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Le réseau sportif américain ESPN vient de publier l’entrevue tant attendue de CM Punk, sa première depuis la fameuse altercation qui a suivi le PPV All Out l’an dernier.
Punk a commenté son retour, insistant sur l’importance de sa promo lors du premier épisode de Collision demain soir.
“I know pro wrestling is absolutely the most bizarre form of entertainment on Earth, but to me, I treat it like a business, and I treat it like the television show that it is. So, y’all haven’t seen me since I won the belt. I’m coming back. Tune in to find out exactly what I have to say. I’m picking up right where I left off.”
Une bonne partie de l’entrevue porte sur sa relation difficile avec The Elite, dont Hangman Adam Page.
Une promo impliquant Page et Punk, le 25 mai 2022, a été marquante. Punk affirme qu’il avait discuté avec Page, en coulisses, du contenu de cette promo. Mais Hangman Page a décidé d’y mettre une touche personnelle, avec notamment ceci.
“You talk a big game about workers’ rights. Well, you’ve shown the exact opposite since you got here. I love this place, I care about this place. This is my home. And this Sunday at Double or Nothing, I will not be defending this championship against you. No, for the first time in my life, I’ll be defending All Elite Wrestling from you.”
Punk a alors confronté Page en coulisses par la suite. Page aurait répondu qu’il a agi ainsi car Punk aurait tenté de faire congédier Colt Cabana, qui était en conflit avec lui.
Punk affirme qu’il n’a jamais demandé une telle chose à Tony Khan.
Khan et Page n’ont pas voulu réagir en réponse aux propos de Punk pour ESPN en lien avec Cabana.
Punk soutient avoir eu peur que Page le blesse intentionnellement lors de leur match pour le titre de la AEW le 29 mai 2022.
“And I proceed to have what I think is a garbage match because I’m trying to protect myself on stuff instead of actually just working and trying to put on the best performance I can. I’m keeping an eye out. He chopped me in the mouth one time, and I’m just like, ‘OK, did you do that on purpose?’ You chip my tooth, and I’m like, ‘All right, should I give him a receipt?’ It changes the dynamic. It poisoned everything for me, and it made it all really, really ugly, and that was what set all of this off, and here we are over a year later and ain’t s— been done about it.”
Et c’est ce qui explique l’aggressivité de Punk à l’endroit de Page et de Cabana lors du point de presse qui a suivi All Out.
Punk a cependant fait ses excuses à Tony Khan. Il admet avoir agi avec frustration.
“The first thing I said to Tony when I sat down with him and spoke to him after it was, ‘Man, I’m really sorry I put you in that position. I apologize for the scrum. But when you’ve watched that scrum, you’re looking at a very, very frustrated guy who had told people. That’s not the first time he heard all that. It’s not the first time lawyers were told all that. And I was just looking for something to be done and nothing got done. So, if you want something done right, you got to do it yourself. And I just didn’t approach it in the right manner, but tension was high. I was very, very pissed. I pretty much knew that I had just injured myself again. I was hurt, and I was disappointed. Yeah, it’s very easy for me to say I regret that and I handled it the wrong way, 100%.”
Punk indique qu’il n’a pas parlé à Kenny Omega et aux Young Bucks depuis l’incident qui a suivi All Out. Il affirme être déçu d’être le «bad guy» dans cette histoire alors qu’il ne faisait que se défendre.
“Now we all got to roll in the f—ing mud, and that never should have happened and has never been course-corrected. So, I understand people want to say that, ‘Oh, man, Punk is a dick.’ Well yeah, because I’m defending myself and I will always defend myself. I’m open to have a full-blown f—ing sit-down powwow discussion with everybody about it. But it hasn’t happened yet, and it’s not because of my lack of trying.”
Punk se dit par ailleurs heureux de constater que Collision donnera l’occasion à plusieurs lutteurs de se faire valoir davantage.
“With more TV time, you’re only going to see guys like Hobbs and Starks, people who I think have the potential to do what an MJF [current AEW champion] has done with his television time but they haven’t been able to be positioned because a guy like MJF gets a big lion share of television time, because he earned it.”We just need to do a better job of spotlighting so many different guys, and this is, for a lot of guys, sink or swim. Now it’s just like, well, now’s the time. You’re going to have to really bust your ass and prove why we’re giving you this spotlight and this TV time.”
On peut lire l’entrevue complète en cliquant ICI.
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