thoughts on working with CM Punk here.
CM Punk recently main-evented WrestleMania for the first time ever. Unfortunately for him, it didn't turn out the way he thought it would, as Paul Heyman betrayed him in the end. Learn more here.
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