WWE World Heavyweight Champion CM Punk is not any stranger to creating headlines, but recently, one in every of them left him, and plenty of pundits, scratching their heads.
The news story in query got here courtesy of WWE Hall of Famer Kevin Nash, who took issue with Punk, as a reigning champion, wearing a t-shirt while wrestling in a tag team match on the December 22 edition of “WWE Raw.” From Punk’s perspective, he stays puzzled by Nash’s remark resulting from the very fact he doesn’t commonly wrestle in shirts. Within the eyes of fellow WWE Hall of Famer Rikishi, it can have just been the results of generational differences.
“I believe CM Punk is CM Punk,” Rikishi said on the “Off The Top” podcast. “There’s just one CM Punk. There’s just one Kevin Nash. On the time straight away, that is CM Punk’s time. What CM Punk does, the champ can do whatever he wish to do. Obviously, the corporate believes in him. He has some value to the corporate. What happened back that way, we’re not even being attentive. Because in the event that they were taking note of that, definitely he probably would not even have gotten the strap.
“Kevin’s friend of mine. CM Punk’s friend of mine. I just imagine that when it’s an individual’s time, allow them to do them,” he continued. “If [Punk] desires to wear a t-shirt or come out with a gold chain rope or regardless of the case it could be, it’s what it’s. I’m sure Kevin didn’t mean anything bad about it, who knows.”
During his tag match on “Raw,” Punk teamed with Rey Mysterio to tackle The Vision’s Austin Theory and Bronson Reed. In the ultimate moments, Punk and Reed went tumbling into the timekeeper’s area, leaving Mysterio and Theory alone within the ring. Theory capitalized on this opening by driving Mysterio into the mat with a stomp, then pinning him for The Vision’s win.
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