During a recent appearance on the “Busted Open Radio” podcast, CM Punk spoke in regards to the feud he shall be most remembered for.
He mentioned his intense rivalry with Drew McIntyre, admitting that recency bias might play a job.
Punk also credited legends like Terry Funk, Harley Race, Bret Hart, and Shawn Michaels for shaping his profession with great advice through the years.
You may try some highlights from the podcast below:
On the feud he’ll be most remembered for: “I’m fortunate — or unlucky, depending on what side of the coin you’re on — to have been in a number of great ones. Ones that folks have actually forgotten about. Possibly some recency bias, I feel probably the hatred that I had for Drew McIntyre and in return the hatred he had for me — I feel that one will stand the test of time obviously.”
On who gave him the perfect profession advice: “Too hard to narrow down. Too wide of a spectrum of a number of the more good minds in wrestling. I mean, you’ve named a couple of of them there. A whole lot of them aren’t with us anymore. Terry [Funk], Harley [Race], Tracy Smothers, Eddie Guerrero. After which there’s those that we’re currently fortunate to still have, that even to at the present time still give me great advice. Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels. These are these are guys who I can reach out to and ask an issue, whether it’s something that happened within the late 90s or, ‘Hey, I’m pondering of this,’ I can bounce these ideas off them and get their perspective. It’d be way too hard to narrow down one specific nugget of data from the litany of legends that I’ve been fortunate enough to learn from.”
On his reference to fans: “It’s a mixture of each of those things. I feel initially it’s the authenticity that I bring. It’s being myself, but it surely’s also the job. I’m within the job of manipulating the emotions of the audience based on where I need them to go. Once you’ve done it for this long, you develop a currency with the audience. So even when I believed it will be an incredible idea to attempt to get these people to hate me, I feel that’s going to be a troublesome ask. We saw it recently with John Cena. I don’t think people actually need to boo Randy [Orton]. I feel the situation’s got to be right.”
“But I’m fortunate to have that currency with the audience. It’s just being around, being of their living rooms every Monday and Friday for X amount of years. It’s going away and coming back. How do they miss me if I don’t go away? It’s only a profession that was crafted by a number of those good legends that we just previously talked about. I don’t get here by myself, I’m standing on the shoulders of giants.”
On his rivalry with Drew McIntyre: “I’m fortunate or unlucky, depending on what side of the coin you’re on to have been in a number of great ones. Ones that folks have actually forgotten about. Possibly some recency bias. I feel probably the hatred that I had for Drew McIntyre and throughout the hatred he had for me, I feel that one will stand the test of time obviously.”